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| UpdatedI, Daniel Blake reminds us of how human dignity survives, even in the face of the most comprehensive neglect and indifference.
Topics: film-movies, critique-and-theory, art-house, united-kingdom
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As a boy growing up in a migrant family in the US, Justin Lin watched Star Trek avidly for 10 years. He’s now one of Hollywood’s most sought-after directors, and his latest film – Star Trek Beyond – celebrates the 50th anniversary of the franchise.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, television, film-movies, popular-culture, discrimination, race-relations, grief, sport, science-fiction-films, art-house, director, fantasy-films, action, taiwan, united-states, australia
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Artist George Gittoes speaks to One Plus One about his mission to claim back the arts in Afghanistan.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, author, contemporary-art, film-movies, actor, art-house, short-film, unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, australia, afghanistan
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This week: the work of one of the greatest ever story tellers meets one the world's greatest directors with Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's, The BFG, and the dramatic arthouse film The Wait
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, art-house, drama, family-audience, melbourne-3000
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Film critic Zak Hepburn takes a look at the remake of 'Point Break', the new 'Peanuts' movie as well as Aussie teen flick 'Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows'. Plus he nominates his top five movies of 2015.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, comedy-film, art-house, drama, family-audience, thriller-films, western-films, australia
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Costume designer Tim Chappel tells News Breakfast how he reworked the costumes of The Jets and the Sharks for a new production of West Side Story.
Topics: theatre, opera-and-musical-theatre, art-house, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAn event at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival aims to turn your preconceptions of cinema on their head or, more accurately, on their side.
Topics: art-house, carnivals-and-festivals, federation-square-3000
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Film critic Zak Hepburn joined News Breakfast to chat about the latest film releases, Mommy and X+Y.
Topics: film-movies, art-house, australia
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A community's love of film might be the saviour of an art deco cinema on the mid north coast.
Topics: art-house, community-organisations, coffs-harbour-2450, sawtell-2452, port-macquarie-2444
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| UpdatedA dark comedy about a man who fakes his grandmother's death to get out of work wins the top prize at Tropfest in Sydney.
Topics: art-house, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, carnivals-and-festivals, sydney-2000, vic
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| UpdatedAcclaimed Australian film 52 Tuesdays is the story of a schoolgirl trying to understand her mother as she makes a gender transition. The film was shot over the course of a year, once a week, on Tuesdays. Director Sophie Hyde and actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey spoke to ABC News Breakfast.
Topics: art-house, film-movies, sexuality, australia
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| UpdatedIn this episode of the Arts Quarter we take a look at the Tweed Regional Art Gallery which is the new home of the Margaret Olley Arts Centre.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, art-history, contemporary-art, art-house, art-and-creativity, performance-art, visual-art, street-art, education, australia
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| UpdatedTough times on the Tablelands will be put aside momentarily on Saturday with the annual screening of Flix in the Stix in Armidale.
Topics: comedy-film, short-film, film-movies, art-house, armidale-2350
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Topics: film-movies, carnivals-and-festivals, performance-art, art-house, regional, armidale-2350
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The Sydney Opera House is showing a child-friendly adaption of the Christmas classic, The Nutcracker, to introduce more youngsters into the world of ballet.
Topics: performance-art, art-house, art-and-creativity, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Newcastle-based Arts Health Institute says its plan for an arts hub in Hunter Street's derelict post office has the support of state MP, Tim Owen.
Topics: art-house, community-organisations, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedFilm writer Michael Winchester considered farming butterflies before he settled on beef cattle.
Topics: beef-cattle, art-house, drama, director, port-macquarie-2444, dungog-2420
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| UpdatedA controversial movie based on the notorious 'bodies in the barrels' murders has premiered in Adelaide.
Topics: horror-films, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, art-house, director, drama, murder-and-manslaughter, australia
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| UpdatedThe Warner Bros thriller Inception has enjoyed prerelease buzz but no-one seems to know what it's about.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, action, art-house, drama, fantasy-films, science-fiction-films, thriller-films, popular-culture, united-states, australia
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| UpdatedA film about Melbourne's underbelly wins the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, art-house, documentary, drama, united-states, australia, vic, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedJean Simmons, the British film star who played Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, and sang with Marlon Brando in 'Guys and Dolls', has died.
Topics: drama, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, art-house, biography-film, australia
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| UpdatedThe race for Hollywood film honours has picked up pace with a key independent movie group unveiling the Spirit Award nominees.
Topics: art-house, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, academy-awards-oscars, united-states
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| UpdatedBalibo and Samson and Delilah are going head-to-head for this year's AFI awards.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, art-house, director, australia
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| UpdatedScreen Tasmania is under fire for refusing to read the script for the Tasmanian film, Van Diemen's Land - let alone help fund the movie.
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| UpdatedTwo Australian films have made the Cannes Festival line-up.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, art-house, australia