Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Sixteen. By Simon Miraudo. I don’t normally write movie reviews while wearing a suit – it just seems a little formal considering the nature in which I usually watch the films; unshaven, in a hoodie, eating a kit kat – but I’m about to head off to the Closing […]
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Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Fourteen
August 4, 2011 
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Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Fourteen. By Simon Miraudo. Something strange is happening here. Festival fatigue is slowly setting in; not just upon me and my fellow ‘60 Film in 17 Days’ Blog-A-Thoners, but apparently also the entire cinema-going population of Melbourne. A couple of days ago, Thomas Caldwell at Cinema Autopsy spotted the […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Thirteen
August 3, 2011 3 Comments
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Thirteen. By Simon Miraudo. “Nothing cleanses the palate after watching a movie about Satan (or perhaps a vengeful Jesus) wreaking havoc on Earth like a documentary about Elmo.” “You know what I LOVE? Silent films about circus folk living in a war zone.” “No day would be complete without […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Eight
July 30, 2011 1 Comment
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Eight. By Simon Miraudo. I’m writing this very sentence to you at 2:32am on Friday evening (or rather, Saturday morning), on this, the eighth night of the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival. You’ll forgive me if I end my introduction here and get right on to discussing the movies, […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Seven
July 28, 2011 3 Comments
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Seven. By Simon Miraudo. Well, that’s one week down. To think it was only seven days ago that I arrived in Melbournetown and trekked to the Greater Union on Russell Street for the very first time. 168 hours later (give or take), and I’ve seen 24 films at the […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Six
July 27, 2011 0 Comments
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Six. By Simon Miraudo. Sweet release! After days of endless movie watching, I felt the need to temporarily take a break from the cinema and recalibrate my now-square eyes to their traditional circular form. Don’t get me wrong … I still went to the movies (there ain’t no real […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Five
July 27, 2011 0 Comments
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Five. By Simon Miraudo. Today a woman approached me outside of The Forum – one of the primary cinemas screening features at MIFF – and asked if I was from Melbourne. Blush! Had it only taken me five days to acclimatise? Was my super cool sweater/jacket/scarf combo convincing everyone […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Four
July 25, 2011 1 Comment
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Four. By Simon Miraudo. 25%. One quarter. Half a half. That is how far I am into the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival 60 Films in 17 Days challenge. Thankfully, only a fifth of the films I’ve seen so far have been out and out clunkers, whilst a number […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Two
July 24, 2011 4 Comments
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Two. By Simon Miraudo. Beasts, and guards, and Michael Shannons, oh my! My second day of movie-watching at the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival was a packed one; so much so, I don’t even have time to write a proper introduction to this diary entry. Instead, I’m just going […]
Continue readingMelbourne International Film Festival – Top 10 Picks
July 19, 2011 7 Comments
The 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival kicks off this week, and I – along with five other bloggers – will be celebrating the fest’s 60th anniversary by attempting to watch 60 films across 17 days. It is madness. The MIFF Blog-A-Thon is a mighty undertaking, that’s for sure. Still, it’s a heck of a lot […]
Continue readingFull line-up for Melbourne International Film Festival revealed
July 8, 2011 0 Comments
Victoria, prepare thyself. The entire line-up of films playing at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival has been revealed. For those of you worried that the best features had already been leaked, rest easy in the knowledge that the team at MIFF still had a few aces in their pocket. Opening the fest on the […]
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