Our expert shares the five films from the Melbourne International Film Festival that have stuck with him.
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A new Australian documentary gives voice to the women in urgent need of policy action on housing insecurity and homelessness.
Ken Cameron’s film of Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip is dark, yearning, weird – and incredibly sexy – writes Ronnie Scott.
A new film canvasses Indigenous Australian accounts of, and responses to, Captain Cook’s arrival.
In the midst of the same-sex marriage debate, Melbourne held The Coming Back Out Ball, an evening to honour queer elders.
West of Sunshine takes place over a single day, following Jim, a courier of increasingly dangerous sorts, as he delivers packages across Melbourne.
In this grim and often bloody tale of dog-groomer Marcello, the canines steal every scene they are in.
Like a good pop ballad, I Used To Be Normal is energetic, colourful and masterfully anchored by a deep and earnest sentimentality.
Plagued by production woes for 25 years, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote embraces the spirit of its 17th-century source material. But unlike de Cervantes, Gilliam uses the female characters as props for the hero’s story.
MIFF 2017 made good on its promise to explore new worlds, with timely films on American civil rights, Indigenous music, and queer activism. Here’s our pick of the ones to see.
My Scientology Movie avoids taking cheap shots at one of America’s most mockable religions; instead it is a fair, revealing (and sometimes funny) look at Scientology’s methods and leadership.
Expanded cinema, a term coined in the mid-1960s by American experimental filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek, extends and enriches the way cinema can engage with its viewers. The art form is taken into galleries…
Filmed in 29 days on a shoestring budget, Downriver’s bush setting and narrative twists give it an expansive feel. It is a visually stunning piece, with superb performances and an utterly gripping story.
Jonathan Gold, the only restaurant critic to have won a Pulitzer Prize, has a charming curiosity for food. Laura Gabbert’s new documentary focuses on Gold’s penchant for seeking out the hidden treasures of LA.
US director Sean Baker’s Tangerine is a film that’s queer in both storyline and filmmaking approach. Featuring trans actors and shot on an iPhone 5S, it teases with ideas of authenticity and truth.
Holding the Man, the screen adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s much-loved memoir, has seen audiences laughing, then sobbing at its devastating portrayal of AIDS in Australia. It’s an important story to tell.
Liv Corfixen’s documentary about her husband captures the creative pressure and mounting doubt following the unexpected success of his most commercially viable film, Drive.
Germany’s Red Army Faction evolved from student protest to bombings, kidnappings and shootouts with police. The group transformed dissent into spectacular media event. This documentary picks up the story.
The Kafkaesque nightmare that underpins Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard might not be just located on the screen. Buzzard, which screened at MIFF 2014 as part of the international panorama program, is an uncomfortable…
I will often say to my film students that if you want to know what aches a culture at a particular historical juncture then you need to visit and spend time with the catastrophic imagination of science…
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Researcher and Sessional Tutor in Screen and Cultural Studies; Secretary for the Melbourne Cinematheque, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Screen and Design, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Lecturer - Screen Studies, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Cndidate, Monash University
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Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Scholarly Teaching Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Phd Candidate, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, Monash University
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Assistant Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, King's College London
