Alps – Starring Aggeliki Papoulia, Ariane Labed, and Aris Servetalis. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Originally published June 12, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Alps plays the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 19, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. This review was first run during the Sydney Film Festival. Following on from his Oscar-nominated freak-fest Dogtooth, it was expected Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Alps would similarly […]
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Alps wins top prize at Sydney Film Festival
June 18, 2012 
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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 readingNothing compares to you – Alps review (Sydney Film Festival)
June 12, 2012 0 Comments
Alps – Starring Aggeliki Papoulia, Ariane Labed, and Aris Servetalis. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. By Simon Miraudo. Alps plays the Sydney Film Festival on June 13, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. Following on from his Oscar-nominated freak-fest Dogtooth, it was expected Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Alps would similarly evade easy explanation. Lesser […]
Continue readingOne of the animals – Attenberg review
March 28, 2012 0 Comments
Attenberg – Starring Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, and Giorgos Lanthimos. Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari. Rated MA. By Hilary Simmons. Attenberg is now available on DVD. Attenberg will appeal to you if you like architecture, animal documentaries, and awkwardly choreographed dance sequences. The title comes from the wildlife films of Sir David Attenborough – who surely […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Interview: Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg)
June 12, 2011 1 Comment
Interview: Athina Rachel Tsangari (Attenberg). By Simon Miraudo. Attenberg is the new film from Athina Rachel Tsangari, producer of last year’s controversial black comedy Dogtooth, and it’s becomes apparent early on that it is cut from the same cloth. One of the most talked about films of the 2011 Sydney Film Festival, it stars Ariane Labed […]
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 readingFamily affair – Dogtooth review
February 15, 2011 7 Comments
Dogtooth – Starring Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni and Christos Stergioglou. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Rated R. By Simon Miraudo. Understanding Dogtooth requires an understanding of the craziest, cruelest, most debauched experiments ever undertaken in human history. It tells the story of a deranged married couple who keep their three adult children confined within their isolated […]
Continue reading>Dogtooth makes Oscar Foreign Film shortlist; Uncle Boonmee snubbed
January 20, 2011 3 Comments
>There is less than a week to go before the nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards are revealed, so it hardly seems worthwhile reporting this, but… The Academy have narrowed down their 65-picture long list of contenders for the Best Foreign Language Film to a tight nine, before it is refined to a further five […]
Continue readingRevelation Film Festival – Day Eleven
July 18, 2010 0 Comments
Revelation Perth International Film Festival – Day Eleven Nude Study / Closing Night “Oh Rev. Rev! Where will I go? What will I do?” It was a little hard not to feel like Scarlett O’Hara as the 13th Revelation Perth International Film Festival drew to a close. We had just been treated to eleven days […]
Continue readingRevelation Film Festival – Day Three
July 10, 2010 0 Comments
Revelation Perth International Film Festival – Day Three A Town Called Panic Three days into the festival, and I’ve only managed a measly one film per day. It’s pretty poor form, I’ll admit. I won’t even use the excuse of having watched screeners for several of the features before the festival in preparation for interviews […]
Continue readingRevelation Film Festival – Day Two
July 9, 2010 0 Comments
Revelation Perth International Film Festival – Day Two Dogtooth I never understood how someone could walk out half-way through a movie. I mean, you’ve already paid your money, and there is always the possibility that the film will get better. Sure, we all wanted to jump ship during the first 10 minutes of Juno, but […]
Continue readingYou say you want a Revelation? Blogging the Revelation Perth International Film Festival.
July 6, 2010 1 Comment
You say you want a Revelation? Blogging the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. By Simon Miraudo. It’s here! The Revelation Perth International Film Festival kicks into gear this very week. Oft-isolated West Australian audiences will be treated to their annual sampling of underground documentaries, offbeat narratives, underexposed local pictures and recently excavated exploitation flicks. And […]
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