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Review by Jane Freebury It’s dusk on the Turkish steppe. A crime has been committed. The manacled perpetrator is part of the search party looking for the body…
Review by © Jane Freebury This royal affair unfolds in the court of the king of Denmark in the late 18th century when revolutionary ideas were taking root…
Review by © Jane Freebury Having a tilt at adapting classic literature to film has its risks and may never satisfy folks who feel the results should perfectly…
Review by © Jane Freebury Any kid with a bike is a kid who understands what it’s like to feel free. The kid in this fine film, a…
Review by © Jane Freebury An eight hundred-kilometre hike with backpack across the top of Spain in the company of a fat Dutchman, a garrulous Irishman, a chain-smoking…
Review by © Jane Freebury The ‘in search of’ formula has worked well for British documentary maker Phil Grabsky. He has been on the trail of Beethoven and…
Review by © Jane Freebury The man behind the camera on this adaptation of Shakespeare is Barry Ackroyd, the cinematographer who lensed Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker and…
Review by © Jane Freebury Hard as it is for me to praise the controversial Lars von Trier, I have to admit that his latest film is unforgettable….
Review by Jane Freebury This is the story of a man grieving for his dead wife. It is intricately structured and edited, and gorgeous to look at but…
Review by © Jane Freebury Every time Woody Allen makes a film it shows that he really knows how to use his tools of trade, whether you like…
Review by Jane Freebury It is the season for thoroughbred horses, outlandish hats and a lot of money changing hands and just the right moment for veteran producer…
Review by © Jane Freebury It was an inspired decision by French authorities to allow eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog exclusive rights to make a documentary of the…
Review by Jane Freebury When the novel this film was adapted from was first published it sold like hot cakes. It was 1973, the year its author Patrick…
Review by © Jane Freebury While the studios compete for audiences, outdoing each other with bigger and noisier SFX extravaganzas, along comes a small film that really has…
Review by Jane Freebury ‘Mad bastard’, that familiar Aussie expression, describes the bloke who’s brave to the point of being mad. In this new film set in Indigenous…
Review by © Jane Freebury In the archival footage that opens The Round Up there’s the small but telling detail of two gendarmes giving the salute to Hitler…
Review by © Jane Freebury What do we know about the lives that others leave behind when they arrive in their adopted country? Migrant cultures like ours or…
Review by © Jane Freebury In less sensitive hands, this story of a married London couple and friends could have included some sex, a smattering of drugs and…
Review by © Jane Freebury It is good to see—if this marvellous film gets it right—that the Australian Lionel Logue had a healthy disregard for the English class…
Review by Jane Freebury It’s one helluva first day at work for a young policeman who has moved to a quiet country town to improve his wife’s health…