Jake Wilson
@movingtargets.bsky.social
Film reviewer at the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Longer weekly essays at Moving Targets (www.jakewilson.com.au). Programmer at Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema (www.facebook.com/BBBCinema).
For those in Melbourne, Australia: on July 19 the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema hosts its 2nd all-night microbudget marathon, with work by Colin Hodson, Alejandro Adams, Timothy Spanos, Rosina Hickman, Jake Barningham and more!! See www.facebook.com/BBBCinema for details of this event and others.
July 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For those in Melbourne, Australia: on July 19 the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema hosts its 2nd all-night microbudget marathon, with work by Colin Hodson, Alejandro Adams, Timothy Spanos, Rosina Hickman, Jake Barningham and more!! See www.facebook.com/BBBCinema for details of this event and others.
Tonight (Monday 30/6) at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema, 7 Hope St, Brunswick, Melbourne. Works by Kamal Aljafari, Agustina Comedi, Pedro Costa, Denis Côté, Federico Luis, Bill Morrison, Rita Pauls, Malena Szlam. Introduced by Dr Cristóbal Escobar. Doors open 6.30pm, screening 7pm.
Short Films In Large Format
Event in Melbourne, VIC, Australia by Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema on Monday, June 30 2025
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June 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Tonight (Monday 30/6) at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema, 7 Hope St, Brunswick, Melbourne. Works by Kamal Aljafari, Agustina Comedi, Pedro Costa, Denis Côté, Federico Luis, Bill Morrison, Rita Pauls, Malena Szlam. Introduced by Dr Cristóbal Escobar. Doors open 6.30pm, screening 7pm.
On the New French Extremity, Michael Haneke, Bluey, etc.
Games
Fine holiday fun.
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June 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
On the New French Extremity, Michael Haneke, Bluey, etc.
This week at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema: tonight (Sunday 22 June) is a MYSTERY FILM introduced by critic Philippa Hawker, then tomorrow is the classic Jesse James (Henry King, 1939) with Tyrone Power, introduced by me. Doors open 6.30pm, screenings start 7pm. Address at link.
Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema | Melbourne VIC
Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 181 likes · 12 talking about this. Films you can't see anywhere else, since 2021. Regular screenings 7pm Sundays and Mondays till July...
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June 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This week at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema: tonight (Sunday 22 June) is a MYSTERY FILM introduced by critic Philippa Hawker, then tomorrow is the classic Jesse James (Henry King, 1939) with Tyrone Power, introduced by me. Doors open 6.30pm, screenings start 7pm. Address at link.
It's been a little while with Moving Targets, but we're getting back on course with this belated review of The Phoenician Scheme:
Going Straight
Wes Anderson stays on course in The Phoenician Scheme.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
It's been a little while with Moving Targets, but we're getting back on course with this belated review of The Phoenician Scheme:
Tomorrow night, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm). Time for Melbourne's Don Weis fans to stand up and be counted.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Event in Melbourne, VIC, Australia by Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema on Monday, June 9 2025
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June 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Tomorrow night, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm). Time for Melbourne's Don Weis fans to stand up and be counted.
On Terry Chiu's Open Doom Crescendo, a favourite at the recent Brunswick Underground Film Festival (and now available on Blu-ray): www.jakewilson.com.au/p/the-outsid...
June 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On Terry Chiu's Open Doom Crescendo, a favourite at the recent Brunswick Underground Film Festival (and now available on Blu-ray): www.jakewilson.com.au/p/the-outsid...
Moving Targets goes long on the mysteries of Nathan Fielder.
This Is Your Captain
Nathan Fielder keeps getting away with it in the second season of The Rehearsal.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Moving Targets goes long on the mysteries of Nathan Fielder.
What is Ryan Coogler really saying in Sinners? Some speculations.
Blood Relations
Ryan Coogler's Sinners is a crowdpleaser with a difference.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What is Ryan Coogler really saying in Sinners? Some speculations.
Notes on Henry King's 1925 version of Stella Dallas, which I introduced recently at Cinema Reborn in Melbourne (and which is just as good as the Barbara Stanwyck remake).
Stella!
Doing justice to bad taste in Henry King's 1925 version of Stella Dallas.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Notes on Henry King's 1925 version of Stella Dallas, which I introduced recently at Cinema Reborn in Melbourne (and which is just as good as the Barbara Stanwyck remake).
What is John Mulaney doing? I tried to work it out, with special reference to Everybody's Live.
