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SFF2015 Daytime Subscriber’s Diary: Day 6
It’s been a massive day, but now we’ve passed the halfway point of the festival, with just five days remaining. Daytime subscribers saw four more films, including two competition entries. Let’s jump...
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Spring [SFF2015]
Written by Justin Benson and directed by Benson and Aaron Moorhead (who worked together on the award-winning Resolution), Spring is an intelligent and slyly impacting romantic drama/monster horror...
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SFF2015 Daytime Subscriber’s Diary: Day 7
It’s day seven, and the exhaustion is finally starting to hit me. I was nodding heavily during the first three films I saw today, though I’d estimate I saw around 95% of each of them. Nonetheless,...
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Podcast: Halfway through the Sydney Film Festival 2015 (Pod Save Our Screen #80)
An Online Universe’s Andrew Buckle joins Blake Howard of Graffiti with Punctuation, on episode 80 of Pod Save Our Screen. The pair check in at the halfway mark of the 2015 Sydney Film Festival, and...
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The Look of Silence [SFF2015]
It was two years ago almost to the day that Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing and unshakable The Act of Killing, a brave and vital piece of revelatory political cinema, screened at the Sydney Film...
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SFF2015 Daytime Subscriber’s Diary: Day 8
Day eight and all is well. Today the daytime subscribers saw a rather good competition film, as well as a pair of documentaries and one film which is much harder to classify. If I’m being honest, I...
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Only The Dead [SFF2015]
“We all have dark places” says journalist Michael Ware as he narrates Only the Dead, a film compiled of his footage from several years as a war correspondent in Iraq. In this documentary we are given...
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SFF2015 Daytime Subscriber’s Diary: Day 9
Exhaustion got the better of me again today, with the day’s second film suffering the most from my occasional nodding. Just two days to go, now. I have ten sessions left to attend, and I’ll be...
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SFF2015 Daytime Subscriber’s Diary: Day 10
There’s just one day to go now. Daytime subscribers saw three films today, and we’ll be seeing three more tomorrow. Today was a bit of a rollercoaster, with some small films really impressing me and...
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SFF2015 Daytime Subscriber’s Diary: Final Day & Festival wrap-up
The 2015 Sydney Film Festival is all over and done with. I’ve spent most of the day catching up on sleep, and now here is the final installment of my diary as a daytime subscriber. I’ll review the...
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12 Films to See at Sydney Film Festival 2016
With 244 films screening, picking which films to see at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival can be an overwhelming experience. We’ve combed through the impressive programme and have selected 12 films we...
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Let Them Come [SFF2016]
This adaptation of Arezki Mellal’s acclaimed novel ‘Now Let Them Come’ by Mellal and director Salem Brahimi is set during Algeria’s ‘black decade’, and tells the story of a family that must defend...
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Mustang [SFF2016]
In the breathtaking and bracing French/Turkish feminist drama Mustang the performances from co-writer and director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s striking and fiercely resilient young female cast are...
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A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers [SFF2016]
Directed by Pakistani’s first, and now two-time, Oscar-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Saving Face and A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, also screening at SFF16) and Geeta Gandbhir, A...
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The Childhood of a Leader [SFF2016]
I present to you the biggest surprise of the Sydney Film Festival so far. This is an incredible film, and an understandable winner of Best Debut Feature and Best Director awards at the 2015 Venice...
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Kate Plays Christine [SFF2016]
In 1974, television news show host and journalist Christine Chubbuck committed suicide live on air. Suffering from severe depression, Christine was committed to continuing the network’s obsession with...
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Morris From America [SFF2016]
Winner of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Screenwriting Award, writer/director Chad Hartigan’s third feature film Morris From America is the tender coming-of-age story of a 13-year-old...
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SFF16 Review Diary: Days 6-9
Read beyond for my thoughts on films watched during the quietest stretch of the festival; days 6-9, which includes Chevalier, Letters From War, Desde alla, Suntan, Toni Erdmann, The Endless River,...
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