‘We’ve depleted our reserves’:MIFF offers $10 tickets to lure back audiences

‘We’ve depleted our reserves’:MIFF offers $10 tickets to lure back audiences

The Melbourne International Film Festival faces its third consecutive loss,but its inaugural CEO insists it’s not about to collapse.

  • byKarl Quinn

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The best films of 2023,a critic’s choice

The best films of 2023,a critic’s choice

From Barbenheimer to Australian horror,veteran directors are joined by rising young talents in this year’s highlights.

  • byGarry Maddox
Film with non-professional cast wins Melbourne festival’s $140,000 top prize

Film with non-professional cast wins Melbourne festival’s $140,000 top prize

Australia’s richest film prize was awarded on Saturday night at the festival’s closing gala along with five other awards.

  • byKarl Quinn andElizabeth Flux
Why the bloody hell are Australians so good at making scary movies?

Why the bloody hell are Australians so good at making scary movies?

From stories of religious fervour gone horribly wrong to a quiet tale of an alien invasion,horror is having a well-deserved moment.

  • byStephen A Russell
How Melbourne Park was key to Australian Open’s ‘great comeback’

How Melbourne Park was key to Australian Open’s ‘great comeback’

Once shunned by top players and poorly attended in Kooyong,the tournament’s huge transformation has been explained – and one thing was key to its success.

  • byCara Waters
Dreams and hallucinations:Virtual reality cinema takes viewers on wild journey

Dreams and hallucinations:Virtual reality cinema takes viewers on wild journey

The Melbourne International Film Festival’s virtual reality program explores the cutting edge of experimental cinema.

  • byWill Cox
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The August 6 Edition

This week,Greta Lee talks about her struggle to stardom and how doing things differently as an Asian-American woman led to her first leading role at age 40.

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Greta Lee’s career didn’t take a conventional path. But it did lead to her dream role

Greta Lee’s career didn’t take a conventional path. But it did lead to her dream role

She’s best known for her work on Russian Doll,Girls and The Morning Show. But it’s her latest performance in the much-hyped film Past Lives that’s turning heads.

  • byRobert Ito
You know the iconic album covers,now meet the artists behind them

You know the iconic album covers,now meet the artists behind them

Is there still life left in album covers? A MIFF documentary traces their golden legacy.

  • byMichael Dwyer
‘He’d hate it,so I’m doing it’:Telling the Michael Gudinski story

‘He’d hate it,so I’m doing it’:Telling the Michael Gudinski story

Director Paul Goldman spills the beans on the troubled journey to screen of a documentary about Mushroom group founder and Oz rock pioneer Michael Gudinski.

  • byKarl Quinn
‘I wouldn’t do it again’:The true story behind this gut-wrenching Australian film

‘I wouldn’t do it again’:The true story behind this gut-wrenching Australian film

Noora Niasari’s Shayda is a stunning debut,a deeply personal film about a mother and daughter trying to spark joy inside a women’s refuge.

  • byKarl Quinn