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It wasn’t that long ago that film school introduced me to a 16mm print of Nashville – the chaotic, blissful, satire on politics was the brilliant masterpiece that for many remains Robert Altman’s greatest gift to film. However, the stubborn un-Hollywood director has left us with a library of films that we can consider great – commencing with M*A*S*H and ending with Gosford Park.

Eric Schlosser began his career as a playwright, screenwriter, and fiction author before turning to journalism, a career choice that would lead to his...

Richard Linklater releases his second film of 2006 with Fast Food Nation, a film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book of the same title....

In the foreign film category, this year’s favorite is most likely going to come from Sony Pictures Classics’ hand. Not only are they holding a pair of pocket kings in Zhang Yimou’s The Curse of the Golden Flower and Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, but they are also holding pocket aces with Pedro’s Volver and in some circles the best picture of the year on the international scene with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others. Today were previewing the North American one sheet.

It is award season in Australia again and the time for the small number of people in the Australian film industry to come together and pat each other on the back for a mostly mediocre job well done. The most prestigious of the three major award ceremonies that occur over the next month is the L’Oreal Paris Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. It is the ceremony that attracts big names and they like people to know that. Russell Crowe hosted last year. Who cares if he isn’t actually Australian?