Sometimes we can’t help but start binging the movies of a single genre one by one, having some sort of a marathon. And while I can relate to those who binge rom-coms because they’re sweet and innocent, it seems that horror nights are getting more popular among others.
For example, redditors quite often get together online to happily share their favorite horrors and discuss them. So here are three horror movies that are considered their all-time favorites.
1. Audition (1999)
Audition is a psychological horror film directed by Takashi Miike featuring Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina. The movie revolves around a hopeless widower who is trying to come back in the dating game again. With the help of his friend, he stages a phony audition to find a perfect girl for him. And so he thinks he does.
His chosen one is Asami, a girl with a dark past who...
For example, redditors quite often get together online to happily share their favorite horrors and discuss them. So here are three horror movies that are considered their all-time favorites.
1. Audition (1999)
Audition is a psychological horror film directed by Takashi Miike featuring Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina. The movie revolves around a hopeless widower who is trying to come back in the dating game again. With the help of his friend, he stages a phony audition to find a perfect girl for him. And so he thinks he does.
His chosen one is Asami, a girl with a dark past who...
- 5/4/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Rachel Bailey)
- STartefacts.com
Civil War is an extremely powerful, effective movie that thrusts you into the middle of an American civil war seen through the eyes of a war photographer. It’s brutal. It’s extraordinarily violent. The sound design is bordering on abusive. And if you watch it in IMAX you can reasonably expect to leave the theater with more than a little motion sickness. It is, however, excellent, with great performances from Kirsten Dunst as the older, jaded photographer and Cailee Spaeny as the reckless youngster new to the game. So see it. But we’d be very surprised if you decide to rush back for a second viewing.
Here’s our celebration of the wonderful, must-see movies where once is quite enough, thank you very much.
Hereditary
To no one’s surprise, Ari Aster’s harrowing debut immediately makes the top of this list. You might think the early, shocking...
Here’s our celebration of the wonderful, must-see movies where once is quite enough, thank you very much.
Hereditary
To no one’s surprise, Ari Aster’s harrowing debut immediately makes the top of this list. You might think the early, shocking...
- 4/15/2024
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
It never gets easier to look up the horrors of what real life humans are willing to perpetrate but some of them are harder than others. Looking into the purported Scottish myth that inspired The Hills Have Eyes for example is a whole heck of a lot easier to do than find out the absolutely abysmal crimes that were committed against a young girl in The Girl Next Door. Sadly, today’s movie The Snowtown Murders, a.k.a. Snowtown (watch it Here), is a lot closer to the sickening facts that happened to The Girl Next Door. While Australia already got our notorious spotlight shined on the fictional Mick Taylor who was a composite of two backpack killers, today we will look at the man who is known as the country’s worst serial killer and unpack what he did and who with. The movie is hard to watch...
- 3/6/2024
- by Andrew Hatfield
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Hugo Weaving is leading Australian streamer Binge’s first original film, How to Make Gravy.
The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix star will lead an ensemble cast alongside side Daniel Henshall in the feature.
Brenton Thwaites (Titans, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Damon Herriman (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Mr Inbetween), Kate Mulvany (The Twelve, Hunters) and French actress Agathe Rouselle (Titane) in her debut English-language performance will also star, with more cast members to be announced. The film will also feature cameo performances from Australian musicians, including Adam Briggs and rising rap talent Dallas Woods.
How to Make Gravy is based on Paul Kelly’s iconic Australian song that tells the story of an inmate writing a letter home as his family prepares to celebrate their first Christmas without him. The 1996 song has such a place in Australian hearts that Gravy Day,...
The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix star will lead an ensemble cast alongside side Daniel Henshall in the feature.
Brenton Thwaites (Titans, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Damon Herriman (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Mr Inbetween), Kate Mulvany (The Twelve, Hunters) and French actress Agathe Rouselle (Titane) in her debut English-language performance will also star, with more cast members to be announced. The film will also feature cameo performances from Australian musicians, including Adam Briggs and rising rap talent Dallas Woods.
How to Make Gravy is based on Paul Kelly’s iconic Australian song that tells the story of an inmate writing a letter home as his family prepares to celebrate their first Christmas without him. The 1996 song has such a place in Australian hearts that Gravy Day,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, Sky Ferreira, Valter Skarsgard, Anthony De La Torre, Jonathan Barnwell, Sam Coleman, Wilson Gonzalez, Lucian Charles Collier | Written by Jonas Akerlund, Dennis Magnusson | Directed by Jonas Akerlund
Rory Culkin, starring in one of the most interesting and weird true stories of all time should be a slam dunk, and it almost is, except when I think about it, it is miles away. Mayhem was an extraordinary component of the Norwegian Black Metal scene of the 80s and early 90s. Suicide, murder, church burnings and huffing from a bag of dead stuff was the order of the day. Whenever I meet goths in real life, they are unfailingly the nicest people you would ever be lucky enough to meet. Here they are not quite so cuddly.
The early (black) humour and shock value sadly quickly fall away, and what is left is a very...
Rory Culkin, starring in one of the most interesting and weird true stories of all time should be a slam dunk, and it almost is, except when I think about it, it is miles away. Mayhem was an extraordinary component of the Norwegian Black Metal scene of the 80s and early 90s. Suicide, murder, church burnings and huffing from a bag of dead stuff was the order of the day. Whenever I meet goths in real life, they are unfailingly the nicest people you would ever be lucky enough to meet. Here they are not quite so cuddly.
The early (black) humour and shock value sadly quickly fall away, and what is left is a very...
- 9/13/2023
- by Chris Thomas
- Nerdly
A year and a half has gone by since it was announced that Julia Garner (Ozark) and Jessica Henwick (The Matrix Resurrections) had signed on to star in The Royal Hotel, an Australian production that was being described as a “social thriller”. The project was a reunion for Garner and director Kitty Green, as they had previously worked together on Green’s feature directorial debut, the 2019 drama The Assistant. The Royal Hotel has since made its way through production and had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival – and now it’s ready to be seen by a wider audience. Neon will be giving the film a theatrical release on October 6th, and today a trailer has dropped online. You can check it out in the embed above.
Also starring Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and said to be inspired by true events, The Royal Hotel follows Hanna (Garner) and...
Also starring Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and said to be inspired by true events, The Royal Hotel follows Hanna (Garner) and...
- 9/7/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Sarah Snook is pregnant in real life — and in HBO’s “Succession” — but in “Run Rabbit Run,” she plays a mother and fertility doctor who is frightened by her young daughter’s inexplicable memories of a past identity.
The Australian thriller from director Daina Reid and writer Hannah Kent released its first trailer as the film is confirmed to screen at next month’s Sydney Film Festival. “Run Rabbit Run” made its world premiere as the opening title of the Midnight section of the Sundance festival in January. The film will launch on Netflix on June 28.
Emmy-nominated Snook stars alongside Damon Herriman and Greta Scacchi. Variety’s review from Sundance called the film an “effective if familiar mommy-issues chiller.”
Reid was also Emmy-nominated for her work on “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Her production company Carver Films has developed horror films including “Relic” and the crime thriller “Snowtown,” and Reid has also...
