Tag: Australian film

INTERVIEW: A young French haute couture fashion designer who went to Australia for a working holiday, El returned to Europe with an Aussie passport and a burgeoning acting career.

Film festival organisers promise all the "energy, beauty, toughness, drama, eeriness, rebellion, humour and emotional honesty" that is Australia, on the big screen at Regent Street Cinema in London.

The city of churches gets into the spring of things this month with a golden nugget of a mini film festival worth checking out, says our resident Aussie cinephile Paul O’Hanlon.

The irony of falling ill in Lourdes of all places is indigestible. People come to Lourdes to get healed and most emphatically not to fall unwell. Remarkably, however, this is exactly what happened to me at the end of my European venture.

London hosts a swag full of Australia Day events for happy little Vegemites of every persuasion. Here’s your tip-top choices.

Our Australian film buff takes a nostalgic stroll through Oz cinema history, and the greatest all-time kiss in movies, on the 20th anniversary of the death of one of the greats.

It has been a long road for Mercia Deane-Johns, star of one of this year’s most talked about Aussie flicks, ‘Last Cab to Darwin’.

Judy Davis, the doyenne of Australian actresses, is the star of a new film `The Dressmaker` which opens in Adelaide on Friday, also starring Kate Winslet.

Aimed towards expats from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, Scatzy has found its niche in providing videos for globetrotters from their home country.

National treasure Russell Crowe reveals he has twice had his application to become an Aussie rejected.

WATCH: While Ellen DeGeneres's selfie arguably won 'best performance' last year, the Lego Movie has taken all the glory in 2015. Just ask Oprah.

You better watch out, you better not cry, the Babadook could be lurking nearby... or sitting right next to you on the London Underground.

While Nick Cave and Margot Robbie may have missed out at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards, The Lego Movie sure did us proud.

The best quotes from The Castle are of course going to include “Tell him he's dreaming” and “Straight to the pool room” but a there’s a few others that defo rank right up there, according to the Bogan Bingo boys.

Jetlag bar have stocked the fridge full of Aussie beer, getting set for a massive Australia Day with movies and Triple J. Plus there’s live Down Under tunes at The Purple Turtle.

An Aussie movie, singer-songwriter and actress miss out on Golden Globes glory.

Australian film, Charlie's Country', is making its mark in the international film scene and is opening the Cork Film Festival.

Australians at top of Hollywood's A-list: We take a look at which Aussies have conquered America.

Director of the new Mad Max film says it breaks his heart that he could not ask veteran actor Mel Gibson to reprise the role of the iconic Aussie Road Warrior.

The world falls in love with Australian story-telling as 17 Aussie produced feature films are set to hit international cinemas in 2014.

Forget Star Wars 7, mate. This is the instalment we’ve been waiting for and it’s a fair dinkum, bloody beauty.

Staring Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce and filmed in Australia, The Rover explores a dystopian world where economies have collapsed and crime is the new commodity.

Catherine Martin has taken the Academy Award for Production Design for her work on The Great Gatsby, becoming Australia's most prolific Oscar winner.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Ahead of the Australia Day Weekender event tonight at The Clapham Grand, we speak with the equally outrageous and insightful comedian Felicity Ward, who is performing as part of the comedy line up.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Ahead of the screening of The Castle as part of the Australia Day Weekender at The Clapham Grand, here are the top 10 quotes from arguably the best Aussie film of all time.

Australia: Shifting Sands is a BFI retrospective of Australian cinema over the last two decades, tracing the emergence of Indigenous voices and stories captured on the big screen.

British comedian Simon Pegg has been talking up the delights of Perth on Twitter where he is currently filming an Australian crime thriller Kill Me Three Times.

American distributors Anchor Bay Entertainment have apologised to producers of hit Australian film The Sapphires, saying they “regret any unintentional upset” over the cover on the film’s US DVD release.

An Australian film about a young indigenous boy defending his land against the threat of the mining industry is among a series of cutting edge movies screening as part of London's 2013 East End Film Festival.

Elliot Wheeler, film composer and music arranger, has applied his prodigious skills to his own creation with his debut album The Long Time. He talks to BONNIE GARDINER about drawing inspiration from iconic films, including his latest — Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

An Australian female director, SOPHIE MATHISEN, answers the question being asked the world over: where are the female directors? Sophie is currently working on her first feature film, DRAMA.

INTERVIEW | Submerge is a new Australian film which explores the pressures facing Gen Y. It is screening as part of the 27th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Tuesday 19 March 2013.

The Australian invasion of Hollywood has never been more evident than in Stoker, a Hitchcock style thriller now showing in UK theatres.

AUSTRALIA DAY IN UK | What could be more Aussie than quoting along to The Castle, eating a Cherry Ripe and having a beer. Well, it's all possible at the special Australia Day 'The Castle Quote Along' screening, hosted by the boys from Bogan Bingo.

AUSTRALIA DAY IN UK | There is no shortage of ways Australians can celebrate Australia Day 2013 in the UK, including at parties being hosted by our favourite pubs and clubs across London town. However, there are also a number of alternative ways to celebrate — with Aussie film classics, ...

Les Miserables stars, including Hugh Jackman and Russel Crowe, dazzle at film’s London premiere.

The Sapphires will be flying the flag for the Australian movie industry at the upcoming BFI London Film Festival.

Australian Times talks to Home and Away actor Robert Mammone about his role in the hit Aussie series Underbelly.

Australian Clare Stewart reinvigorates BFI London Film Festival 2012 with an expansion of venues and a unique programme. With a number of Australian films on the bill, including The Sapphires and Wish You Were Here, get in quick to buy newly released tickets and support Aussie cinema.

Nicole Kidman to lead a host of Aussies set to shine at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

The hit Aussie film Red Dog has just opened in the UK after making over $20 million at the Australian box office last year and being hailed as a critical and commercial success.