Australia

Anglo-centric film culture and the continuing resistance to subtitles
Bong Joon-ho’s Golden Globes acceptance speech elucidated a contradiction; while film audiences across the world are consuming more non-English language…

Three approaches to thriving in Hollywood
Travelling on their musical skills, three creative Australians cross the Pacific and prosper.

Box Office: A red letter day for bad boys (and bad films)
Let's look at who's sitting pretty in the Aussie box office, as Oscars season starts to heat up.

Film Review: Dark Whispers from the Creepy Eleven
Now available online, the Australian feminist horror anthology takes us from giggles to shivers in a scream of dark joy.

Film Review: True History of the Kelly Gang
From Shakespeare to a red dress, this Ned Kelly is a wonderful reworking of a grand narrative, if a bit…

Hotel Mumbai tops list of Australian overseas releases
The numbers never lie. Here is The Ginnane File, the definitive annual survey of the real performance of Australian films…

Setting the tone for 'Australia Day': NITV leads the way
Channel Manager Tanya Orman invites all Australians to enjoy the Indigenous broadcaster's distinctive programming on this fraught national day.

Berlin strand finds perfect pick in Australian opener
Want optimism? Crowd pleaser H is for Happiness is into Berlin, along with four really modest shorts.

Library collection inspires $20,000 Shortstacks short film prize
Filmmakers of all ages and levels of experience create with rare collection items when they enter the State Library of…

Australian arts hero reads riot act at Davos
Lynette Wallworth delivers a pungent speech confronting the Davos World Economic Forum with our experience of a land on fire.