Hunger
Word association: when I say "hunger strike", do you think "brimming with cinematic possibilities"? Maybe not. Turner Prize-winning artist and first-time feature director Steve McQueen thought otherwise, and it just won him the Camera d'Or prize at Cannes. (Shows what you know, huh?).
River Cottage Forever, Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall
This is another one of those cooking shows that I seem to be addicted to at the moment. There is something mind-numbing about watching cooking, leaving plenty of time to entertain the other side of the brain with any computer heating up your region.
The show is about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a British chef who spent a brief period as a sous-chef at River Café but was made redundant for "being messy" and "lacking discipline".
Cassavetes
Le Tigre posed the question in their catchy call-and-response What's Yr Take On Cassavetes? "Misogynist? Genius? Alcoholic? Messiah?"
Sink into this newly remastered set of Cassavetes' films and you can immediately see how they're the dirty, short-black-coffee parallels to the French New Wave.
2 Days In Paris
You've probably seen Richard Linklater's hit romance-for-slackers, BEFORE SUNRISE - Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke sharing One Perfect Night in Vienna. It even earned a sequel, BEFORE SUNSET, picking up on the characters' lives a decade later.
Now Julie Delpy writes, directs and stars in 2 DAYS IN PARIS.
Dest Fest
Three afternoons of film and talk? Compared to the exhausting three-week grind offered by other Australian festivals, the inaugural Destination Festival's tightly curated selections and candid panel discussions sound like bliss.
Week One features international cinema, notably the Australian premiere of WHOLPIN VOLUME IV, the DVD magazine from everyone's favourite hipster overlords Dave Eggers, Brett Hoff, and MCSWEENY'S.
HAMMER BAY
HAMMER BAY is the stunning outcome from young Director Ben Briand’s winning entry into the MTV 180 Project late last year. Written by ex-COFA students Briand and Andrew Liversidge, it’s a story of “murder most foul in a town that is no longer what it once was…”
When a teenage girl is found dead on the rocks of Hammer Bay everyone is under suspicion.
FORBIDDEN LIE$
Yes, the S in the title is a dollar sign, presumably to mark it as belonging to the long, proud Michael J. Fox’s THE SECRET OF MY SUCCE$S. Just ignore it, okay?
FORBIDDEN LIE$ is an elliptical documentary about Norma Khouri, author of the shocking expose of honour killings in Jordan, FORBIDDEN LOVE.
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