Daisy Domergue’s story sits at the centre of The Hateful Eight (2015).
Double Feature Films
The Hateful Eight has been praised as a violent but optimistic story of men working to come together – but it’s also been derided as a thinly veiled exercise in misogynistic violence.
2016’s ‘lily-white’ Oscar-nominated actors.
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Critiques of the Academy Awards’ lack of diversity have become a well-rehearsed response to the revelation of nominees. But this year, something might give.
An unlikely group of bounty hunters, bandits, and lawmen take shelter from a merciless blizzard.
Roadshow
Quentin Tarantino has secured his place in popular culture by reaching into neglected corners of cinema for genres that are ready for reinvention and rediscovery.
Bowie and wife Iman at the Film Society of Lincoln Centre in 2003.
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Singer, artist but also actor, Bowie made some notable appearances. Here are some of those.
That’s a wrap.
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Bowie’s acting skills in one of his most famous films was both awkward and self-conscious. For the director these were perfect qualities for an alien.
Alan Rickman has died at the age of 69.
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Rickman was an unmistakable, unmissable performer.
Cue: tumbleweed.
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Many films exist on a knife-edge … failure is only a screening away.
What is the male gaze, and does the female gaze exist?
Andy Simmons
You may have heard about the male gaze, but what is it? And is there such as thing as the female gaze?
Eddie Redmayne stars as Lili Elbe.
The film tells the story of Lili Elbe, who was one of the first people to receive sexual reassignment surgery. Sadly, the film barely scratches the surface of the real story.
John James Audubon’s American Flamingo (1838).
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A review of some of the top arts and culture stories from the past year.
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The tale of the vengeful whale that took out the Essex, a whaling-ship, has now been adapted in true swashbuckling style.
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Sorry, but Christmas has a dark side, too.
Daisy Ridley plays the character Rey.
20th Century Fox
The manic light-and-sound show is more tribute than groundbreaking film.
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
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Film sagas like Star Wars transcend the screen, connecting viewers to their pasts, to one another and to the hero within.
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Four decades later, I find myself surveying 13 billion years of cosmic history and mapping events that really did happen a long time ago in galaxies far, far away.
The force is strong with this one.
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How to build a movie empire that will last for generations.
Sinatra in 1950, just before his life’s great turning point.
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His vocal chords haemorrhaged, he was dropped by Columbia records: in 1951, Sinatra’s career as America’s top pop singer seemed over.
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The alternate reality visualised in Star Wars is now potentially much closer to home.
In The Man with the Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra plays a poker-dealing junkie.
In his roles, Frank Sinatra often embodied the outsider, the man excluded from America’s suburban success story.
Screen Australia will target female-led projects.
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Screen Australia has announced a five point plan to promote gender balance, including A$3 million funding for female-led creative projects.