Adelaide Festival
From a childhood spent immersed in Yolngu culture, to celebrity, dining with the Queen and time in prison, David Gulpilil has lived the extremes. In a new documentary, the actor’s extraordinary life is offered as a final gift from this significant national storyteller.
Film
Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung hits the sweet spot with this quietly charming coming-of-age film about a Korean family setting up home in 1980s Arkansas.
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Australia is well-primed for a well-made alien invasion film. Unfortunately, Occupation: Rainfall is not it, writes Ari Mattes.
With a fierce heroine leading the charge, The Flood is a western-style revenge thriller set against a backdrop of injustice and brutality in World War II Australia.
Kate Winslet gives an Oscar-worthy performance as British palaeontologist Mary Anning in writer-director Francis Lee’s beautifully filmed romantic drama Ammonite, writes Susan Mitchell.
Palaeontologist Mary Anning left an indelible legacy with her 19th-century fossil discoveries. The love story in Ammonite, a new film inspired by her life, may be fictional — but how does the science stand up?
