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review by © jane freebury Guillermo del Toro had the actor Sally Hawkins in mind for this sensuous dark fantasy from the beginning. Once, when he bumped into…
Review by © Jane Freebury If the impression we get is really true, rather than chosen for dramatic effect, Winston Churchill behind the scenes was not the type…
Review by @ Jane Freebury When a grieving mother in rural Missouri tries shock tactics to get results from police investigating the rape and murder of her daughter,…
Review by © Jane Freebury It’s summer holidays in Orlando, Florida. Disney World is just over the road, and out of reach. What is there to do when…
Review by © Jane Freebury This is a film that shows what’s possible on screen with a good idea that is well thought through and delivered in a…
Review by © Jane Freebury Two well known films by writer-director Martin Provost, Seraphine and Violette, are about creative women who suffered for their art. The French filmmaker…
© Jane Freebury Text of a talk introducing Rolf de Heer’s Bad Boy Bubby when it screened in the Banned + Beautiful season at the National Film and…
Review by © Jane Freebury It seems there is no end to the ways to express love for van Gogh. Buy the print, wear the jewellery, wear the…
Reviewed by © Jane Freebury It can’t be as bad as all that, can it? I mean, Suburbicon is directed by the sophisticate George Clooney. Those brilliant, witty…
Review © Jane Freebury After a hasty set-up at an airport closed due to bad weather, The Mountain Between Us delivers us onto a snowbound mountainside when a…
A version of this feature article was also published in print and online (6-7 October 2017) in The Canberra Times By © Jane Freebury The new Australian documentary…
Review by © Jane Freebury Final Portrait, from the actor and occasional director Stanley Tucci, is a footnote to the life and work of sculptor and painter Alberto…
Review by © Jane Freebury It took a decade to perfect the original Blade Runner by jettisoning the voiceover and upbeat ending and restoring some scenes that had…
Reviewed by © Jane Freebury Think ‘when worlds collide’ with this one. Unexpected dinner guests can create quite a stir. There is something of a cinema sub-genre out…
Reviewed by © Jane Freebury A modest 74 minutes long, this new documentary from local filmmaker Jennifer Peedom, is actually one continuous montage of fabulous, indomitable mountains…
Review by © Jane Freebury With a cheeky play on names, Victoria & Abdul hints that Queen Victoria so missed her late husband and consort Prince Albert that…
Review by © Jane Freebury Smitten by a lovely girl at the local mosque and eager to make his father and family proud, a young man tells a…
Review by © Jane Freebury Not too many monarchs appear on screen in foetal pose, the way the King of Norway does in early scenes in this wartime…
Review by © Jane Freebury For a road trip to work, so much depends on who you are with. So, if you’re thinking of being the third party…
By Jane Freebury The Circle’s winter conversations for 2017 wound up with another filmmaker in the guest chair. Kim Beamish, director and producer at Non’D’Script Films, now Canberra-…