by GREG KING “The Loved Ones has its own irreverent sensibility and total Australian wild streak,” enthuses writer/director Sean Byrne about his debut feature film. “This is the kind of film that I wanted to watch as a young guy in Australia.” The Loved Ones is a grisly and depraved horror film from a… Continue Reading »
AUSTRALIAN NOIR RETROSPECTIVE – Interview with Richard Sowada, ACMI’s Head of Programming
AUSTRALIAN NOIR RETROSPECTIVE – Interview with Richard Sowada by GREG KING When you think of film noir, you typically think of those black and white crime melodramas of the ‘40’s and ‘50’s, the more traditional American kind of noir type in which good men were often corrupted by the wiles of a manipulative woman. Double… Continue Reading »
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX – interview with MORITZ BLEIBTREU
By Greg King “We could not have made this film in Germany ten years ago,” German actor Moritz Bleibtreu says of his new film The Baader Meinhof Complex, which opened the Festival of German Films in Melbourne recently. Part thriller, part historical drama, part character study, The Baader Meinhof Complex traces the rise of the… Continue Reading »
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN – interview with THOMAS ALFREDSON
By GREG KING. From Sweden, the home of ABBA, Volvo, IKEA and SAAB, comes this unusual vampire tale. Based on the best selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let The Right One In tells the story of the connection between Oskar, a 12 year old who is being bullied at school, and Eli, a… Continue Reading »
STRANGE FITS OF PASSION – interview with Elise McCreadie
by GREG KING. The new Australian romantic comedy Strange Fits Of Passion screened at Cannes last year where it was particularly well received, and the film has garnered positive reviews wherever it has screened. Which is all good news for the film’s writer and director, actress turned filmmaker Elise McCreadie, who spoke passionately about her… Continue Reading »
FRESH – interview with director Boaz Yakin
by GREG KING Fresh is a powerful and stark new film which presents a grim picture of inner city New York in the 90s, a society full of despair and gripped by the inescapable nightmare of street crime, drugs and casual violence. The film has been produced by none other than Lawrence Bender, best known… Continue Reading »