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MQFF 2020 – We’re Stories in Every Colour

January 17 - Festivals, Film, Latest News

Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) is marking its 30th festival by unveiling a new brand and marketing campaign that embodies the essence of queer film. Launched today, the new festival tagline We’re Stories in Every C...

Choir Girl

January 2 - Film, Latest Reviews

In the hopes of becoming a stimulating meditation on art, fame and morality, the Australian arthouse-drama Choir Girl reaches for profundity but lands on distastefulness. Writer-director John Fraser crafts an ominous fil...

Mrs Lowry & Son

December 9 - Film, Latest Reviews

There was no harsher critic of famed British painter L. S. Lowry than that of his bedridden mother. Her damning critiques, a symptom of her crippling neurosis, handed out to her son as regularly as cups of tea on a cold ...

Mrs Lowry & Son

December 2 - Film

Mrs Lowry & Son depicts the relationship between L.S. Lowry, one of Britain’s most iconic artists, and his mother Elizabeth, with whom he lived until her death. Directed by Adrain Noble, the film follows Lowry (Timot...

Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli, circa 1915. Photographer: Victor Rupert Laidlaw. Source: State Library of Victoria.

The Missing

November 30 - Film

Highlighting two unsung humanitarian efforts of WW1 – the Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau and the post-war Australian Graves Workers, The Missing is a new short documentary that celebrates t...

Natural history on TV: how the ABC took Australian animals to the peop...

November 26 - Film, Opinion

Most of us will never see a platypus or a lyrebird in the wild, but it’s likely we’ve encountered them on television. Our new research looks at the vital role early ABC television played in making Australian animals acce...

Suzi Q

November 26 - Film, Latest Reviews

Often greeted with remarks about her peat appearance and stature, the misogynistic undertones that had plagued pioneering rock’n’roll icon Suzi Quatro’s fifty-year career are explored with unflappable honesty...

Van Gogh - courtesy of Exhibition on Screen

Van Gogh & Japan

November 25 - Film

From the critically acclaimed exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, to the beauty of Provence and the enigma of Japan itself, Exhibition on Screen presents Van Gogh & Japan. Featuring Vincent Van Gogh’s perso...