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Baz Luhrmann: looking all silvery in ABC interview
ABC
Wednesday 22 May, 2013 (Australia)

The ABC interviews Baz Luhrmann on life in general, filmmaking in particular, and whether he has an urge to hang up his dancing shoes.

Barber Chair: museum seeks provenance of close shave
Canberra Times
Wednesday 22 May, 2013 (Australia)

Canberra`s Museum and Gallery has a piece of film and political history - a 1940s barber`s chair that reputedly hosted prime ministers and served as a prop in adult films. They would like to know which adult films it featured in.

St Kilda Film Festival: white knuckle ride ends with Air Asia
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Screen Hub
Thursday 23 May, 2013 (Australia)

Having reached the age of thirty, and extended from six to ten days in celebration, the St Kilda Film Festival was in serious need of a major sponsor until just a few weeks ago. Now on board the Air Asia dream machine, Paul Harris had a certain relief in his voice when he contemplated the evolution of the festival.

ACMI: picks up Museum Awards for design and exhibition
Screen Hub
Wednesday 22 May, 2013 (Australia)

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image picked up a nice couple of Awards at the Museums Australia Conference held in Canberra over the weekend.

Penne Hackforth-Jones: dead at 64
The Age
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Penne Hackforth-Jones has died of lung cancer. She was pretty private, but her public world as a performer will linger in dozens of television programs and a solid bunch of secondary roles in some fine films. Read blog and you start to touch the spirit that endeared her to so many professional colleagues.

St Kilda Film Festival: lovely take from The Age
The Age
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Yep. It`s not surprising this is good. Craig Mathieson is.

Assange: US documentary Alex Gibney brings a sense of dramatic irony
Salon
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

Nice thing about long form documentary - they can be complex

Sam Neill: an ageing actor who can manage his plonk
Stuff
Monday 20 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

Great actors can do well as they age, but the physiog of Sam Neill demonstrates the sheer artistic and economic value of looking after yourself.

Jane Campion: bites carress in Carrosse d`or
Stuff
Monday 20 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

Jane Campion, honoured once more with the prestigious Carrosse d`or award, is trenchant on the lack of female directors.

Mental Media: the most successful documentary company you`ve never heard of
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Screen Hub
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

With theatrical runs that last for decades in all Australian capital cities, and an audience which numbers in the millions each year, using experimental formats and multimedia, you`d really think that Bruce Brown would be a celebrated figure in Australian documentary. Bruce who?

Museums: historians invade filmmaking, screen trade has identity crisis
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Screen Hub
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

"We don`t consider film-making to be part of the Arts anymore. Film-making used to be for film-makers, now it`s just for anybody." The Museums Australia National Conference offers a challenging perspective on conventional screen industry professionalism

Cinema History: iconic Melbourne cinema still in trouble
The Age
Friday 17 May, 2013 (Australia)

Getting the Astor right is a tough, tough call.

33 Postcards: opens in US this week as Pauline Chan reflects on Sino-Australian production process
The Wrap
Friday 17 May, 2013 (Australia)

Nice reflective piece about Australian filmmaker Pauline Chan`s career and journey to her own identity.

Don Connelly: RIP as silence falls on a pioneer
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 15 May, 2013 (Australia)

Don Connelly has died at the age of 84. A sound recordist, he was a true link to the hard days before the cinema renaissance of the 70s as he recorded Jedda for Charles Chauvel in 1955.

Gatsby: noice
Screen Hub
Tuesday 14 May, 2013 (Australia)

"Overall, Luhrmann`s Gatsby is every bit as vulgar, shoddily opportunistic, crazed for elusive prestige and uninterested in tomorrow`s ultimate verdict on what matters as its hero. That`s how come I like it—and why I think Scott Fitzgerald might have, too. To be alive enough to be travestied sure beats being embalmed."

Gatsby: where do these people get off?
The Vine
Tuesday 14 May, 2013 (Australia)

A collection of bon-mots about The Great Gatsby by people who think that insults indicate intelligence. The real trick is to combine affection, respect and humour.

Gatsby: defended in depth and at length
Movie City News
Monday 13 May, 2013 (Australia)

Mike Wilmington, house expert for Movie City News, calls Gatsby "one of the best movies of the still-young year".

Baz Luhrmann: a nice bit of reflection, with a major error
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Screen Hub
Tuesday 14 May, 2013 (Australia)

Baz Luhrmann does a bit of a reflection on the early days and Strictly Ballroom, but as Ronin Films` Andrew Pike said: "I think he`s getting his distributors mixed up with his exhibitors."

Russell Crowe: Nymboida pub fails to sell
Daily Telegraph
Monday 13 May, 2013 (Australia)

Russell Crowe`s pub at Nymboida in regional New South Wales failed to reach its reserve price at auction.

Star Wars: spooky photos of abandoned sets in Tunisia
Mashable
Monday 13 May, 2013 (Tunisia)

Filmmaker Rä di Martino returned from Tunisia (aka Tatooine) with eerie photographs of the sets that George Lucas abandoned in the desert after making the original Star Wars.

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