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As the bombs fell, people flocked to the movies.
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
Their critiques may be more gentle, their attacks more circumspect – but they are resonant nonetheless. And when filmmakers like Farhadi confront Trump, they’re on familiar turf: They’ve seen his type back home.
There are five very good films nominated for the Best Picture gong and one extraordinary one.
Imagine if you could pay less to see films that are less popular. Dynamic ticket pricing already happens in China – and it’s about to start here in over 100 Australian cinemas.
As T2 Trainspotting hits cinemas, a great deal has changed since the original.
Woody Harrelson’s directorial debut, released this month, signals that we are in a new age of cinema.
Performance politics has made Donald Trump the new president of the United States. But this is far from new to south India, where the mixing of cinema and politics has a long history.
Cinema can be instrumental in opening up dialogue on collective culpability for the past. Manchevski’s Before the Rain and Angelopoulos’ Ulysses’ Gaze are perfect examples of this.
VR cinema explodes the frame, placing the spectator inside the space of the film. Audiences effectively edit it themselves, by choosing what to look at and when.
The recently broadcast TV mini-series, “Mars”, combines fiction and nonfiction in a way that places them in balance. This kind of combination is likely to feature in more television series and films.
In a year characterised by some good films but few great ones, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle stood out as the best.
Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film ‘the air of a snuff piece’. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
Known as the reminiscence bump, memory scientists are hotly debating what causes it.
Spooky ghosts, rampaging rock gods, an escaped killer dressed as a clown: Halloween has inspired an array of creepy cinematic classics. Here’s our list of those to watch - and avoid.
Sport migrations emerge within a general migratory context. In some societies, like the Pacific Islands, adulthood, particularly for men, cannot be completed unless one migrates.
With #BlackLivesMatter and a never-ending list of African Americans being killed by police, the film ‘Do The Right Thing’ is even more relevant now than when it was released 27 years ago.
Countering the Republican nominee’s favourite movies, here are five that he might learn something from.
The director who put Iranian cinema on the map, but whose work spoke beyond nationalities and borders.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Jury Professor of English and Language and Literature, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Screen and Design, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
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Director, Institute for Screen Industries Research and Professor of Film Industries, University of Nottingham
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