The inaugural Australian Film Festival wrapped up last Sunday, 7 March, with The Spot Food & Film Festival, which took place on the streets outside the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, Sydney.
The Australian Film Festival
Unlike events such as the Melbourne International Film Festival, or the Sydney Film Festival, which present a mix of local and international [...]

Code names for in-production movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey was referred to as “How the Solar System Was Won” during production, while Alien was known as “Star Beast”.

The streets around the Ritz Cinema, in Randwick, Sydney, were closed yesterday afternoon for this year’s Spot Food & Film Festival.

This was the closing event of the inaugural Australian Film Festival, which opened on 24 February 2010.

Needless to say there a lot of delicious food on offer. See more photos of the festival on my [...]

I saw 60 per cent of the films I set out in advance to see in February, plus a few others that appeared after drawing up the plan. Let’s see how March goes, with this month’s list:

Alice in Wonderland
Green Zone
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Pandorum (should be a breeze [...]

It’s the end of the month (already), and the end of summer (officially) – though I won’t dwell on that right now – anyway it’s time to go over February’s movie wishlist. Here’s what I saw:

The Road
3 Idiots
Edge of Darkness
Crazy Heart
Nine
Shutter Island
The Hurt Locker

So while planning to see six films I took in seven, which [...]

The Australian Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday 24 February 2010, and the Ritz Cinema at Randwick will be screening the following films as part of the event:

Mad Max (Popcorn Taxi event), 24 February, 7pm
How to be a Sex Star, 25 February, 7pm
The Gates of Hell, 26 February, 9pm
Blue Lies, 27 February, [...]

The four-day long Chinese New Year holiday in Hong Kong – coming up this weekend by the way – is an opportunity for local film-makers to put their work in front of audiences, as cinemas take a short break from screening Hollywood, and other overseas, produced movies.
While for most of the year, Hollywood films [...]

A few handy pointers for sitting through a movie someone has said you “will love”.
People seldom love movies for rational reasons, so try to avoid being too analytical and dissecting the movie.

Following on from January’s movie wishlist, here’s what I’d like to see this month.

The Road
Nine
The Hurt Locker (Australia must be the last place this opens in)
Everybody’s Fine
Shutter Island
A Prophet

There doesn’t seem to be quite as many movies opening this month as there were in January, at least based on the cinema schedules I’ve [...]

Mike Le’s collection of the 20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History.
The extended take is a cinematic hire-wire act that pushes the director, actors, cinematographer, art department, sound design, and every other department to their limits. They take a very long time to set-up, and are very easy to mess up. The longer the [...]