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The Top 10 Films of 2013

By Simon Miraudo December 18, 2013 December: for avid list-makers, it’s the cinematic equivalent of Thunderdome. (Hundreds of movies go in. Only one comes out.) We’ve spent the past eleven months reviewing 2013′s releases as fairly and thoughtfully as possible, but that veneer of considerate criticism will be dropped in favour of sweet, sweet chart-making. […]

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Sydney Film Festival – Prince Avalanche review

By Simon Miraudo June 14, 2013 What a lovely, lyrical wonder David Gordon Green‘s Prince Avalanche is. A remake of the Icelandic comedy Either Way, it transplants the tale of two poorly-paired road workers to East Texas, circa 1988, shortly after wildfires have ravaged the terrain. Their task is to paint those yellow lines on […]

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Sydney Film Festival unveils first batch of films for 2013

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 […]

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David Gordon Green made a film with Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch

David Gordon Green has just wrapped a secret indie film he wrote and directed starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, Variety reports. The low-budget road comedy is called Prince Avalanche; it was filmed in Austin and is a remake of an Icelandic comedy called Either Way, directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson. In the original, two […]

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