Travelling Film Festival News, Reviews & Interviews

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

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

It’s far from unheard of that a film’s production or genesis is as if not more interesting than the finished product, but it’s rarely the case for so quality a picture

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

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

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

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.

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"

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