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Time Out
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Melbourne International Film Festival
It's lights, camera, action for the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) this August, when a red carpet will be rolled out for a massive eighteen days of cinematic revelry. The festival celebrates Australian and international filmmaking with a program of more than 275 films. With so much to see, we've cut through the curtain to unveil everything you need to know. What is the Melbourne International Film Festival? Now in its 73rd year, MIFF is one of the oldest film festivals in the world, alongside Cannes and Berlin. The annual festival is held over three weeks each year throughout Melbourne and surrounds. Founded in 1952, the festival presents a curated global program of screen experiences and the world's largest showcase of Australian filmmaking. When is the Melbourne International Film Festival? Running between August 7 and 24, MIFF will include 18 days of bold in-cinema programming with star-studded events, world premiere screenings, headline features and filmmaker talks. What sort of things can we expect from the program? Drumroll, please! The full MIFF line-up has just dropped, and let's just say it's getting a standing ovation (Cannes style, of course) from us. The 2025 program will feature more than 275 screen works – including both international and local picks – alongside a curated schedule of talks, panels and special events. Kicking things off with a bang on August 7 is the Opening Night Gala Feature Film: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, by writer-director Mary Bronstein and starring Australia's own Rose Byrne. Our Melbourne-based critic Stephen A Russell reviewed the film for Time Out when it premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, giving it five stars and calling Byrne's performance "a tour de force of matriarchal power". Returning for its second year, MIFF's Premiere With Purpose Gala, presented by Decjuba, will screen Prime Minister on August 14 at ACMI. The documentary follows Jacinda Ardern's tenure as New Zealand PM, as she navigates crises and redefines global leadership with her empathetic yet resolute approach. The MIFF Headliners program is where you'll find all the hot, buzzy films from the festival circuit. We're talking about Jafar Panahi's It Was Just An Accident, which is fresh off winning the coveted Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival; Kristen Stewart's directorial debut The Chronology of Water, a poetic adaptation of writer Lidia Yuknavitch's visceral 2011 memoir; The Mastermind by film auteur Kelly Reichardt, starring Josh O'Connor in a profound exploration of American masculinity; Twinless, a dark queer comedy starring Dylan O'Brien; and Lurker, a thriller by the producer and screenwriter of The Bear and Beef. Some Aussie highlights include Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Man, which paints a comprehensive portrait of the Cold Chisel frontman through unprecedented behind-the-scenes access and interviews; and Yurlu | Country, and inspiring ode to Country that explores Banjima Elder Maitland Parker's fight to reclaim his asbestos-tainted homeland. On August 11 and 12, don't miss J ulia Holter: The Passion of Joan of Arc – an Australian premiere that's exclusive to MIFF. The live-score event reimagines the famed 1982 French film by visionary Danish director, Carl Theodor Dreye and involves composer and singer-songwriter Holter performing alongside her band, Hugh Brunt from the London Contemporary Orchestra and a local ensemble. In partnership with Now or Never, When the World Came Flooding In is part immersive installation and part VR documentary. This world premiere explores the intimate stories of life during a natural disaster. Time Out Melbourne (yep, that's us!) is also presenting a film. Birthright is Zoe Pepper's razor-sharp debut that dives into themes of generational wealth and millennial desperation. The story follows a recently unemployed and evicted man who must move back into his childhood home with his retiree parents and heavily pregnant wife. Phew! And that's only scratching the surface – for the full program, which features more docos, local flicks, short films, international blockbusters, the Bright Horizons competition and MIFF Premier Funs, head here. How much are tickets for the Melbourne International Film Festival? A Multipass-12 to MIFF gives you 12 standard festival admissions, which you can enjoy by yourself or share with friends. The full price for a share pass is $285.60 or $257.10 for concession holders. There's also a Multipass-6 on offer for $151.20 or $136.10 for concession holders. Single session tickets are also available to purchase.
