Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: Beast Early in Michael Pearce’s deliciously clever debut feature, a young woman called Moll (Jessie Buckley) stares into the mirror and plucks a single long hair from just under her chin. […]
Palace Cinemas
The Lavazza Italian Film Festival’s top five
Always a hot ticket item here on Sydney’s Norton Street, the Lavazza Italian Film Festival is spreading itself widely across Palace Cinemas’ Sydney venues all this month from Sept 11, as well as running in […]
Custody giveaway
The astonishing, break-out critical discovery of the Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Director and Best Debut Film, Xavier Legrand’s heart-stopping French drama Custody charts a family’s struggles with the fallout of divorce, […]
Local cinemas this week
Two outstanding docos, two amazing men… McQueen There’s a such an incredible wealth of details in this exhaustive, (exhausting!) portrait of Lee Alexander McQueen, the prodigiously talented British fashion designer who hung himself at the age of […]
Win tickets to the Italian Film Festival
Ever since 2006 Ciao has been able to offer its readers a chance to win tickets to the Lavazza Italian Film Festival, which opens at Palace Norton Street on Sept 11 and in other states […]
Film festival favourites
No less than six films from the Sydney Film Festival are arriving on our local screens this week. Some may be hard to find, but you really should make an effort to seek out these […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: The Insult It’s easy to see why this Beirut-based drama got its Academy Award nomination and then went on to win the Audience Award at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Writer/director […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: Leave No Trace Maybe it’s an indictment on the state of art-house programming – or something else (have you noticed how they’ve been all desperately discounting?) but this week’s only high-quality […]
The Italian Film Festival opens with a scandal!
Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction, and who better to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino. The Academy Award-winning director of […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: C’est La Vie Olivier Nakache and Eric Toleando, the French pair who gave us the monstrous 2012 hit The Intouchables have come up with another brilliant crowdpleaser with this Altman-esque look […]