The Australian thriller from director Daina Reid and writer Hannah Kent released its first trailer as the film is confirmed to screen at next month’s Sydney Film Festival. “Run Rabbit Run” made its world premiere as the opening title of the Midnight section of the Sundance festival in January. The film will launch on Netflix on June 28.
Emmy-nominated Snook stars alongside Damon Herriman and Greta Scacchi. Variety’s review from Sundance called the film an “effective if familiar mommy-issues chiller.”
Reid was also Emmy-nominated for her work on “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Her production company Carver Films has developed horror films including “Relic” and the crime thriller “Snowtown,” and Reid has also...
- 5/10/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Following a premiere at Sundance 2023, where Netflix picked up the psychological horror film for an undisclosed sum, the streaming service has set a June 28 release date and unveiled the first trailer for "Run Rabbit Run." With Sarah Snook ("Succession") in the lead, Australian director Daina Reid's second feature film is about a single mother and fertility doctor named Sarah (Snook) who is shaken by her 7-year-old daughter Mia's (Lily Latorre) strange behavior and "inexplicable memories of a past identity."
The connection, as the "Run Rabbit Run" trailer reveals, is Sarah's late sister Alice who had an interest in wild rabbits and went missing when she was just seven years old. Mia turns out to have both things in common with Alice when she takes a liking to a rabbit that appears on their doorstep. You know where this is going, right? Mia believes she's Alice and seemingly begins turning on her mother,...
The connection, as the "Run Rabbit Run" trailer reveals, is Sarah's late sister Alice who had an interest in wild rabbits and went missing when she was just seven years old. Mia turns out to have both things in common with Alice when she takes a liking to a rabbit that appears on their doorstep. You know where this is going, right? Mia believes she's Alice and seemingly begins turning on her mother,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Akhil Arora
- Slash Film
'The Tender Bar' actor Tye Sheridan is joining Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in 'The Order'.The 26-year-old actor has inked a deal to star in the true-crime movie that is being directed by the acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, Deadline reports.His role has not been disclosed at this time.The thriller is based on 'The Silent Brotherhood', the book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt that chronicles the crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group.In 1983, a series of increasingly violent bank robberies and armoured car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest in the United States.Baffled law enforcement agencies are desperate for answers and a lone FBI agent (Law) based in sleepy Idaho comes to believe that the crimes are not the work of traditional criminals but instead a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical and charismatic leader (Hoult...
- 5/3/2023
- by Lizzie Baker
- Bang Showbiz
Dark Sky Films Brings The Third Saturday In October Part V + Part I to Digital/VOD May 5th: "What if a lost horror franchise made during the peak of the slasher genre was unearthed today, but only two of the films could be restored? Filmmaker Jay Burleson imagined just that with The Third Saturday In October: Part V and The Third Saturday In October: Part I coming to VOD + Digital Platforms May 5th from Dark Sky Films.
A double feature of terror, The Third Saturday In October Part V sees unstoppable killer Jakkariah Harding once again stalking and butchering the football-loving residents of a small Alabama town, this time finding a treasure trove of victims after he chances upon a football watch party. And then get ready to see how the horror began in The Third Saturday In October Part I, which tells the story of Harding's death row escape...
A double feature of terror, The Third Saturday In October Part V sees unstoppable killer Jakkariah Harding once again stalking and butchering the football-loving residents of a small Alabama town, this time finding a treasure trove of victims after he chances upon a football watch party. And then get ready to see how the horror began in The Third Saturday In October Part I, which tells the story of Harding's death row escape...
- 4/14/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
One of the hottest packages at the EFM has been taken off the table for international.
Sources tell Variety that Prime Video is close to snapping up multiple international rights, excluding the U.S., to Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” which stars Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in a story about the titular white supremacist organization that operated in the 1980s. The deal, which is in the eight-figure range, is believed to be in advanced negotiations.
The project is penned by Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated writer Zach Baylin (“King Richard”), who based the screenplay on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book “The Silent Brotherhood.” Published in 1989, the book details the activities of the radical-right hate group The Order, which was one of the most sinister organizations to emerge in America since the Ku Klux Klan.
In the film, Law plays a lone FBI agent stationed in Idaho who starts piecing...
Sources tell Variety that Prime Video is close to snapping up multiple international rights, excluding the U.S., to Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” which stars Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in a story about the titular white supremacist organization that operated in the 1980s. The deal, which is in the eight-figure range, is believed to be in advanced negotiations.
The project is penned by Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated writer Zach Baylin (“King Richard”), who based the screenplay on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book “The Silent Brotherhood.” Published in 1989, the book details the activities of the radical-right hate group The Order, which was one of the most sinister organizations to emerge in America since the Ku Klux Klan.
In the film, Law plays a lone FBI agent stationed in Idaho who starts piecing...
- 2/18/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Laura Dern and science-fiction have often made for great bedfellows in the past, as evidenced by "Jurassic Park" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." For her return to the genre, "Morning," Dern is teaming up with "The Snowtown Murders" and "Macbeth" (2015) director Justin Kurzel. The latter's previous excursion into sci-fi with "Assassin's Creed" didn't work out so well, but you know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, try casting Laura F**king Dern instead and see what happens.
Dern is far from the only exciting cast member for "Morning," of course. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" veteran Naomi Ackie has also joined the film's ensemble on the heels of her performance as Whitney Houston in the musician biopic, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (for which Ackie herself earned top marks; the rest of the movie less so). With production slated to...
Dern is far from the only exciting cast member for "Morning," of course. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" veteran Naomi Ackie has also joined the film's ensemble on the heels of her performance as Whitney Houston in the musician biopic, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (for which Ackie herself earned top marks; the rest of the movie less so). With production slated to...
- 2/13/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Fresh from her critically acclaimed lead performance in Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody and having filmed major roles in Bong Joon-ho’s much-anticipated Mickey 7 and Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut Pussy Island last year, Naomi Ackie has landed another starry feature.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the British actress — also a 2023 BAFTA rising star nominee and BAFTA TV award winner back in 2020 — has joined the A-list cast of Morning, the upcoming sci-fi feature from Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed). Announced last year, the film will also star Oscar and BAFTA winner Laura Dern (Marriage Story, Little Women, Big Little Lies) and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place I & II, Honey Boy), with Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Imitation Game) appearing in a supporting role. Cumberbatch and Dern also exec produce.
Morning is described as a story about “human connection,...
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the British actress — also a 2023 BAFTA rising star nominee and BAFTA TV award winner back in 2020 — has joined the A-list cast of Morning, the upcoming sci-fi feature from Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed). Announced last year, the film will also star Oscar and BAFTA winner Laura Dern (Marriage Story, Little Women, Big Little Lies) and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place I & II, Honey Boy), with Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Imitation Game) appearing in a supporting role. Cumberbatch and Dern also exec produce.
Morning is described as a story about “human connection,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Australian director Justin Kurzel is no stranger to true crime after 2011’s “Snowtown,” 2019’s “True History Of The Kelly Gang,” and his most recent film, “Nitram.” Deadline reports Kurzel returns to the genre again for his next project, “The Order,” with Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult to star.
Read More: ‘Renfield’ Trailer: Nicholas Hoult Is In A Toxic Relationship With Dracula, Played By Nicolas Cage In New Horror Comedy
Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt‘s book “The Silent Brotherhood,” “The Order” will follow the real-life white supremacist group and their string of domestic terrorist acts in the 1980s Pacific Northwest.
