Tag: Australian film
Sunday essay: sex, swimming and smudgy louvres – watching Monkey Grip 40 years on
Image: An early poster for Monkey Grip, starring Noni Hazelhurst and Colin Friels. MIFF
The woman’s name is Nora, and she’s getting out of the pool...
Makeshift screens, censored films and ASIO: how the Melbourne International Film Festival began 70 years ago
Featured picture: Author provided.
On the Australia Day weekend in 1952, a group of die-hard film buffs put on a film festival. They had selected...
How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films
The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...
Sunday essay: why Rosaleen Norton, ‘the witch of Kings Cross’, was a groundbreaking bohemian
Rosaleen Norton works in crayon in a converted stable in Kings Cross in Sydney, 1946. News Ltd/Black Jelly Films
Rosaleen Norton, or “the witch of...
Film review: Wild Things packs passionate climate activism into an overly polite documentary
Picture: Potential Films
The content of some films is so close to the heart that it’s difficult to critically evaluate them. If you’re an atheist, The...
Sunday essay: how a ‘gonzo’ press gang forged the Ned Kelly legend
Destruction of the Kelly Gang. Drawn by
Thomas Carrington during the siege. State Library of Victoria
Washington Post publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously declared that journalism...