Transformers: The Premake takes an amusing look at “crowdsourced movie promotion”
A number of years ago, I found myself witness to a rather eye-opening situation. By circumstance, I happened to be present while a team of at least two dozen people scrambled urgently to locate a post production leak. It’s probably best if I don’t mention the film or the filmmaker in question, but the panic kicked off when a random … Read more
The rights and wrongs of Criterion’s decision to ditch ‘dual format’ releases
Less than a year ago, Criterion Collection CEO Peter Becker took to the label’s official blog and announced their decision to release new titles in dual format editions and not as separate Blu-ray and DVD releases. I expected some resistance to this announcement, but Becker seemed to pre-empt most criticisms with some cogent reasoning. While dual format editions would mean … Read more
Cannes: Rolf de Heer talks to us about Charlie’s Country, loose filmmaking process and David Gulpilil
At the centre of Rolf de Heer‘s latest film, Charlie’s Country, is the titular Charlie, an aboriginal man in a struggle with the modern Australian society that rejects his way of life. Charlie is played by the much-loved actor David Gulpilil, and the film is obviously as personal for him as it is for director-writer de … Read more
Cannes: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Them review
That syntactical nightmare of a headline is an unfortunate side effect of a late choice to edit two films into one. For the record, we’ve reproduced the title exactly as it appeared on screen, with no hyphen or colon to be found. Writer-director Ned Benson first premiered a pair of work-in-progress cuts at TIFF last year. These were … Read more