Senses of Cinema explores the history of the co-op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne. This incredibly insightful and highly important documentary comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell that first emerged in the 1960s, John Hughes and Tom Zubrycki. Featuring the like of Philip…
18-year-old Jay has had enough of life. 28-year-old Liz can’t get enough of it. And as Jay (Jordan Dulieu) stands on a cliff top contemplating putting an end to the meaningless fog of his existence, Liz (Freyja Benjamin) lands in town on the latest leg of her endless adventures backpacking the globe. After a sliding doors moment brings…
Ride tracks the lives and careers of Sam and Alise Willoughby, two champions who fall in love and conquered the world of BMX, an extreme sport where every race is a dance with danger. Sam rises from the suburbs of Adelaide to become a world champion and Olympic medallist. But in this sport crashes are common,…
The premise for Ribspreader is a riot. The hard to stomach, laugh-out-loud, blood-soaked gorefest follows ex-tobacco icon Bryan (Tommy Darwin) who’s transformed into the violent and grotesque Ribspreader – a masked crusader on a mission to hunt down smokers and violently extinguishing them. Without going too deep, Ribspreader is an exploration of addiction and tobacco…
There’s nothing plane about The Plains. The three hour film follows Andrew, a man in his fifties, on his daily commute to and from work over the course of a year. Occasionally Andrew is joined by David, a colleague who Andrew drives home from time to time. The Plains is set almost entirely inside Andrew’s…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. In this episode, host Matthew Eeles is joined by WA-based filmmaker Sarah Legg whose new film Cherubhead is one of the most unique, beautiful, intriguing, and thought-provoking Australian films you’re ever likely to see. It truly is quite unlike anything else. Here’s the synopsis: Marie…
Writer, actor and producer Nick Giannopoulos joins Cinema Australia’s Matthew Eeles to discuss the latest film in his wildly-popular Wog Boys franchise, Wog Boys Forever. In 2000 The Wog Boy broke box office records and became one of the highest grossing Australian films of all time. Ten years later in 2010 the wog boys returned…
Narrated by Margot Robbie and sharing the lives of an eclectic group of women throughout Australia, Sue Thomson’s eye-opening documentary Under Cover shines a light on a devastating reality – women over 50 being the fastest growing cohort experiencing homelessness in Australia. These moving but optimistic portraits reveal the struggles these women face, and lay bare the flaws in our society,…
Esteemed Australian actor Richard Roxburgh joins the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. To say the recording of this podcast episode was a bit of fun would be an understatement. It’s not every day you get to shoot the breeze with an actor of Richard Roxburgh’s calibre. That was the case for me while…
Welcome to the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast. This is a different episode format than what regular listeners will be used to. Here, I’m chatting with two filmmakers in seperate interviews that were originally recorded for my radio spot on the Community Radio Network. The first interview is with Christine Luby to discuss…
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