Film
The LGBTQ documentaries you need to see this year
Around the world — As the BFI Flare gears up for its launch later this month, festival programmer Zorian Clayton highlights the best documentaries from the 2019 programme.
Written by: Thomas Curry
What Netflix did next: camp clichés, cheap laughs & death
Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into Netflix’s Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s whimsical ‘cancer comedy’ Paddleton and the uncomfortably cliched Ideal Home.
Written by: Megan Nolan
Apichatpong Weerasethakul on the future of film in Thailand
The director speaks — The Bangkok-born filmmaker has spent the last 30 years exposing repression and corruption in his home nation. But now, he’s turning his focus to a feature made, and set, outside Thailand. Why?
Written by: Alexandra Genova
Terence Nance is the mind-bending misfit film needs now
Random Acts of Flyness — Space Jam 2 director Terence Nance is a multidisciplinary powerhouse: actor, writer, filmmaker, musician. Now that he’s pivoting from innovative TV to a big-screen blockbuster, he’s as committed as ever to avoiding the comfort zone.
Written by: Simran Hans
What Netflix did next: meta rom-coms & Jack Black :(
Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is worth our time anymore. This week, it’s the actually quite good Polka King, and cliched rom-com Isn’t It Romantic?
Written by: Megan Nolan
How Jamaican women are reclaiming the waves
Surf’s up — In Eight Mile Bull Bay, a small fishing community just outside of Kingston, a collective of young women are taking to the waves – creating a DIY community for themselves in the process.
Written by: Huck
What Netflix did next: horrible, lying men & reformed ex-cons
Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is worth our time anymore. This week, it’s prison rehab drama Outside In, and the strange-but-true Dirty John.
Written by: Megan Nolan
Searching Eva: Identity and sex work in the online age
How to live digitally — Eva Collé is a writer, blogger, model, Instagrammer, sex worker – and now the subject of a documentary. We speak with the film’s director Pia Hellenthal and Eva herself about what it’s like to perpetually chronicle your life online.
Written by: Katie Goh
What Netflix did next: fuzzy love & half-baked conspiracies
Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is worth our time anymore. This week, it’s whip-smart New Zealand comedy The Breaker Upperers, and tone-deaf music doc The Two Killings of Sam Cooke.
Written by: Megan Nolan
Merata Mita, the filmmaker who decolonised the screen
Radical cinema — We speak to director Hepi Mita, whose new documentary explores the life and work of his mother, Merata – a director, producer and activist, who remains the only Māori woman to have directed a narrative feature in New Zealand.
Written by: Katie Goh
