The trailer for Michael Haneke‘s Palme d’Or winner Amour debuts online and it’s as powerful and elegant as we expected. After winning the Palme d’Or in 2009 with his previous film The White Ribbon, no one expected Michael Haneke to score another so quickly. But win another he did. Amour premiered at Cannes recently to […]
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The 10 most evil children in movie history
September 30, 2011 
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The 10 most evil children in movie history. By Simon Miraudo. This week we were treated to the super-creepy new trailer for Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly play parents who must come to terms with the fact that their son might be pure evil (dead giveaway: […]
Continue readingMichael Haneke prepping latest thigh-slapper
November 12, 2010 0 Comments
Everyone’s favourite Austrian auteur (sorry Erich von Stroheim!) Michael Haneke is getting ready to shoot his follow-up to Palme d’Or winner The White Ribbon. In an interview with The Playlist, frequent Haneke-collaborator Isabelle Huppert revealed that the director’s next film will be Ces Deux (These Two). Haneke had previously announced this project back in 2009, […]
Continue readingTime after time – The Secret In Their Eyes review
October 12, 2010 0 Comments
The Secret In Their Eyes – Starring Ricardo Darin and Soledad Villamil. Directed by Juan Jose Campanella. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. The annual Academy Award ceremony is steeped in tradition. These traditions include (but are not limited to): ignoring masterful directors their entire careers only to give them an Oscar for their lesser films, […]
Continue readingKids do the darndest things – The White Ribbon review
September 13, 2010 0 Comments
The White Ribbon – Starring Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch and Burghart Klaußner. Directed by Michael Haneke. Rated MA. Originally published May 4, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s masterpiece. It is not a movie about abstract concepts or a director’s power over his characters – well, at least it’s not just […]
Continue readingJudge Dredd retitled … Dredd!
September 8, 2010 0 Comments
It’s a smart move for any film to distance themselves from Sylvester Stallone‘s disastrous nineties vehicle Judge Dredd – a movie like The White Ribbon could have perhaps only been bettered by Michael Haneke interrupting proceedings and announcing his distaste for the wildly misguided comic book adaptation. And hey, Haneke is exactly the kind of […]
Continue readingHead to Head – The White Ribbon
June 9, 2010 0 Comments
Welcome to the latest edition of Head to Head, in which our Quickflix critic takes on our readers in a rip-snorting battle to the death! You pick the film, and we pick the fight! This week, Tom Clift punished Michael Haneke‘s Palme d’Or winner The White Ribbon by … uhh, tying a white ribbon around […]
Continue readingCannes Palme d’Or awarded to Uncle Boonmee
May 24, 2010 0 Comments
The Cannes Film Festival is over for another year, with the top prize going to the dreamlike Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives from director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Jury president Tim Burton awarded Uncle Boonmee the Palme d’Or, describing it as a “dream” of a film. The picture follows a dying man’s last days […]
Continue readingInhuman behaviour – Zombieland review
May 4, 2010 2 Comments
Zombieland – Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Rated MA. Originally published December 2, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. Has any other film reveled in the evisceration of the human (or in this case inhuman) body with such fervent, fetishistic joy? Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland feels less like an action comedy […]
Continue readingKids do the darndest things – The White Ribbon review
May 4, 2010 0 Comments
The White Ribbon – Starring Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch and Burghart Klaußner. Directed by Michael Haneke. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s masterpiece. It is not a movie about abstract concepts or a director’s power over his characters – well, at least it’s not just about those things. In his […]
Continue readingCannes Film Festival 2010 Lineup
April 15, 2010 0 Comments
The lineup for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival has been announced, featuring films from famed international directors Mike Leigh, Takeshi Kitano and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu as well as many other luminaries from around the world. The festival will kick off on May 12th, with Ridley Scott‘s Robin Hood making its world premiere in the prestigious […]
Continue readingThe White Ribbon secures Australian release date
February 10, 2010 0 Comments
Michael Haneke‘s Oscar-nominated The White Ribbon has finally secured an Australian release date – May 6, 2010. It will be distributed by Transmission Films. It will hit cinemas almost nine months after it made its Australian debut at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The film takes place in Germany just before World War 1. It […]
Continue readingSamson and Delilah makes Oscar shortlist
January 21, 2010 0 Comments
source: incontention.com Warwick Thornton‘s AFI-award winning film Samson and Delilah has inched closer to an Academy Award nomination, having made it onto the shortlist of films eligible for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. We reported back in September 2009 that the film would be Australia’s official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film category. […]
Continue reading15 movies we DEMAND get an Australian release!
January 19, 2010 10 Comments
Here at Quickflix, we get a lot of title suggestions from members. Often it is an inquiry regarding a film not available on DVD in Australia, and we must sadly reply that “we just don’t know if the film you are after will ever be available in Oz!” The inexplicable lack of Robert Altman films […]
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