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inaugural American indie film festival

Also published in the Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald (online) on 11 May 2016   Essential Independents: American Cinema, Now by © Jane Freebury                …

A Month of Sundays

  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…

True Adventure: to the Sepik River and Bismarck Sea

  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…

Pawno

  © 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…

Spanish Film Festival 2016

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 …

A Bigger Splash

  © 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…

Tentmakers of Cairo

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…

The Daughter

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,…

Hail, Caesar!

    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…

Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2016

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…

Trumbo

    Review by © Jane Freebury   Only in Hollywood where life is performance art could a flamboyant screenwriter tell a government official to sod off in…

45 Years

                                                        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…

Looking for Grace

        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…

Film Critics Circle of Australia annual awards for 2015

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…

Spotlight

    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…

Carol

        Review © by Jane Freebury It’s good to be reminded of why we said goodbye to all that in the 1950s. When advertising had women appear in…

The Revenant

         Review by Jane Freebury An epic about survival against all odds is timeless and borderless. How fascinating that both The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road, each…

Youth

  Review by © Jane Freebury Either you have it or you don’t. And is there nothing in between? Poised at the age of 45, the Italian director…

Suffragette

Review by Jane Freebury As arguments for human rights go, this is in its quiet way a powerful one. All the more for the way it draws us…

Truth

Review @ Jane Freebury Movies featuring journalists have a way of looking at the best or the worst of the profession with little shading in between. It makes…