Film Festivals
The biggest, weirdest and best Cannes films to keep an eye on this year
This year’s Cannes festival was largely defined by bold, daring and outright strange films. Here are six titles you should be across.
- by Nell Geraets
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The Cannes red carpet always delivers drama. This year was no exception
From surprise appearances to Greta Gerwig in horse heels, here are six of the biggest moments from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
- by Nell Geraets
New Donald Trump biopic includes controversial rape scene
The film, titled The Apprentice, charts the former president’s rise to wealth and power in the 1970s and 80s.
- by Craig Simpson
Gracie Otto began a film about her dad’s one-man show. A diagnosis changed the story
Gracie Otto has made a documentary about her beloved father, who no longer recognises himself in one of Australia’s biggest films.
- by Garry Maddox
This tale of the Nazi resistance is both gentle and heartbreaking
From Hilde, With Love avoids Nazi film cliches while telling the story of a brave couple in 1942.
- by Jane Albert
From Bond to The Beast, is Léa Seydoux cinema’s greatest mystery?
Director Bertrand Bonello is so fascinated by the French actor that he wrote his latest film for her.
- by Jake Wilson
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Stage shows
‘I don’t have impostor syndrome, I am an impostor’: Hannah Gadsby
The comedian is preparing for a new show, and is still stunned by how far their career has come since being catapulted to international fame with Nanette in 2018.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Gimmick or game-changer? How mobile phones are transforming filmmaking
While many traditionalists prefer professional cameras, a smartphone festival has attracted a record number of entries.
- by Garry Maddox
This filmmaker quit school to chase her dream. At 19, she’s made four movies
Last year, teenage filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay completed three movies. This year, two of them will screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
- by Stephen A Russell
‘I had no idea who I was’: Gabriel Byrne hates what fame did to him
The Usual Suspects changed Irish actor Gabriel Byrne’s life in an instant. His new film, Dance First, finds him happy beneath the radar.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Revelatory or reprehensible? Controversial filmmaker accused of ‘Nazi porn’ returns to screen
Fifty years ago, Liliana Cavani directed one of the most controversial films ever made, but in Venice this month, the world paid tribute.
- by Stephanie Bunbury