Sydney Film Festival News, Reviews & Interviews

There's a strange contradiction to Film Festivals endemic to their very existence

It’s frustrating although not entirely unexpected to have to move our event around

There’s a lot to unpack here

“The response from our audience has been fantastic"

It’s the mark of a great thriller when it hits the most well-worn horror tropes and you barely notice

"It's a wonderful opportunity for our audience to engage with the culture of these Festivals"

It's a concerning time for the Australian industry with a number of Film Festivals cancelling or postponing events

The most terrifying thing about film is that it’s all already happened

Memorable above all for breaking one ever-cautionary and cardinal rule of the detective thriller and to the film’s great credit doing it well

Kursk doesn’t want you to remember the actual disaster too closely, just some of it’s fallout

Let’s get this out of the way first; Booksmart is a good film

One rarely expects a film as good as ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ to come along and we are always glad when it does

A solid premise matters little when the execution can barely match it

“It’s a story about Martin taking a big look at his life after a dire medical diagnosis that forced some real change"

In a Festival beset by unnecessary controversies and ill-considered depictions of violence, Dirty God showed us how well it can be done

"As a fan making a film I wanted to make something that I knew would resonate with people who are savvy and maybe a little bit discerning"

There’s no better place for dry humour than the desert. Couldn’t resist

Possibly the only Sydney Film Festival title ever to feature a question mark

"Five wickedly twisted tales from the next generation of Aboriginal Writer/Directors all looking at the post-colonial Aboriginal experience through the horror genre"

Hundreds of films screen every year at the Sydney Film Festival and you can’t always rely on the best one, or close to it, getting it’s dues

"It's a story of a woman who defies the rules of the establishment, of the Church, of the State"

Everyone involved in this movie wants you to like it, so, so much

Standing Up For Sonny is about Travis who is really reluctant to have a life and ends up getting a roommate who forces him to get out

What a waste of everyone’s time. Us, the cast, Jim Jarmusch; everyone except Tilda Swinton who here made magic all on her lonesome

A film like this makes you wonder how it never got made up till now

"It's completely changed the way I am and the way I see myself doing this movie"

Both bear uneasy depictions of violence, yet one resonates powerfully and with evident quality. The other, ill-considered in near every respect

"It's a pretty unusual film, it's a fictionalised origin story about the infamous Punch and Judy puppet play"

We don’t deserve Pedro Almodovar; thank God he disagrees

The Apollo 11 mission might be one of the last things that might typically call for a suspense-ridden retelling. Thankfully, the filmmakers didn’t listen.