Daniel Tune

Daniel Tune is a young writer, programmer, and filmmaker. He is a co-founder of the Adelaide-based alternative screening collective moviejuice, and has recently completed a microbudget feature film entitled MALLS. He has a keen interest in the sustainment of a serious film culture in an increasingly diffuse cultural landscape, and the development of marginal, community-based approaches to film production and distribution. 

Letterboxd: @itstune

Website: moviejuice.substack.com

Location: Adelaide

Movie location I call home: The room from the end of Stray Dogs.

What was the film or experience that made you want to write about the screen?
Not at all a unique experience, but I think my encounter with The End of Evangelion when I was 12 was the first time I got some inkling that reading and thinking about a piece of art could be as interesting as the act of simply watching it. Everything sort of followed from there.

Why do you think film criticism matters in 2024?
If we do not have a useful, coherent, and engaging language to speak about an art form, then that art form dies.

Who is a critic that inspires you? Nick Pinkerton

In five words, the future of cinema is: Not the same

What’s your favourite film that you’ve seen this year?
One From the Heart is probably the best thing I've seen for the first time this year. “Brechtian musical with songs by Tom Waits” was probably never going to be anything less than a homerun for me, but even with high expectations I was still stunned by both the sheer joyousness of the film’s giddy formal artifice, and the devastating way that said artifice leads irrevocably to a place of total disillusionment.

My MIFF 2024 theme music is: Destroyer, ‘Streethawk I’