Tag: Film history
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...
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...
Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock’s famous fright film broke all the rules
Image: Psycho/IMDB
November 1959. Film director Alfred Hitchcock is at his commercial and critical peak after the successes of Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest (1959). So what does he do...