Following the Money: Robert Connolly on The Bank and the Australian Film Industry
Critics Campus participant Kevin Bui speaks to director Robert Connolly about his newly remastered debut feature, 2001 Australian economic thriller The Bank.
By Kevin Bui | 18 Aug 2023

Tiger Stripes – Four Ways
Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age body horror Tiger Stripes gets the critical treatment from four of our Critics Campus participants: Christy Tan, Kevin Bui, Đăng Tùng Bach and Erika Lay.
17 Aug 2023

Realising Desire: Choices and Sexuality in Ira Sachs’s Passages
Critics Campus participant Charles Carrall analyses the messy ménage à trois at the heart of Ira Sachs’s film, in which sex provides plenty of questions and few answers.
Charles Carrall
17 Aug 2023

Adventures Against Boredom: Nick Pinkerton on The Sweet East
Critics Campus participant Lauren Collee speaks to critic and The Sweet East screenwriter Nick Pinkerton about the film’s artistic priorities, literary inspirations and enigmatic protagonist.
Lauren Collee
16 Aug 2023

Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Picks for MIFF 2023
Multicultural Arts Victoria shares their top picks of MIFF 2023 films by filmmakers who have centred the stories of culturally diverse communities authentically and with lots of heart.
Multicultural Arts Victoria
15 Aug 2023

An Abundance of Love: Romantic Triangles in Past Lives, The Breaking Ice and Passages
Critics Campus participant Eric Jiang discusses three MIFF films that each deal with love triangles using different narrative approaches – presenting these situations as variously damaging, ambiguous and powerfully transformative.
Eric Jiang
15 Aug 2023

Time for Reflection: Master Gardener and the Late-style Transformation of Paul Schrader
Critics Campus participant Kevin Bui examines Paul Schrader’s shift away from narratives of retribution and towards tales of personal growth – culminating in one of his most hopeful, if also most difficult, films.
Kevin Bui
14 Aug 2023

Deconstructing Authority: William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Critics Campus participant Christy Tan takes a look at the political and aesthetic questions posed by William Greaves’s radical 1968 docufiction experiment.
Christy Tan
13 Aug 2023

Spectacle of Intimacy: Bodily Landscapes and Resistance in Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl
Critics Campus participant Erika Lay analyses Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl – two short films that each use the body to interrogate how erotic desire and national identity alike can be constructed and subverted via the act of looking.
Erika Lay
12 Aug 2023

Between Metamorphoses: Phạm Thiên Ân on Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Critics Campus participant Đăng Tùng Bạch speaks to Phạm Thiên Ân about the making of his Caméra d’Or–winning film and the roles played by location, sound and time in his work.
Đăng Tùng Bạch
12 Aug 2023

Heaven Is a Derelict Train Car: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster
Critics Campus participant Lauren Collee discusses the moral ambiguities and absolutes that emerge in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tale of institutional malaise and tentative queer romance.
Lauren Collee
11 Aug 2023
Showing 12 to 22 of 362 rows.