Tag Archives: Film
Gang of Five
Five bad boys I can’t help but love
In our new list series, ‘Gang of Five’, we make a list of five things related to … whatever we like. This time it’s KYD Online Intern, Stephanie Van Schilt, with five bad boys she can’t help but love: Simon Amstell, John Waters, Mr Rochester, Logan Echolls … Read more
Column: Film and TV
Five films to convert to 3D
In the Guardian, Dave Eggers described Terrence Malick’s films as ‘3-D without being actually 3-D’. It’s not too difficult to imagine what Eggers meant by this throwaway line. Just recall that indelible image from Days of Heaven of workers watching a storm of locusts rise from the … Read more
Column: Film and TV
The book is never better than the film
Hearing somebody say ‘The book is always better than the film’ is like fingernails down a blackboard to me. This ill-informed yet common cliché about the supposed superiority of literary texts over visual texts is highly reductive and suggests that a comparison can be made between two … Read more
Gang of Five
Five songs I haven’t stopped thinking about since I saw Melancholia
In our new list series, ‘Gang of Five’, we make a list of five things related to … whatever we like. First up? KYD Online Editor Estelle Tang lists five songs she hasn’t stopped thinking about since she saw Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. One sign that you’ve … Read more
Column: Film and TV
The souls of successful men
Playing like an episode of Mad Men reworked into a treatise on the Current State of Twentysomethings, Any Questions for Ben? is a film insistent on its own contemporariness. Note the superimposed text at the start of the film pointedly informing us that Ben can’t stay one … Read more
Column: Film and TV
Glamour over grit at the AACTA Awards Ceremony
On Tuesday 31 January 2012 the first Samsung Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) award ceremony was broadcast on Channel 9 from the Sydney Opera House. The AACTA Awards have replaced the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards in an admirable attempt by the AFI to … Read more
Film
High-stakes verité: Andrew Haigh’s Weekend
There’s a scene early in Andrew Haigh’s Weekend in which Russell (Tom Cullen), a handsome, semi-closeted gay man, patrols the local indoor swimming pool where he works. He plods around the pool perimeter and then looks on pensively from the lifeguard’s chair while a younger guy playfully … Read more
Column: Film and TV
A Fussy Filmgoer speaks out: cinema’s mixed pleasures
Imagine for a moment that you’re sitting with a friend in a reasonably full, darkened cinema, anxiously waiting for that film you’ve both been dying to see all summer to begin. The previews finally finish and the film’s production company logos start quietly appearing. At this moment, … Read more
Reviews
Review: Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs)
Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs) is French director Guillaume Canet’s third feature film, following his extremely successful 2006 thriller, Tell No One. Little White Lies is a drama about eight friends who decide to take their annual holiday together.. Read more
Reviews
Review: Snowtown‘s horrifying social realism
Few films in recent years have given me nightmares. But there are images and sounds from Justin Kurzel’s first feature film, Snowtown, that keep taunting me in my sleep—a bloody and burned face hopelessly spluttering; a dog shot and whimpering; a man casually smoking a cigarette, naked … Read more
