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MIFF ’13: The Best Offer (2013)
“There’s always something authentic concealed in every forgery.” Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) reveres beauty above all else, and in his work as an auctioneer and marchand d’art he has handled some of...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Four
It was a day like any other day. I struggled to find a car park in the city on a weekday and I saw four films. Well, not like any other day, but certainly any other day at the end of July or the...
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100 Bloody Acres (2013)
Silly doesn’t always mean “bad”, and though 100 Bloody Acres is certainly no Australian horror masterpiece (see: Wolf Creek), it never sets out to be, making it a sparkling underachievement which does...
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Ash’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Part Two
Click here for PART ONE Now a couple of days into the festival and just over half a dozen films, I have certainly started to get a taste for the atmosphere of the festival and I must say, it tastes...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Five/Six
<<< Day Four Coverage Due to the fact that I had to get an education (well, the had to part is questionable), my fifth day of MIFF was a limited one. Limited both by my scholarly pursuits and...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Seven
<<< Day Five/Six Coverage So today was the first day of the festival in which I responded negatively to each of the films in question in some capacity. Previously, I’ve had at least one film...
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Ash’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Part 3
Click here for PART ONE Click here for PART TWO I think I will take this opportunity to briefly discuss the dreaded “walkout” which occurs during a screening. As this is my first fully immersed...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Eight
<<< Day Seven Coverage Considering yesterday’s drop in quality, my spirits were somewhat low when coming in to MIFF, especially with the wintry chill that ran down everyone’s spine. So I...
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Ash’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Part 4
Click here for PART ONE Click here for PART TWO Click here for PART THREE Now midway through the festival I am beginning to feel the fatigue many warned me about before embarking on this mission. The...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Nine/Ten
<<< Day Eight Coverage Once again, this time due to a family commitment, I was only able to see a single film on the ninth day of the festival, so my ninth and tenth days have been compressed...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Eleven
<<< Day Nine/Ten Coverage At this point in my MIFF journey I feel like I could sharpen an axe with my shoulder blades. The physical toll that the constant sitting in uncomfortable and...
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Ash’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Part 5
Click here for PART ONE Click here for PART TWO Click here for PART THREE Click here for PART FOUR Due to financial limitations preventing me from indulging in the same extreme number of...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Twelve/Thirteen
<<< Day Eleven Coverage No I have not succumbed to sacrifice by the Gods of MIFF, but have rather just been having too good of a time to be able to contribute to my column of daily wrap ups...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Fourteen
<<< Day Twelve/Thirteen Coverage With only one weekend of the festival left, I’m starting to have the pre-withdrawal symptoms that come with recognising just how near the end really is. At...
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Ash’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Part 6
Click here for PART ONE Click here for PART TWO Click here for PART THREE Click here for PART FOUR Click here for PART FIVE I am writing and completing my second last diary entry after two solid days...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Fifteen
<<< Day Fourteen Coverage We are two days away from the conclusion of MIFF and I am starting to feel the searing burn that signals the desire to return to some sort of routine. Don’t get me...
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Ash’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Part 7
Click here for PART ONE Click here for PART TWO Click here for PART THREE Click here for PART FOUR Click here for PART FIVE Click here for PART SIX It is with a solemn tear that I write this, my final...
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Simon’s MIFF ’13 Diary: Day Sixteen/Seventeen/Closing Night
<<< Day Fifteen Coverage As the last screening of the Melbourne International Film Festival trailer flashed up on the screen, my mind drifted (as it often does) to Sans Soleil and the line...
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The 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival Podcast Wrap-Up
Well everybody, we are back. After taking three weeks of (unpaid) leave to attend the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival we have returned with films to champion and tales to tell. This week on...
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Frances Ha (2012)
Frances Halladay (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old dance assistant living in New York City with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner), a publicist working for Random House. The duo are joined at the...
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The Rocket (2013)
The small, Southeast Asian country Laos has very few pins in its cinematic map. With a cultural history as rich as its neighbouring nations Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China, the state has a very...
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Mazzy Star – Seasons of Your Day (2013)
Never a fame nor attention-seeking band, Mazzy Star faded into obscurity in the late 1990s after releasing only 3 albums between 1990 and 1996. Like their contemporaries My Bloody Valentine, Mazzy Star...
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Binary Wires: Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013)
Over the course of his career as one of Asia’s most prominent directors of wuxia cinema, Tsui Hark has regularly mined China’s rich history for subjects upon which to apply his technologically...
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Sexual Healing: Thanks for Sharing (2013)
There is nothing funny about sex addiction, or so we learned from Steve McQueen’s astonishingly bleak and hyper-real masterpiece Shame released last year. Shame took a brutally honest approach toward...
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Siege Mentality: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
In many ways it’s surprising that an Alan Partridge movie has found its way into Australian cinemas at all. Despite the character’s enduring popularity in his home country of England, Partridge has...
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