Continue reading ‘The Order’: Jude Law & Nicholas Hoult To Star In Justin Kurzel’s Upcoming True Crime Film at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Renfield’ Trailer: Nicholas Hoult Is In A Toxic Relationship With Dracula, Played By Nicolas Cage In New Horror Comedy
Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt‘s book “The Silent Brotherhood,” “The Order” will follow the real-life white supremacist group and their string of domestic terrorist acts in the 1980s Pacific Northwest.
Continue reading ‘The Order’: Jude Law & Nicholas Hoult To Star In Justin Kurzel’s Upcoming True Crime Film at The Playlist.
- 2/3/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Jude Law (Fantastic Beasts) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men franchise) have been set to lead true-crime movie The Order, which acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) will direct.
AGC Studios will finance, produce and sell the thriller, which will be a hot package at the upcoming EFM.
Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated writer Zach Baylin (King Richard), wrote the screenplay based on The Silent Brotherhood, the book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt that chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremist domestic terror group.
In 1983, a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe the crimes were not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical,...
AGC Studios will finance, produce and sell the thriller, which will be a hot package at the upcoming EFM.
Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated writer Zach Baylin (King Richard), wrote the screenplay based on The Silent Brotherhood, the book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt that chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremist domestic terror group.
In 1983, a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe the crimes were not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Joel Edgerton’s drawling voice instructs us to “breathe out the dark black air” over an image of police officers combring long grass in search of something. Or someone. This is how “The Stranger” opens, posing the question of how much darkness we will need to breathe out in the course of the film. Thomas M. Wright — best known for playing Elisabeth Moss’s sexy, traumatized love interest in Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake” — offers a sophomore directorial outing that fits right in with the wave of early Australian directors who emerged with a crime drama pivoting around the bleakest of human deeds.
Compared with David Michôd’s dread-fueled “Animal Kingdom,” Justin Kurzel’s sadistic “Snowtown,” and Mirrah Faulkes’s vaudevillian “Judy & Punch,” this is a relatively straight and somber affair. Across locations that hop between Queensland and an anonymous Southern Australian sprawl, Wright draws a tasteful...
Compared with David Michôd’s dread-fueled “Animal Kingdom,” Justin Kurzel’s sadistic “Snowtown,” and Mirrah Faulkes’s vaudevillian “Judy & Punch,” this is a relatively straight and somber affair. Across locations that hop between Queensland and an anonymous Southern Australian sprawl, Wright draws a tasteful...
- 5/20/2022
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
Director Justin Kurzel’s new work, Nitram, adds to the cinema inspired by real mass shootings, with an approach to the life of the perpetrator of the shooting in Port Arthur, Australia, where 35 people were killed in April 1996. The creators of the film, Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant, had previously touched on similar tough topics. Their first collaboration, Snowtown, was also based on a violent real case that shook their country: that of John Bunting and his accomplices, including Jamie Vlassakis. Bunting is "Australia's worst serial killer," having been arrested in 1999 and eventually convicted of 11 murders. “Shaun seeded those two stories. Shaun and I had a similar upbringing,” Kurzel revealed in an interview with Screen Anarchy, adding that they both are “curious...
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- 4/11/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Nitram
The subject of violence is a thematic thread that runs through Australian director Justin Kurzel's work. His debut feature, Snowtown, based on Debi Marshall's book, Killing For Pleasure, explores the real life events in which a 16-year-old was indoctrinated into a culture of torture and murder by his mother's new boyfriend. He followed this with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, before redirecting his gaze to the story of a gang of violent outlaws in 1870s Australia, in True History Of The Kelly Gang. His fifth feature, Nitram, adapted from a screenplay by Snowtown co-writer Shaun Grant, continues this trend, exploring the man and events that led to the 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Australia.
Justin Kurzel
In conversation with Eye For Film, Kurzel discussed the inevitable challenges of directing a film that some people did not want to be made, while for a younger generation, it confronts.
The subject of violence is a thematic thread that runs through Australian director Justin Kurzel's work. His debut feature, Snowtown, based on Debi Marshall's book, Killing For Pleasure, explores the real life events in which a 16-year-old was indoctrinated into a culture of torture and murder by his mother's new boyfriend. He followed this with an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, before redirecting his gaze to the story of a gang of violent outlaws in 1870s Australia, in True History Of The Kelly Gang. His fifth feature, Nitram, adapted from a screenplay by Snowtown co-writer Shaun Grant, continues this trend, exploring the man and events that led to the 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Australia.
Justin Kurzel
In conversation with Eye For Film, Kurzel discussed the inevitable challenges of directing a film that some people did not want to be made, while for a younger generation, it confronts.
- 4/8/2022
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Controversy is no stranger to Justin Kurzel. His 2011 debut Snowtown, an impressionist true-crime drama of harrowing power, dramatized Australia’s most notorious serial-murder case from the perspective of an abused teen molded into the killer’s accomplice––and in so doing inspired its fair share of appalled responses, along with rapturous praise. Subsequent success clearly hasn’t deterred him. After seeming to pivot toward ever-bigger productions in Hollywood and the UK with adaptational Michael Fassbender/Marion Cotillard vehicles Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed, Kurzel pivoted back to Australia and his first screenwriting collaborator Shaun Grant with 2019’s True History of the Kelly Gang, a punk-infused reimagining of the country’s foundational outlaw myth that, like Snowtown, complicates and punctures traditional renderings of Australian masculinity with nightmarish restlessness.
With his latest feature Nitram, Kurzel returns to an intimate drama on incendiary subject matter. The film, which earned American star Caleb Landry Jones...
With his latest feature Nitram, Kurzel returns to an intimate drama on incendiary subject matter. The film, which earned American star Caleb Landry Jones...
- 4/1/2022
- by Eli Friedberg
- The Film Stage
It would be hard to overstate the fear that I felt in anticipation of watching Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram” (an experience that I’ve semi-deliberately avoided since its premiere at the tail end of last year’s Cannes). For one thing, Kurzel has a rare gift for soul-clouding dread. I was first introduced to his work through “Snowtown,” a film so all-consumingly grim that it seemed to suck the light out of the universe in real time, leaving only the projector beam as a hostage to bear witness; it’s the kind of thing that demands to be written about in the past tense, as the stuff of memory rather than something that could still be queued up on Netflix, because there’s no way in hell I’m ever watching it again.
A 2011 docudrama about a string of murders that plagued Australia during the ’90s, “Snowtown” had a body...
A 2011 docudrama about a string of murders that plagued Australia during the ’90s, “Snowtown” had a body...
- 3/30/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
From its genesis, “Nitram” was designed to be a difficult film to watch. Tackling the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting that took place in Tasmania, director Justin Kurzel (“True History of the Kelly Gang”) and writer Shaun Grant were treading similar waters as they did in their debut feature, 2011’s “The Snowtown Murders,” utilizing cinema’s ability to bring light to the pain of real-life atrocities and ask important questions as to how these violent men became the way they were, and what gave them the tools to take the actions they did.
