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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…
The Spanish Film Festival 2019 is book-ended with comedies. It has opened with Champions and will close with Pedro Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 30…
Film Critics Circle of Australia awards are held annually to recognise outstanding achievement in Australian film. This year’s contenders for best fiction feature are Breath, Cargo, Ladies in…
Review © Jane Freebury Rated M, 1 hr 54 mins Screening at Dendy and Palace Electric The cartoon that lends its caption to this Gus Van Sant…
Jirga, a new fiction feature from Benjamin Gilmour, is about a former Australian soldier who returns to Afghanistan to ask forgiveness of the family of a civilian he…
… in no particular order: Love and Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman) Hunt for the Wilderpeople (dir. Taika Waititi) Nocturnal Animals (dir. Tom Ford) The BFG (dir. Steven…
By Jane Freebury As I look around on the flight to Tehran, none of the other female passengers is wearing a headscarf. Not yet, anyhow, and not until…
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,…
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…
Published in The Canberra Times on 27 February 2016, and in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald online. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/french-film-festival-2016-vive-la-difference-20160223-gmycel.html © Jane Freebury A snippet of film…