Adelaide Film Festival Review: Emilia Pérez
“If you listen. You accept.” Jacques Audiard’s genre mixing musical rises from the streets of Mexico with a blistering rage. Sinners, saints, and martyrs merge in a struggle for salvation – a moment…
Black Box Diaries: Shiori Itō’s Unyielding Fight for Justice, Empowering Survivors, and Exposing the Failures of the Japanese Legal System
Black Box Diaries screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 30 October Shiori Itō’s story is not just one of resilience; it’s an unflinching act of courage that left me shaken, inspired, and…
Adelaide Film Festival: A New Kind of Wilderness is Suffused with Magic, Tragedy, and Gaining Wisdom
A New Kind of Wilderness screens at the Adelaide Film Festival on 26 & 29 October 2024. “This place has everything” – Falk “Except pet whales.” – Ulv Maria Vatne wrote on her blog WILD + FREE “……
Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night
Documentarian Gabrielle Brady immerses herself in the act of collaborative storytelling, working alongside her subjects to bring their truth to life in an act of radical hybrid filmmaking. In her late…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Actor Dacre Montgomery on Went Up the Hill
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Samuel Van Grinsven returns to our screens with his…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Kate Blackmore on Make It Look Real
Kate Blackmore's feature length film debut, Make It Look Real, navigates the intricacies of utilising an intimacy coordinator on the set of a film. Kate follows intimacy coordinator Claire Warden…
Adelaide Film Festival Review: Anora
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Sally Aitken on Every Little Thing
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Regular readers of The Curb will know that I have a particula…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen on A New Kind of Wilderness
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's documentary A New Kind…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Ian Darling on The Pool
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Documentarian Ian Darling's filmography includes a myriad…
Saturday Night is Poignant Pandemonium and an Exhilarating Jump Back in Time
“What kind of show is it?” Copper Hoffman’s NBC weekend producer asks Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels of the television show that’s supposed to go live at 11.30pm on Saturday night, Oct 11, 1975. Lor…
Stan Original Film Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story Launches November 21
PRESS RELEASE Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, today announced that the Stan Original Film Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story, premieres Thursday November 21, only on Stan.…