Queensland Film Festival

11/12/2023

Vulture on Confess, Fletch and Jon Hamm's revitalising performance which plays with his Mad Man persona.
(Also, which we're screening with Container: Brisbane Film Society this Tuesday night, 7pm, at Elizabeth Picture Theatre.)

Hamm’s willingness to directly engage in a thorough send-up of Don Draper makes Fletch goofier and, well, hammier.

01/11/2023

“a quiet, candid, sharply conceived and imaginatively realized masterwork”

The New Yorker on Showing Up, which we're screening with Container: Brisbane Film Society next Tuesday at the Elizabeth Picture Theatre.

7pm, 7 November, usual deal.

The director Kelly Reichardt has made a candid, joyfully inventive drama with her frequent collaborator Michelle Williams.

23/10/2023

“Pictures of Ghosts poetically weds cinephilia to more expansive ruminations on urban shifts and social patterns, leading us to contemplate the ghosts that populate all our spaces.”

The Film Verdict on Pictures of Ghosts (Cannes 2023) which we're screening with Container: Brisbane Film Society tomorrow night after our screening of Aquarius. Part of our showcase of the work of Kleber Mendonça Filho, a contemporary great of Brazil.

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s poetic docu-essay Pictures of Ghost is a passkey to his previous films as well as a personal reflection on his relationship with Recife and cinephilia, but this terrifically edited meditation is also a more universal ode to the way memories become ghosts that inhabit the p...

11/09/2023

Lisandro Alonso's Eureka screens tomorrow night with Container: Brisbane Film Society.

Our favourite film of Cannes 2023 and a film whose trailer gives a sense of the film's range far more than an individual picture.