 | Dr Catherine Stewart is lost. Although she’s a successful gynaecologist, she no longer knows how to seduce David, her husband, and feels invisible in a world of younger and supposedly more beautiful women. The men around her are obsessed with girls – her teenage son is sleeping with his sweetheart under her roof, her male colleague has a partner half his age and David, a university professor, is constantly chatting to his young students. ...read more |
Chloë
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 by Angela Spenser
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Sins of my Father
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 by Robin Scher
 | Pablo Escobar – the name incites images of secret jungle hideouts, lavish lifestyles, and overweight Spanish men doing lines of cocaine off large breasted, topless women. If that’s what you imagine when thinking of the notorious Colombian drug lord, then Sins of My Father is probably not going to satisfy you. ...read more |
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Bad Lieutenant
Thursday, August 26th, 2010 by Roger Young
 | At first look, and by most standards, Bad Lieutenant is a batshit crazy film. However in the context of it being a Werner Herzog remake of an Abel Ferrara film starring Nicholas Cage it ends up feeling lazy; a series of easy and crudely handled jokes. This, being a Herzog film, may be the point, a great nihilistic shrug at random cruelties of existence. ...read more |
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Videocracy
Friday, August 20th, 2010 by Kavish Chetty
 | Italians have a popular representation in cinema and literature: macho, Machiavellian, masculine – perfectly dramatic, their musical language with its curvaceous notes; their gesticulating fingers, their goon-honour in the Godfather. So, it comes as nothing other than affirmation that the Italian males in Videocracy are militantly masculine: they command women, they mainline their arteries with power and wealth: their Italy is the Italy of excess and decadence, hypersexualisation in the land that gave us Passolini’s Salo. ...read more |
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Schuks Tshabalala
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 by Mlungu Wasekapa
 | I watched Leon Shitster’s new film Schuks Tshaba-blah-blah and made some notes. I only call him “shitster” because I’m jealous. Jealous that most hit films in the history of South Africa are Schuster films. Jealous because he seems to be having way too much fun to be making the money he makes while I’m still stuck writing for Mahala. And under a pseudonym. Intentionally installed to protect myself from the vitriolic abuse so easily dished out on Mahala comment boards. ...read more |
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The A-Holes
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 by Kavish Chetty
 | The A-Team plays cannibal to its own history. Consuming decades of banal Hollywood gristle, it spits out every cliché, every time-worn trope, yanks at every fruit which dares to hang within the adolescent’s grubby reach – and the result is predictably bullshit. ...read more |
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DIFF Diary: Day 9 – Lola
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 by Sarah Dawson
 | We’re into the last stretch of DIFF. Tonight is the closing film and gala dinner for presenting awards. There is still a full day of films tomorrow though. Grateful my eyes haven’t exploded. ...read more |
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DIFF Diary: Day 8 – Where are the Fathers
Friday, July 30th, 2010 by Roger Young
 | As you may have noticed by yesterdays post, it’s got to that exhausted point of the DIFF. I just don’t know how many more films I can actually see. I get sleep but it’s not restful, images are double exposed and seeping into my dreams. Only two days to go to the closing party. ...read more |
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DIFF Diary: Day 7 – Yay For Narrative
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 by Roger Young and Sarah Dawson
 | ROGER YOUNG Everyone of importance has left town. It’s just us and the little seen films building up to Saturday’s closing film and award ceremony. Four Lions is getting tons of talk but all screening are sold out and it looks like it’ll hit the circuit ...read more |
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DIFF Diary: Day 6 – Art, Ideology and Love.
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 by Roger Young and Sarah Dawson
 | We’re into the last stretch. I’ve eaten so much popcorn that the smell of it is making me ill. In the shuttle two young filmmakers are complaining out loud about South African films being irrelevant to them because they’re always either about the past or about politics. FilmMart and producers workshops are over, the Talent Campus party is later, but I’m going to avoid that. Now I just want to get into the nightly film bath. ...read more |
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