Features
Melbourne, Sydney and the exploding film festivals
Audiences are pouring into modern film festivals, fuelled by a new generation, digital conversations and the simple desire to sit…
Where did all the movies go? The battle for screens in your local multiplex
Arthouse lovers are racing to see films before they disappear. Australian films don't get wide release. Can we tip the…
Box Office: Cab film still doing well on 23 August 2015.
The Last Cab to Darwin is beginning to look like a money truck on the road north.
Holding the Man: from page to stage to screen
The ‘monumentally loved’ memoir by Timothy Conigrave is now a feature film: we track its convoluted journey to Australian cinemas.
Seven keys to a documentary renaissance
Battered and compulsively evolving, independent documentaries are challenged to justify themselves at MIFF. Of course, they succeed.
ACMI: an analogue museum for the digital world
Five months in ACMI CEO Katrina Sedgwick reflects on transforming Australia's only museum of the moving image into a human…
Box Office Bizarro: 17 August with an evil moment in The Gift
Joel Edgerton's The Gift does well on wide release in the US. It also scored a truly strange and ugly…
Eight radical ways to change arts funding
Were any arts funding bodies or philanthropists brave enough to implement these suggestions from the US they might come close…
The evolving role of the critic
Demon? Angel? Tired victims of change? MIFF unleashes formidable talent to explore the evolving role of the critic in the…
The secret love affair between pirates and creators
New research and a new lobby group in the screen sector rewrites the playbook on the approach to piracy.