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[Published in The Big Issue, Edition #427, March 8 2013] She’s been an actor for 20 years, and is sweetly humble about her success. But as Big Issue film editor Rebecca Harkins-Cross observes, Rose Byrne has worked hard for her achievements. Ask journalists who’ve interviewed Sydney-born actor Rose Byrne of their experience, and a certain […]
December 26, 2012
[Published in The Big Issue, Edition #422 (Summer), December 26 2012] Standout film of 2012: The Master The most critically anticipated and widely debated film of 2012 was The Master from Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson’s work has always examined some aspect of the American character — most recently, the rapacity of the oil industry in […]
December 1, 2012
[Published in Treadlie, Issue 09, December 2012] There’s something unsettling about Wouter Van de Voorde’s photographs that you can’t quite pinpoint. The Belgian-born artist has been living in Canberra for the past three years, after emigrating with his wife Celia in 2008, but his vision of our capital is not the city we know from […]
November 6, 2012
[Published in The Big Issue, Edition #419, November 6 2012] WITH THE HELP OF WRITER CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, DIRECTOR TONY KRAWITZ HAS BROUGHT DEAD EUROPE TO LIFE. Christos Tsiolkas may be one of Australia’s more controversial authors, but he’s also one of the most appealing to our filmmakers. His debut novel, Loaded (1995), was brought to […]
September 25, 2012
[Published in The Big Issue, Issue 416, September 25 2012] Director Cate Shortland discusses the painful histories that informed her World War II drama, Lore. It was a moment in Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 Holocaust documentary, Shoah, that provided much inspiration for the ghostly mood of Cate Shortland’s second feature film, Lore. The crucial scene is […]
September 7, 2012
[Published in Treadlie, Issue 08, September 2012] Street artist Stormie Mills captures images of urban life that are only perceivable on two wheels. Mills is fascinated by the people who exist in the city’s margins, occupying the nooks that we’d miss when hurtling past in a car. Working in an ominous palette of blacks, greys […]
August 1, 2012
[Published in Screen Education, Issue 67, Spring 2012] In a media industry that seems increasingly unstable, one program in Melbourne is encouraging and equipping secondary students to enter the world of journalism. REBECCA HARKINS-CROSS, project coordinator of online news publication The Under Age, has found that enthusiasm for this crucial vocation remains strong. When the […]
May 8, 2012
[Published in The Big Issue, Issue #406, May 8 2012] VETERAN AUSTRALIAN DIRECTOR JOHN DUIGAN RETURNS HOME TO MAKE AN INDEPENDENT FILM ABOUT THE SEX INDUSTRY, AND FINDS THAT THE CINEMATIC LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED IN HIS ABSENCE. Director John Duigan may have been living and working abroad for the past two decades, but he remains […]
April 27, 2012
[Published in Crikey, April 27 2012] By Rebecca Harkins-Cross and Ben Eltham In late 2009, Company B Belvoir unveiled its 2010 season. So did the Melbourne Theatre Company. Belvoir’s season featured only one female playwright and one female director. The Melbourne Theatre Company’s 2010 season also featured only one female director. In previous years, such […]
April 25, 2012
[Published in The Big Issue, Issue #405, April 24 2012] PART OF A GROUP OF AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKERS MAKING INTERNATIONAL WAVES, KIERAN DARCY-SMITH HAS TOILED FOR YEARS TO PRODUCE HIS DEBUT FEATURE, WISH YOU WERE HERE. NOW THE ACCOLADES ARE ROLLING IN. Four Australian friends jet off to Sihanoukville in Southern Cambodia for a relaxing […]
March 8, 2013
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