Stephanie Bunbury
Stephanie Bunbury is a film and culture writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Arthouse director Jim Jarmusch sums up most things with this three-word catchphrase
If Jim Jarmusch can be said to have anything as brazenly branded as a catchphrase, it would have to be this.
- Stephanie Bunbury
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Desire, detective work and disease: the French Film Festival has it all
Famous faces line up alongside new discoveries in this year’s feast of Gallic cinema.
- Stephanie Bunbury
She was five years old and under fire. In this film, we hear her last words
The Voice of Hind Rajab uses the real voice of a Palestinian girl who could not be saved. Some call it exploitative, but its director is unapologetic.
- Stephanie Bunbury
‘Pain and anger’: How art and politics collided at the Berlin film festival
Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Grint and Michelle Yeoh are just some of the big names to cop politically pointed questions this week, much to the discomfort of festival organisers.
- Stephanie Bunbury
How did Amanda Seyfried miss out on an Oscar nod for this performance?
The star’s turn as the leader of an 18th century religious group in The Testament of Ann Lee has been called “a singular experience” – her director agrees.
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The Berlin film festival is desperate not to get political. Somebody forgot to tell Warwick Thornton
The Indigenous filmmaker took aim at Australia’s colonial history as he premiered his new movie Wolfram at the prestigious Berlinale on Tuesday.
- Stephanie Bunbury
By 13, she was bored with acting. Then this young Kiwi found her spark
Being shy, clueless about clothes and saying no to life in LA hasn’t stopped the rise of Thomasin McKenzie.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Think Heated Rivalry was hardcore? This film raises the temperature
Set in the world of biker kink, Pillion brings a hidden culture into the open (literally).
- Stephanie Bunbury
Ethan Hawke was once too handsome for this role. Then came the bad news
Blue Moon director Richard Linklater waited 10 years until his friend was ready to play songwriter Lorenz Hart.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Portrait of a fear that has no name
In The Secret Agent, Narco star Wagner Moura finally tells a story that is close to his heart.
- Stephanie Bunbury