Is the quest for a cup of coffee the perfect encapsulation of the growing meaninglessness or superficiality of modern life? Without reductively branding this pursuit
Tag: German cinema
Film review – The NeverEnding Story (1984)
A year after the digitally remastered ‘print’ of Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986) was re-released in Australia, comes the digital re-release of another beloved children’s fantasy
Film review – Lore (2012)
In 2009 Michael Haneke made The White Ribbon, a striking study of the children who would become the generation responsible for Nazism as adults. The
Film review – Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
The Chauvet Cave in southern France is a site of extraordinary natural and cultural value, holding fossilised remains of long extinct animals and 32,000-years-old cave
Film reviews – Nobody’s Perfect (2008) & See What I’m Saying (2010)
The 2010 Other Film Festival, screening in Melbourne from Wednesday 25 to Sunday 29 August at Melbourne Museum, is a festival focusing on people with
Film review – Soul Kitchen (2009)
In Soul Kitchen the acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin once again explores Germany’s multicultural society but this time with comedy and light drama rather than