Intentionally never using the real name of the perpetrator of this shooting, “Nitram” (the nickname by which the man is referenced) nevertheless centers its focus on him, as played by Caleb Landry Jones.
Continue reading Justin Kurzel On The Difficult Questions ‘Nitram’ Asks & Finding Its Authenticity [Interview] at The Playlist.
Intentionally never using the real name of the perpetrator of this shooting, “Nitram” (the nickname by which the man is referenced) nevertheless centers its focus on him, as played by Caleb Landry Jones.
Continue reading Justin Kurzel On The Difficult Questions ‘Nitram’ Asks & Finding Its Authenticity [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 3/30/2022
- by Mitchell Beaupre
- The Playlist
The Port Arthur shooting of 1996 in Tasmania remains Australia’s deadliest incidents committed by a single person. That’s a horrifying piece of history to take on for a movie, but Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel takes a slanted approach to the material by not showing the actual events, but instead what built to them through the eyes of the perpetrator. In his new film, “Nitram,” Caleb Landry Jones play the protagonist (here named Nitram) in a portrait of a psychopath brewing. Kurzel is naturally the fit for the material, as he has plumbed the depths of the dark side of Australian history before with “True History of the Kelly Gang” and “The Snowtown Murders.” Exclusively on IndieWire, watch the trailer for “Nitram” below.
Caleb Landry Jones has been a go-to for playing feral, gnarly characters, from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” to the gnashing drug addicts in the Safdies’ “Heaven Knows What...
Caleb Landry Jones has been a go-to for playing feral, gnarly characters, from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” to the gnashing drug addicts in the Safdies’ “Heaven Knows What...
- 2/10/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Production in Australia’s Victoria state has begun on “Savage River,” a six-part crime thriller being directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the U.S. distributor Dynamic Television.
The show, about a female ex-con who is accused of a fresh murder in her small-town home, stars Katherine Langford. As she attempts to prove her innocence she discovers long-buried secrets that cast doubt on everything she thought she knew.
Langford is joined by Jacqueline McKenzie, Cooper Van Grootel, Nadine Garner (“The Doctor Blake Mysteries”), James Mackay (“Dynasty”), Bernard Curry (“Wentworth”), Mark Coles Smith (“Mystery Road: Origin”), Virginia Gay, Daniel Henshall (“Snowtown”), Amesh Edireweera (“The Serpent”) and Osamah Sami (“Ali’s Wedding”). Additional cast, some undertaking their first major role, include Miranda Anwar, Maia Abbas, Haya Abbas, Bill Zeng and Hattie Hook.
The 6×57 minute series is co-created by writers Belinda Bradley, Franz Docherty and lead writer Giula Sandler. After...
The show, about a female ex-con who is accused of a fresh murder in her small-town home, stars Katherine Langford. As she attempts to prove her innocence she discovers long-buried secrets that cast doubt on everything she thought she knew.
Langford is joined by Jacqueline McKenzie, Cooper Van Grootel, Nadine Garner (“The Doctor Blake Mysteries”), James Mackay (“Dynasty”), Bernard Curry (“Wentworth”), Mark Coles Smith (“Mystery Road: Origin”), Virginia Gay, Daniel Henshall (“Snowtown”), Amesh Edireweera (“The Serpent”) and Osamah Sami (“Ali’s Wedding”). Additional cast, some undertaking their first major role, include Miranda Anwar, Maia Abbas, Haya Abbas, Bill Zeng and Hattie Hook.
The 6×57 minute series is co-created by writers Belinda Bradley, Franz Docherty and lead writer Giula Sandler. After...
- 2/7/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a strong one for the virtual EFM market. Oscar and BAFTA winner Laura Dern (Big Little Lies), A Quiet Place star Noah Jupe and Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) have been set to star in new Justin Kurzel (Nitram) project Morning, which HanWay is launching.
The film is set in a near future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.
HanWay is handling international sales. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-repping the U.S. sale.
Morning was written by Manchester-born writer Sam Steiner. The screenplay was picked up by Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland’s SunnyMarch. SunnyMarch’s Head of Film,...
The film is set in a near future where society has a pill that does away with the need to sleep. With the added help of an artificial sun, there is no end to morning daylight, living and work. However, as a young generation grows up deprived of the world of sleep, they consider rebelling to reclaim their dreams.
HanWay is handling international sales. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-repping the U.S. sale.
Morning was written by Manchester-born writer Sam Steiner. The screenplay was picked up by Cumberbatch and Adam Ackland’s SunnyMarch. SunnyMarch’s Head of Film,...
- 1/31/2022
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Top Australian actor Damon Herriman and U.K.-Italian star Greta Scacchi join “Succession” star Sarah Snook in horror-thriller “Run Rabbit Run” from “The Handmaid’s Tale” director Daina Reid. The film starts production in Victoria and South Australia this week.
Snook replaced Elizabeth Moss who was previously attached, but who dropped out late last year due to scheduling clashes. Snook plays a fertility doctor whose firm grasp on the cycle of life is put to the test as her young daughter begins to exhibit increasingly strange behavior.
The script was written by acclaimed South Australian novelist Hannah Kent (“Devotion,” “Burial Rites”) from an original idea developed with Carver Films. Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films are producing.
Los Angeles-based XYZ Films is executive producing, financing and handling world sales, having taken over sales duties from STX International which previously touted the project at 2020’s virtual Cannes Market. Storyd...
Snook replaced Elizabeth Moss who was previously attached, but who dropped out late last year due to scheduling clashes. Snook plays a fertility doctor whose firm grasp on the cycle of life is put to the test as her young daughter begins to exhibit increasingly strange behavior.
The script was written by acclaimed South Australian novelist Hannah Kent (“Devotion,” “Burial Rites”) from an original idea developed with Carver Films. Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films are producing.
Los Angeles-based XYZ Films is executive producing, financing and handling world sales, having taken over sales duties from STX International which previously touted the project at 2020’s virtual Cannes Market. Storyd...
- 1/25/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
IFC Films has acquired Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram,” a searing drama about a mass killing that debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it won a best actor prize for Caleb Landry Jones.
The film will have a hybrid release. It will premiere in theaters on March 30, 2022, while also debuting day and date on AMC Plus, AMC Networks’ streaming service. IFC has made films available to rent on the same day they hit cinemas, but this marks the first time that the indie studio has premiered a film simultaneously on its streaming arm.
“Nitram” is a portrait of the Australian mass killer involved in the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which led to fundamental changes of gun control law in the country. In addition to Landry Jones, the film also stars Essie Davis, Judy Davis, and Anthony Lapaglia. “Nitram” dominated the 2021 Australian Academy Awards Tuesday night with 15 nominations,...
The film will have a hybrid release. It will premiere in theaters on March 30, 2022, while also debuting day and date on AMC Plus, AMC Networks’ streaming service. IFC has made films available to rent on the same day they hit cinemas, but this marks the first time that the indie studio has premiered a film simultaneously on its streaming arm.
“Nitram” is a portrait of the Australian mass killer involved in the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which led to fundamental changes of gun control law in the country. In addition to Landry Jones, the film also stars Essie Davis, Judy Davis, and Anthony Lapaglia. “Nitram” dominated the 2021 Australian Academy Awards Tuesday night with 15 nominations,...
