Another twelve months of watching the world through the filter of film has almost come to an end.
18 Dec 2014 12:00
Sarah Ward
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Force Majeure: a slice of life on the slopes. Image via Sharmill Films.
Another twelve months of watching the world through the filter of film has almost come to an end, and what a twelve months they have been. Audiences have seen the suffering people can afflict upon each other – and on a nation – in 12 Years a Slave, met an irreverent new breed of superheroes in Guardians of the Galaxy, witnessed a child grow into a man in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, and relished David Fincher’s toying with marital perception in Gone Girl – and that’s barely scraping the surface of the current crop of film offerings.
Sarah Ward is a freelance film critic, arts and culture writer, and film festival organiser. She is the Australia-based critic for Screen International, a film reviewer and writer for ArtsHub, the weekend editor and a senior writer for Concrete Playground, a writer for the Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz, and a contributor to SBS, SBS Movies and Flicks Australia. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Junkee, FilmInk, Birth.Movies.Death, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine, Screen Education and the World Film Locations book series. She is also the editor of Trespass Magazine, a film and TV critic for ABC radio Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, and has worked with the Brisbane International Film Festival, Queensland Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival. Follow her on Twitter: @swardplay