BBC News
6 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Aurigny expects to financially break even in 2025 after losses
Aurigny is on track to break even financially this year after losing millions of pounds last year, its chief executive has States-owned airline made a loss of £6.5m in 2024 compared with a £1.7m profit the previous Bezuidenhout said its financial position was better because it no longer needed to pay for the wet lease of aircrafts, where one airline borrows from said Aurigny had launched a partnership with airline Norse Atlantic UK to help develop and retain its pilots - creating a more simplified fleet. He said: "Things are indeed looking much better. "Last year's financial results were fundamentally a function of the vast expenditure we incurred for ACMI and wet-lease expenditure. "When you remove those one-solve expenditures from our financial results of last year, we would again have achieved a profit as we did the year before and the year before that." Aurigny's monthly review for June found about 85% of its flights were on schedule, with a lack of pilots being the main reason for flight Bezuidenhout said the company should be at full capacity with its staff by the end of July and that its pilot head count had improved by 30% in the past three said: "So this issue addresses the retention of first officers and then the migration of those first officers back into Aurigny."We are now fully recruited - the last number of pilots are going through their conversion training and by the end of July we would be at full operational strength."
Sydney Morning Herald
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Revealed: The missing episode of Baby Reindeer, and why it was cut
Richard Gadd, the writer and star of the seven-part hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, has for the first time revealed the existence of an eighth episode, which was cut from the show before release. Speaking at the Future Vision television summit, presented by Australians in Film and Screen Australia at ACMI in Melbourne, the triple-Emmy-winning Scot told interviewer and fellow showrunner Tony Ayres (Clickbait, The Survivors, Stateless) that an entire episode set in Scotland was scrapped – at his insistence. 'I really fought to cut an episode of Baby Reindeer,' Gadd told a stunned audience. 'I really wanted to cut it.' The episode had been written as a pressure release of sorts, as Gadd's hapless standup comedian Donny Dunn is reeling from the relentless attention of former lawyer-turned stalker Martha Scott (Jessica Gunning), a woman he met while working in a London bar. 'I remember when we were developing it, there was the note [from Netflix] that kept coming in – and probably rightfully so – that the show was just too dark, you need to give the audience a respite from it all,' Gadd said. 'And so there was an episode where I escape London to get away from Martha and everything, and I go and visit my parents [in Scotland]. There's a whole episode where I go to the football with my dad, I spend a day with my dad, and stuff kind of happens.' Martha was 'sort of relentless', he said, and the advice that the audience needed a break from her seemed reasonable. But Gadd said: 'When we got to the edit, I felt you miss her every time she's not on screen, and I felt in a lot of ways, the sooner you get back to her, the better. And so episode three is an amalgamation of a few episodes. 'The episode that's missing ended with her in my kitchen, which is actually how we started [the final version of] episode three. So the edit was almost a complete rewrite of what was in the script.'
The Age
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Revealed: The missing episode of Baby Reindeer, and why it was cut
Richard Gadd, the writer and star of the seven-part hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, has for the first time revealed the existence of an eighth episode, which was cut from the show before release. Speaking at the Future Vision television summit, presented by Australians in Film and Screen Australia at ACMI in Melbourne, the triple-Emmy-winning Scot told interviewer and fellow showrunner Tony Ayres (Clickbait, The Survivors, Stateless) that an entire episode set in Scotland was scrapped – at his insistence. 'I really fought to cut an episode of Baby Reindeer,' Gadd told a stunned audience. 'I really wanted to cut it.' The episode had been written as a pressure release of sorts, as Gadd's hapless standup comedian Donny Dunn is reeling from the relentless attention of former lawyer-turned stalker Martha Scott (Jessica Gunning), a woman he met while working in a London bar. 'I remember when we were developing it, there was the note [from Netflix] that kept coming in – and probably rightfully so – that the show was just too dark, you need to give the audience a respite from it all,' Gadd said. 'And so there was an episode where I escape London to get away from Martha and everything, and I go and visit my parents [in Scotland]. There's a whole episode where I go to the football with my dad, I spend a day with my dad, and stuff kind of happens.' Martha was 'sort of relentless', he said, and the advice that the audience needed a break from her seemed reasonable. But Gadd said: 'When we got to the edit, I felt you miss her every time she's not on screen, and I felt in a lot of ways, the sooner you get back to her, the better. And so episode three is an amalgamation of a few episodes. 'The episode that's missing ended with her in my kitchen, which is actually how we started [the final version of] episode three. So the edit was almost a complete rewrite of what was in the script.'
Straits Times
12-07-2025
- General
- Straits Times
TBR (To Be Read): Novelists prove that the rewriting of history should be embraced
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox The Penguin History Of The World (2014) features Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The (Little) Tower Of Babel as its cover art. SINGAPORE – Growing up, I was always partial to the Ur-text. They were the best entry points for the autodidact. One of my first impulsive buys was as a lower secondary student in Melbourne's ACMI, formerly the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