- 12/8/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In a crowded theatrical landscape, how do local films with smaller budgets find a path to audience when competing against studio tentpoles and blockbusters?
A key way to get cut-through is via carefully crafted publicity and marketing campaigns, which speak to not only what the film is but who it is for.
Despite their importance in creating interest in a project, the quality and quantity of the materials that make up a campaign are often at the mercy of the available budget, time and producer priorities.
The perception that a movie is ‘sold’ to audiences only after it is wrapped and completed means unit publicists tasked with devising a publicity plan do not always have access to the areas they need in order to capture effective assets during production.
In the last few years, a shift towards streaming and subsequent changes to the traditional modes of distribution, such as shorter...
A key way to get cut-through is via carefully crafted publicity and marketing campaigns, which speak to not only what the film is but who it is for.
Despite their importance in creating interest in a project, the quality and quantity of the materials that make up a campaign are often at the mercy of the available budget, time and producer priorities.
The perception that a movie is ‘sold’ to audiences only after it is wrapped and completed means unit publicists tasked with devising a publicity plan do not always have access to the areas they need in order to capture effective assets during production.
In the last few years, a shift towards streaming and subsequent changes to the traditional modes of distribution, such as shorter...
- 11/19/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
The Port Arthur massacre, taking place April 28th, 1996 on the island state of Tasmania, is routinely commemorated as one of the darkest days in Australia’s post-colonial history. Perpetrator Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old man with severe learning disabilities, murdered 35 people and injured another 23 in a shooting spree across leisure areas in the town; he is currently incarcerated, serving 35 life sentences with no possibility of parole.
Approaching the 25th anniversary of the tragedy—and accompanied by a degree of public backlash in Australia—director Justin Kurzel has made Nitram, a fictionalized account of Bryant’s life before the murders and attempt to forensically investigate factors that fostered the atrocity. That it isn’t an exploitative embarrassment is a relief, but the film runs into some issues for seeking cast-iron certainties about something truly inexplicable. The four main performances—from Caleb Landry Jones as Nitram, Judy Davis and Anthony Lapaglia as the parents,...
Approaching the 25th anniversary of the tragedy—and accompanied by a degree of public backlash in Australia—director Justin Kurzel has made Nitram, a fictionalized account of Bryant’s life before the murders and attempt to forensically investigate factors that fostered the atrocity. That it isn’t an exploitative embarrassment is a relief, but the film runs into some issues for seeking cast-iron certainties about something truly inexplicable. The four main performances—from Caleb Landry Jones as Nitram, Judy Davis and Anthony Lapaglia as the parents,...
- 7/22/2021
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Entertainment consultancy Nixco has appointed former Village Roadshow marketing and distribution manager Gabrielle Oldaker as director of marketing and integrated strategy.
The newly-created role is designed to assist with integrated marketing assets and campaigns for film and TV projects from pre-production through the lifecycle of product release, working with screen producers, distributors, and streamers, as well as global studios producing and launching content in Australia.
A previous recipient of a Film Victoria – Natalie Miller Fellowship grant, Oldaker’s experience includes stints at Madman Entertainment, Roadshow Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, The Mail on Sunday (UK), and Herald Sun.
She has also led integrated creative marketing strategies for a number of films, including Animal Kingdom, Snowtown, Mad Max: Fury Road, Red Dog: True Blue, and Simon Baker’s Breath, as well as managed key in pre-production marketing for recent box office hits Rams, The Dry and Penguin Bloom, many in consultation with Nixco.
The newly-created role is designed to assist with integrated marketing assets and campaigns for film and TV projects from pre-production through the lifecycle of product release, working with screen producers, distributors, and streamers, as well as global studios producing and launching content in Australia.
A previous recipient of a Film Victoria – Natalie Miller Fellowship grant, Oldaker’s experience includes stints at Madman Entertainment, Roadshow Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, The Mail on Sunday (UK), and Herald Sun.
She has also led integrated creative marketing strategies for a number of films, including Animal Kingdom, Snowtown, Mad Max: Fury Road, Red Dog: True Blue, and Simon Baker’s Breath, as well as managed key in pre-production marketing for recent box office hits Rams, The Dry and Penguin Bloom, many in consultation with Nixco.
- 7/19/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Justin Kurzel’s Nitram left an indelible impression on critics following its premiere at Cannes Film Festival on Friday, with many singling out the film’s tone and performances for praise.
The pre-Port Arthur massacre portrait of perpetrator Martin Bryant – who is not named in the film – is the first Australian feature to screen in competition at the French festival since Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty in 2011. In the same year, Kurzel’s debut Snowtown, about a series of murders committed in Adelaide between 1992-1999, screened in Critic’s Week.
Like Snowtown, Nitram is also based on true events and penned by Shaun Grant. However, the reviews that followed last week’s screening drew only broad stroke comparisons between the two films while commending Kurzel for his storytelling choices.
Writing for Variety, Jessica Kiang described Nitram as “ostensibly similar” to Snowtown, but noted the former represented “a far more mature...
The pre-Port Arthur massacre portrait of perpetrator Martin Bryant – who is not named in the film – is the first Australian feature to screen in competition at the French festival since Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty in 2011. In the same year, Kurzel’s debut Snowtown, about a series of murders committed in Adelaide between 1992-1999, screened in Critic’s Week.
Like Snowtown, Nitram is also based on true events and penned by Shaun Grant. However, the reviews that followed last week’s screening drew only broad stroke comparisons between the two films while commending Kurzel for his storytelling choices.
Writing for Variety, Jessica Kiang described Nitram as “ostensibly similar” to Snowtown, but noted the former represented “a far more mature...
- 7/19/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
As the Cannes Film Festival draws near to a close, Justin Kurzel sat down to field a series of questions about his Palme d’Or contender Nitram, a deeply disturbing retelling of the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, Australia. Kurzel was joined by the film’s star Caleb Landry Jones, writer Shaun Grant and producer Nick Batzias where they discussed how they handled portraying one of the darkest memories in Australia’s history, which caused 35 deaths and injured another 23. The mass killing horrified the country and prompted swift gun reform in the country.
For Kurzel, who lives with his family in Tasmania and vividly remembers the moment this event happened, the subject matter was one that he and his team approached incredibly delicately.
“When Shaun sent me the script, I took a very, very deep breath,” Kurzel said. “But I saw something in the script...
For Kurzel, who lives with his family in Tasmania and vividly remembers the moment this event happened, the subject matter was one that he and his team approached incredibly delicately.
“When Shaun sent me the script, I took a very, very deep breath,” Kurzel said. “But I saw something in the script...
- 7/17/2021
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
His only other comp offering was 2015’s Macbeth, but his debut film (we were there) was Snowtown (later known as The Snowtown Murders). There is a grizzly connection between Justin Kurzel’s first film and his second comp showing wih Nitram. Starring Caleb Landry Jones – this is not your usual portrait of a killer.
Quite the big surprise today on the final day of comp film showings. Eight of our critics have combined for a 3.6 score for Kurzel — tied for second place with Memoria and A Hero.
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Quite the big surprise today on the final day of comp film showings. Eight of our critics have combined for a 3.6 score for Kurzel — tied for second place with Memoria and A Hero.
