Jake Wilson

For those in Melbourne, Australia: on July 19 the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema hosts its 2nd all-night microbudget marathon, with work by Colin Hodson, Alejandro Adams, Timothy Spanos, Rosina Hickman, Jake Barningham and more!! See www.facebook.com/BBBCinema for details of this event and others.

Tonight (Monday 30/6) at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema, 7 Hope St, Brunswick, Melbourne. Works by Kamal Aljafari, Agustina Comedi, Pedro Costa, Denis Côté, Federico Luis, Bill Morrison, Rita Pauls, Malena Szlam. Introduced by Dr Cristóbal Escobar. Doors open 6.30pm, screening 7pm.

Games Fine holiday fun.

On the New French Extremity, Michael Haneke, Bluey, etc.

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This week at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema: tonight (Sunday 22 June) is a MYSTERY FILM introduced by critic Philippa Hawker, then tomorrow is the classic Jesse James (Henry King, 1939) with Tyrone Power, introduced by me. Doors open 6.30pm, screenings start 7pm. Address at link.

Going Straight Wes Anderson stays on course in The Phoenician Scheme.

It's been a little while with Moving Targets, but we're getting back on course with this belated review of The Phoenician Scheme:

Tomorrow night, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm). Time for Melbourne's Don Weis fans to stand up and be counted.

On Terry Chiu's Open Doom Crescendo, a favourite at the recent Brunswick Underground Film Festival (and now available on Blu-ray): www.jakewilson.com.au/p/the-outsid...

This Is Your Captain Nathan Fielder keeps getting away with it in the second season of The Rehearsal.

Moving Targets goes long on the mysteries of Nathan Fielder.

Blood Relations Ryan Coogler's Sinners is a crowdpleaser with a difference.

What is Ryan Coogler really saying in Sinners? Some speculations.

Stella! Doing justice to bad taste in Henry King's 1925 version of Stella Dallas.

Notes on Henry King's 1925 version of Stella Dallas, which I introduced recently at Cinema Reborn in Melbourne (and which is just as good as the Barbara Stanwyck remake).

Discomfort Viewing John Mulaney tests the boundaries of Netflix with Everybody's Live.

What is John Mulaney doing? I tried to work it out, with special reference to Everybody's Live.

Mock On Super 8 rises from the grave in the independent Brisbane epic A Grand Mockery.

Screening soon in Sydney and Melbourne at the Fantastic Film Festival Australia.

Heigh-Ho Digging for significance in Disney's new Snow White.

I didn't love the new Snow White, but I enjoyed writing about it.

Strike Up the Band The politics of jazz, and vice versa, in Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack To a Coup d'État.

New free post! Now with fewer typos!

The Science Guy Looking back at Val Kilmer in Martha Coolidge's Real Genius.

In tribute to the late Val Kilmer, this week's Moving Targets piece is on Real Genius (paywalled, but you can read the opening).

Remembering Corinne Cantrill Reflections on the life and work of a great filmmaker.

The late Corinne Cantrill and her husband Arthur, who survives her, were among the most significant Australian filmmakers of any kind -- and as people, also extremely significant for me personally. I wrote about Corinne recently in The Age, but this piece is less official, so to speak.

Border Zones On the margins of the mainstream with In the Lost Lands and One Of Them Days.

The new Moving Targets post, on two films that barely made it to cinemas here in Australia. For those in Melbourne, In The Lost Lands is still on at Reading Cinemas in Dandenong if you rush.

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Cracking Up On Ma vie ma gueule, and other crazy comedies by Sophie Fillières.

This should have gone up yesterday, here’s the latest Moving Targets piece, free for all to read, on Sophie Fillières’ Ma vie ma gueule, now at the French Film Festival. I also say a few things about her earlier films.

Film pioneer set fire to screens and didn’t care if you hated her work Corinne Cantrill was one half of a couple whose experimental works caught the world’s attention.

In the Age today, my tribute to Corinne Cantrill:

Lights Out What's missing from the Blu-ray of Jacques Tourneur's The Fearmakers.

New on Moving Targets, on Jacques Tourneur's The Fearmakers (and why it matters how you see it).

Ideas Of Order Systems at work and play in Frederick Wiseman's 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library.

The latest free Moving Targets piece, on Frederick Wiseman's 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (screening in New York soon).

Two Cheers For Emilia Our Oscar coverage continues with a qualified defence of Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez.

My new Moving Targets piece, on Emilia Pérez and related matters. Paywalled, but the opening is free.

The Wicked And the Brutal Catching up with a couple of outsider stories in time for the Oscars.

Moving Targets is back on schedule. This one’s free.

Moving Targets this week looks at Severance – you’ll need a subscription, but the opening is free.

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You’ll struggle to define this film. Best just go along for the ride Grand Tour is a “dysfunctional” romantic comedy in which language and love get lost in translation.

For the Age and SMH, I spoke to Miguel Gomes about Grand Tour. Not paywalled for the moment.

Last Week In Brunswick On memory, "structural film," and Malcolm Le Grice.

This week’s Moving Targets piece, something a bit different.

Not Feeling It Phantom threads of sex and politics in the most popular film of 2024.

New at Moving Targets, some notes on Inside Out 2:

David Lynch (1946-2025) David Lynch wasn’t a weirdo.

Departing from the regular schedule at Moving Targets, a special tribute to David Lynch. Again, this is free to read.

This Is the Girl Notes on Charles Vidor's reflexive wartime musical Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth.

This week, I wrote about Charles Vidor's 1944 Cover Girl, because it's never a bad time to write about Rita Hayworth musicals. The piece is not about David Lynch, but it's dedicated to him.