Snowtown isn’t just a brilliant piece of blood-curdling cinema, says Luke Buckmaster, or just one of the best local features of this or any year. It’s the most frightening Aussie flick ever made.
Samson and Delilah
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: In conversation with Germaine, who incidentally, may sue Morry.
Our hero Guy Rundle attends the London Australian Film Festival, where he learns that Germaine Greer is considering suing Morry Schwartz, John Hillcoat would love to make a romcom with Nick Cave, and Londoners serve sausage rolls with Vegemite. Hilarity ensues.
Golden Choc-Tops: Readers’ Choice Awards
What gets your goat when you’re at the cinema? Which movie should really win the Oscar? Are choc-tops the best cinema snack? Crikey readers have their say about the year in film.
Is Australia’s film industry really that bad?
Bemoaning the woeful state of Australia’s film industry has almost become a cliche in the local media. But are things really that bad? 2009’s fantastic crop of Aussie feature films should prove the critics wrong, says Sylvia Lawson.
Crikey cage match: Is Australian film still down in the dumps?
In last week’s Sunday Age, Michael Coulter said he’d rather watch the next Transformers film than watch anything made by down-in-the-dumps local filmmakers. Crikey’s movie blogger Luke Buckmaster begs to differ.
Samson and Delilah under the stars in Alice Springs
The Telegraph Station was an appropriate setting for a film that expresses so much about the communication gap at the heart of this country, writes Elli Rennie.
