Film

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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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Quiz

Quiz: 100 years of Disney vs Warner Bros.

As two giants of Hollywood’s culture-defining studios turn 100 this year – Warner Bros. and Disney – test your knowledge about their creative history

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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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Health & Medicine

Everyone can help forge a safe ending to what Oppenheimer began

While no film can convey everything about nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer is a timely reminder of how fallible humans created the first weapons that could destroy our world

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Arts & Culture

A doll is just a doll is just a doll

The new Barbie movie has renewed discussion about the message she sends and feminism – but it’s really just the fallacy of plastic role models

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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

Zanuckville: Australia’s strangest suburb?

In the 1950s, the Hollywood Western came to Australia, but the cast and crew needed somewhere to stay. The South Australian government came up with ‘Zanuckville’

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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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Arts & Culture

Technodystopia: Are we heading towards a real-world Blade Runner?

In 1982, Blade Runner floored audiences with its technodystopian depiction of the future. Almost 40 years on, some of these projections seem eerily accurate

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Arts & Culture

The poem behind the Green Knight

The medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is now a movie, but the poem itself already has a surprisingly contemporary message about tradition, modernity and our sense of self

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