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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Capricorn

These glamorous GOATs are already married – to their work.

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Star Wars Should’ve Let the Past Die

Madeleine McRae interrogates blockbuster filmmaking through the legacy of Star Wars and reckons with its Disneyfied future.

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Let’s Fix ‘Cats’!

Eliza Janssen knows how to make 2019’s biggest critical failure less of a cat-astrophe.

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Features

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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Pedro Almodóvar and Quentin Tarantino: A Tale of Two Directors

Bina Bhattacharya reflects on two of her favourite directors’ latest films, and finds unlikely parallels between their filmmaking styles.

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Yesterday Is Gone: Sondheim in ‘Marriage Story’ and ‘Lady Bird’

The music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim mean something to both Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig – Claire White figures it out.

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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Sagittarius

They’re breathtaking, they’re elegant, and they’re everywhere.

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Features

Disney Princesses and the Women Who Made Them

Tansy Gardam searches for a fairytale ending in Disney’s first century of female animators and characters.

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Features

A Reflection on Pain and Glory

Sophie Gibson ponders Pedro Almodóvar’s latest in a series of gentle and personal reflections.

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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Scorpio

It’s the spookiest, sexiest, silliest time of the year.

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Features

Why The Boss Still Works

In the past year, Bruce Springsteen’s music has been the subject of four films ― what is it about The Boss that still resonates with audiences today?

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Features

Guide to The Great Astor Spooktacular of 2019

From psychosexual body-horror filth to satanic panic frights, Jamie Tram steps through the line-up of Melbourne’s most anticipated Halloween filmgoing event.

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Features, Video Essays

Video Essay: Big Duck Richie

A celebration of those times when a guy just comes into your workplace and dances.

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Features

Ride Like a Girl is an Affront to Feminism

Rachel Griffiths’ Melbourne Cup biopic ignores the cruelty through which its female protagonist achieves her so-called ‘success’.

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Features

Pubic Hair and Other Lies: The Farewell

Amidst the noise of diversity and representation discourse, filmmaker Hyun Lee reflects on why she loved The Farewell.

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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Libra

Keep your ego in check, and stand up for your beliefs (if you can decide on them).

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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Virgo

Get organised, team up, and listen to your instincts this season.

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Features, Video Essays

Video Essay: Hae-Mi Monroe

Ivana Brehas presents a side-by-side comparison of two pivotal dance scenes from Burning (2018) and The Misfits (1961), finding parallels between characters decades and continents apart.

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Features, Melbourne International Film Festival

And Then We Danced: A Facebook Chat

Claire White and George Kapaklis reflect on the highlights of a tender, queer love story set in Georgia.

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Features, Melbourne International Film Festival

Baby, or The Politics of Performance and Pain

Kai Perrignon challenges the state of political art in the age of cancel culture.

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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Leo

The sun is in Leo, so get glowing and dress the part.

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Features

Huge Ackman: The Curious Case of Hugh Jackman’s Career

Sam Twyford-Moore delves beneath the shiny surface of one of Australia’s most beloved yet ‘bifurcated’ entertainers.

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Features, Melbourne International Film Festival

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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Features

Scarlett Johansson: A Tree is Born

André and Jack unpack ScarJo’s tree-related acting catalogue, past, present, and future.

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Features

Parasite: A Group Chat

Rough Cut contributors, Zach, Michael, and Claire discuss this year’s witty, biting, and wildly unpredictable Palme d’Or winner.

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Features, Sydney Film Festival

Populism Projected in The Brink and Reason

Faraaz Rahman examines truth and accountability in two documentaries charting the rise of populism.

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Features

Mother Knows Best: I Am Mother, and Searching For Non-Sexualised AI

The AI at the heart of Netflix’s latest sci-fi plunge opens up provoking questions of femininity and motherhood.

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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Cancer

Be the Mom and embrace your sensitivity this season.

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Features

Merchant of Melodrama: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Traumatised Characters

Zach Karpinellison examines the timeless brutality of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cinema.

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Cinemascopes

Cinemascopes: Gemini

Get weird, embrace your duality, and lighten up this season.

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