MIFF 2020: Shortlist
The new site is kind of a pain to navigate through to be honest. No, I don’t want “bundles” for films I have no interest in. Into the bin! The list: 9to5 Story of a
MIFF 2015 – Gulpilil Shorts
Crocodile Dreaming (2007) Director: Darlene Johnson Starring: David Gulpilil, Tommy Lewis, Richard Birrinbirrin, Mary Dhapalany, Frances Djulibing, Jamie Gulpilil An important ancestral stone gets thrown into a billabong leading to one of the local crocodiles
MIFF 2015 – Deathgasm (2015)
Director: Jason Lei Howden Starring: Milo Cawthorne, James Blake, Sam Berkley, Kimberley Crossman, Daniel Cresswell, Delaney Tabron Metal head Brodie (Milo Cawthorne) is forced to move to a country town after his mother is hospitalised
MIFF 2015 – Daises (1966)
Director: Vera Chytilová Starring: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová, Marie Češková, Jiřina Myšková, Marcela Březinová, Julius Albert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBLYiqy1WI I had been wanting to see this for ages but had been holding out until I could either
MIFF 2015 – Fehérlófia (1981)
Director: Marcell Jankovics A combination of several folk tales from Hungary where the Son of the White Mare of the title quests to find his brothers and do battle with the three dragons who were
MIFF 2015 – Head (1968)
Director: Bob Rafelson Starring: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith, Victor Mature, Frank Zappa, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, plus many more Hey, hey, we are The Monkees You know we love to please
MIFF 2015 – The Look of Silence (2014) with Q & A
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer In this companion documentary to the Act of Killing, Adi, whose brother was killed in the Communist purges in Indonesia during 1965 confronts the killers responsible for his brother’s death in an
MIFF 2015 – Battles Without Honour and Humanity (1973)
Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku Starring: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukat, Nobuo Kaneko, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kunie Tanaka When a movie starts with a nuclear explosion you know it not screwing around. Starting in 1946 in the Hiroshima
QAGOMA – Cult Japan – All the trailers
I saw this program was on at QAGOMA this year, I will probably not go up for any screenings having seen most of them but I would recommend going to see the films if you
Action, HK Style – All the trailers*
(*) All the trailers I could find in the original language where possible. In some cases there was a clip I liked better than the trailer. While my personal preference is for the original Shaw