Articles Tagged Melbourne International Film Festival

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – August 2nd

In the second of our live Plato’s Cave Melbourne International Film Festival specials we discuss Surviving Life, The Unjust, Give Up Tomorrow, The Yellow Sea, Guilty of Romance, Outrage, Under the Hawthorn Tree, Oki’s Movie, Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard, Boxing Gym, Ruhr, Into Eternity, Fire in Babylon, How to Die in Oregon, She Monkey, The […]

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – July 28th

This week’s Plato’s Cave episode is the first of two Melbourne International Film Festival specials recorded live on 3RRR. Some of the films/events the team discusses are the Peter Tscherkassky program, Tomboy, I Am Eleven, Cold Fish, Submarine, Beauty and the Beast, Route Irish, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, The Troubadours, Littlerock, Michael, Sing Your […]

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – July 12th

This week on Plato’s Cave the team review The Illusionist, Hanna and Reign of Assassins (DVD) plus we select some potential highlights from the upcoming 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival program. With Josh Nelson, Thomas Caldwell and Tara Judah. Plato’s Cave – July 12th Episode (.MP3)

FEATURE: MIFFing Out On Festival Fatigue

“19 Days Only”! That’s the slogan for this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. It’s a catchy little phrase, no doubt engineered by some marketing guru hoping to incite panic among cinephiles desperate to savour each and every last frame from the films on show. And yet now, with the program nearing its conclusion, I can’t […]

REVIEW: Hirokazu Kore-eda Retrospective

There’s a term that film critics often use to describe a work that captures and magnifies some enduring characteristic of our population: the ‘human condition’. It’s an overarching term with various existential connotations, one that’s too often applied as a kind of linguistic ‘get out of jail free’ card when confronted with imagery at once […]

REVIEW: Bug and Interview

It may seem slightly unusual to be reviewing two films together that, at first glance, share little in common. Interview, a satirical drama, was directed by, co-written and stars Steve Buscemi, a performer better known for his awkward screen persona than his work behind the camera (Trees Lounge). Bug, a paranoiac thriller, is the latest […]

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