Films @ SBS



Vale Paul Newman

30 September 2008 | 12:16 - By World Movies

Paul Newman’s legacy is distinguished as much by his acts of kindness and generosity as his superstardom and exceptional acting talent.  Kylie Boltin looks at back at two films that helped create the legend.


The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) – the title song being the ragtime piano piece, "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin – won 7 Oscars in 1973, among them, Best Picture and Best Director. In it, Paul Newman starred as Henry Gondorff, a masterful professional conman alongside Robert Redford’s Johnny Hooker (re-teamed following the 1969 classic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).

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'The Wrestler' picked up for local release

30 September 2008 | 11:33 - By World Movies

Mickey Rourke's career-defining performance is bound for Australian screens.  


Hopscotch Films has acquired Darren Aronofsky's acclaimed film The Wrestler, which is generating surprising but serious Oscar buzz for Mickey Rourke.

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Kylie Boltin revisits Slogan, a classic piece of French 60s kitsch, more famous for the pairing of its co-stars than for its contribution to world cinema.


In case you think you are going to uncover a hidden stand-out of the popular French New wave, Slogan (Pierre Grimblat, 1969) comes complete with violent camera zooms, unexplained punch-ups, beautiful women… and that’s just the opening scene.

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On SBS: Danish Film Season

24 September 2008 | 12:02 - By World Movies

SBS is celebrating the best of contemporary Danish cinema this month.


SBS is celebrating contemporary Danish cinema this month with a mix of broad comedies and tense family dramas.

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'Whaledreamers' harpooned by good intentions

22 September 2008 | 16:23 - By World Movies

Kim Kendersley’s Whaledreamers is a passionate but flawed effort to save the world, one whale at a time. Review by Fiona Williams.


Whaledreamers charts Kendersley’s personal odyssey to end the practice of whaling. To make his point, he draws on the deep spiritual connections that exist between ancient tribes and the endangered animals, focussing on the Mirning people of the Nullarbor, whose efforts to reconnect with the spirit animals of their dispossessed sacred land leads the film’s narrative.

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Film Fix: Chadha on 'Snogging'

17 September 2008 | 16:25 - By World Movies

Director, Gurinder Chadha and her co-writer, Paul Mayeda Berges answer questions at a preview screening of the energetic teen movie, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging at Curzon Mayfair Cinema in London. Kylie Boltin was there.


Gurinder Chadha is a pinup-director for the English zeitgeist.

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'Hollywood' goes global

15 September 2008 | 16:08 - By World Movies

World audiences are about to get a taste of Ozploitation classics, thanks to Not Quite Hollywood.


Mark Hartley’s debut feature Not Quite Hollywood has been sold to several countries following its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Film Fix: All About Yves

15 September 2008 | 14:07 - By World Movies

Kylie Boltin charts the rise of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent, the subject of a recent retrospective at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.


I did some reconnaissance this week – taking myself to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for a dose of films about the late French designer and icon, Yves Saint Laurent.

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