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Review © Jane Freebury It is clear that Ken Loach, who turned 80 this year, will never retire. Making films about people who are disadvantaged and dispossessed has…
Published in print and online in the Canberra Times on 19 November 2016 Preview © Jane Freebury What are we to make of Roman Polanski?…
Review by Jane Freebury © This graphic and unsettling film from an arch provocateur known for Hollywood blockbusters is not without its director’s signature high-level sex and…
Canberra International Film Festival 2016, bound to be different © Jane Freebury Movie goers who hanker for films difficult to find anywhere else and for experiences they would…
© Jane Freebury As stories go, the story of Joe Cinque is at the very least alarming. A young Canberra man who was guilty of…
Published in the Canberra Times on 23 September 2016 Joe Cinque’s Consolation highlights ambiguities © Jane Freebury It is now nearly two decades since a young civil…
This articles was published in the Canberra Times on 16 September 2016. Remembering hit Aussie film Malcolm © Jane Freebury A film about a shy,…
© by Jane Freebury Of all the titles to choose for a film about a man facing his premature demise, Truman takes its name from a saggy, baggy…
© by Jane Freebury Against expectations, this journey set in the Amazonian wilderness is almost entirely told in black and white. The filmmaker, young Colombian Ciro Guerras,…
Published in the Canberra Times 30 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury When Geoffrey Rush was up for a best actor award at the Academy Awards in…
© by Jane Freebury Published in the Canberra Times 30 July 2016 Halal or haram? Legal or illegal? That’s the question at the heart of Halal Love,…
First published in the Canberra Times on 23 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury Two years ago, a bitter-sweet documentary about the backing singers behind stars like Jagger,…
First published in the Canberra Times on 18 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury In the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, young Danila Vassilieff, a trained…
First published in the Canberra Times on 8 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury Arriving with the mid-winter chill, the Scandinavian Film Festival is back on…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the space of the three years since we saw Mystery Road, detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) has buckled a bit under…
© Jane Freebury When he notched up 18 years as director of the Sydney Film Festival, David Stratton became a founding father of movie culture in this country….
A version of this article was published in the Canberra Times on 10 June 2016 © Jane Freebury Ask anyone, who you don’t expect will know the answer,…
Review by © Jane Freebury It used to go without saying that brandishing a fist at the authorities was a staple of Australian film. It probably still is….
My detailed study of The Big Steal (1990), an Australian classic from director Nadia Tass and cinematographer, writer and producer David Parker, is published in the latest issue,…
by © Jane Freebury It’s fine to belt out a song in the shower when you can’t hold a tune, the acoustics are good and no one is…