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Review by © Jane Freebury It’s funny that a Coen brothers film with so few laughs, No Country For Old Men, should win their first best picture Oscar…
Review by Jane Freebury Movies from down under that ‘shocked audiences the world over’ is quite a claim, and on the strength of what we see in this…
Review bu Jane Freebury The Rolling Stones are sure squeezing new meaning into the definition of rock star. Even the guys who made Spinal Tap wouldn’t have credited…
The Yangtze, that great waterway of China, starts in the Tibetan plateau and winds its way across over 6,000 kilometres to the sea at Shanghai. ‘No matter what…
Review by Jane Freebury One of the ‘user comments’ posted on the web with this movie’s production details calls the plot device that brings an Aussie sheep farmer…
Review by Jane Freebury OMG, a review of SATC when I haven’t paid attention to the series on TV! What to say? Much of my thirties spent in…
Review by Jane Freebury When some of the best dishes in the world come from the countries around the Mediterranean, what better way to celebrate them than show…
Review by © Jane Freebury As it turns out, the director of this film is an American who learned French to make it, because he felt the story…
Review by © Jane Freebury There’s nothing quite like an image in black and white, particularly a portrait, and the actors of Hollywood’s golden years have never looked…
Credits include Picnic at Hanging Rock; and Gallipoli There are nine Australian films ranked among the all-time top 100 posted on the ABC’s My Favourite Film site. At…
Review by © Jane Freebury As journalist Daniel Pearl disappears into the Karachi traffic on his way to his last interview, it hardly seems reasonable to expect him…
Review by © Jane Freebury From the long pause as Matthew Macfadyen stares into the coffin and asks ‘Who’s this?’ to the sight of old Uncle Alfie’s bare…
Review by © Jane Freebury This new film from Canada is set in the wintry frozen landscapes of Ontario, within the featureless interiors of an institution for aged…
Review by © Jane Freebury Unless I blinked and missed it, there wasn’t a subtitle or intertitle in sight during this two-hour tribute to the late Joe Strummer,…
Review by Jane Freebury After a few films you can get to know a director and the private obsessions and personal politics that set up a conversation with…
Temple of Dreams is Tom’s documentary on Muslim youth Attempts to close down a youth centre in Sydney’s south-west is not the kind of news that attracts headlines,…
Young American film director Jeff Nichols is barely out of school. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking in 2001 and has…
Review by © Jane Freebury There were lovers and husbands, triumphs and catastrophes, illnesses and addictions, and highs and lows enough in the life of singer Edith Piaf…
Credits include Clubland and Return Home In a very engaging new Australian film due for release later this month, Frankie J. Holden plays a singer formerly married to…
Review by Jane Freebury I imagine that we all feel privileged when invited to share the intimate details of someone’s childhood, and most especially when the story is…