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Review by © Jane Freebury The man behind the camera on this adaptation of Shakespeare is Barry Ackroyd, the cinematographer who lensed Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and…
Review by © Jane Freebury Hard as it is for me to praise the controversial Lars von Trier, I have to admit that his latest film is unforgettable….
Review by Jane Freebury This is the story of a man grieving for his dead wife. It is intricately structured and edited, and gorgeous to look at but…
Review by © Jane Freebury Every time Woody Allen makes a film it shows that he really knows how to use his tools of trade, whether you like…
Review by Jane Freebury It is the season for thoroughbred horses, outlandish hats and a lot of money changing hands and just the right moment for veteran producer…
Review by © Jane Freebury It was an inspired decision by French authorities to allow eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog exclusive rights to make a documentary of the…
Review by Jane Freebury When the novel this film was adapted from was first published it sold like hot cakes. It was 1973, the year its author Patrick…
Review by © Jane Freebury While the studios compete for audiences, outdoing each other with bigger and noisier SFX extravaganzas, along comes a small film that really has…
Review by Jane Freebury Based on a tall tale with a bit of truth to it, this is a home-grown version of the story of the dog that…
Review by Jane Freebury ‘Mad bastard’, that familiar Aussie expression, describes the bloke who’s brave to the point of being mad. In this new film set in Indigenous…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the archival footage that opens The Round Up there’s the small but telling detail of two gendarmes giving the salute to Hitler…
Review by © Jane Freebury What do we know about the lives that others leave behind when they arrive in their adopted country? Migrant cultures like ours or…
Review by © Jane Freebury In less sensitive hands, this story of a married London couple and friends could have included some sex, a smattering of drugs and…
Review by © Jane Freebury It is good to see—if this marvellous film gets it right—that the Australian Lionel Logue had a healthy disregard for the English class…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s one helluva first day at work for a young policeman who has moved to a quiet country town to improve his wife’s health…
Review by Jane Freebury At 84 minutes, The Loved Ones is on the short side for a feature, however pace and economy are not the only virtues in…
Review by Jane Freebury There’s a lot happening just below the surface in this romantic drama set in the orange groves of Sunraysia. Fruit is ripening ready for…
Review by © Jane Freebury Eat Pray Love, the book an American journalist and author wrote about a year she spent overseas, was in the US top 10…
Review by © Jane Freebury The received wisdom that foreign language Hollywood remakes are a pale imitation of the original is usually true, but not always. An exception…
Review by © Jane Freebury Out-of-office doesn’t mean that much anymore, thanks to the mobiles and blackberries and other culprits. The film producer trying to orchestrate life and…