Waking nightmare – Sleeping Beauty review

Sleeping Beauty – Starring Emily Browning, Rachael Blake and Peter Carroll. Directed by Julia Leigh. Rated MA. Originally published June 8, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. I remember seeing a production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days with my high school drama class. For those unfamiliar with the play, it features a woman trapped in a mound […]

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Sydney Film Festival – Video Interview: Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty)

We spoke with Rachael Blake, one of the stars of Sleeping Beauty, at the 2011 Sydney Film Festival. Check out our chat below! You can read the full transcript of our interview here. You can also read our review of Sleeping Beauty. Discuss: Did you catch Sleeping Beauty at SFF?

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Sydney Film Festival – Interview: Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty)

Interview: Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty). By Simon Miraudo. Sleeping Beauty is set to become one of the most talked about movies of 2011. Julia Leigh’s first feature film made its premiere at Cannes, where it played in competition beside the likes of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. It has […]

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Sydney Film Festival – Day Seven

Sydney Film Festival – Day Seven. By Simon Miraudo. [The following conversation took place sometime between 10pm and 12am on the seventh day of the 2011 Sydney Film Festival, on a flight headed from Sydney to Perth. It is almost entirely verbatim]. ————————————————————— “Is that you personal computer?” “This? No, no, just an iPad.” “It’s so […]

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Sydney Film Festival – Sleeping Beauty review

Sleeping Beauty – Starring Emily Browning, Rachael Blake and Peter Carroll. Directed by Julia Leigh. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Sleeping Beauty makes its Australian debut at the Sydney Film Festival on Friday June 10. It also screens on Saturday June 11. I remember seeing a production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days with my high […]

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