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© 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…
Also published in the Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald (online) on 11 May 2016 Essential Independents: American Cinema, Now by © Jane Freebury …
Review by © Jane Freebury The hint of self-deprecating humour in the title of writer-director Matthew Saville’s new film doesn’t cost him a thing. The expression…
Published in travel section of The Australian on 23 April 2016. by Jane Freebury It’s a slow reveal in first light after an all-night passage along Papua…
© Jane Freebury It’s good to know that a hide like a rhinoceros isn’t a prerequisite for working in a cash converter business in multicultural Footscray. A…
Also published in the Canberra Times on 9 April 2016 at: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/whats-on-at-the-spanish-film-festival-2016-in-canberra-20160404-gnxrrr.html © Jane Freebury It wasn’t that long ago, well maybe it was 20 years, when for …
© Jane Freebury Sipping daiquiris, feasting on seafood, skinny dipping in the pool, away from it all on a remote Sicilian island. Just perfetto. Director Luca Guadagnino…
Published in the Canberra Times on 26 March 2016 at: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/canberra-filmmakers-the-tentmakers-of-cairo-shows-artisans-during-arab-spring-20160322-gnoebd.html © Jane Freebury Something tells me that the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead would have enjoyed hearing that a…
Review by © Jane Freebury A forest of tall timbers. Valleys strewn with mist. How readily a Henrik Ibsen classic has been transposed to the wilds of Tasmania,…
Review © by Jane Freebury A cast bristling with terrific actors has to be any director’s dream. By all reports, the talent in Hail, Caesar! were…
Published in The Canberra Times on 27 February 2016, and in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald online. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/french-film-festival-2016-vive-la-difference-20160223-gmycel.html © Jane Freebury A snippet of film…
Review by © Jane Freebury Only in Hollywood where life is performance art could a flamboyant screenwriter tell a government official to sod off in…
Review © Jane Freebury It was good to hear that the talented, youngish director Andrew Haigh had launched into new territory. He achieved exceptional naturalism in…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the three feature films that Sue Brooks has made so far, we have driven into the wide, open spaces of the…
The FCCA, the national professional body of film reviewers, critics and writers is pleased to announce the nominations for the Australian film of 2015. The Annual Awards will…
Review © Jane Freebury Just before 9/11, the Boston Globe was about to publish revelations of long-term and systematic child sexual abuse by rogue priests in…