When a white woman is murdered in 1920s Australia, a police officer (Gary Sweet) ventures into the Outback with a small crew in search of the Aboriginal fugitive (Noel Wilton) accused of the crime. In his group are a newcomer to the country (Damon Gameau), an old sage (Grant Page), and an Indigenous tracker (David… Read more »
In Sydney, business lawyer David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) is given the pro bono assignment of defending five Aborigines accused of the murder of another tribesman. None of Burton’s clients are willing to speak about what happened, even in their own defense, and the medical examiner on the case can’t figure out how the victim died…. Read more »
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist (John Meillon) takes his teenage daughter (Jenny Agutter) and 6-year-old son (Luc Roeg, director Nicolas’s son) into the Australian Outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They… Read more »
Much of the discourse surrounding David Cronenberg’s recently released Crime of the Future (2022) has attempted to contextualize the film as an exemplary “late work” by its director. Seeing as Cronenberg has been active as a filmmaker since the 1970s, it’s not too much of a stretch to assume that Crimes and any other films… Read more »
This July, Establishing Shot presents It’s Revived!, a miniseries celebrating some of our favorite (or at least some of the more fascinating) movie remakes out there in anticipation of IU Cinema’s fall film series Re:Made. Today, Jack Miller explores how Alfred Hitchcock, Yasujirō Ozu, and Howard Hawks reached back into their own filmographies to make… Read more »
In Robin Wood’s 1988 article “The Skull Beneath the Skin: Some Indiscreet Charms of Narrativity,” the critic places some of the pantheon directors of cinema into categories of identification: “Buñuel was clearly one of the cinema’s great male-identified directors (the list would include Hawks, Godard and Scorsese), as against its great woman-identified directors (the list… Read more »