After many challenges during its 10-year residency at the State Theatre Centre of WA, questions hang over Black Swan’s role as the state’s flagship theatre company. Mark Naglazas reports.
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French Film Festival: vive la difference!
4 March 2022
While English-language cinema has narrowed down to blockbusters, horror flicks and off-beat art movies, French cinema continues to capture the full spectrum of human experience. Mark Naglazas previews this year’s French Film Festival.
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Film studio in Perth an epic flop
3 March 2022
The vision splendid of a movie-making palace on the mouth of the Swan River has been shattered with Mark McGowan’s announcement that his government would not deliver on its election promise. Mark Naglazas investigates.
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Perth’s Top Five Outdoor Cinemas
3 December 2021
Watching a movie under the stars is an iconic Perth summertime activity. Mark Naglazas surveys the venues, previews the programs and samples the extras that make an outdoor movie a special experience.
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Documenting a dance of recovery
10 August 2021
When Dawn Jackson made the transition from dance to film, she didn’t have to look far for a remarkable story, the recovery of fellow WAAPA-trained artist Floeur Alder after a life-altering attack. She spoke to Mark Naglazas.
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A director who refused to give up the hunt
18 June 2021
Perth director Martin Wilson has finally hooked his debut feature film, after three decades in the movie industry. He chats with Mark Naglazas about filming Great White.
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What has Marvel ever done for us?
20 May 2021
Western Australia is building a film studio to cash in on Hollywood’s rush Down Under. But what will the arrival of big-budget productions mean for the local industry, asks Mark Naglazas in the final in his three-part series on the most significant piece of filmmaking infrastructure in the state’s history.
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Lights! Cameras! Fremantle!
13 May 2021
The WA screen industry has fallen in behind the idea of Fremantle as the state’s film hub. But is Victoria Quay the best place for a movie studio? asks Mark Naglazas in the second of a series of articles on the most important piece of film infrastructure in our state’s history.
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Hollywood or bust?
6 May 2021
The long-held dream of a movie studio in Western Australia is edging closer to reality. But is a $100 million state-of-the-art facility on Victoria Quay what our screen industry needs, asks Mark Naglazas in the first in a series on the most important piece of infrastructure in the State’s film and television history.
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Local indie film dives into the belly of the beast
15 April 2021
The dark and confronting narrative of locally-produced film Greenfield could have been ripped from the recent news headlines. In fact it began life over half a decade ago when Danish film-maker Julius Telmer spent six months in WA. He talks with Mark Naglazas about the origins of the film, which opens this month.
