Film Festivals 2017
Neruda (2016)
6.9/10
Director: Pablo Larrain
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Mercedes Moran, Luis Gnecco
In this dense and scintillating mix of fact and fantasy, Gael García Bernal reteams with No director Pablo Larraín to play an obsessive (fictional) de... Read more
The Salesman (2016)
7.8/10
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Babak Karimi, Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini
Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) are actors in an amateur Tehran production of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. When... Read more
Things to Come (2016)
7/10
Director: Mia Hanson-Love
Starring: Andre Marcon, Isabelle Huppert, Roman Kolinka
Nathalie (2017 Golden Globe-winner Isabelle Huppert) teaches philosophy at a college in Paris. Shes passionate about her work and particularly enjoys... Read more
Una (2016)
6.2/10
Director: Benedict Andrews
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Tara Fitzgerald, Riz Ahmed, Rooney Mara
Opened out by David Harrower from his 2005 stage two-hander Blackbird, the first feature directed by the Australian stage director-dramatist Benedict... Read more
Risk (2016)
6.3/10
Director: Laura Poitras
Starring: Sarah Harrison, Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum
From the Academy Award-winning director of CITIZENFOUR Filmed over six years, RISK is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year... Read more
Jasper Jones (2016)
6.6/10
Director: Rachel Perkins
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette, Angourie Rice
Adapted from Craig Silveys bestselling Australian novel and featuring a stellar cast including Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Ric... Read more
Cemetery of Splendour (2015)
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Petchthai Wongkamlao, Banlop Lomnoi
In rural Thailand, a community sets up a makeshift hospital to care for a cadre of soldiers stricken with a mysterious sleeping sickness. A volunteer... Read more
Stalker (1979)
8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn
An extraordinary sci-fi film about an expedition into 'the zone', an eerie no-man's-land created by a meteor strike and depicted as a warped version o... Read more
Stalker (Blu-ray) (1979)
8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn
An extraordinary sci-fi film about an expedition into 'the zone', an eerie no-man's-land created by a meteor strike and depicted as a warped version o... Read more
Belle De Jour (Blu-ray) (1967)
7.7/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page
This classic French drama from Luis Buñuel, based on the 1928 novel of the same name, stars Catherine Deneuve as the bourgeois wife of a surgeon. Feel... Read more