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Belfast, a film by Kenneth Branagh
20 November 2021
Belfast (trailer) is a coming of age story set in Belfast, in Northern Ireland, during the 1960s, directed by British actor and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh, and is based in part on his childhood.
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Don’t except to see Jane Campion directing a superhero film
19 November 2021
You won’t catch Sydney based New Zealand born film director Jane Campion helming a superhero movie. She loathes them. It’s a good thing, there’s far too many superhero movies in the world anyway.
Campion is the latest acclaimed director to criticise superhero films, following on Martin Scorsese, who compared them to “theme parks” in 2019, and Ridley Scott, who called them “fucking boring as shit” earlier this month. Both Marvel and DC have tried to bring over more auteurs, most recently Chloé Zhao, the Oscar-winning Nomadland director who made this month’s Eternals. But the film has become the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s worst reviewed offering to date.
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Zola, a film by Janicza Bravo
18 November 2021
Based on a series of viral tweets, and a 2015 Rolling Stone article written by David Kushner, Zola (trailer), a film directed by American filmmaker Janicza Bravo, sees Stefani (Riley Keough) lure fellow stripper Zola (Taylour Paige) on a road trip with the promise they’ll make a lot of money prostituting themselves. No doubt.
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River, a documentary by Jennifer Peedom and Joseph Nizeti
17 November 2021
The spectacular trailer for River, a documentary by Australian film producer Jennifer Peedom, and musician and composer Joseph Nizeti. The soundtrack includes music by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and Radiohead.
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The Tragedy of Macbeth, by Joel Coen
15 November 2021
How good’s this? American filmmaker Joel Coen, he of Coen brothers fame, has made an adaptation of the old Shakespeare play The Tragedy of Macbeth. See the trailer here. And what’s become of brother Ethan, the other half of the renowned film production duo? It seems he’s had enough of making films, according to Indiewire.
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The Colour Room, a film by Claire McCarthy
12 November 2021
The Colour Room (trailer), by Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy (The Waiting City) re-tells the story of British ceramic artist Clarice Cliff, portrayed by Phoebe Dynevor, who was intent on becoming a designer, something unheard of for a woman living one hundred years ago. “The modern woman is forward thinking, not backward thinking.”
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Licorice Pizza, a film by Paul Thomas Anderson
11 November 2021
Licorice Pizza (trailer), directed by American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, seems like the sort of holiday fun many people are looking forward to. The coming-of-age comedy drama starring Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman, along with Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, and Maya Rudolph, among others, is set to open in Australian cinemas on Boxing Day, 26 December 2021.
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Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival 2021
10 November 2021
Yay, live, in person, events are returning. The Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, Thursday 11 November 2021, at the Actors Centre Australia in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt, and concludes on Sunday 14 November. Not in NSW? No problem. A virtual event is running until 25 November 2021, catering for sci-fi fans elsewhere in Australia.
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Burning, a documentary by Eva Orner
9 November 2021
Burning (trailer) is a documentary by Los Angeles based Australian filmmaker Eva Orner about the Black Summer bush fires that ravaged parts of Australia in 2019 and 2020. The two-minute trailer is shocking, but being in the path of the flames must have been terrifying. Burning is scheduled for release later this month.
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Moonfall, by Roland Emmerich
6 November 2021
Apollo 11 was apparently out of contact with Earth for two minutes shortly before the Moon landing in July 1969. You can only imagine what happened during that period of radio silence. But if you didn’t, plenty of others have. One “explanation” (of many) posits mission controllers pulled the plug on the public broadcast of the Apollo transmissions because the crew had sighted a space ship of unknown alien origin “parked” on the Moon. So that’s it. Do you think the vessel is still sitting there? Hmm, might be a novel idea in that…
The “break” in Apollo 11’s transmission forms one of the threads running through the plot of Moonfall (trailer) the new film by Roland Emmerich. Also in the mix, by the looks of it, are echoes of the idea the Moon is hollow (I don’t think it is…) and a book called Who Built the Moon. To get back to Moonfall though, long story short, an unknown force or event has sent the Moon on a collision course with Earth. A small group of people think they know what’s caused it, and how to stop it – the Moon that is – from crashing into our planet.
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