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Wednesday, November 13

Film Festival review: Bad Reputation

Full of intense live footage and plenty of guitar thrashing, Bad Reputation charts Joan Jett’s roller-coaster rise to fame and highlights her role as a revolutionary female rock/punk-rock star.

Film Festival review: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

When autobiographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) finds her latest work isn’t selling and she also loses her day job, things seem pretty tough. There is a way out but it requires her to reimagine herself, and more darkly than she had expected.

Sue Austin - Creating the Spectacle.

Film Festival review: Creating the Spectacle

British performance artist Sue Austin’s ‘underwater ballet’ at the Adelaide Aquatic Centre is not just visually mesmerising, it also encourages a shift in the way we view disability, writes Heather Taylor Johnson.

Film Festival review: At Eternity’s Gate

The last two years of Vincent van Gogh’s life are well-mined by artists drawn to the exploration of madness and passion in art, but Willem Dafoe can’t be outdone in his portrait of the painter in the new film At Eternity’s Gate.

Provocative documentary Happy Sad Man premieres at Adelaide Film Fest

Following her award-winning film I am Eleven, filmmaker Genevieve Bailey looks to continue her run of success by bringing her new documentary Happy Sad Man to the Adelaide Film Festival for its South Australian premiere.

Film Festival review: Free Solo

A riveting look at the audacity of man, National Geographic’s Free Solo follows climber Alex Honnold’s mission to scale the sheer granite face of the 914m-high El Capitan Wall in Yosemite. Alone. With no ropes or safety gear.