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Only the best in 2022 By © Jane Freebury Back at the cinema sure helped, but the end of lockdown can’t explain the astonishing success of Top Gun:…
By © Jane Freebury The last time we saw Laure Calamy, she was chasing her married lover on a hiking holiday in rural France. Her character ends up…
HIGH GROUND and NITRAM dominate 2021 FCCA AWARDS* High Ground was last night announced as Best Film in the annual Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for Australian Film, for producers David…
Interview by © Jane Freebury When is it a surprise to hear that Viggo Mortensen will appear in an intriguing role? Starring in The Lord of the Rings,…
By © Jane Freebury It has been as good a year as any on screen during 2021, and there’s more to come. For the short term, at…
Australian film, where to from here? Too much to lose if Australia’s film and television industries are allowed to slip into decline … again In this year of…
Streaming on Stan. By © Jane Freebury Six Degrees of Separation, a film from 1993, had a catchy idea and title to match that has had the distinction…
By © Jane Freebury During the Academy Awards this year, when a foreign language film from South Korea carried off the top awards, it seemed a watershed moment…
By © Jane Freebury After winning the top prize at Cannes festival last year for his film, Shoplifters, the director Hirokazu Kore-ada went to work on a new…
Published in print and online in the Canberra Times, 2 & 3 December: The Legend of Ben Hall: new film about outlaw Ben Hall shows Australia’s taste for…
First published in the Canberra Times on 23 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury Two years ago, a bitter-sweet documentary about the backing singers behind stars like Jagger,…
First published in the Canberra Times on 18 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury In the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917, young Danila Vassilieff, a trained…
First published in the Canberra Times on 8 July 2016 © by Jane Freebury Arriving with the mid-winter chill, the Scandinavian Film Festival is back on…
© 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,…
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,…
Also published in the Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald (online) on 11 May 2016 Essential Independents: American Cinema, Now by © Jane Freebury …
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 …
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…
© Jane Freebury The story of Orry-Kelly, a gifted designer who created costumes for the Hollywood stars over three decades, would be tantalising fantasy were it not anchored…