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French director Blandine Lenoir's emboldened ambitions for cinema
French director can see a brighter future for underrepresented female actors, no kidding.
- by Jake Wilson
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Sydney Film Festival
Hostage fears as Australian film is shot secretly in Afghanistan
Director Ben Gilmour and actor Sam Smith needed all their courage to shoot the film "Jirga".
- by Garry Maddox
Marvel
Real-life Law & Order: LA police investigate missing Iron Man costume
An elite squad of detectives will investigate.This is their story.
- by Broede Carmody
Sydney Film Festival
'A very Bondi film' brings twentysomething lives to Sydney festival
The oddly titled Chocolate Oyster centres on two twentysomething waitresses struggling to pay their rent.
- by Garry Maddox
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett says Cannes will change - but not overnight
The famous Australian actress is front and centre as the president of this year's Cannes Film Festival jury.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Midnight Oil 1984 review: Power and passion undimmed
After witnessing Peter Garrett adapt to the cycles of compromise and concession that make up the life of a Canberra politician, it's strange and faintly eerie to return to the sight of him dominating the stage during his early years as a rock star.
- by Sandra Hall
Film Festivals
The gospel groups that changed America
A new documentary feature film, How They Got Over, explores the gospel groups that preceded popular music.
- by Stephen A Russell
Research
What would really happen in a Hollywood-style zombie apocalypse?
Brazilian mathematicians have done the numbers and it doesn't look good.
- by Broede Carmody
Divide between the power and the passion lives on: Midnight Oil 1984 documentary
Ray Argall's rocking Midnight Oil documentary is set in a turbulent time for Australia and the world.
- by Craig Mathieson
Keanu Reeves
Get set for another excellent adventure: Reeves, Winter to reprise Bill and Ted
Party on, dudes.
- by Nathanael Cooper
Film Festivals
#MeToo will take time to change Hollywood, says Cate Blanchett
The 48-year-old Australian Cannes jury president said the three female directors in competition will be assessed "as filmmakers, as we should".
- by Michael Idato