Gerard Elson
Gerard Elson is from Readings St Kilda
Review — 12 Jun 2012
Arrietty
Studio Ghibli – Japan’s finest purveyors of earthy handdrawn animation (Ponyo, Spirited Away) – lend their gentle sensibility to the story of The Borrowers.
Although every…
Review — 22 Apr 2012
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Hardly famed as an instrument of understatement, Gary Oldman nevertheless proves just that as George Smiley, John le Carré’s frog-mouthed MI6 spook in this new adaptation from Tomas Alfredson (…
Review — 22 Apr 2012
The Skin I Live In
Like Frankenstein reassembled as a modern revenge melodrama, this is the first exercise in out-and-out sci-fi/horror from the matchless Pedro Almodóvar.
The result is expectedly baroque. Antonio Banderas – reuniting…
Review — 26 Mar 2012
Melancholia
Melancholia is the most accessible film yet from self-styled provocateur Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Antichrist) and it’s likely to go down as his masterwork.
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Review — 27 Mar 2012
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) summons startling cinema from Lionel Shriver’s bestseller about a mother whose son has perpetrated the unthinkable. As Eva, the shell-shocked woman struggling…
Review — 26 Feb 2012
Drive: Nicolas Winding
Ryan Gosling is the world’s most handsome blank slate in this so-chic-it-hurts homage to the wave of spacious 1980s crime thrillers that launched the careers of Michael Mann and Walter…
Review — 26 Feb 2012
Autoluminescent: Richard Lowenstein
The late Rowland S. Howard, elegant gloom poet of Melbourne’s early post-punk scene, is given worthy valediction in this illuminating documentary. So fully transformed was Nick Cave’s band of high-school…