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  • 2023 Adelaide Film Festival sets new box office record

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    In its first year as an annual event, the Film Festival opened on October 18 with a red-carpet screening of the SA-filmed outback thriller The Royal Hotel at North Adelaide’s Piccadilly cinema and saw the presentation of more than 130 films from 43 countries over 12 days. It officially closed on Sunday night with Adelaide…

  • Adelaide Film Festival sets new box office record

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    In its first year as an annual event, the Film Festival opened on October 18 with a red-carpet screening of the SA-filmed outback thriller The Royal Hotel at North Adelaide’s Piccadilly cinema and saw the presentation of more than 130 films from 43 countries over 12 days. It officially closed on Sunday night with Adelaide…

  • Film Festival review: The Musical Mind

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    Celebrated Adelaide director Scott Hicks is on familiar ground in a documentary that references his Oscar-nominated film Shine to introduce pianist David Helfgott, now in his 70s. Helfgott’s life changed forever in 1996 when Shine came out – as did Hicks’ – and he found a new audience who saw triumph in his performance. The…

  • Green Room: Small venues, encore screenings and bodies of work

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    It’s the vibe Popular music scholar Sam Whiting has drawn on his first-hand experience of the music scenes in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane for a new book exploring the role ­– and precarious nature ­– of small venues. Music scholar and author Sam Whiting. “Small live music venues are essential to maintaining a vibrant live…

  • Film Festival review: Late Night with the Devil

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    Fun fact: this film’s origins are in a true story about Australia’s own lanky American TV show host from the 1970s and ’80s, Don Lane. Not that guests were spewing black bile on The Don Lane Show, but he did once storm off camera while arguing with a sceptic over whether professional mediums like the…

  • Film Festival review: The Exiles

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    The Exiles opens with a passage about scattered graves. This really sets the tone for the whole film – a story about people who, against their will, were dispersed throughout the world, fated to die in faraway lands and be buried in foreign cemeteries. These people are the titular “exiles”: Indonesians who had their citizenship…

  • Film Festival review: Foe

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    There is a dystopian set-up: it is 2065 and planet Earth is running out of everything. But fears of another story about marauding feral armies searching for stashes of food are calmed by the peaceful setting and a young couple going about their chores on an isolated farm. Although it was filmed in Australia (and…

  • SA screen talent shines in these three intriguing new films

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    Speedway Has a South Australian film helped solve a decades-old crime? A cloak of mystery surrounds the true-crime, drama documentary Speedway, the Adelaide Film Festival’s preview presentation investigating the 1978 murder of four teenagers who worked at a Burger Chef in Speedway, in America’s mid-west. First-time filmmaker Luke Rynderman, who co-directed with Adam Kamien, is…

  • Film Festival review: Poor Things

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    Who are the poor things in this exhilaratingly bonkers Victorian morality tale bearing the eccentric stamp of director Yorgos Lanthimos? Maybe all of us. It’s an odyssey of sorts, through the eyes of a resurrected woman, Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) created on the operating table of the mad scientist and father figure she comes to…

  • Film Festival review: The Royal Hotel

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    Soon after two young Canadian women arrive at their new job as barmaids at an outback Australian pub, they quietly take the mickey out of Carol, who runs the Royal Hotel. “Down the back,” says Hanna, in a flat Aussie voice. “Up the stairs, mate,” says Liv, and they both laugh. This outsider’s perspective as…