Grim start to an optimistic festival opener
Arts editor HELEN MUSA says the 2024 Italian film festival kicks off on Thursday with a glorious choice for opening night— a film called Gloria!
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Nicole Kidman has been unable to receive an award for best actress at the Venice International Film Festival in person after the sudden death of her "beautiful, brave" mother.
Canberra is about to get only the third IMAX cinema screen in Australia when Dendy sparks up the laser projector on to a giant screen in November. But what is IMAX and where did it come from? SIMON COBCROFT has the answers.
One of the joys of the international film festivals is the experience of a different way of life and the Scandinavian Film festival’s screening of The Tundra Within Me is a perfect example, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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Hard Day’s Night – still fab after 60 years
Still fab after 60 years: ALISON BLAIR reveals how The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night made pop cinema history.
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Lots of steam, but no sex in movie hit Challengers
The steamiest movie of the year has almost no sex in it, says ALISON TAYLOR. How did Challengers do it?
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Rebus film challenges isolation
On a recent Sunday afternoon, arts editor HELEN MUSA joined a crowd in Queanbeyan for Rebus Theatre’s screening of their film, Re-Emergence: Every Storm Gives Way To A New Sunrise.
From Hilde with Love, which will open the 2024 German Film Festival on May 7, is a movie about the Nazi era such as you may have never seen before, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Nicole Kidman has joined the ranks of Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro in receiving the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson will reunite to star in a new Bridget Jones movie, titled Mad About the Boy.
Australian actress Rebel Wilson says she felt "disrespected" on the set of the 2016 comedy film Grimsby.
Mixed reactions and high emotions have greeted the film premiere of Oppenheimer in Japan, where two cities were obliterated by the inventor's nuclear weapons.
Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story, The Body Snatcher, the in-demand Canberra actor and videographer, Craig Alexander, has embarked on his first feature film, Snatchers, to be shot exclusively in Canberra during April.
A mystery buyer has snapped up a Star Wars artefact described as "one of the most recognisable cinema designs of all time".
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer has won best picture at the Academy Awards.
The Alliance Française French Film Festival is grandly billed as the world’s largest showcase of French cinema outside of France and boasts 41 feature films, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Sam Mendes is slated to direct a series of biopics of the Fab Four, with each movie to give a perspective of the individual Beatles.
Atom bomb epic Oppenheimer has won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards.
Succession has picked up six Emmy awards, including the trophy for best actress in a drama series which went to Australia's Sarah Snook.
