Jane Schoenbrun is a director who plunders their personal history more than most. The filmmaker – who is transfeminine, non-binary and uses they/them pronouns – leapt to fame with their
The Capital Film Festival will return to Canberra from 21–25 October, bringing five days of international and Australian cinema, ACT premieres, documentaries, filmmaker Q&As and industry events to the capital.
6.5
… the film’s audacity and showmanship give way to a self-satisfied earnestness about the power of art to change the world, and for historic wrongs to be righted with poetry.
“I’m of an age right now where some could joke that I’m in the ‘villain era’,” teases Naomi Watts, 57, whose latest film, The Housewife, sees her portray a violent
9.2
Wonderfully deranged, darkly romantic, howlingly funny...
The recent TV option for popular queer novel After the Siren is the latest in a long history of LGBTQ+ stories enjoyed on Aussie TV and cinema screens.
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz (Tab Hunter Confidential, I Am Divine, Vito, Wrangler: Anatomy Of An Icon) revisits a compromised gay 1980s classic and the real-life murder that inspired it
8.7
… from its gleefully cheeky perspective on sexuality, to its clinically insane yet perfect casting, to its delightfully demented sense of humour, is everything that makes Gregg Araki one of
Radelaide's own, 21-year-old filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay's 7th (!!!) feature film stars Sara Thompson as a teen who must get to the bottom of strange occurrences that may have something
8
… a work of remarkable emotional precision — understated, unresolved, and difficult to shake off.