Ray Argall introduced this showing of his personal collection of films from the 80s that he has been restoring.
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A New Kind of Wilderness (2024)
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This one is a bit of a weepy. I went in thinking it was about off grid living and homeschooling – raising children in nature – but it’s actually as much about grief.
Continue readingThe Substance (2024)
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I think what threw me about this often delightful, often gross body horror was the expectation from reading the synopsis that it was feminist. It has made me muse on what my expectations are when that term is applied to a film, and I think it is about more than putting women’s stories at the centre, It’s about stories of women’s power and autonomy.
Continue readingAll We Imagine as Light (2024)
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One of the hardest things about MIFF is staying confident with the films that you have chosen.
Continue readingCrossing (2024)
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Levan Akin (And Then We Danced (2019)) gives us an engaging story of familial regret and redemption with a glimpse into lives on the margins between country, family and gender.
Continue readingThe Golem (1920)
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Dark Mofo is a space for oddities and the screening in the Hobart Town Hall of this 1920 silent, German horror with live music score by electronic artist Lucrecia Dalt is a good place to start.
Continue readingTolkien (2019)
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JRR Tolkien was my first major literary crush. Watership Down was a first love and paved the way for 17 years as a vegetarian and refusal to ever eat rabbit but reading The Lord of the Rings in my teens began a long-lasting love of epic fantasy. I read and reread it many times in my teens and 20s and owned pretty much every published book by or about Tolkien until his estate began churning out unpublished, and unfinished works.
Continue readingWild Rose (2018)
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Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is a largely unlikable hero but we can’t help hoping she finds her way to success.
Continue readingThe Heiresses (Las Herederas) (2018)
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Only the first feature of Marcelo Martinessi, this is an assured exploration of a difficult and contemporary topic.
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