Gael Garcia Bernal will take on the lead role in Jon Stewart’s upcoming feature directorial debut, The Wrap reports. Stewart is taking 12 weeks off from The Daily Show to film Rosewater, based on Maziar Bahari’s 2011 book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival. It tells the true, harrowing tale of a […]
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Talk Hard – Pablo Larrain (No)
April 23, 2013 
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Happiness is coming? Happiness is here! Say ‘Yes’ to our interview with Pablo Larrain, the director of No; a recent nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Simon Miraudo delivers his review of that movie – perhaps the best of 2013 so far – at the end of the episode. [audio https://qfxblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/talk-hard-no.mp3] Show Notes: Apologies […]
Continue readingInterview: Pablo Larrain (No)
April 18, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 18, 2013 Pablo Larrain is over it. After three consecutive films detailing life under General Augusto Pinochet in his home country of Chile, he is eager to tackle a different subject. Thankfully, his unofficial trilogy of darkly comic social commentaries is capped with his best feature yet: No. It follows the […]
Continue readingInterview: Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet)
April 8, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 8, 2013 Writer-director Julia Loktev warns that her film The Loneliest Planet is a “dangerous” date movie. In it, an engaged couple played by Hani Furstenberg and Gael Garcia Bernal roam Georgia’s picturesque Caucasus Mountains. Though madly in love one another, they are confronted with a life-threatening situation that completely changes […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet)
March 26, 2013 0 Comments
Talk Hard with Simon Miraudo is the official podcast of Quickflix.com.au In this episode, we are catching that Midnight Train to Georgia. Well, the one near Russia, anyway. Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo speaks with Julia Loktev, director of The Loneliest Planet. He also delivers his verdict on what she calls a dangerous date movie. Show […]
Continue readingThe medium is the message – No review
February 18, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 18, 2013 It’s the rare movie that celebrates marketing minds. Even the heroes of TV’s Mad Men are presented as having questionable professional ethics, what with their uncanny ability to peddle cigarettes and their willingness to promote such blights on U.S. culture as Richard Nixon and jai alai. Pablo Larraín‘s No […]
Continue readingMIFF bringing big batch of Cannes titles to fest
June 21, 2012 1 Comment
Not much more than two weeks after we had the First Glimpse release, Melbourne International Film Festival have announced another load of films, this time highlighting the haul of over 35 features they picked up from Cannes. As well as previously announced big hitting flicks such as the Palme d’Or winner Amour and Wes Anderson’s […]
Continue readingGael Garcia Bernal is Zorro Reborn
February 20, 2012 1 Comment
Move over Antonio; your swashbuckling will now only be done in the guise of that boot-wearing gato. Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Science of Sleep) looks set to star in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming adventure flick Zorro Reborn. According to Variety, the picture is “a futuristic reboot of the Zorro mythology that will not […]
Continue readingScorsese and DiCaprio reunite for The Wolf of Wall Street
February 17, 2011 0 Comments
Martin Scorsese and current-muse Leonardo DiCaprio are set to reunite for the film adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s autobiographical best-seller The Wolf of Wall Street. According to Vulture, formerly-attached director Ridley Scott and studio Warner Bros parted way with the project, allowing Scorsese to jump aboard and direct the script by his Boardwalk Empire co-producer Terence […]
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