Really I shouldn’t be surprised that a film that is about a woman who wants to be a chair ends up being an absurd and surrealist set piece.
Continue readingBy Design (2025)
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Model (1981)
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I’m a Wisemen fa-an (why do I hear Susan Sarandon in I Can Make You a Man when I say this line?). Okay I’ve only seen two but I loved Menus-Plaisirs so much that I think I would like anything Frederick Wiseman makes.
Continue readingHigh Art (1998)
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Oh the sweet nostalgia of the 90s! The toxic world of commercial photography, particularly if you’re a woman, and the chic of heroin-fuelled nights.
Continue readingTwinless (2025)
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I really enjoyed this film, although afterwards I felt guilty about it. How can someone so toxic be so adorable?
Continue readingRemaining Native (2025)
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Director Paige Bethmann gives us the gentle story of Ku Stephens, a young runner from the Pailute people in Nevada.
Continue readingThe Legend of Ochi (2025)
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Should we hold children’s films up to the same standard as adult films? That’s what I was left asking myself after this super-saturated fable that felt like Wes Anderson meets Disney meets a Grimm’s fairy tale.
Continue readingThe Mastermind (2025)
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I really love Kelly Reichardt films. Even the ones that don’t seem to be about anything, like Showing Up (2022), somehow draw me in with the beauty of moments and the delicate journey of quite ordinary characters.
Continue readingWicked (2024)
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You know life is tough when you’re in Melbourne for the weekend and you run out of films to see at the Cinema Nova because you’ve already seen them all.
Continue readingNosferatu (2024)
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I’ll admit upfront that I’m not a fan of the films of Robert Eggers. I didn’t mind The Witch, although I found the ending laughable which was a shame as it had a great mood, but I really hated The Northman and The Lighthouse and so when I heard that he had remade Nosferatu, I had mixed feelings.
Continue readingThe Room Next Door (2024)
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I have a patchy relationship with Pedro Almodóvar. From loving his early films, I lost my way with some of his more recent dry melodramas, like Julieta. He won me back though with Pain and Glory and so I was tentatively excited to see his latest.
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