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Fahrenheit 9/11

Review by © Jane Freebury The deliberations of the jury at the Cannes film festival this year aren’t on public record, but it’s hard to imagine how Fahrenheit…

Team America: World Police

Review by © Jane Freebury A little while back, before terrorism became an everyday word, the South Park team launched a rough and rude feature animation from their…

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Review by © Jane Freebury If you’re wondering why the words don’t roll off the tongue, the title is a quote from 18th century man of letters Alexander…

Monster

Review by Jane Freebury A highway prostitute who in the late 1980s became a serial killer is now the subject of three films. British filmmaker Nick Broomfield made…

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Review by © Jane Freebury If a picture is worth a thousand words it can also prompt a good story, something shown recently by the success of a…

The Hours

Review by © Jane Freebury This beautifully constructed film and its fragile characters will delight its audiences, even though it is profoundly sad. It glides effortlessly backwards and…

Dinner Rush

Review by Jane Freebury Early in Dinner Rush a man is gunned down in the street. When this happens and when so many movie elements are slick, handsome…

La Spagnola

Review by Jane Freebury This spirited, compassionate and stylish movie begins in Australia in 1960 and is told from the point of view of Lucia, fourteen years old…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Review by © Jane Freebury Having set the publishing world ablaze with her four books about an English schoolboy who finds out he’s a wizard in need of…

Mullet

Review by Jane Freebury When Mullet returns home to the small coastal town he left behind three years before, family and friends are somewhat underwhelmed. All of a…

The Iron Giant

Review by © Jane Freebury The Iron Giant, based loosely on a story written by the late Ted Hughes, former poet laureate, and directed by Brad Bird who…

Interview (abridged) With Jeremy Irons

Credits include Lolita; Damage; Reversal of Fortune; The French Lieutenant’s Woman The voice is thoroughly English, authoritative accents delivered in a languid manner. A deep voice, all port…

Interview with Samantha Lang

Credits include The Well; The Monkey’s Mask Photography was film director Samantha Lang’s first career choice. Was it a natural progression to film? From an early age she’d…

Diverging Australian cinematic futures (1991)

© Jane Freebury Published in Australian Society magazine September 1991 The Sydney season of the 1991 Australian Film Festival opened with the striking juxtaposition of Jocelyn Moorehouse’s Proof…

Incident at Raven’s Gate

Review by © Jane Freebury Published in Australian Society magazine, May 1989 Incident at Raven’s Gate, a new science fiction thriller by Marc Rosenberg and Rolf de Heer,…