Click on the grid below for a larger version and latest updates!…...
- 7/16/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
A decade after making a strong impression with his debut feature, The Snowtown Murders, Australian director Justin Kurzel has turned up at the Cannes Film Festival with another arresting mass-murder drama in Nitram. The subject is the worst lone-gunman mass killing in the country’s history, and the film disturbingly teases out the misfit’s unstable personality, along with the ease with which he assembled a massive collection of artillery. In the end, the case directly resulted in the country’s far more stringent firearms laws. This is a strong piece of work.
Heavy violence has marked all of Kurzel’s features, which also include Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed and The True History of the Kelly Gang, so much so, perhaps, that he’s restrained himself here and re-directed his attention to the psychological and emotional maladjustments of the title character.
Set in...
Heavy violence has marked all of Kurzel’s features, which also include Macbeth, Assassin’s Creed and The True History of the Kelly Gang, so much so, perhaps, that he’s restrained himself here and re-directed his attention to the psychological and emotional maladjustments of the title character.
Set in...
- 7/16/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Justin Kurzel’s exceptionally disturbing, horribly plausible “Nitram” opens with an excerpt from a 1979 Australian news report on firework accidents. A boy of about 12 is being interviewed from his Hobart hospital bed, and when the posh, compassionate voice of the presenter asks if the injuries he sustained will discourage him from playing with fireworks in future, he smiles a strange, sly smile, and says no. Years later, he is a young man (electrically played by Caleb Landry Jones) in the backyard of his parents’ house, setting off firecrackers while neighbors howl at him from their balconies. The intense discomfort of this nitroglycerine meditation on what makes a mass murderer is exactly that of watching a lit firework burn down in your hand toward its gunpowder base, unable to let go of it, transfixed by its snapping sparks.
“Nitram,” written by Kurzel’s “Snowtown” and “True History of the Kelly Gang” collaborator Shaun Grant,...
“Nitram,” written by Kurzel’s “Snowtown” and “True History of the Kelly Gang” collaborator Shaun Grant,...
- 7/16/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Director Justin Kurzel shies away from depicting the Port Arthur massacre itself but outstanding performances mean it’s still a highly unsettling story
Australian director Justin Kurzel has made his most purely disturbing film since his debut Snowtown in 2011. Like that film, Nitram is based on a real-life case of murder and family dysfunction (which incidentally also applies to Kurzel’s version of Macbeth). And he has four outstanding performances from Judy Davis, Essie Davis, Anthony Lapaglia and Caleb Landry Jones.
The Port Arthur massacre in 1996 was perpetrated by a violently disturbed young man, Martin Bryant, who shot and killed 35 people at a Tasmanian tourist site with a semi-automatic rifle bought legally; he was apparently inspired by the UK’s Dunblane massacre one month earlier. The Australian government took immediate steps to limit the sales of weaponry. Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant have dramatised Bryant’s own deeply disturbed home...
Australian director Justin Kurzel has made his most purely disturbing film since his debut Snowtown in 2011. Like that film, Nitram is based on a real-life case of murder and family dysfunction (which incidentally also applies to Kurzel’s version of Macbeth). And he has four outstanding performances from Judy Davis, Essie Davis, Anthony Lapaglia and Caleb Landry Jones.
The Port Arthur massacre in 1996 was perpetrated by a violently disturbed young man, Martin Bryant, who shot and killed 35 people at a Tasmanian tourist site with a semi-automatic rifle bought legally; he was apparently inspired by the UK’s Dunblane massacre one month earlier. The Australian government took immediate steps to limit the sales of weaponry. Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant have dramatised Bryant’s own deeply disturbed home...
- 7/16/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Justin Kurzel first made noise 10 years ago with his gruesome debut The Snowtown Murders, which depicted the horrors of a notorious Australian serial killer of the 1990s in unsparing detail. That film was somewhat polarizing, causing many to wonder whether the impressive directorial craftsmanship and stylistic flair justified the unrelenting dive into the murkiest depths of depravity. The director returns with screenwriter Shaun Grant to the country’s true-crime hall of infamy in his fifth feature, Nitram, an account of events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which keeps the physical violence offscreen but psychologically is perhaps even more ...
- 7/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Justin Kurzel first made noise 10 years ago with his gruesome debut The Snowtown Murders, which depicted the horrors of a notorious Australian serial killer of the 1990s in unsparing detail. That film was somewhat polarizing, causing many to wonder whether the impressive directorial craftsmanship and stylistic flair justified the unrelenting dive into the murkiest depths of depravity. The director returns with screenwriter Shaun Grant to the country’s true-crime hall of infamy in his fifth feature, Nitram, an account of events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which keeps the physical violence offscreen but psychologically is perhaps even more ...
- 7/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Justin Kurzel doesn’t make it easy. Notwithstanding the oddity that is his Assassin’s Creed movie, the Australian auteur has distinct eyes for horrors—so we see in his true-crime project Snowtown, blistering Kelly Gang, or the bloodiest Macbeth adaptation ever put to screen. Understand some premature queasiness, then, about Nitram, his picture concerning the 1996 mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania, that prompted lasting changes in Australia’s gun laws. Add in the oft-unsettling screen presence that is Caleb Landry Jones—back from a trip making surprisingly excellent music—and, well…
But an anticipated film’s an anticipated film and those don’t come every day, so here’s a trailer and poster ahead of next week’s Cannes premiere. No laughs. But every shot by Kurzel and Dp Germain McMicking lands, with Jones’ hulking force looking like a major coup on Nitram‘s part.
Find preview and poster below:...
But an anticipated film’s an anticipated film and those don’t come every day, so here’s a trailer and poster ahead of next week’s Cannes premiere. No laughs. But every shot by Kurzel and Dp Germain McMicking lands, with Jones’ hulking force looking like a major coup on Nitram‘s part.
Find preview and poster below:...
- 7/8/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: It was 10 years ago that Justin Kurzel’s debut feature Snowtown became one of the most talked about films at the Cannes Film Festival when it played in Critics’ Week that year. Critics and buyers alike praised the Australian filmmaker’s distinct, hard-to-watch psychological thriller based on infamous serial killer John Bunting, a story starkly familiar with Australians but one that many international audiences had only just been introduced to.
This year, Kurzel will touch down on the Croisette again for the third time (after Snowtown and 2015’s Palme d’Or contender Macbeth) with Nitram, another raw account of a dark memory in Australia’s history. The film, which is playing In Competition this year, takes a look at the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, which caused 35 deaths and injured another 23. The mass killing horrified the country and prompted a quick transformation in gun control legislation in Australia.
This year, Kurzel will touch down on the Croisette again for the third time (after Snowtown and 2015’s Palme d’Or contender Macbeth) with Nitram, another raw account of a dark memory in Australia’s history. The film, which is playing In Competition this year, takes a look at the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, which caused 35 deaths and injured another 23. The mass killing horrified the country and prompted a quick transformation in gun control legislation in Australia.
