Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night has taken the top prize at the Sydney Film Festival, trumping favourites such as Boyhood and Locke, as well as Australian features The Rover and Ruin. Marion Cotillard stars in the picture as a woman who has a weekend to convince her colleagues to turn down a bonus and save her from being made redundant. The […]
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A festivus for the rest of us: Sydney Film Festival 2014 begins!
June 4, 2014 
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The Sydney Film Festival is once again upon us, and 2014’s slate is as tantalising as any that has come before. This, of course, means our editorial team will be occupied skittering from darkened cinema to darkened cinema, up all night scribbling reviews, and frantically posting them each morning for the pleasure of those unable […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival unveils its 2014 program
May 7, 2014 0 Comments
The Sydney Film Festival’s 2014 program has been loosed upon the world, boasting the Australian debut of David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom follow-up The Rover and Richard Linklater’s decade-spanning Boyhood, as well as hotly anticipated international titles such as Bong Joon-ho’s first English-language effort, Snowpiercer, and the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night, starring Marion Cotillard. All four of those features will screen in SFF’s official competition, alongside 20,000 Days on […]
Continue reading‘God Help the Girl’, ‘Frank’ bound for 2014 Sydney Film Festival
April 3, 2014 0 Comments
The first batch of features bound for the 2014 Sydney Film Festival have been unveiled. Lenny Abrahamson’s music comedy Frank, starring Michael Fassbender in a giant papier mâché head, will make its Australian debut at the festival, as will Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch’s directorial debut, God Help the Girl. David Gordon Green and Nicolas Cage’s collaboration, Joe, […]
Continue readingOnly God Forgives wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
June 17, 2013 0 Comments
Nicolas Winding Refn’s ultraviolent collaboration with Ryan Gosling, Only God Forgives, has taken the top prize at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival. Jury president Hugo Weaving announced the Official Competition winner on the closing night of the fest, declaring it “a visually mesmerizing and disturbing film which polarised our opinions.” Only God Forgives trumped 11 other movies for […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival unveils first batch of films for 2013
April 4, 2013 0 Comments
The first batch of titles headed to the 2013 Sydney Film Festival have been unveiled on the SFF’s official website. A couple of the pictures were expected by arthouse aficionados to make the cut, including Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut Stoker (which was delayed from its original March release date to instead debut at the fest), and Noah Baumbach’s […]
Continue readingAlps wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
June 18, 2012 0 Comments
The winner of the 59th Sydney Film Festival’s Official Competition was announced yesterday. Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Alps was named by the jury as the best of the fest, beating out heavy competition from Sundance hit Beasts of the Southern Wild and Cate Shortland‘s long-anticipated Lore. Lanthimos’ Alps is the Greek director’s follow-up to Oscar nominated Dogtooth, […]
Continue readingThe top picks for the 2012 Sydney Film Festival
June 6, 2012 0 Comments
The top picks for the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. By Simon Miraudo. Has it been a year already? I’m back in New South Wales for the 2012 Sydney Film Festival, facing a flurry of flicks even more fantabulous than those featured last time. Well, hopefully! From June 6 to 17, myself and Melbournite Richard Haridy […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival 2012 line-up revealed
May 9, 2012 0 Comments
The full line-up of features and shorts heading to New South Wales for the 2012 Sydney Film Festival has been revealed. Incoming fest director Nashen Moodley has secured a number of ambitious titles, alongside your expected marquee arthouse fare. Joining previously announced features Beasts of the Southern Wild and Monsieur Lazhar in the Official Competition: Yorgos Lanthimos’ […]
Continue readingFirst look at Sydney Film Festival 2012
April 2, 2012 0 Comments
The first batch of features headed to the 2012 Sydney Film Festival have been unveiled. Their sneak peek reveals 15 narrative features – including lyrical Sundance hit Beasts of the Southern Wild and Oscar nominated Canadian film Monsieur Lazhar – as well as 13 documentaries. Among the documentaries: Woody Allen, a three hour examination of […]
Continue readingA Separation wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
June 20, 2011 0 Comments
The Sydney Film Festival has come to an end for another year, with the jury selecting Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation as winner of the fest’s official competition. President Chen Kaige made the decision with fellow jury members Sarah Watt, Kerry Foxx, Julie Rigg and Mark Herbert. Past winners of the festival include Heartbeats, Hunger and […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Beats, Rhymes & Life – The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
June 7, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest has been released online. Directed by Michael Rapaport, it is a hip hop homage to the Queens NY collective, who were given their name by Afrika Baby Bambaataa of the Jungle Brothers. The two-and-a-half minute clip shows some of the biggest […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Take Shelter
May 25, 2011 1 Comment
The official trailer for Jeff Nichols’ Sundance hit Take Shelter has arrived online. The film stars Michael Shannon as Curtis LaForche, a man who envisions an apocalyptic storm approaching. With a deaf daughter and a loving wife, money is tight, and as the story unfolds Curtis is forced to question whether it is his family […]
Continue readingThe 2011 Sydney Film Festival line-up revealed
May 11, 2011 0 Comments
The complete lineup of flicks playing at this year’s Sydney Film Festival has been revealed, with Joe Wright’s Hanna announced as the opening night film. Mike Mills’ Beginners will close the fest. Two Cannes-bound Aussie movies – Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty and Ivan Sen’s Toomelah – will screen in the festival’s official competition. They will compete […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Project Nim
May 10, 2011 0 Comments
Man On Wire, 2008 British filmmaker James Marsh’s documentary on the (slightly insane) French acrobat Philippe Petit, who in 1974 accomplished a high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, was excellent viewing. Thrilling and humanising in equal amounts, Marsh did well to uncover the emotions and dreams behind what the public […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Future
May 10, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for Miranda July‘s new film The Future has debuted online. As you would expect from the writer/director of Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Future looks to be a unique, gorgeous and (overused indie descriptor alert!) quirky film experience. The Future stars July and Hamish Linklater as a couple of thirty-somethings […]
Continue readingIs Attenberg the new Dogtooth?
April 19, 2011 2 Comments
Alright, you got us Rotten Tomatoes. Suggesting any film as “this year’s Dogtooth” is a sure fire way of sparking our interest in a movie, which is precisely what they said of Greek drama Attenberg. Heading to Sydney for the 2011 Film Festival, the trailer for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg suggests a similarly complex and […]
Continue readingFirst look at 2011 Sydney Film Festival
April 6, 2011 1 Comment
The first batch of titles heading to the 2011 Sydney Film Festival were announced earlier this week (we were busy putting the final touches on our new blog; forgive our tardiness!) and they include some of the most exciting and acclaimed movies on the international festival circuit. Some of the big ticket items include the […]
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