Television

The Trip to Italy
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon hit the road again, but this time it is Italy that becomes their playground of…

Kojo: inches forward on breakout feature project with controversial director
One, with Murali Thalluri to direct, is now a solid co-pro deal between Kojo and Main Street Films, with key…

NFSA: making a case for a wider vision
Dominic Case, who straddles the industry and the archival perspective, contemplates the problem and finds a tentative solution.

Christopher Houghton: Touch
Touch will be having its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival early next month.

SAFC: two shorts and $100,000
The South Australian Film Corporation today announced that two short films will be funded through its 2014 Short Film Fund.

Box Office: 52 Tuesdays v The Healing
The Healing and 52 Tuesdays are floating across the same group of arthouse cinemas, slowly racking up the punters.

Godzilla
Godzilla weaves a delicate – almost overdone – dissection of mankind’s futility against nature in the clash of the titans.

Surrealist artist and Alien creator dies
Swiss artist H.R. Giger died this week aged 74.

Turner biopic delights at Cannes
Mike Leigh’s new film about the English landscape painter has delighted critics at the Cannes Film Festival.

Box Office: on Tuesday we Heal the Sad Panda
Three Australian features, one with a NZ distributor, face the realities of the domestic marketplace.