Metro Australia – July 2019

(Nancy Kaufman) #1

AUSTRALIAN AND


NEW ZEALAND CINEMA


6


Hierarchies of Horror:


The Violent Refrains


of Jennifer Kent’s The


Nightingale TRAVIS JOHNSON


12


Love Is in the Air: Wayne


Blair’s Top End Wedding


and the Rom-com’s New


Direction JANE HOWARD


18


Girls Behaving Badly:


Love, Honour and


Disobedience in Sophie


Hyde’s Animals AIMEE KNIGHT


24


Sin City: Diaspora,


Displacement and


Matthew Victor Pastor’s


Melodrama / Random /


Melbourne! NICHOLAS GODFREY


28


Arid Visions: Reflections


in the Dust, Gendered


Violence and Experimental


Cinema DAVE CREWE


34


Kiss Me Deadly: Robbie


Studsor on Blowing


a Burning Kiss to Film


Noir OLIVER PFEIFFER


AUSTRALIA ON
THE SMALL SCREEN

38
A School of Fishers:
Ms Fisher’s Modern
Murder Mysteries
and the Lineage of a
Franchise ELIZABETH FLUX

44
Working-class Heroes:
ABC’s The Heights and
Social Stratification
TRAVIS JOHNSON

FOCUS ON ASIA AND
THE MIDDLE EAST

50
Quiet Night Thoughts:
Warped Time in Three
Asian Arthouse Films
JESSICA KIANG

58
Art as Resistance: History
and the Individual in
Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces
DAVID HESLIN

64
Moving Forward in
Circles: Repetition and
Reflection in Hong
Sang-soo’s Grass
JAMES ROBERT DOUGLAS

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Things to Come:
The Wandering Earth
and Chinese Cinema’s
Growing Predominance
MIKE WALSH

DOCUMENTARY


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Seeds of Change:
Damon Gameau’s
2040 and Sustainable
Futures REBEKAH BRAMMER

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Destructive Pasts,
Hopeful Possibilities:
The Simulated
Environment in
Awavena and Did You
Ask the River? KIM MUNRO

86
Dying a Woman with
Dignity: Becoming Colleen
and Late-life Gender
Transition CERISE HOWARD

90
Hitting the Right
Note: Janine Hosking’s
The Eulogy and the
Perils of Praise
KIT MACFARLANE

96
Setting the Record Straight:
Greg Carey and Wade
Jackson’s Waiting: The Van
Duren Story BARNABY SMITH

CRITICAL VIEWS


100
Aural Reflections: Music,
Self and Objectivity in
Now Sound: Melbourne’s
Listening and Her Sound,
Her Story ANTHONY CAREW

THE NFSA RESTORES
COLLECTION

108
Witches and Faggots, Dykes
and Poofters GABRIELLE O’BRIEN

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES


118
A Dense Web of
Relationships: How Film
Culture Sustains the Screen
Industries ANNE RUTHERFORD

REGULAR FEATURES


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Scope: Screen Industry
Views DAN GOLDING,
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AND LIZ GIUFFRE

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