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The Rocket Sadly, schoolchildren in buttoned-down Australia are no longer permitted to play with exploding rockets or light double bungers in each other’s lunch boxes. No problem in remote Laos, where Aussie filmmaker Kim Mordaunt […]
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What's On – 217
The mother of all journeys Premiering at the King St Theatre, Lifeforce is the latest musical offering by Joanna Weinberg, known for this year’s feel-good film Goddess and The Piano Diaries show, now in it’s […]
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Frances Ha Greta Gerwig (Greenberg, To Rome With Love) cements her rep as the indies’ IT-girl in Noah Baumbach’s smart new NYC comedy. She’s Frances, a late twenty-something over-educated, under-employed (sound familiar?), “apprentice” dancer from […]
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Movies Frances Ha Thanks to Transmission Films we have 10 double in-season passes to give away. Upstream Colour Thanks to Palace Films we have double in-season passes to give away. Events Conversations with Mother […]
Not So Great Gatsby
Do you believe in the green light? A struggling writer (is there any other kind?) once lamented that no matter how hard they tried, emulating the prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s much loved 1925 masterpiece […]
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Greetings From Tim Buckley Some of the hits from the recent Sydney Film Festival (three on this page alone) are starting to appear locally, and we recommended this little gem a few issues back. Don’t […]
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Movies Russian Film Festival The tenth annual Russian Film Festival will hit Sydney this month showcasing plenty of cinematic brilliance. Featuring everything from comedies to documentaries and thrillers, this festival is one of the largest […]
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Before Midnight Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke), the young couple we first met in 1995 (Before Sunrise) are now pushing 40. Richard Linklater brought them back in 2004 (Before Sunset) to roam the […]
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Before Midnight Thanks to Hopscotch Films we have 10 double in-season passes to give away. Romeo & Juliet We have one double pass to give away for the Opening Night of the show on […]
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Reality In the acclaimed 2008 crime epic Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone depicted contemporary Italian life as something close to Hell. In Reality, which at least is much lighter, he takes us to much the same place. […]