How to resolve AdBlock issue? Jake Wilson
We invited some writers, film critics, and film professionals to nominate their favourite film – not The Greatest Film Ever Sold, but one that matters to them personally.
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Dancing to His Song: The singular cinema of Rolf de Heer by Jane Freebury
The evocative Prologue to this book has a poetic precision that bodes well for its treatment of this too-long neglected film, and what follows more than answers such expectations.
Jake Wilson's analysis (resuscitation might be a better word) of the 1976 Australian bushranging adventure,
Directory of World Cinema, Volume 19: Australia and New Zealand edited by Ben Goldsmith, Mark David Ryan, and Geoff Lealand
To highlight Australian Book Review's arts coverage and to celebrate some of the year's memorable concerts, operas, films, ballets, plays, and exhibitions, we invited a group of critics and arts professionals to nominate their favourites – and to nominate one production they are looking forward to in 2016. (We indicate which works were reviewed in Arts Up ...
The Gangster Film: Fatal success in American Cinema by Ron Wilson
Orson Welles once described himself as a ‘king’ actor. Ralph Fiennes seems born to play dukes: nearly all his screen characters, even the crooks and madmen, share an imperious quality that goes with a kind of stony reticence. It felt natural that he should make his film directorial début with an adaptation of Coriolanus (2011), one of Shakespeare’s most misan ...