Sydney Film Festival News, Reviews & Interviews

Earning the time to tell this story, The Lives of Others Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has triumphed again

Growing older is hard, growing up is harder

"I love Dublin so much, we got to really fall in love with Dublin"

It’s rare that a film with such efficient storytelling could flounder for nearly two hours

Are zombie movies experiencing a fatigue or a renaissance?

“Endzeit is a mashup of a zombie horror movie, a road movie and a buddy movie and also a German fairy-tale"

A British gun for hire, a wedding, a less than willing bride and a mysterious stranger. What could possibly go wrong?

That which we do garner from these intimate portraits in their depiction of that so affecting our subjects' lives is moving and, due in no small part to each of the leads’ willingness to share and be so open, roundly impacting

PJ Harvey wasn’t up for recording a regular album, so she took it on the road

A near-futurist neon-dystopian theological Brazilian sex-sci-fi isn’t what you’d normally come across at the cinema

Above and beyond all else beautifully shot, the sequences in each of the four locations are rendered stunningly

The title tells you everything you need to know

It’s rare you see a newcomer with such star power but then there’s The Best of Dorien B

Afghanistan’s first psychedelic metal band will hopefully not be their last

There have been a lot of adaptations, homages or films otherwise inspired by Rear Window; Number 37 might just be the best

Most stories are better without a sledgehammer to drive it’s point home, though subtlety doesn’t always help

The truly weird, wacky and wonderful are usually left for those 'Freak Me Out' screenings packed by those most dedicated genre fans. Not this year

It took decades to get this film to theatres; the finished product, as much as Terry Gilliam’s perseverance, is as strong a reminder as any of why we watch movies, and always will

All the pieces did well to come together for this one

Blocking. It doesn’t get talked about much, but it’s very important – and Sara Colangelo knows what she’s doing

Putting us on a pile of rugs and ripping them all away, Piercing is having no go of the expected

You don’t need a dozen state of the art cameras to produce a good film, you just need a good place to point one

Have you ever wanted to be scared by one of those old spook houses before they went out of fashion?

It’s rare you see something so powerful emerge from that so inscrutable

Packing more furrowed-brow acting into a film than you are ever likely to see, The Guilty is a reliably mood-driven Danish thriller

Aga is first and foremost and in more than one respect a beautiful film

The presence of the ever-talented Joaquin Phoenix is enough to recommend a movie, even this one

“You cannot laugh and be afraid at the same time, and the devil cannot stand mockery.”