Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a fascinating composite of both 1970s New Hollywood and the legacy of the women’s centred melodrama of the 1930s and 1940s.
- Associate professor in Cinema and Media Studies, RMIT University
Although Greed was a financial failure on its initial release, it quickly went on to be regarded as one of the great silent films and a key influence on many filmmakers.
Our expert shares the five films from the Melbourne International Film Festival that have stuck with him.
Living rough to prepare for a role. Abusing fellow actors to provoke an ‘authentic’ response … It’s easy to ridicule the Method but the truth of this approach to acting is far more complex.
Dangerously seductive, Goodfellas is perhaps the defining work of Martin Scorsese’s career.
From ‘Mean Streets’ to ‘Vinyl’, from The Ronettes to The Clash, music has long been a muse to film director Martin Scorsese. He plays it on set, conceives sequences with certain songs in mind and uses it to chart his characters’ changing fortunes.
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