In Up The Mountain, a blurring of documentary and fiction, director Zhang Yang portrays the spiritual and rejuvenating qualities of a simple pastoral lifestyle surrounded by fulfilling relationships with people… Read More
Up the Mountain
Category: SFF19
High Life
The experiences of humankind, the central feature of storytelling via cinema, is obscurely re-visited in Claire Denis’ High Life (2018). The film is a piece of speculative -science-fiction -horror, which… Read More
Halston
The heavily saturated and enchanting appeal and demise of fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick is revealed in Frédéric Tcheng’s Halston (2019). The iconic designer and entrepreneur began his career as… Read More
Children of the Sea
It’s difficult to review Children of the Sea, because it is hard to explain what actually happened in the movie. It’s dense with imagery and symbolism throughout, but upon first… Read More
FEATURED The Final Quarter
The Final Quarter, a new Australian documentary, covers the major incidents in the last three years of Adam Goodes’ career, including the incident with the 13-year-old fan who fired racial… Read More
Her Smell
Director Alex Ross Perry specialises in unlikable protagonists. His film Listen Up Phillip explores the life of author Phillip, who is manipulative and deeply conceited, and Queen of Earth portrays the psychological… Read More
The Souvenir
The Souvenir follows young film student Julie (Honour Swinton-Byrne) through a progressively dysfunctional relationship with Anthony (Tom Burke), a cultured, clever, heroin addict. There are many meta components to the… Read More
Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away
Minuscule: Mandibles from Far Away is the second Minuscule feature. Thomas Szabo and Hélène Giraud have created a surprisingly heart-warming movie that doesn’t need to rely on dialogue to take the… Read More
The Public
Emilio Estevez directs and stars alongside Alec Baldwin in The Public, an empathetic story of homelessness and the fight for fairness and survival. Stuart Goodson (brilliantly portrayed by Emilio Estevez),… Read More
Interview with Ash Mayfair / The Third Wife
Tiana from Film in Revolt spoke with Ash Mayfair, director of The Third Wife – her feature debut focuses on a teenager in an arranged marriage, who learns quickly about… Read More