- 7/7/2021
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
"Calm down, bro." This is the kind of excellent short film that launches the career of a talented filmmaker. Bruiser is an award-winning short film made by filmmaker Miles Warren, and it premiered at both the SXSW + Sundance Festivals earlier this year. After his father gets into a fight at a bowling alley, Darious begins to investigate the limitations of his own manhood. The film is an exploration into toxic masculinity, violence, and bullying, and how this is passed from generation to generation. Starring Noble B. Whitted and J.D. Williams. This is not just another film about manhood, there's layers and depth to every single shot in this. Miles Warren "had a very clear vision... We referenced films like The Favourite, Dayveon, The Snowtown Murders, Chungking Express and Paris, Texas." A must watch short film - and it's only 10 mins. Thanks to Short of the Week for the tip on this one.
- 7/1/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The selection of the Justin Kurzel-directed film “Nitram” for main competition at the Cannes Film Festival is guaranteed to strike a raw nerve in Australia.
On one hand, “Nitram” is to be celebrated as the first Australian movie in the prestigious main section for six years. On another, putting the film on a pedestal risks re-opening wounds caused by the mass murder that it describes but does not fully own up to.
The film features a loner, played by the U.S.’s Caleb Landry Jones, and his build up to a shooting rampage.
Scripted by Shaun Grant, the film is based on the infamous Port Arthur Massacre in 1996 in Tasmania, in which where 35 people were killed and a further 23 injured. Kurzel’s retelling is understood to avoid directly depicting any murders and to avoid ever using the name of the killer.
The disguise, however, is deliberately thin. “Nitram...
On one hand, “Nitram” is to be celebrated as the first Australian movie in the prestigious main section for six years. On another, putting the film on a pedestal risks re-opening wounds caused by the mass murder that it describes but does not fully own up to.
The film features a loner, played by the U.S.’s Caleb Landry Jones, and his build up to a shooting rampage.
Scripted by Shaun Grant, the film is based on the infamous Port Arthur Massacre in 1996 in Tasmania, in which where 35 people were killed and a further 23 injured. Kurzel’s retelling is understood to avoid directly depicting any murders and to avoid ever using the name of the killer.
The disguise, however, is deliberately thin. “Nitram...
- 6/3/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Justin Kurzel’s Nitram will premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in July, the first Australian film to do so in a decade.
Scripted by Shaun Grant, the film stars Caleb Landry Jones as a loner who later goes on a shooting rampage.
It is understood to be based on the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, but depicts the events leading up to rather than the murders themselves. It does not mention the gunman’s name, though Nitram is ‘Martin’ backwards.
Judy Davis and Anthony Lapaglia play his parents, and Essie Davis a woman who befriends him.
Nitram was shot in Geelong, rather than Tasmania. The film’s initial announcement proved highly divisive, with many calling for it not to proceed.
Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias and Virginia Whitwell are the producers.
Cannes announced its first 61 titles today, 24 of which are in competition. Four of the competition films are from female directors,...
Scripted by Shaun Grant, the film stars Caleb Landry Jones as a loner who later goes on a shooting rampage.
It is understood to be based on the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, but depicts the events leading up to rather than the murders themselves. It does not mention the gunman’s name, though Nitram is ‘Martin’ backwards.
Judy Davis and Anthony Lapaglia play his parents, and Essie Davis a woman who befriends him.
Nitram was shot in Geelong, rather than Tasmania. The film’s initial announcement proved highly divisive, with many calling for it not to proceed.
Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias and Virginia Whitwell are the producers.
Cannes announced its first 61 titles today, 24 of which are in competition. Four of the competition films are from female directors,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
The world may remember 2020 as the year when Covid-19 took hold, but it was much more to fans of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
The pandemic disruption coincided with the organisation’s 150th anniversary, making for a milestone unlike any other.
The true extent of how the season impacted the club is captured in Nicole Miller’s documentary This is Port Adelaide, which chronicles the team’s rise up the Sanfl and Afl, while exploring how its rich history has helped shape the identity of the Port Adelaide community.
Stories are shared from the players that have tasted success in the guernsey, and the supporters that take every opportunity to show their loyalty.
This is Port Adelaide was produced by Miller, James Moody and Paul Ryan for 57 Fims, with Ryan executive producing alongside Daniel Norton and Justin Kurzel.
Kurzel also mentored Miller on the project.
The Adelaide Film Festival Investment...
The pandemic disruption coincided with the organisation’s 150th anniversary, making for a milestone unlike any other.
The true extent of how the season impacted the club is captured in Nicole Miller’s documentary This is Port Adelaide, which chronicles the team’s rise up the Sanfl and Afl, while exploring how its rich history has helped shape the identity of the Port Adelaide community.
Stories are shared from the players that have tasted success in the guernsey, and the supporters that take every opportunity to show their loyalty.
This is Port Adelaide was produced by Miller, James Moody and Paul Ryan for 57 Fims, with Ryan executive producing alongside Daniel Norton and Justin Kurzel.
Kurzel also mentored Miller on the project.
The Adelaide Film Festival Investment...
- 4/8/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Parallel worlds commingle with initially intriguing but progressively less invigorating results in “A Writer’s Odyssey,” a handsomely produced action-fantasy directed by Chinese hitmaker Lu Yang. Centered on a desperate father whose search for his missing daughter draws him into a plot to assassinate the author of an online fantasy novel, “Odyssey” is packed with stunning sights including a 50-ft., four-armed CGI villain but is let down by a script that fails to fashion promising story elements into a consistently compelling whole. One of seven major films releasing locally on Feb. 12 for the lucrative Chinese New Year season, this hotly anticipated item opens on the same day in 109 U.S. theaters.
Based on a short story by Shuang Xuetao, “Odyssey” gets off to a strong start with action on radically different fronts. In the real world, middle-aged man Guan Ning (Lei Jiayin) thinks he’s finally found the low-life human traffickers who kidnapped his daughter,...
Based on a short story by Shuang Xuetao, “Odyssey” gets off to a strong start with action on radically different fronts. In the real world, middle-aged man Guan Ning (Lei Jiayin) thinks he’s finally found the low-life human traffickers who kidnapped his daughter,...
- 2/12/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
Antonio Gambale led the winners at Tuesday’s Screen Music Awards, picking up two prizes for his work on Netflix’s Unorthodox.
This year’s ceremony, jointly staged by Apra Amcos and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, was virtual, hosted by Justine Clarke, Meyne Wyatt and Claudia Karvan.
Clarke used the opportunity to urge government to support the industry, in particular screen composers, in the wake of Covid-19.
“I implore all of you listening, and in particular the Federal Government, not to leave the Australian composers behind as you undertake industry reform.
“There remains a huge opportunity for the Australian Government to further invest in the creation and commissioning of Australian content, and in particular, our composers, to fully celebrate their skills and talent. There is now greater risk that our creatives, our composers, and our small businesses will be left behind in the fast-changing global landscape that is ahead of us.
This year’s ceremony, jointly staged by Apra Amcos and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers, was virtual, hosted by Justine Clarke, Meyne Wyatt and Claudia Karvan.
Clarke used the opportunity to urge government to support the industry, in particular screen composers, in the wake of Covid-19.
“I implore all of you listening, and in particular the Federal Government, not to leave the Australian composers behind as you undertake industry reform.
“There remains a huge opportunity for the Australian Government to further invest in the creation and commissioning of Australian content, and in particular, our composers, to fully celebrate their skills and talent. There is now greater risk that our creatives, our composers, and our small businesses will be left behind in the fast-changing global landscape that is ahead of us.
