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The Legend of Ochi is breathtaking with sparks of wonder

5 days ago | thecurb.com.au | Nadine Whitney

Isaiah Saxon said in an interview several years ago conducted from Trout Gulch the Santa Fe forest artist’s commune and studio for Encyclopedia Pictura that his north star heroes in filmmaking are Miyazaki, Spielberg, Zemeckis, and Lucas. The Legend of Ochi buzzes with the influence of those directors so intensely that it works in a kind of cinematic shorthand where it assumes that the story beats are so familiar they don’t require deep explanation.
How Umbrella Entertainment physical media essays are written

6 days ago | thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce |Nadine Whitney

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. And we’re back with another review discussion with myself, Andrew, and my colleague Nadine Whitney.
Michael Facey on arts in the 2025 Federal Election and why Australian films will find a way

1 week ago | thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce

Filmmaker Michael Facey knows what it’s like to live as an artist in Australia. He knows the journey a film undergoes from the initial concept to honing the script to being on set bringing an emotional truth to life, and finally, to running the theatrical and streaming release gauntlet. Michael has worked as a producer on shorts and features, with the queer drama Sunflower seeing him journey across Australia with the entourage of filmmakers and actors in tow.
Broad Sound Dispatches: "Lonely Spirits and the King" with Andrew F. Peirce - The Curb

1 week ago | thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce

Broad Sound Dispatches is a podcast which features ‘a cornucopia of audio goodness from the contributors to the journal of arts and culture.’ Andrew F. Peirce was recently invited to be a guest on the show to discuss his book Lonely Spirits and the King: An Australian Film Book.
moviejuice's Animation in Transformation series continues the cultural enrichment of Adelaide - The Curb

2 weeks ago | thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce

I keep on saying that there’s something in the air in Adelaide. Over the years, the city has become a cultural hotbed for creative folks of all kinds: film, digital media, street art, sports. It’s even become a surrogate home for a group of global elephants without a herd to call home. There’s a cultural foundation that is pushed for and cultivated by the people who call the city home.
Piotr Winiewicz, Zoom, AI transcription, and the dust of the desert commune to explore the Werner Herzog inspired documentary About a Hero

3 weeks ago | thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce

At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in discussion with Netscout’s Jim McNiel, Werner Herzog made the statement that in the next four and a half thousand years, ‘no computer will make a film as good as mine.’ Polish artist and director Piotr Winiewicz took this statement as a major challenge and embraced the notion of computer driven quality filmmaking to create his debut feature film, About a Hero, seeking approval from Werner Herzog to utilise an artificial intelligence, deepfaked version of...
Death of a Unicorn isn't an abject failure as it attempts Spielbergian throwbacks - The Curb

3 weeks ago | thecurb.com.au | Nadine Whitney

Alex Scharfman’s debut feature Death of a Unicorn riffs on three main themes: a satire about the venality of the ultra-rich, a hyper-violent creature feature, and a Spielbergian fractured and healed parent-child story. The first two work together smoothly and at times hilariously, it’s regrettable that the third essentially goes nowhere yet it is the movie’s framework. Paul Rudd plays Elliot, a corporate lawyer in charge of Ethics and Compliance for the Leopold family’s pharmaceutical empire.
Leila and the Wolves mixes styles to create a master work of resistance

4 weeks ago | thecurb.com.au | Nadine Whitney

The women sit sweltering on the beach with their burkas black and shrouding. Only metres away the men swim and laugh. Under the robes are dangerous objects: guns and bare legs that long to stand in the shallows and feel the water cool them.
Giles Chan puts pain at the centre of his impactful feature debut Jellyfish

1 month ago | thecurb.com.au | Andrew F Peirce

When it comes to outlining the plot or character traits of Jellyfish, the feature debut from West Aussie based filmmaker Giles Chan, it’s hard to escape critically applied terms such as ‘slacker’ or ‘masochist’ that are used to define Aidan Rynne’s lead character Henry, a depressive twenty-something guy living in Perth who solicits strangers to beat him up for cash. The early scenes of Jellyfish brings the character of Henry into focus as a husk of a human who passively exists in life.
The Alto Knights is an afterthought in Mob Movies

1 month ago | thecurb.com.au | Nadine Whitney

Combining the writer of Goodfellas, the director of Bugsy, and starring Robert De Niro twice, The Alto Knights, based on the relationship between two New York Mafioso – Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vito Genovese (De Niro), isn’t Barry Levinson’s finest hour. In fact, it’s no-one’s finest “mob film” hour. The Alto Knights is, at best, a television film but not a prestige one.