The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival has announced Booker Prize winning novelist, J. M. Coetzee, as the seventh and final juror for the 2009 Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film.
The pop singer will open the show with a performance of her hit song “Fireworkâ€.
The pair had a wide-ranging chat at the Chauvel last night as guests of the French Film Festival, of which both are patrons.
Cinema Nova has elevated general manager Kristian Connelly to CEO, a reward for 11 years' exemplary service, and hired two creative content executives.
David Stratton is the curator and patron of the inaugural Great Britain Retro Film Festival.
All ten films - Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King Of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995), The Aviator (2004)
Each of Jane Campion's nine features, a selection of her shorts and a documentary about her life and career will screen at Sydney Film Festival in June as part of a retrospective, Her Way.
The Sydney Film Festival's 2013 Ian McPherson Memorial Lecture with feature Australian actor Jack Thompson, and ABC TV host David Stratton.