Film Reviews
Something Unexpected From Chile
"... Kiltro is the first ever Chilean martial arts film. And it looks like a keeper."
STARFISH HOTEL: "A mind-blowing film!" (english translation)
Think Japanese Twin Peaks and Donnie Darko. Add a sprinkle of film noir and the everyday bizarreness of Haruki Murakami's novels (a cited influence on British-born, Japanese-based director Williams) and you have a film that's handsomely stylish, hypnotically atmospheric and, no question, very weird indeed. The hero, salaryman Yuichi Arisu, compensates for his stultifying job and lifeless marriage by immersing himself in the mystery novels of a certain Jo Kuroda. Enter mysterious encounters with a man in a rabbit suit promoting Kuroda's latest novel, an affair at the Starfish Hotel, a disappearing wife and a brothel. Fans of the offbeat and the surreal will be in their element with Starfish Hotel.
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2006
Anna Milikan's Mars is a rapturous joy to watch
Marx, a forgotten Soviet city closed off from the outside world, has been transformed by filmmaker Anna Melikan into Mars, a Felliniesque place caught somewhere between the old Soviet reality and an unknown yet hopeful future.
Boy called Twist is "a powerful and impressive film" - says the Sunday Time
"... a pleasure to watch. The action is pacy, the villains memorable and cruel, the heroes never overplay themselves..."
- Jocelyn Newmarch, iafrica.com
Packing an enormously visual punch and superbly directed by Brit Paul Spurrier, the beautifully crafted P is a ravishing delight that doesn't stint on atmospheric bloodletting.