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Sydney Film Festival announces All Night Cine-Love In

The 66th Sydney Film Festival has announced its All Night Cine-Love In. A cinema marathon from 10 pm until 7:30 am hosted by the beloved Dendy Newtown.

The Sydney Film Festival returns for its 66th instalment

Cinephiles rejoice! Sydney's most exciting film event is back again for another year.

Louis Theroux: “[My] films are, in their way, life-affirming”

Acclaimed documentarian Louis Theroux tells the BRAG making his harrowing new film Heroin Town had a sense of eerie inevitability about it.

The Exorcist is the film that changed my life forever

William Friedkin's The Exorcist is a masterpiece of horror; of empathy. And it is a film that has the power to alter the very scope of your being.

Nothing is black and white in The Forest Of Lost Souls

The Forest Of Lost Souls is [not] your typical guy-meets-girl story.

Meet New Zealand’s creepiest citizens in Spookers, the film that will haunt your dreams

Florian Habicht did not want to make Spookers. When the acclaimed documentarian first got the call from the film’s producers offering him the opportunity to...

Iggy Pop meets his match with Michel Houellebecq in To Stay Alive – A Method

At first glance, Erik Lieshout, Michel Houellebecq and Iggy Pop don’t have a whole lot in common. Lieshout is a journalist and filmmaker; Houellebecq is...

Simon Rumley talks about his “fuck it” attitude towards his new film, Fashionista

"Fashionista started its life as a different film, with a male lead."

Game Of Death is a blood-soaked mess coming to Sydney Film Festival this year

A film’s title is a kind of promise: if you call your movie Snakes On A Plane, you better make sure you put snakes on...

Five must-see music docos screening at Sydney Film Festival this year

Music documentaries are much like compilation albums: they can be a shameless cash grab slapped together without thought, or a meticulously planned document of a...

Sydney Film Festival announces gourmet cinema program of food and movies

Sydney Film Festival will present Gourmet Cinema, three flavoursome nights of culinary culture, as part of its 2017 program. This year, the film Barbecue will...

Sydney Film Festival Announces First 28 Films To Be Screened For 2017

This June, Sydney’s biggest silver screen celebration, the Sydney Film Festival, is set to be bigger and better than ever, with festival director Nashen Moodley...

Best Of The Fest: Transitions Film Festival Sydney

Transitions Film Festival is the festival dedicated to documentaries about the people and ideas who are changing the world for the better. From technology to...

A Night Of Horror/Fantastic Planet Festival 2016

Reviewed at Dendy Newtown,Thursday November 24 – Sunday December 4 For the tenth year running, an unseasonal darkness descended over Dendy Newtown in November, and...

Best of the Fest: V MoVement Sydney

Afestival as jam-packed as V MoVement Sydney doesn’t come along very often. The celebration of dance music and culture is positively bursting with international and...

Patchwork

Homage is a hard thing to nail. Take it too far and you’ll find yourself in dangerous rip-off territory. But fail to take it far...

Five Minutes with Craig Anderson, writer/director of Red Christmas

Red Christmas, as the name suggests, is a Christmas horror film. How broad is the Christmas horror tradition in cinema? One of the first ever...

Teenage Kicks

The bigger things in life – love, death, family, friendship, sex – are hard enough to fully grasp in one’s adult years. Imagine, then, what...

The Devil’s Candy

“I[didn’t] know what horror was till I had twins,” laughs Sean Byrne. The lauded director behind the Australian cult classic The Loved Ones and his...

Sydney Film Festival 2016: Best Of The Fest

Sydney Film Festival is back for 2016 with nearly 250 films screening at venues around Sydney. Check out some of our tips for the hottest...