The National Film and Sound Archive will host the new look 2015 Canberra International Film Festival.
Act Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, launched the festival today at the National Film and Sound Archive in Acton..
Feature film Neon, by film-maker Lawrence Johnson and local production company, WildBear Entertainment, will open The festival.
It will run from November 5-15.
Now in its 19th year, the Ciff program includes thirty international and Australian films screening exclusively at the National Film and Sound Archive in Arc Cinema..
Special guests include film historian and Movie Show favourite David Stratton and a range of international and Australian film-makers.
Festival manager, Andrew Pike, said he wanted the community to "again" fall in love with the festival.
.The 2015 program is not standard cinema fare. These aren.t the sort of films you could wander into a normal Friday night session and see," he said..
.For the first time, we...
Act Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, launched the festival today at the National Film and Sound Archive in Acton..
Feature film Neon, by film-maker Lawrence Johnson and local production company, WildBear Entertainment, will open The festival.
It will run from November 5-15.
Now in its 19th year, the Ciff program includes thirty international and Australian films screening exclusively at the National Film and Sound Archive in Arc Cinema..
Special guests include film historian and Movie Show favourite David Stratton and a range of international and Australian film-makers.
Festival manager, Andrew Pike, said he wanted the community to "again" fall in love with the festival.
.The 2015 program is not standard cinema fare. These aren.t the sort of films you could wander into a normal Friday night session and see," he said..
.For the first time, we...
- 9/28/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The Canberra International Film Festival returns this year with a stronger grassroots focus on films at a new home: the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Nfsa), running from November 5-15. The festival will be curated by volunteer film enthusiasts who specialise in local, Indigenous, Asian, education and documentary genres, convened by Andrew Pike, Ronin Films founder and Electric Shadows cinema former manager. .We aim to inform, stimulate and engage Canberra film-goers through a carefully selected mix of high quality and distinctive films that we are passionate about and want to share with the Ciff audience,. Dr Pike said. The fellow programmers are Nfsa.s head of education and Canberra Times film critic Cris Kennedy, producer Alice Taylor from the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, and Olivier Krischer from the Anu.s Centre for China in the World. .Drawing on our expertise, we are curating a unique festival program...
- 8/12/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has surpassed the majority of expectations so far, scoring a sublime 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and nailing the second-best opening weekend in the franchise’s history. Sadly, not every movie can be quite that successful, as the diverse cast of the $2+ billion franchise are doubtless well aware.
Every actor has to start somewhere and every actor takes a blatant paycheck role every now and then, but there’s little denying that these 15 Mission: Impossible actors, from Ethan Hunt himself to that revolving door of love interests, would likely all prefer for these poor efforts to be quietly forgotten.
In some cases the movies are bland enough that they’ve all but evaporated into the ether already, but others are so infamously poor that they’ll endure long after the respective actor isn’t around anymore, a monument to what either greed or desperation can do to just about any entertainer.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has surpassed the majority of expectations so far, scoring a sublime 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and nailing the second-best opening weekend in the franchise’s history. Sadly, not every movie can be quite that successful, as the diverse cast of the $2+ billion franchise are doubtless well aware.
Every actor has to start somewhere and every actor takes a blatant paycheck role every now and then, but there’s little denying that these 15 Mission: Impossible actors, from Ethan Hunt himself to that revolving door of love interests, would likely all prefer for these poor efforts to be quietly forgotten.
In some cases the movies are bland enough that they’ve all but evaporated into the ether already, but others are so infamously poor that they’ll endure long after the respective actor isn’t around anymore, a monument to what either greed or desperation can do to just about any entertainer.
- 8/6/2015
- by Jack Pooley
- Obsessed with Film
It’s almost August and that means Netflix is about to give their content a refresh. Some of the notable titles leaving include: Family Ties: Season 1-7, Unbreakable, and Titanic. So if you haven’t seen some of these titles, plan your nights accordingly. We of course can look forward more than a few new titles including The Hurt Locker, White God (pictured above), and Girl Meets World season 1.