Discomfort Viewing
John Mulaney tests the boundaries of Netflix with Everybody's Live.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
What is John Mulaney doing? I tried to work it out, with special reference to Everybody's Live.
Screening soon in Sydney and Melbourne at the Fantastic Film Festival Australia.
Mock On
Super 8 rises from the grave in the independent Brisbane epic A Grand Mockery.
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April 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Screening soon in Sydney and Melbourne at the Fantastic Film Festival Australia.
I didn't love the new Snow White, but I enjoyed writing about it.
Heigh-Ho
Digging for significance in Disney's new Snow White.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I didn't love the new Snow White, but I enjoyed writing about it.
New free post! Now with fewer typos!
Strike Up the Band
The politics of jazz, and vice versa, in Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack To a Coup d'État.
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April 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
New free post! Now with fewer typos!
In tribute to the late Val Kilmer, this week's Moving Targets piece is on Real Genius (paywalled, but you can read the opening).
The Science Guy
Looking back at Val Kilmer in Martha Coolidge's Real Genius.
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April 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
In tribute to the late Val Kilmer, this week's Moving Targets piece is on Real Genius (paywalled, but you can read the opening).
The late Corinne Cantrill and her husband Arthur, who survives her, were among the most significant Australian filmmakers of any kind -- and as people, also extremely significant for me personally. I wrote about Corinne recently in The Age, but this piece is less official, so to speak.
Remembering Corinne Cantrill
Reflections on the life and work of a great filmmaker.
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March 31, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The late Corinne Cantrill and her husband Arthur, who survives her, were among the most significant Australian filmmakers of any kind -- and as people, also extremely significant for me personally. I wrote about Corinne recently in The Age, but this piece is less official, so to speak.
The new Moving Targets post, on two films that barely made it to cinemas here in Australia. For those in Melbourne, In The Lost Lands is still on at Reading Cinemas in Dandenong if you rush.
Border Zones
On the margins of the mainstream with In the Lost Lands and One Of Them Days.
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March 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The new Moving Targets post, on two films that barely made it to cinemas here in Australia. For those in Melbourne, In The Lost Lands is still on at Reading Cinemas in Dandenong if you rush.
A call for contributions. Please share far and wide.
Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema
The cutting edge, the leading edge, the bleeding edge, the edge of reason, the edge of civilisation, the edge of meaning. On edge, losing your edge. The thin edge of the wedge. The edge invoked in...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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This should have gone up yesterday, here’s the latest Moving Targets piece, free for all to read, on Sophie Fillières’ Ma vie ma gueule, now at the French Film Festival. I also say a few things about her earlier films.
Cracking Up
On Ma vie ma gueule, and other crazy comedies by Sophie Fillières.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This should have gone up yesterday, here’s the latest Moving Targets piece, free for all to read, on Sophie Fillières’ Ma vie ma gueule, now at the French Film Festival. I also say a few things about her earlier films.
In the Age today, my tribute to Corinne Cantrill:
Film pioneer set fire to screens and didn’t care if you hated her work
Corinne Cantrill was one half of a couple whose experimental works caught the world’s attention.
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March 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In the Age today, my tribute to Corinne Cantrill:
New on Moving Targets, on Jacques Tourneur's The Fearmakers (and why it matters how you see it).
Lights Out
What's missing from the Blu-ray of Jacques Tourneur's The Fearmakers.
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March 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
New on Moving Targets, on Jacques Tourneur's The Fearmakers (and why it matters how you see it).
The latest free Moving Targets piece, on Frederick Wiseman's 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (screening in New York soon).
Ideas Of Order
Systems at work and play in Frederick Wiseman's 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library.
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March 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The latest free Moving Targets piece, on Frederick Wiseman's 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (screening in New York soon).
My new Moving Targets piece, on Emilia Pérez and related matters. Paywalled, but the opening is free.
Two Cheers For Emilia
Our Oscar coverage continues with a qualified defence of Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My new Moving Targets piece, on Emilia Pérez and related matters. Paywalled, but the opening is free.
Moving Targets is back on schedule. This one’s free.
The Wicked And the Brutal
Catching up with a couple of outsider stories in time for the Oscars.
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February 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Moving Targets is back on schedule. This one’s free.
Moving Targets this week looks at Severance – you’ll need a subscription, but the opening is free.
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February 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Moving Targets this week looks at Severance – you’ll need a subscription, but the opening is free.
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