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Revue
Is This Real Life?
South Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho has done something very unusual and potentially unique: he has made a live-action sequel to an animated film.
Kate Plays Christine, Four Ways
Critics Campus 2016 participants Jessica Ellicott, Doosie Morris, Andréas Giannopoulos and Dominic Barlow review Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine.
MIFF 2016 Talking Pictures | In Conversation with Terence Davies
Recorded at Federation Hall, VCA on Sunday 31 July.
A Frame Can Be a Cage: Animals on Screen at MIFF 2016
Critics Campus 2016 participant Aimee Knight examines the relationship between humans and animals in three MIFF 2016 films.
Stuck in the Middle with Dudes: Men on the Verge in How Heavy This Hammer and Suntan
Critics Campus 2016 participant Doosie Morris dissects masculinities in two MIFF 2016 international films.
Dance on Film: Finding Meaning in Movement
Critics Campus 2016 participant Ella Donald explores the elegiac and expressive films in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Dance on Film program.
Rhymes of Goodbye: Posthumous Films at MIFF
Inspired by Cosmos and No Home Movie, Critics Campus 2016 participant Andréas Giannopoulos sets off on a journey to uncover the meaning of the final film.
Cinematic-Nonfiction: Blurring Fact and Fiction To Shed New Light with Kate Plays Christine’s Robert Greene
Critics Campus 2016 participant Isabella McNeill interviews Robert Greene on truth, fiction and the freedom to fail in his latest film Kate Plays Christine.
Keeping It Real: Women Paving the Way in Australian Documentary
Critics Campus 2016 participant Tanya Farley explores gender parity, cultural policy and the recent success of Australian women documentarians.
Double Fantasy: Jerry Lewis’s The Ladies Man and The Nutty Professor
Critics Campus 2016 participant Jessica Ellicott examines the role of fantasy in two of Jerry Lewis’s classic comedies.
65 Seconds with Sotiris Dounoukos
This year MIFF welcomes over 100 guests to the festival to participate in Q&As, panel discussions, special events and to showcase their films...