Tag: 2023 Adelaide Film Festival
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Last drinks: The Royal Hotel is an outback thriller with a difference
An outback Australian story looking at the thin line between women laughing off unwanted sexual approaches and picking up an axe, The Royal Hotel is set in a rundown, two-storey hotel at Yatina, near Jamestown in South Australia’s mid-north. Australian director Kitty Green, who lived in the US before coming home to make the film,…
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David Bromley doesn’t care what the critics say
David Bromley, the artist from Adelaide whose nostalgia-infused images of apple-cheeked children and stylised semi-nudes are instantly familiar, really doesn’t care what people think. In a revealing documentary, Bromley: Light After Dark, the prevailing criticisms of his work – the prolific churning out of work that floods his own market, the similarity of themes, and…
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‘A quietly political force of nature’: New documentary chronicles an extraordinary South Australian life
At the start of filming Isla’s Way, director Marion Pilowsky was faced with a problem. The film focusses on 87-year-old Isla Roberts, but in early interviews Pilowsky was consistently running into roadblocks as Roberts dodged and weaved around questions about her internal life. “There’s a certain unpredictability to Isla,” says Pilowsky, “which intrigues me, you…
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‘A quietly political force of nature’: New documentary chronicles an extraordinary South Australian life
At the start of filming Isla’s Way, director Marion Pilowsky was faced with a problem. The film focusses on 87-year-old Isla Roberts, but in early interviews Pilowsky was consistently running into roadblocks as Roberts dodged and weaved around questions about her internal life. “There’s a certain unpredictability to Isla,” says Pilowsky, “which intrigues me, you…
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2023 Adelaide Film Festival to take audiences around the world in 12 days
The months-long writers’ strike is holding back the Australian premieres of major international films, including Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, which screened at the Venice Film Festival early this month. While Adelaide Film Festival creative director Mat Kesting has not given up hope of securing at least three international features comparable to last year’s sold-out premiere Australian…
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Thriller ‘The Royal Hotel’ to open 2023 Adelaide Film Festival
The Royal Hotel will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month and is Green’s second feature film following her acclaimed sexual harassment drama The Assistant. Said to be inspired by true events, the new film stars Julia Garner (who was also in The Assistant) and Jessica Henwick as young backpackers…