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MIFF Blog
Going Underground: Celluloid in the Digital Age
August 12th 2017 |
Through Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time and Niles Atallah’s Rey, MIFF2017 Critics Campus participant Keva York reflects on the materiality of cinema history.
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man - A Queer Marxist Reading
August 12th 2017 |
A video essay by 2017 Critics Campus participant Amanda Barbour explores the queer Marxist possibilities opened up by Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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Pushing Boundaries: The Breakout Films from Pioneering Women
August 11th 2017 |
The Pioneering Women filmmakers of Australian cinema look into aspects of women’s experiences often ignored by their male counterparts, argues MIFF 2017 Critics Campus participant Faith Everard.
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On Dries and Rethinking the Fashion Documentary
August 11th 2017 |
2017 Critics Campus participant Phoebe Chen strips back the glamour in her look at Reiner Holzemer’s Dries and the fashion documentary.
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Fitting In is Tough: The Trials of a Teenage Dahmer
August 10th 2017 |
The ethics of movies about real life serial killers like Marc Meyers' My Friend Dahmer is placed under the microscope by 2017 Critics Campus participant Kai Perrignon.
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Nothings Lasts Forever and Oddball Dystopias of the 70s and 80s
August 10th 2017 |
Nothing Lasts Forever is one of a number of subversive sci-fi satires worthy of your attention, says 2017 Critics Campus participant Dominic Ellis.
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Alive and Radical: The Grey-Haired Girls of Top of the Lake: China Girl
August 9th 2017 |
Jane Campion celebrates the spirit of women in their prime both on screen and in person with Top of the Lake: China Girl, writes 2017 Critics Campus participant Blythe Worthy.
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Beyond Ambition: Nicole Kidman and Jane Campion’s journey toward Top of the Lake: China Girl
July 18th 2017 |
MIFF 2017 Critics Campus participant Blythe Worthy traces the journey made by Nicole Kidman and Jane Campion to bring them both to Top of the Lake: China Girl
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Yorgos Lanthimos, Nikos Nikolaidis and the tradition of Greek shock cinema
July 18th 2017 |
MIFF Critics Campus participant Kai Perrignon takes a look at the beginnings of the Greek "weird wave" that paved the way for Yorgos Lanthimos
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A Life Unsaved: an Interview with Sotiris Dounoukos
August 13th 2016 |
In the final Critics Campus 2016 article, participant Doosie Morris talks true crime, vulnerability, and community with Joe Cinque’s Consolation director Sotiris Dounoukos.
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