Interview – CINEMA AUTOPSY: Recent Episodes
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In the 1990s Time magazine called her the ‘Queen of the Indies’ and more recently The New Yorker named her ‘the greatest character actress ofContinue reading
Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris made the three films in the music documentary series The Decline of Western Civilization, which are currently screening at the Australian CentreContinue reading
The Orator is the first ever feature film made in Samoa, entirely in the Samoan language and telling a Samoan story. It is about a farmerContinue reading
Over 130,000 children were deported from the UK as part of various Child Migration Schemes. It is estimated that Australia received 7,000 children between 1912Continue reading
Brendan Fletcher is the writer and director of Mad Bastards, a new Australian feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is setContinue reading
Filmmaker Todd Solondz is known for his dark social satires, exploring both the profane and mundane in middle-class American life with the blackest of blackContinue reading
In The King’s Speech, Colin Firth plays King George VI who unexpectedly became the king of England after his father’s death and his brother’s abdication.Continue reading
Red Hill is an Australian thriller/action/western written, directed, produced and edited by Patrick Hughes, making his feature film debut. When I spoke to Hughes he talkedContinue reading
On Tuesday 9 November 2010 I hosted a Q&A with Gareth Edwards, the writer and director of Monsters. Some of the highlights (ie I’ve beenContinue reading
Set in Milan at the start of the last decade I Am Love is about Emma, played by Tilda Swinton, the mother of the extremelyContinue reading
James Frecheville makes his feature film acting debut in Animal Kingdom playing J, a teenage boy who goes to live with his grandmother Janine, playedContinue reading
Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s previous films have included the Latin Jazz documentary Calle 54 and the Academy Award winning Belle Époque. His latest film TheContinue reading
Alkinos Tsilimidos’s Blind Company is about Geoff Brewster (Colin Friels) a dying man who has agreed with his wife that he will spend the remainderContinue reading
On screen she’s dated an insect, been haunted by the living, driven into the Grand Canyon, discovered her inner assassin and been president of theContinue reading
Set in the French sea port town Calais, Welcome is about the friendship between a divorced swimming instructor and a Kurdish teenage boy who isContinue reading
Directed by the legendary filmmaking partners Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes is rightly hailed as the greatest film about dancing ever made.Continue reading
Sir Christopher Frayling is a globally renowned writer and film historian. In 2001 he was knighted for “Services to Art and Design Education”. One areaContinue reading
From Rebel Without a Cause to Easy Rider and now Crash, Dennis Hopper’s acting career spans six decades. But he is also a painter, photographer,Continue reading
After a short absence The Casting Couch podcasts are up and running again so if you haven’t done so already you can subscribe to theContinue reading