“I love my country. I love being here and I’d love to make more films here.” You graduated from NIDA as an actor and have credits dating back to the later years of A Country Practice. You didn’t direct your first film until 2005, around about the same time you stopped acting. What made you…
It’s seldom such a high quality Australian film is released to a worldwide audience. It was unclear whether or not to get caught up in the international film festival hype, but now it’s official – The Babadook is the first great Australian film of 2014, if not the last couple of years. After his mother…
Cinema Australia can’t wait for May 22 when Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook is released in Australian cinemas. I don’t know how many more times we can watch the terrifying trailer or the original short film in anticipation for Kent’s psychological thriller but to satisfy us for another couple of weeks is a new short clip that was released this…
May 2014 is set to be a massive month with five highly anticipated Australian films set to hit cinemas. 52 Tuesdays 16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week,…
Finally, the trailer for The Babadook has lunged out of it’s dark closet and onto our computer screens. Jennifer Kent’s extension of her short film Monster looks truly terrifying and of the highest quality. It’s already making some noise at Sundance and is sure to provide a lot of scares when it hits Australian cinemas sometime this…
The prestigious Sundance Film Festival has selected two Australian feature films, 52 Tuesdays and The Babadook, to premiere at the 2014 festival. Widely regarded as the highest profile film festival in the United States, Sundance is renowned for showcasing some of the best independent cinema the world has to offer. One of only 12 films chosen from around the…
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