Reviewed by GREG KING Director:Mira Nair Stars:Naveen Andrews, Sarita Choudhury, Indira Varma, Ramon Tikaram, Rekha Lavish production values, beautiful costumes, opulent settings, some superb scenery and gorgeous cinematography cannot disguise the fact that Mira Nair's new film is little more than a big budget sex and sin melodrama set in 16th century India. The rain coat brigade may be disappointed to …
THE FUNERAL
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Abel Ferrara Stars: Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Vincent Gallo, Isabella Rossellini, Annabella Sciorra, Paul Hipp Running Time: 98 minutes. Few contemporary film-makers depict the shattering violence of New York's mean streets with quite the same ferocity and intensity as maverick director Abel Ferrara (Fear City, The King Of New York, etc). His latest …
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 for his collaborations with Quentin Tarantino on those chic and gibberingly realistic ultra violent slices of life …
SHOPPING – interview with Paul W S Anderson
by GREG KING "My aim has always been to make a movie that would kick some arse in this country," says filmmaker Paul W S Anderson. Anderson is a young, new wave director from Britain, a filmmaker in a hurry who, after just one film seems poise to take Hollywood by storm. With his striking and distinctive debut film Shopping just released in Melbourne, it seemed like a good time to talk to him about his …
