Frank Zappa, musician, composer, band leader, producer, visual artist, the list goes on, was a perplexing and brilliant figure and perhaps appropriately but still frustratingly, the lengthy and detailed documentary, simply titled Zappa, doesn’t allow us to gain a complete handle on that brilliance. The film comes from director Alex Winter, yes Bill from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure who,
Read moreThis week on ‘Built For Speed’ we speak to Sally Ingleton, the director of the new Australian documentary about environmental activism, ‘Wild Things’. We’ll also take a look at the much talked-about new drama ‘Promising Young Woman’ and family film ‘Elfkins: Baking a Difference’. There’ll also be plenty of fine music with the latest in indie rock and classic rock
Read moreCinema-goers would be be pretty optimistic if they expected a documentary about the brilliant but chaotic musician and Pogues frontman, Shane McGowan to be a smooth and straightforward ride, particularly as the director is frequent Sex Pistols documenter, Julien Temple. A swirling storm of words and images stitched together from interview fragments, concert film, stock footage and even animated fantasy
Read moreA new documentary screening Mon 27 July on NITV, Wawu Divine Hope, explores the spirit of an Aboriginal town in Far North Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula through a special annual Easter event in which the people transform their graveyard into a garden. Hear and There presenter Nathan Reynolds caught up with film’s narrator and Hope Vale resident, Shirley Costello.
Read moreKriv Stenders, director of the hit film Red Dog joins Hear and There presenter Nathan Reynolds to discuss his latest film, Brock: Over The Top, a high-octane documentary feature on the life of Aussie motorsport legend Peter Brock.
Read moreThe Biggest Little Farm is a mostly uplifting but occasionally dispiriting documentary about people trying to live and run a farm in an environmentally sustainable way. In 2010, Molly and John Chester were living in a small apartment with their rescue dog Todd. When Todd’s barking and tendency to chew everything in sight earned the landlord’s displeasure and saw them
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