The Final Cut is your guide to films worth talking about, big and small—from Hollywood blockbusters to the outer reaches of world cinema.
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Friday 17 Mar 2017
Jason Di Rosso reviews the powerful film about racism in America that went under the radar at this year’s Oscars.
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James Vaughn, a filmmaker and one of the architects behind a proposal for a Sydney cinémathèque joins The Final Cut.
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Melbourne Cinémathèque hosts a season dedicated to the zesty, irreverent films of Dorothy Arzner, a pioneer female filmmaker whose career spanned the silent era into the 1940s.
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Friday 10 Mar 2017
Asghar Farhadi works in the tradition of the best melodrama, squeezing every drop of emotional tension from his characters, usually enmeshed in personal dramas of divorce, infidelity and sometimes terrible, random misfortune, that force them to confront their deepest fears.
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The Melbourne Queer Film Festival kicks off this week with a guest director in attendance, a filmmaker who’s made two films starring and co-produced by James Franco.
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The new King Kong movie is thrilling, funny and occasionally sublime — and beats Hacksaw Ridge as an effective depiction of war.
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Friday 3 Mar 2017
A fascinating insight into the life of a man who for more than two decades was this country’s pre-eminent broadcast film critic, alongside his TV co-host Margaret Pomeranz.
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A thriller about shady dealings in the world of beachside real estate set in Recife in Brazil, starring the beautiful Sonia Braga as a woman facing down unscrupulous property developers.
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This film brings to a close a trilogy about Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.
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Jasper Jones has all the ingredients of a classic, but is not the coming of age story that's promised.
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Friday 24 Feb 2017
The Trainspotting sequel reunites director Danny Boyle with his original cast 20 years later and has a powerfully melancholy undertow.
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A chat with critic Megan Spencer from the Berlinale.
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Friday 17 Feb 2017
Martin Scorsese is back with a film about faith, set in 17thcentury Japan.
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A film about the internet that will remind you of just how bizarre, wondrous and scary life has become since we began living it so much of it online.
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Friday 10 Feb 2017
When actor Michael Keaton accidentally referred to Hidden Fences whilst reading out the nominations for best supporting actress at the Golden Globes late last year, he was conflating the titles of two separate films about African Americans.
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Radio producer Sheila Pham discusses her upcoming Earshot feature about a Vietnamese Australian family who ran a small town cinema before and after the war.
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Filmgoers may soon have an app that lets them decide how much they want to pay to see a film.
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Friday 3 Feb 2017
The cumulative power of grief, guilt and regret rises in the film like a flood, until it almost washes over every last outcrop of human happiness and joy.
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This month the Melbourne Cinematheque screens a retrospective of films starring the late Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni.
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A corporate satire that’s also a father daughter road movie.
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