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Father disfigures: Charles Williams’ ‘Inside’

2 months ago | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Paul Barry |Margaret Simons |Louise Milligan

Current Issue Newsletters Podcasts Login Subscribe February 2025 Arts & Letters In the tradition of Australian crime dramas about fatherless young men, the writer-director’s debut feature is a prison film derived from difficult personal experience The father is a presiding absence in Australian cinema.
Feat of clay: ‘Memoir of a Snail’

Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James

Current IssueNewslettersPodcastsLoginSubscribeOctober 2024Arts & Letters Adam Elliot’s latest claymation feature tells the melancholy story of fostered siblings and a lonely life of hoarding Sometimes it feels as though every Australian film is a coming-of-age story.
Feat of clay: ‘Memoir of a Snail’

Sep 30, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Tim Winton |Cate Kennedy |Daniel James

Current IssueNewslettersPodcastsLoginSubscribeOctober 2024Arts & Letters Adam Elliot’s latest claymation feature tells the melancholy story of fostered siblings and a lonely life of hoarding Sometimes it feels as though every Australian film is a coming-of-age story.
Pure things: Tony McNamara

Feb 22, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Martin McKenzie-Murray |Jonathan Green |Anna Krien

How the Australian screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’, who cut his teeth on shows such as ‘The Secret Life of Us’, earnt his second Oscar nomination Not all film directors can write, and many of those who do, shouldn’t. The reverse is also true: not all writers are meant to direct. For the Australian screenwriter Tony McNamara, 57, it was that realisation that led him to where he is today, nominated for an Oscar for the second time in five years.
Way out Southwest

Nov 23, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Jess Hill |Katherine Wilson |Anthony Ham

Halloween seems to be getting more popular in Australia every year, and with it fears that we’re becoming more American – that the zombie-like march of US culture is overwhelming our own. This October, as if to underline the unease, Halloween was preceded by the arrival of another American institution, South by Southwest (SXSW), an “interactive media” jamboree that takes place annually in Austin, Texas.
New Australian films at MIFF

Aug 15, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor

August 16, 2023Film New Australian films at MIFF Mark Leonard Winter’s portrait of wounded men in ‘The Rooster’ and Isabel Darling’s epic documentary about showground life ‘The Carnival’ are among the new Australian works premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival feels slightly reduced. The program is smaller than last year.
Terror Australis: The rise of Australian horror

Jul 27, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Judith Brett |Melissa Lucashenko |Claire Connelly

Horror’s low budgets and broad church have seen a group of local filmmakers gain Hollywood’s attention Lucy Campbell was nervous. In March, the South Australian screenwriter had travelled to Austin, Texas. Her debut feature was playing at South by Southwest (SXSW), the music and film festival that has launched careers as well as Oscar winners such as Everything Everywhere All at Once. Watching her film with an audience, she tells me, she saw it with fresh eyes.
Cult viewing: ‘The Clearing’

May 25, 2023 | themonthly.com.au | Harry Windsor |Sean Kelly |Mark McKenna |Margaret Simons

Elise McCredie’s barely disguised account of Melbourne cult The Family seeks to explore how power is exploited differently by a female leader Australian producers have long taken true-crime stories and stripped them for parts. Animal Kingdom imagined events on either side of the Walsh Street shooting, in which cops were gunned down in cold blood, while The Boys worked backwards from the murder of Anita Cobby, dramatising the world that created her killers.