Tag: Interview
By © Jane Freebury Tempestuous quarrels and family disagreements aside, there is plenty of kissing and hugging in Rosa’s Wedding, a popular new Spanish comedy from…
By © Jane Freebury “There he was, learning to hunt, then he was on a film set, then flying over to England. His life was…
By © Jane Freebury The Irish actor of stage and screen, Gabriel Byrne, is loquacious and charming. And he is forthright, a man inclined to speak his…
Interview with The Grizzlies director, Miranda de Pencier By © Jane Freebury There is an Indigenous hamlet in the far north of Canada that was once known as…
Credits include Charlie’s Country; Ten Canoes; The Tracker; and Bad Boy Bubby It is a surprise, and no less so for Rolf de Heer himself, that he has…
Credits include The Finishers Just how well fathers and sons relate to each other tends to get quite a run at the movies. It’s there in the backstory…
Credits include The Past; Un Prophet It is hard to forget actor Tahar Rahim in Jacques Audiard’s rivetting prison drama Un Prophet of 2010. As Malik El Djebana,…
Credits include Farewell, My Queen and Three Hearts French director Benoît Jacquot makes no secret of his interest in women, in a good way. At the French Film…
Credits include Café de Flore; Wild; and Dallas Buyers Club Music has much to say in the work of Quebecois filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée. His music choices are front…
Credits include Hours; Irma Vep; and [segment in] Paris, Je t’aime Set in the rambling provincial home of a middle class French family, the latest film from Olivier…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Credits include Water; Earth; Fire; and Midnight’s Children Over the phone her voice came across as authoritative, warm and good-humoured during our interview earlier this month. It was…
Credits include Somersault and Lore By the time this piece goes to print, there won’t be anybody left who doesn’t know that film director Cate Shortland, in her…
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…
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…