Articles Tagged retrospective

PODCAST: ABC 774 – October 11th

This week on Friday Film, Raf and I discuss Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing and the 1980 classic, The Blues Brothers (screening as part of the Melbourne Festival’s John Landis retrospective). Plus, talkback on ‘documentary films’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. ABC 774 – October 11th Episode (.MP3)

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 […]