Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Quentin Tarantino Stars: Leonardo Di Caprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Bruce Dern, Timothy Olyphant, Michael Madsen, Damian Lewis, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Hammond, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Rafal Zawierucha, Maya Hawke. Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film is a love letter to movies and the golden years of Hollywood and television. But as the title suggests it is also something of a fairy tale. Set against the backdrop of Hollywood in 1969, this sprawling Continue reading
BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE
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Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Dir: Pamela B Green. Pioneering French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blache was a contemporary of those pioneers of early silent cinema, including the Lumiere Brothers and George Melies. She made one of the first narrative films with The Cabbage Fairy in 1896. She pioneered many film techniques and a more naturalistic style of acting for films. In the 1890s she worked with Gaumont Studios. She established Solax, her own studio, and set up business in Fort Lee, New Jersey. She was incredibly prolific, making some 1000 films. Her films Continue reading
KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL 2019 – interview with David Park
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by GREG KING Celebrating 10 years of screening the very best in Korean cinema Down Under, The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA), returns to Sydney (22-31 Aug), Canberra (22-25 Aug), Brisbane (5-8 Sept) and Melbourne (5-12 Sept) for another year, showcasing the hottest films from Korea's thriving film industry. Presented by the Korean Cultural Centre Australia, KOFFIA showcases the wonder of Korean culture through film. The 22 films in the program represent a range of genres, from big budget blockbusters, gripping indie flicks, rom-coms, pop culture Continue reading
WHO YOU THINK I AM
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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Safy Nebbou Stars: Juliette Binoche, Francois Civil, Nicole Garcia, Charles Berling, Guillaume Gouix. This intriguing psychological thriller serves as a timely cautionary tale about the dangers of social media and on-line dating sites. It comes across as something of a cross between Fatal Attraction and Catfish. Claire Millaud (played by Juliette Binoche) is a middle-aged teacher and a divorced mother of two adult children. When she is dumped by her current, younger lover Ludo, she creates a fake Facebook profile in order to Continue reading
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2019 – REVIEWS
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ALL REVIEWS BY GREG KING LAST UPDATED JULY 10 2019 COME TO DADDY. More twisted weirdness from New Zealand filmmaker Ant Timpson, best known for his work as a producer on gory horror films like the 2012 horror anthology The ABCs of Death. Timpson makes his feature directorial debut with this irreverent, nasty and darkly comic thriller about a young man who tries to reconnect with his estranged father after a thirty year absence. Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood, from the epic The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, etc), a hipster musician with a terrible haircut, arrives Continue reading