- 12/1/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Justin Kurzel has assembled a high-profile cast to shoot “Nitram,” a feature film about a mass murder. He has also reteamed with writer Shawn Grant, who previously delivered the screenplay for Kurzel’s incendiary feature debut, 2011’s “The Snowtown Murders.”
The picture is now shooting and will play in theaters and screen as an original show for local streamer Stan in 2021. Overseas rights sales are being handled by Wild Bunch International.
The cast features Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis (“The Dressmaker”), Essie Davis (“True History of the Kelly Gang”) and Anthony Lapaglia (“Lantana”).
Stan describes “Nitram” as “a scripted feature film that looks at the events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in Australian history in an attempt to understand why and how this atrocity occurred.” But it avoids identifying the specific factual basis of the picture.
Australian media, however, have revealed that the film depicts the build...
The picture is now shooting and will play in theaters and screen as an original show for local streamer Stan in 2021. Overseas rights sales are being handled by Wild Bunch International.
The cast features Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis (“The Dressmaker”), Essie Davis (“True History of the Kelly Gang”) and Anthony Lapaglia (“Lantana”).
Stan describes “Nitram” as “a scripted feature film that looks at the events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in Australian history in an attempt to understand why and how this atrocity occurred.” But it avoids identifying the specific factual basis of the picture.
Australian media, however, have revealed that the film depicts the build...
- 12/1/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis and Anthony Lapaglia will star in Justin Kurzel’s Nitram, a feature film for Stan about Martin Bryant, the Port Arthur gunman who murdered 35 people and injured 23 others.
The film sees Kurzel once again working with writer Shaun Grant, with whom he collaborated on True History of the Kelly Gang and debut feature Snowtown, which depicted Adelaide’s Snowtown murders between 1992 and 1999.
Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias and Virginia Whitwell are producing, with Madman Entertainment handling theatrical.
Now shooting in Geelong, Stan’s press release announcing Nitram did not reveal what the film was about, mentioning neither Bryant or the 1996 massacre in Tasmania – only stating the project would “study one of the darkest chapters in Australian history.”
However, The Age broke yesterday that Landry Jones will play Bryant, Judy Davis and Lapaglia his parents, and Essie Davis a woman who befriends him. The...
The film sees Kurzel once again working with writer Shaun Grant, with whom he collaborated on True History of the Kelly Gang and debut feature Snowtown, which depicted Adelaide’s Snowtown murders between 1992 and 1999.
Good Thing Productions’ Nick Batzias and Virginia Whitwell are producing, with Madman Entertainment handling theatrical.
Now shooting in Geelong, Stan’s press release announcing Nitram did not reveal what the film was about, mentioning neither Bryant or the 1996 massacre in Tasmania – only stating the project would “study one of the darkest chapters in Australian history.”
However, The Age broke yesterday that Landry Jones will play Bryant, Judy Davis and Lapaglia his parents, and Essie Davis a woman who befriends him. The...
- 11/30/2020
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
True History Of The Kelly Gang and Snowtown filmmaker Justin Kurzel has set cast for his next feature, Nitram, which will focus on the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on Tasmania.
Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis and Anthony Lapaglia have boarded the feature, which has rolled cameras in Geelong, Victoria. The film will analyze events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in Australian history in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred. Shaun Grant has written the screenplay.
GoodThing Productions’ Nick Batzias and Virginia Whitwell are producing, with Madman Entertainment handling theatrical distribution. Wild Bunch International are handling sales.
The film received funding through the Melbourne International Film Festival and is planning to premiere at the festival in 2021.
Australian VOD service Stan will premiere the film as an original release on its platform at the same time as the cinema roll out.
Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis and Anthony Lapaglia have boarded the feature, which has rolled cameras in Geelong, Victoria. The film will analyze events leading up to one of the darkest chapters in Australian history in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred. Shaun Grant has written the screenplay.
GoodThing Productions’ Nick Batzias and Virginia Whitwell are producing, with Madman Entertainment handling theatrical distribution. Wild Bunch International are handling sales.
The film received funding through the Melbourne International Film Festival and is planning to premiere at the festival in 2021.
Australian VOD service Stan will premiere the film as an original release on its platform at the same time as the cinema roll out.
- 11/30/2020
- by Tom Grater and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Mat Kesting.
In planning this year’s Adelaide Film Festival, creative director and CEO Mat Kesting and his team put together not just one event, but five.
Covid-related contingency plans – each with its own financial framework – included an entirely virtual festival, a hybrid event, a festival in mini-theatres to keep numbers down and minimise infection risk, and even a festival at the drive-in.
Yet Kesting is both relieved and thrilled they’re able to go ahead with “plan A” – that is, a physical festival in cinemas.
Of course, this will look still different than previous iterations, with chequerboard seating and social distancing in place. Venue partners have been flexible enough to loop in multiple screens and other cinemas in order to maximise audience attendance for sessions. Gala events will also see people “partying like it’s 2020”.
But despite this, a physical event means that people can come together, which for...
In planning this year’s Adelaide Film Festival, creative director and CEO Mat Kesting and his team put together not just one event, but five.
Covid-related contingency plans – each with its own financial framework – included an entirely virtual festival, a hybrid event, a festival in mini-theatres to keep numbers down and minimise infection risk, and even a festival at the drive-in.
Yet Kesting is both relieved and thrilled they’re able to go ahead with “plan A” – that is, a physical festival in cinemas.
Of course, this will look still different than previous iterations, with chequerboard seating and social distancing in place. Venue partners have been flexible enough to loop in multiple screens and other cinemas in order to maximise audience attendance for sessions. Gala events will also see people “partying like it’s 2020”.
But despite this, a physical event means that people can come together, which for...
- 9/23/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
From Freedom Cinema and director James Di Martino, The Faceless Man, the Australian horror film which took home 6 major awards at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival including Best Director and Best Film, premieres on Demand August 28th.
Emily is a recovering cancer survivor of three years. Faced with her fear of getting sick again, her best friend Nina plans a weekend away. Six friends venture out to a country holiday house to party over a weekend. Cut off from the rest of the world they soon learn the inhabitants are unsettling red neck individuals who terrorize and humiliate travelers. At the same time a para-normal monster seen as the faceless man haunts the house pushing the friends to their limits.
From writer/director James Di Martino, and featuring Wolf Creek‘s Andy McPhee, Roger Ward (Mad Max), Lucas Pittaway (Snowtown) and Sophie Thurling (Counter Play), The Faceless Man haunts digital from August 28th.
Emily is a recovering cancer survivor of three years. Faced with her fear of getting sick again, her best friend Nina plans a weekend away. Six friends venture out to a country holiday house to party over a weekend. Cut off from the rest of the world they soon learn the inhabitants are unsettling red neck individuals who terrorize and humiliate travelers. At the same time a para-normal monster seen as the faceless man haunts the house pushing the friends to their limits.
From writer/director James Di Martino, and featuring Wolf Creek‘s Andy McPhee, Roger Ward (Mad Max), Lucas Pittaway (Snowtown) and Sophie Thurling (Counter Play), The Faceless Man haunts digital from August 28th.
- 8/13/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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