Amateur Hour | vic film

17 Mar 2016

FILM PROFILE – “THE WITCH”

The Witch (MA15+) Writer/Director: Robert Eggers Review by: Jessica Craig-Piper A self-assured departure from the slick millennial fright fests and flashy torture porn of recent decades, writer-director Robert Eggers’ eerie debut feature The Witch is in many ways a return to classic horror, and yet offers a remarkably singular cinematic experience. Thematic and aesthetic concerns reminiscent of The Crucible, The Shining and Grimms’ Fairy Tales converge in early colonialist America, where man is apparently pitted against

9 Mar 2016

FILM PROFILE – “SPEAR”

By Laura Imbruglia

Spear (M) Directed by Stephen Page Writer: Jessica Craig-Piper Director Stephen Page’s ambitious, unconventional debut feature Spear is an arresting synthesis of cinema and modern dance. A journey into impending manhood, the film approaches thematically familiar terrain with a fresh eye, and contemplates what it means to be a young Indigenous man coming of age in contemporary Australia. Visually spectacular, the project’s aesthetic finesse is as much a result of the superior technical team assembled by Page