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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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Going Down, a 1982 film by Haydn Keenan
2 November 2021
Made in 1982 and filmed on a micro-budget over the course of a few days, Going Down, directed by Australian filmmaker Haydn Keenan is a gritty, no holds barred, slice of life glimpse of a night out on the town in Sydney. While the pacing and narrative technique reminded me a little of something like American Graffiti, Going Down is far more in your face.
Karli (Tracy Mann) is about to fly to New York. Her friends Jane (Vera Plevnik), Jackie (Julie Barry), and Ellen (Moira MacLaine-Cross), take her out for one last night of revelry before she leaves. The result is chaotic. Parties and bars are gone to, drugs are taken, sex is had, and a large sum money is lost. In the middle of it all, one of Karli’s friend’s tries to find sex work, as the girls, individually and collectively, make their way around the inner suburbs of a now barely recognisable Sydney.
Check out a snippet of the film here (NSFW: profanity, drug references).
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House of Gucci, a film by Ridley Scott
1 November 2021
Ridley Scott has put together a star studded cast including Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, and Jeremy Irons, for his adaptation of House of Gucci (trailer), based on the 2002 book by Sara Gay Forden. Not that a star studded cast really makes much difference to whether I see a film or not.
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Passing, a film by Rebecca Hall
29 October 2021
We’re all passing for something, aren’t we? Passing (trailer) is the directorial debut of British actor and filmmaker Rebecca Hall, and is based on the 1929 book of the same name, written by late American author Nella Larsen. Clare (Ruth Negga) and Irene (Tessa Thompson), are old school friends who meet again by chance years after leaving school. While both women are mixed-race, Irene identifies as being African-American, while Clare’s light complexion allows her to “pass” as being white. But their obsessive interest in each other threatens to unravel both their lives.
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I Am Belmaya, the story of Belmaya Nepali
27 October 2021
Growing up in Nepal, Belmaya Nepali found little support – to put it mildly – for her ambition to become a filmmaker. Her inspiring story of overcoming all manner of obstacles and setbacks, is told in I Am Belmaya (trailer), a feature she co-directed with London based documentary maker Sue Carpenter.
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Last Night in Soho movie poster
26 October 2021
I don’t know what the film itself is like, but Last Night in Soho (trailer) by English actor and filmmaker Edgar Wright (think Shawn of the Dead) brings the London of the swinging sixties in all its west-end nightclub glory to the big screen. But isn’t the vintage style movie poster, designed by British artist and portrait painter James Paterson, stunning?
Also: a selection of Edgar Wright’s favourite fan artworks based on his films.
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