The feature debut by brothers Dan and Bramwell Noah, Little Black Dress is a notable Melbourne production with an interesting take on the intermingling of love, fate and the ruthless proliferation of reality TV trends. When Ebony Mason’s (Sandy Greenwood) morning jog leads to an impulsive stroll into an apartment building advertising a vacancy, a […]
Set in 1952, this film begins in Argentina, with two great friends embarking upon a long journey, on a Norton 500 motorbike, of dubious mechanical condition. Their intention is to taste life before they settle down to finish their respective medical degrees. They intend to traverse the great continent of South America. We follow them
“Rembetiko” was undoubtedly a labour of love for producer, co-writer and director Costa Ferris. Unfortunately, the film will prove a labour of a different kind for most modern audiences, its muddled nature and shallow characterisations deflating some frequently inspired production work. But you can discount yourself from possible disaffection if you’re in any way a
This claymation film, Mary and Max, gives no illusions as to what its target audience is. Using the painstaking skill of stop motion photography, combined with the incredibly difficult animation technique of claymation (the animated art of hand sculptured movement) Oscar winning creative genius Adam Elliot, (the writer, production designer and director of Mary and
Based on the 2002 Hong Kong horror movie, “The Eye” stars Jessica Alba as the recipient of a cornea transplant that restores her sight, but with the added superpower of being able to see the dead spirits that walk the streets with us. The original movie was relatively popular in Hong Kong, though it only
“The Thing” is john Carpenter’s 1982 of the original 1951 film “The Thing From Another World”. It recreates the premise of a group of scientists, stuck in the Antarctic, that find a hostile shapeshifting alien that has laid dormant for thousands of years in the Antarctic ice. As a shapeshifter, once it gets going, it
Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” is one of his most renowned and best loved films, with his mastery of audio and visual language on full effect for this barely coherent horror movie centered on a coven of witches. Years after its 1977 release, the film has lost much of its weight; the gore and special effects are
Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-Sheng was the centerpoint of the films of Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang; working with the celebrated director must have taught Lee something about filmmaking, as he’s reinvented himself as a director of his own accord. “Help Me Eros” is his second feature, and it screened at the Sydney Film Festival, on a
Directed by Ulrich Seidl, “Import/Export” pauses on this image only for an instant, giving the audience a momentary glimpse of what we saw on the poster before treading into a much more bleak scenario. The film contains two independent storylines: One, about Olga, a nurse in some small town in Ukraine, who is desperately trying
When remembering 3 Women, many viewers mistakenly recall it as being titled 2 Women. That’s understandable (though it’s a different movie), because the third woman in question (Janice Rule) is barely present in the film and has no intelligible lines. Welcome to Robert Altman’s personal nightmare (literally, he came up with the story in a
