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Believe the hype: Animal Kingdom is one of the best Australian films of the decade writes Ian Shadwell

Louise Bourgeois was far from “nice” but this doco is revealing portrait of an artist who refused to follow any path but her own…

Painters Painting is a thoughtful, sometimes amusing history of the New York art scene from the 1940s until the 1970s, writes Andrew Frost.

Anselm Kiefer left his native Germany for Barjac in the south of France where he devised an extraordinary artistic living-space: an atelier, an installation complex, an entire created landscape

“If it can be imagined, it can be filmed,” is a quote often attributed to Stanley Kubrick. In recent years, film-makers have proved him both right and wrong. Last year, I felt Zack Snyder made a more than decent bash

What’s that sound? Ian Houston Shadwell discusses one of the iconic film compositions of the late 20th century…

In the first in a series of posts on music for film Ian Houston Shadwell traces the birth of Miles Davis’s groundbreaking composition for Louis Malle’s classic “Ascenseur pour l’Echafaud”…

Excerpts from the films of James Whitney, early pioneer of computer animation… James Whitney, Yantra, 1957. “Between 1950 and 1955, Witney laboured to construct a truly astounding masterpiece, Yantra. The film was produced entirely by hand. By punching grid patterns