National
Christopher Houghton: Touch
Touch will be having its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival early next month.
Ratings: Sunday, 18th May 2014
Nine whacks Seven - a rare moment this - while Ten pips Two by 1%.
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.
Cutting Edge: forming a gang, giving it a nest
Cutting Edge expands, again. Post production is not so much a market as an eco-system, evolving before our very eyes.
Ratings: Thursday, 15th May 2014
The split evening with the football worked well enough for Seven to put it ahead, as Nine went phut.