Tag: Rolf de Heer

The Survival of Kindness

M, 96 minutes 4 Stars Review by © Jane Freebury A new film from Rolf de Heer has at last arrived. A drama with a cool, fierce intensity…

Interview with Rolf de Heer on his new film, The Survival of Kindness

    Set against the beautiful backdrops of Australian desert and mountain wilderness, foregrounding brutality and compassion in a post-apocalyptic world, there is, as with each of his…

My Name is Gulpilil interview with director Molly Reynolds

    By © Jane Freebury   “There he was, learning to hunt, then he was on a film set, then flying over to England. His life was…

Rolf de Heer’s outstanding contribution to Australian film

ROLF DE HEER FCCA 2019 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AWARD Australia’s premier association of professional film critics, the Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA), has presented a special award to filmmaker…

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2019

  The Nightingale won best feature film at the recent FCCA Awards 2019 in Sydney. The film’s star Aisling Franciosi received the award for best actress. Damon Herriman…

Bad Boy Bubby re-visited

©  Jane Freebury Text of a talk introducing Rolf de Heer’s Bad Boy Bubby when it screened in the Banned + Beautiful season at the National Film and…

Interview With Writer/Director Rolf de Heer

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…