Film Category

The Perfect Song is a little piece of brilliance from Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s comedy duo ThunderAnt and includes real-life creative power couple Lance Bangs and Corin Tucker, as well as the brilliant lyric, “Alkaline, Clementine, Valentine, Columbine (the flower, not the high school massacre)”.

In a recent interview about his upcoming All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, Jim Jarmusch mentioned plans to shoot a documentary on the King of Rock and Roll — Iggy Pop.

Jarmusch told Pitchfork, “It’s something Iggy asked me to do. There’s a rule in my household that if Iggy is playing anywhere within 90 miles, we go. It’s going to take a few years though. There’s no rush on it.”

Set in the year 1984, ‘Boy’ tracks the life of, well…Boy (James Rolleston). A young kid living on the East Coast of New Zealand whose favorite person and subject is Michael Jackson. From Taika Waititi who also directed the hilariously awkward ‘Eagle Vs Shark’ and Oscar Nominated short ‘Two Cars, One Night’, ‘Boy’ is set to be a film that must not be missed.

We Are Illuminated is a new short documentary film project that is taking us inside the lives of our nocturnal neighbours. Without voice-overs or dialogue, the film will observe a night at work for five Melbourne residents- a vet at a 24-hour animal hospital, a football umpire, a stage manager of a theatre show, a stock-filler at a supermarket and a guy who installs bus shelter advertising.

This might be a big statement, but there probably isn’t a video in existence that is more adorable than this. It’s official. We’ve fallen in love with a shell. He’s got one eye and he wears shoes. He has a pet dog that’s made out of lint. He parasails with a Dorito. He uses a raisin as a beanbag. He has made us at the Portable offices want a Marcel in our lives.

So we are at it again (I know we are just such doers right?). Following on from our lovely friends REFINERY29 coming for an Australian visit, we are about to launch into our next visitor Erik Beck from New York based company Next New Networks!

These guys have over 1billion viewers online and will be presenting on how to make it big in the world of Youtube! ‘TV for the internet’ and masters in ‘Super Distribution’, Next New Networks is making the jump from traditional filmmaking and breaking into the online world in full force.

Come say “hai” as Erik Presents his secrets to online broadcast and filmmaking in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide form the 31st of August – 2nd of September.

From Darren Aronofsky (director of The Wrestler) comes Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Winona Ryder. Aronofsky jumped into the picture in the 1990s with films like Pi and later with the haunting Requiem for a Dream (2000) and has certainly got the knack for telling unusual tales.

For his first job as director, Stuart chose to tackle the adaptation of John Marsden’s beloved young adult novel Tomorrow When the War Began, in which a group of teenagers return home from a weekend getaway to find their country has been invaded by an unknown, foreign force. The result is a non-stop adventure epic against which all subsequent Australian teen films will be measured.
We were lucky enough to have a quick chat with Stuart about the adaptation and the industry.

Student-teacher relationships, city-country relocations, teenage stoners, serial killers and a handful of Sonic Youth references. Daydream Nation, the directorial debut from Michael Goldbach, looks like it’s got it all.

How do you adapt a best-selling non-fiction book co-written by an economist and a journalist?
With the help of some of the most popular and successful documentary film-makers. Duh.
Freakonomics, whose 2005 source material sold over 4 million copies worldwide, premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival…