Music is a powerful tool for resistance and Rich Peppiatt’s delightfully frenetic retelling of the birth of northern Irish hip-hop band Kneecap shows the power and the vulnerability of sticking it to the Man.
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Shutter (ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ)(2004)
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Gotta love ACMI! You come down to Melbourne on a random weekend and find that all of the cinemas are playing various combinations of the same films and that you’ve seen most of them at the Melbourne Film Festival. ACMI, in contrast, is showing a 2004 classic Thai horror film Shutter. What a gem!
Continue readingMy Old Ass (2024)
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I needed to see a film like this that would fill up my cup after a MIFF that seems heavy on melancholy.
Continue readingI Shall Not Hate (2024)
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I had a bit of a revelation after watching this documentary about a Palestinian doctor working in Gaza and Israel, that if you want to understand situations like this, conflicts that are happening all over the world, the best way is to watch a documentary about it.
Continue readingThe Story of Souleymane (L’histoire de Souleymane) (2024)
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I had heard a buzz about this French drama by Boris Lojkine which can be a blessing or a curse. Gladly, the rumours were true.
Continue readingMenus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
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Black Box Diaries (2024)
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a documentary quite like this before, where the subject is the filmmaker and the act of making the film is one of such courage.
Continue readingDying (Sterben) (2024)
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You would think that a three hour film called Dying would be depressing or perhaps overwhelmingly emotional or sentimental. Director Matthias Glasner delivers an absorbing story of a family, told in chapters about each person, and laces it through with humour and an almost dispassionate emotion.
Continue readingMy Favourite Cake (2024)
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Black Dog (2024)
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I was expecting a sentimental man dog road movie and thank goodness it was so much more than that.
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