Available August 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
In this animated adventure, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore revel in their new gig at a movie theme park by wandering the grounds after hours. Among the attractions is the spooky Frankenstein’s Castle, where a real mad scientist is bringing the monster to life. But when the boys cross paths with the creature (Frank Welker), they soon learn that appearances can be deceiving, and Frankenstein is more misunderstood than malevolent.
Asylum (2005)
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Available August 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
In this animated adventure, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore revel in their new gig at a movie theme park by wandering the grounds after hours. Among the attractions is the spooky Frankenstein’s Castle, where a real mad scientist is bringing the monster to life. But when the boys cross paths with the creature (Frank Welker), they soon learn that appearances can be deceiving, and Frankenstein is more misunderstood than malevolent.
Asylum (2005)
A...
- 7/29/2015
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Happy New Year, dear readers! I hope you all enjoyed your preferred end-of-year holidays, and are ready to ring in 2015. And to mark the occasion, the Trailer Trashin’ column is back with a look at the Australian black comedy/thriller Kill Me Three Times.
Premise: Professional assassin Charlie Wolfe (Simon Pegg) is hired to kill Alice Taylor (Alice Braga), the singer wife of the wealthy Jack Taylor (Callan Mulvey). But the plan is complicated by the involvement of gambling addict Nathan Webb (Sullivan Stapleton), who is trying to pay off his debts through a life insurance scam thought up by his partner Lucy (Teresa Palmer), corrupt cop Bruce Jones (Bryan Brown), and surfer Dylan Smith (Luke Hemsworth), who is trying to save Alice from her would-be killers.
Note: Although this is not a red-band trailer, it does contain strong language and a few moments of blood and graphic violence, and...
Premise: Professional assassin Charlie Wolfe (Simon Pegg) is hired to kill Alice Taylor (Alice Braga), the singer wife of the wealthy Jack Taylor (Callan Mulvey). But the plan is complicated by the involvement of gambling addict Nathan Webb (Sullivan Stapleton), who is trying to pay off his debts through a life insurance scam thought up by his partner Lucy (Teresa Palmer), corrupt cop Bruce Jones (Bryan Brown), and surfer Dylan Smith (Luke Hemsworth), who is trying to save Alice from her would-be killers.
Note: Although this is not a red-band trailer, it does contain strong language and a few moments of blood and graphic violence, and...
- 1/6/2015
- by Timothy Monforton
- CinemaNerdz
First Footprints, Jabbed, Fallout and Once My Mother were among the winners of the 2013 Ipaf Atom awards presented in Melbourne on Thursday night.
Founded in 1982 and voted by members of the Australian Teachers of Media, the awards recognise film and media excellence in the education and screen industry sectors.
There were more than 600 entries from Australian and New Zealand media producers in 29 categories. The event was hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz. The Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (Ipaf) was the naming sponsor this year.
Martin Butler and Bentley Dean.s First Footprints, which tells how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments, was named best documentary, general.
Sonya Pemberton.s Jabbed, which poses the questions how do you decide whether to vaccinate or not, and what are the risks?, took the award for best docu, science, technology and the environment.
Lawrence Johnston.s Fallout, which...
Founded in 1982 and voted by members of the Australian Teachers of Media, the awards recognise film and media excellence in the education and screen industry sectors.
There were more than 600 entries from Australian and New Zealand media producers in 29 categories. The event was hosted by Brian Nankervis from RocKwiz. The Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (Ipaf) was the naming sponsor this year.
Martin Butler and Bentley Dean.s First Footprints, which tells how the first Australians adapted, migrated, fought and created in dramatically changing environments, was named best documentary, general.
Sonya Pemberton.s Jabbed, which poses the questions how do you decide whether to vaccinate or not, and what are the risks?, took the award for best docu, science, technology and the environment.
Lawrence Johnston.s Fallout, which...
- 11/29/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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