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Stone

————– Stone Directed by John Curran Written by Angus MacLachlan USA, 2010 An unusual hybrid of Hollywood casting and production values with a serious dose of left-field character choices, Stone, from director John Curran (We Don’t Live Here Anymore, The Painted Veil), comes as a bolt from the blue in a season full of dreadful …

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Chicago Film Festival announce Select Films; ‘Stone’ will open the fest; Other films that might play

If you are a cinema lover and you live in Chicago you need to pay a visit to the 46th annual Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF).  CIFF, from October 7th to the 21st,  is one of the best film festivals in the US, offering plenty of different options for all film buffs.  They just announced …

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The Years of Living Dangerously: how Ozploitation trumped Hollywood

Exploding vehicles (and heads), decapitations, a whole lot of nudity and an overexcited Quentin Tarantino are just the starting point for Not Quite Hollywood: the wild, untold story of Ozploitation!, Mark Hartley’s jaw-dropping history of Australian genre cinema. Forget Picnic at Hanging Rock: it’s more a case of let’s blow up Ayers Rock and set …

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