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Box Office 24 April 2017 - Berlin Syndrome, Dance Academy and some missing audiences
Carnage in the cinemas and not just on the screen. Hopes have been dashed and dreams are bleeding out in…
Mind and heart, eyes and ears - documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson remembers
In her film Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson confronts the sequences that challenge her understanding of her craft, her morality and the…
See-Saw haunted by monkey from the sixteenth century
The latest and maybe the best reinvention of the old Chinese Monkey legend from The Journey to the West comes…
What's On - local indies and comedies about making films.
Look carefully and you will find some powerful Australian indy films staking out a strictly limited release. And others that…
Ratings week of April 16 2017 - the whole batch
SBS and the ABC confront each other to control the non-cookery mid to late evening. Its serious doc v prime…
Box Office 17 April 2017 - Easter weekend
The exhibition business chock full of puzzles. Like, why is this film not doing well in the box office? Image:…
Cannes Film Festival 2017 - Top of the Lake and a regulatory fight
Top of the Lake: China Girl blasts off in a tribute for a favoured heroine at the Cannes Film Festival,…
What's On - John Clarke Tribute + FFS festival + Kurosawa
While Easter is dominated by tentpoles and the ratings have stopped on TV, SBS movies and iView can still get…
Cultural crusader is the Philanthropist of the Year
Straddling the worlds of finance and social activism, Ian Darling has shaped theatre and art and changed the future of…
Box Office 10 April 2017 - horned beast buries valiant Lion
Easter thrums with the big films, which have the top seven in the twenty - but there are good pickings…