Until the 1970s, the film industry in Australia was virtually nil. Everything was imported from Britain or America and Australian actor went to either place to make their name known. Then, the...
Jean Vigo (1905-1934) was only 29 years old when he died of tuberculosis. The son of an infamous anarchist who was murdered for his outspoken opposition to the First World War, Vigo...
It has been 60 years since the release of one of his more divisive films, the hypnotic Vertigo with James Stewart and Kim Novak. I'm on the side of it being perfect, but it...
In 1959, when the Conservative Party, nicknamed the Tories, won the General Election, then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proclaimed, "You've never had it so good!" This was if you have seen The Crown, a...
Jean Renoir was the son of famous painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. With his fortune, Jean was sent to the best schools, but he was never a fan and ran away often. To him,...
In 1999, the British Film Institute named The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. A story of moral corruption, we are thrown into the streets of an occupied Vienna four...
When the acclaimed documentarian died aged 92 on July 5, I tweeted out that Shoah, his haunting nine-hour-plus story about the events of Poland's extermination camps was on another level as a documentary. Like James...
When we think of booming creative minds with loads of energy poured into their work, we tend to think Quentin Tarantino with his colorful, epic scripts or Aaron Sorkin with his extensive...
