Cinema

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Arts & Culture

Your must-see MIFF films of 2024

The Melbourne International Film Festival showcases hundreds of films from around the world – here are five highlights to get you started

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Arts & Culture

These five films are a ‘must see’ at MIFF 2023

There’s no need to be overwhelmed by the movie schedule at the Melbourne International Film Festival with these hot tips

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Arts & Culture

Provocative women in cinema

The cliché of the ‘sensitive’ woman filmmaker ignores the long history of confronting female-directed movies

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Arts & Culture

The Oscars shift from big screen to TV stream

Apple TV+’s best picture win for CODA crowned a night of important firsts at the Oscars, but what a streaming win means for the future of cinema is still to be seen

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Podcast

How to create Oscar-nominated visual effects

Special effects artist Genevieve Camilleri describes how her work makes movie monsters ‘real’ and her Best Visual Effects nomination for the 2021 Academy Awards

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Health & Medicine

What disaster movies can teach us about coping with COVID-19

Cinema may have a lesson or two to teach us about how society can work together and collectively overcome shared threats like a pandemic

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Book extract

Has Hollywood run out of original ideas?

With remakes of Mulan, Dune, The Witches and The Invisible Man all due out this year, a new book answers the big question: what justifies a remake?

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Book extract

Sex and the remake

A new book explores the fraught process of taking on a TV or film remake, and why updating attitudes to sex may not always work

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Arts & Culture

Ben Hur, done that ... time to hang up the sandals

Less charming than Charlton, more eh-what-now than epic, the latest version of a cinema classic should be consigned to the annals of history

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Arts & Culture

Five decades of films and the city that inspired them

We can learn much from these 50 newly-released films by past students and today’s stars

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