The Rough Cut staff’s favourite cinematic bon-bons, including the best of Nancy Meyers and Billy Wilder.
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CREW CUTS: Noirvember
Coens, ‘neon-noir’, and Gun Crazy dominate our roundup of hardboiled faves.
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CREW CUTS: Scary Movies
Cronenberg, witches, and bleak Aussie horror reign supreme this spooky season.
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CREW CUTS: What’s the best piece of media you’ve discovered during self-iso?
The Rough Cut crew celebrate the best books, good habits, and comfiest cinema they caught up on whilst self-quarantining.
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A Quiet Observer: An Interview with Jakeb Anhvu
James Walsh talks to the director of ‘A Hundred Years of Happiness’ about blending in as a documentary filmmaker, and using an observational approach to allow his young Vietnamese female subject to speak for herself.
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Review: ‘Rosemary’s Way’ Introduces Audiences to the Australian Hero We Need Right Now
It’s hard not to fall for the community spirit and gentle charms of Ros Horin’s sophomore documentary feature.
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Sydney Film Festival 2020 Shorts Round-Up: Animation
Although ‘GNT’ and ‘The Quiet’ are animated, they’re far from two-dimensional.
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Sydney Film Festival 2020 Shorts Round-Up: Live-Action
‘Her Own Music’, ‘Mukbang’, and ‘Idol’ tell their stories of adolescence and social media madness sensitively – and quickly.
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Two Takes on ‘Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet’: A Bizarre Detective Satire
Claire White and George Kapaklis present two opinions on Oldřich Lipský’s absurdist drama.
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Review: ‘Suicide Tourist’ is Chillingly Shallow
This weak-kneed thriller revolves around one of the most infuriating reality versus fantasy mysteries in recent memory.
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Stuck Between Presence & Absence: ‘Demonlover’ and ‘Mating’
Two films from Static Vision’s Hyperlinks Film Festival explore the type of connections that flow from relational forcefields both online and IRL.
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‘Little Women’, ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’, and the Significance of Materiality
Indigo Bailey admires Céline Sciamma and Greta Gerwig’s visions of female artistry – of something tangible, intimate, and real.
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Rough Cut’s Best of the Decade (2010-2019)
To mark the end of the decade, the Rough Cut crew reveal their favourite films of the 2010s.
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Melbourne International Film Festival 2019: Top Picks
The Rough Cut team pick out the weird, the compelling, and the essential out of this year’s 375-strong MIFF catalogue.
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Scarlett Johansson: A Tree is Born
André and Jack unpack ScarJo’s tree-related acting catalogue, past, present, and future.
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Sydney Film Festival 2019: Top Picks
The Rough Cut team are here to help you compile the must-sees of the Sydney Film Festival, which have unveiled their biggest program yet.
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Two takes on 1985: An empathetic and moving look at the AIDS Crisis
André Shannon and Debbie Zhou present two opinions on Yen Tan’s restrained and perceptive drama.
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Torture The Form: An Interview with Vox Lux’s Brady Corbet
Jack Atherton and André Shannon talk to actor-director Brady Corbet about Sia, Oscar politics, and creating a perfectly imperfect picture.
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