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By © Jane Freebury With digs as far as the eye can see, the remote mining town of Coober Pedy has attracted the attention of many filmmakers,…
Set against the beautiful backdrops of Australian desert and mountain wilderness, foregrounding brutality and compassion in a post-apocalyptic world, there is, as with each of his…
By © Jane Freebury A comedy about a caring son caught up in a heist as he tries to protect his transgressive mother, has a lot going…
Dominik Moll discusses how The Night of the 12th moves beyond the murder suspects into community attitudes towards victim behaviour By © Jane Freebury A film…
By © Jane Freebury The last time we saw Laure Calamy, she was chasing her married lover on a hiking holiday in rural France. Her character ends up…
By © Jane Freebury The versatile, veteran French filmmaker Patrice Leconte, whose work includes fine films like The Hairdresser’s Husband, Ridicule, Girl on the Bridge and…
By © Jane Freebury What happens when a good person switchessides? What drives someone to take that one fateful step from…
By © Jane Freebury The star power of Jane Seymour can still light up the screen with her glamour, intelligence, sass and sense of fun. The…
Riders of Justice interview Director, Anders Thomas Jensen and lead actor, Mads Mikkelsen By © Jane Freebury It’s quite the transformation. For his role in Riders…
By © Jane Freebury Tempestuous quarrels and family disagreements aside, there is plenty of kissing and hugging in Rosa’s Wedding, a popular new Spanish comedy from…
By © Jane Freebury “There he was, learning to hunt, then he was on a film set, then flying over to England. His life was…
By © Jane Freebury The Irish actor of stage and screen, Gabriel Byrne, is loquacious and charming. And he is forthright, a man inclined to speak his…
French writer-director Caroline Vignal, herself a hiker, discusses her irresistible fish-out-of-water comedy, Antoinette dans les Cevennes By © Jane Freebury Comedy has hit refresh with a new fish-out-of-water…
Interview with The Grizzlies director, Miranda de Pencier By © Jane Freebury There is an Indigenous hamlet in the far north of Canada that was once known as…
A director drawn to stories about strong women © Jane Freebury Of all the places to find one’s lead actor. It was in one of the aisles at…
By © Jane Freebury After winning the top prize at Cannes festival last year for his film, Shoplifters, the director Hirokazu Kore-ada went to work on a new…
Credits include Charlie’s Country; Ten Canoes; The Tracker; and Bad Boy Bubby It is a surprise, and no less so for Rolf de Heer himself, that he has…
Credits include The Finishers Just how well fathers and sons relate to each other tends to get quite a run at the movies. It’s there in the backstory…
Credits include The Past; Un Prophet It is hard to forget actor Tahar Rahim in Jacques Audiard’s rivetting prison drama Un Prophet of 2010. As Malik El Djebana,…