Xiaopeng Tian’s 3D animation is a maximalist fever dream.
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BlackBerry (2023)
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I lived through the rise and fall of BlackBerry but, not being an early adopter, it barely touched my life.
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Georgia Oakley crafts a decent debut feature that captures the challenges of being a lesbian in Thatcher’s Britain.
Continue readingHello Dankness (2022)
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Time Bomb Y2K (2022)
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Tommy Guns (Nação Valente) (2023)
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Destined to confound, this sometimes surreal drama (with a touch of horror) sits in an uncomfortable space between metaphor and realism.
Continue readingThe Carnival (2023)
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Isabel Darling’s The Carnival reminded me of a particular ilk of great Australian documentary storytelling, like Maya Newell’s Gayby Baby (2015) and In My Blood it Runs (2019) and Justine Moyle’s Tall Poppy (2021). The storytellers find a subject or a family who seem absolutely ordinary and build a rapport that allows them to tell the story of how they are extraordinary.
Continue readingRoom 999 (Chambre 999) (2023)
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A room full of filmmakers with remarkably little insight into the world outside of their bubble.
Continue readingPast Lives (2023)
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Celine Song’s debut feature is a quiet and lyrical ode to inyeon, the Korean term for “the miracle of being in the same room together at the same time.”
Continue readingFairyland (2023)
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I want to say nice things about Andrew Durham’s Fairyland because it gives us an overview of queer culture in San Francisco in the 70s to 90s, a pivotal time.
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