Madman Films

Australia's leading independent theatrical and home entertainment distribution company. We proudly showcase the best in Australian film and world cinema. madman.com.au

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The Fifth Element (1997)

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'Celebrate Studio Ghibli' Film Festival Limited Edition Poster by Academy Award winning artist Shaun Tan

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Candy (2006)

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“Faster and faster. And for a long time you wouldn’t feel anything. And then you’d burst into fire. Forever… And the angel’s wouldn’t help you. Because they’ve all gone away.“

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89th Academy Awards - Best Picture Nominees

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Toni Erdmann named the best film of 2016 by Slant Magazine

Their Best of 2016 list was comprised of 25 films. All women directed movies have been bolded: 

1. Toni Erdmann 2. O.J.: Made in America 3. Happy Hour 4. Cemetery of Splendour 5. Elle 6. Paterson 7. Moonlight 8. Cameraperson 9. Manchester by the Sea 10. The Treasure 11. Right Now, Wrong Then 12. No Home Movie 13. Knight of Cups 14. Sunset Song 15. The Love Witch 16. Certain Women 17. Everybody Wants Some!! 18. Love & Friendship 19. The Illinois Parables 20. Homo Sapiens 21. Kate Plays Christine 22. The Academy of Muses 23. Fire at Sea 24. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero 25. The Neon Demon

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Gorgeous tribute to Spirited Away by artist Marko Manev.

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“I know I ruined everything. I’m sorry.”

Frank (2014) dir. Lenny Abrahamson

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Only lovers left alive (2013) dir. Jim Jarmusch

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Hell Or High Water’s David Mackenzie talks Damnation

Scottish to his tartans, David Mackenzie is fast becoming an adopted son of the US. For his next project, TV drama pilot Damnation, the Hell Or High Water director is shifting from the dusty south west of Comancheria to the dusty heartland states.

The USA Network show is a 1930s saga of big business concerns and poor, struggling families, with possibly a sprinkling of Elmer Gantry-like religious hypocrisy, crime and demagoguery thrown in for good measure. “It’s set in the Great Depression and based on true events,” Mackenzie tells Empire of this heady-sounding mix, “It’s about strikers and strike-breakers in Iowa, almost the Dust Bowl, which is bloody interesting.” A bit Steinbeck-y, then? "Kind of. A little bit more amped than that, but yeah.”

The show is the brainchild of writer/poet/all-round multi-hypenate Tony Tost, the man behind A&E’s Western crime drama Longmire. He’s a likely kindred spirit to Mackenzie, whose new crime Western is out this week and taps into similar themes.

The story focuses on Seth Davenport, an insurrectionist posing as a preacher. Up against him is a strikebreaker called Creeley Turner, firmly in the pay of rich industrialists and more stick than carrot in his M.O. “Is it violent? Yeah,” adds Mackenzie. "I’m excited about doing something that, again, feels kind of political.”“

This one is well worth keeping an eye on. Casting news should follow soon.

- Phil De Semlyen

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave.

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frank ocean’s favorite films

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) dir. Taika Waititi | ♬ “Once rejected / now accepted / by me – and Hector / a trifecta / Ricky Baker / Ricky Baker” ♫

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We've created this new poster for the restoration release of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story. “The greatest film of all time" - Sight & Sound

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