Film (Movies)
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Why we crashed the 'sausage party' that is the Australian film industry Opinion
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The key decision makers — and award winners — in the Australian film industry are still overwhelmingly male, writes WIFT president Sophie Mathisen.
Topics: film-movies, television, women, work, social-media, sydney-2000, australia
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'Batman saved me': How a mugging changed one comic book writer's life
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When award-winning Batman writer Paul Dini was mugged and beaten to near-death in 1993, he found strength in the caped crusader character and is now ready to share his story.
Topics: graphic, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, australia
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"I see Batman as like a tough drill sergeant. He's like, 'Get up, go about your work'." Video
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Award-winning writer and comic book character creator, Paul Dini, describes how his life was changed after a mugging in 1993 and how his depiction of Batman helped him cope in the aftermath.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, australia
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Office Christmas Party strikingly safe despite cocaine and sex
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Office Christmas Party begins as a middle finger to top-down management culture and economic rationalism, but it ends rather differently.
Topics: comedy-film, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, christmas, united-states
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Mel Gibson discusses filming Hacksaw Ridge in Australia Video
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AACTA Award winning director Mel Gibson discusses returning to Australia to film Hacksaw Ridge.
Topics: film-movies, australia
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Last Tango in Paris director clarifies butter rape scene
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Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci says the only novelty sprung on actress Maria Schneider in the film Last Tango in Paris was the butter — not the simulated rape, which he says was written into the script.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, italy
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Mel Gibson speaks to the ABC on the AACTA Awards red carpet. Video
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Mel Gibson speaks to the ABC on the AACTA Awards red carpet.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, awards-and-prizes, sydney-2000, australia
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Mel Gibson and Hacksaw Ridge clean up at AACTA Awards
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Mel Gibson is awarded the best direction gong at the AACTA Awards for his World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge, which picks up the best film prize.
Topics: film-movies, awards-and-prizes, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, australia, nsw
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Protesters enter red carpet chanting: "End the sausage party". Video
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Interviews on the red carpet at the AACTA Awards were interrupted by a group of protesters dressed as sausages demanding gender equality in cinema.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, awards-and-prizes, sydney-2000
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'End the sausage party': Protesters storm AACTAs red carpet
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Demonstrators dressed as sausages storm the AACTA Awards red carpet, chanting "end the sausage party" in a protest against gender inequality in the film and television industry.
Topics: offbeat, film-movies, television, awards-and-prizes, sydney-2000, australia
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Art deco drive-in speaker image Feature
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Topics: human-interest, film-movies, film, history, charters-towers-4820
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Tors cinema film archive image Feature
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Topics: human-interest, history, film-movies, film, charters-towers-4820
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The Tors Drive-In Cinema is still going strong Video Feature
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The Tors Drive-In Cinema in Charters Towers is still going despite pressure from multiplexes and online streaming
Topics: human-interest, history, film, film-movies, charters-towers-4820
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Steve Snell preparing film reel image Feature
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Topics: human-interest, film-movies, film, history, charters-towers-4820
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Tors cinema owner Steve Snell with film projectors image Feature
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Topics: human-interest, history, film, film-movies, charters-towers-4820
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North Queensland drive-in cinema bucks downward trend Feature
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A man who loves cinemas so much he bought a drive-in theatre at the age of 19 has a business still going strong 16 years later.
Topics: human-interest, history, film-movies, film, charters-towers-4820
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Matt Damon defends 'whitewashing' casting in The Great Wall
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Matt Damon defends his casting in new China-Hollywood co-production The Great Wall amid criticism his role should have gone to an Asian actor.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, race-relations, community-and-society, china, united-states
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Short film targets rural youth at risk of suicide
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Film maker Ian Thomson uses storytelling to encourage young rural men to start a conversation about mental health.
Topics: mental-health, health, men, community-and-society, rural-youth, rural, arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, suicide, junee-2663, australia
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Why we should no longer consider Last Tango in Paris 'a classic' Opinion
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Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film 'the air of a snuff piece'. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, sexual-offences, united-states
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Ben Hall beats Ned Kelly around the bush: filmmaker
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The director of new film The Legend Of Ben Hall says the NSW bushranger has been unfairly eclipsed by Victoria's Ned Kelly.
Topics: film-movies, biography-film, 19th-century, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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Bertolucci admits Last Tango in Paris rape scene was non consensual
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A recently unearthed video interview with Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci from 2013 has renewed interest and outrage over what happened to actress Maria Schneider on set during the infamous butter rape scene
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, sexual-offences, united-states
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Outback cinema celebrates 100 years in the Kimberley (photos)
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The world's oldest operating open-air cinema, located in outback Western Australia, is about to turn 100 years old.
Topics: history, film-movies, broome-6725
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Crowd-sourced bushranger biopic escapes humble origins
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The Legend of Ben Hall is a rich, if flawed, portrait of a haunted man and a romantic tribute to the Australian bush as a mirage of freedom.
Topics: biography-film, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, history, community-and-society, nsw, australia
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Changes to film agency to bring more movies to WA (photos)
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Film development agency Screenwest will soon become a not-for-profit organisation, in a bid to attract more funding for West Australian filmmaking.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, film-movies, wa, perth-6000
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Now showing: Our weekly look at some of the new movie releases. Video
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In ABC News Breakfast's "Now Showing" movie segment, we look at the Dreamworks animated feature "Trolls", and the latest installment in the "Underworld" franchise.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, family-audience, fantasy-films, australia
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