Garry Maddox

Sydney

Senior Writer at Sydney Morning Herald

Senior Writer at The Sydney Morning Herald. Tweets on film. Mostly.

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This TV star spent so long making a film in a Sydney funeral home that they put him on staff

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Garry Maddox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Christian Byers spent so long making a new Australian film in a funeral parlour – eight years between other acting gigs - that he ended up on staff, placing bodies in coffins, organising flowers and washing hearses. “It felt like I was part of the team anyway so they formalised it,” the actor turned director said. “They gave me the suit I wear in character in the film.
15 unmissable movies at this year’s Sydney Film Festival

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Garry Maddox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The 72nd Sydney Film Festival has a dizzying number of screenings. Films from 70 countries – all the way from Afghanistan to Zambia – will run in the grand State Theatre and nine other venues around the city. The opening night will be spicier than expected.
Classic films have never been harder to find. Free streamer Wikiflix offers hope

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Garry Maddox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Despite the myriad streaming services that have landed in Australia over the past decade, finding classic films has often proved a problem – but a new service is now offering thousands of titles reaching back to the earliest days of cinema. And it’s free.
“I’ve seen people drown”: Lismore flood trauma explored in emotional new documentary

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Garry Maddox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The trauma of two devastating floods in Lismore still hangs over the northern NSW town three years on. “Some days I’m still on the roof hearing the screams,” says Eli Roth, who was rescued with his dog when floodwater submerged his home, in the emotional new documentary Floodland. “I’ve seen people drown. I’ve dug graves.
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1 month ago | stuff.co.nz | Garry Maddox
David Attenborough has a new film for his 99th birthday – and it’s surprisingly optimistic

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Garry Maddox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. David Attenborough is doing what he does best for his 99th birthday next Thursday … presenting a new film. The legendary British natural historian, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker, who has hosted such landmark series as Life on Earth, The Living Planet and Frozen Planet over more than 70 years, is still hard at work.
David Attenborough has a new film for his 99th birthday – and it’s surprisingly optimistic

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Garry Maddox

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Sydney City Circle walking tour reveals history of ghost platforms and air raid shelters

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Garry Maddox

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Sydney City Circle walking tour reveals history of ghost platforms and air raid shelters

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Garry Maddox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ghost platforms. A faded poster that says “AIR RAID SHELTER”. An old dead man’s handle, which Red Rattler train drivers gripped as a failsafe measure. Advertising for the long-gone Mark Foy’s department store. A bullet hole in a marble pillar. A frieze unearthed after a fire in a Hungry Jack’s.
Hitler’s favourite filmmaker always denied she was a Nazi. Now we know the truth

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Garry Maddox

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Debate about how German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl should be regarded has raged even after her death more than two decades ago at the age of 101. Now a new film has reignited it. Was the director of the masterful Triumph of the Will, which chronicled the Nazi Party’s 1934 rally in Nuremberg, and Olympia, which documented the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, a dedicated Hitler propagandist?

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