There’s a parched austerity to the landscape of the Australian outback, along with an embedded history of conflict between Indigenous and invading occupants, that makes it irresistibly well-suited to screen westerns. But there’s a loneliness to it, too, a sense that its quiet vastness could swallow you whole and without trace, that lends itself as easily to moody, smoky mystery.
Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen has twice before dabbled in the harsh, dry space where those genre possibilities overlap, in his features “Goldstone” and “Mystery Road.” In his latest, most accomplished film “Limbo,” he once more surveys the region with a critical eye, finding a history of racial injustice in its sharp cracks and long shadows. But the genre styling this time has been pushed all the way to stark, monochromatic stylization. This is outback noir — oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked — and Sen wears it well.
Aboriginal filmmaker Ivan Sen has twice before dabbled in the harsh, dry space where those genre possibilities overlap, in his features “Goldstone” and “Mystery Road.” In his latest, most accomplished film “Limbo,” he once more surveys the region with a critical eye, finding a history of racial injustice in its sharp cracks and long shadows. But the genre styling this time has been pushed all the way to stark, monochromatic stylization. This is outback noir — oblique, secretive and as hard-boiled as the ground is hard-baked — and Sen wears it well.
- 2/24/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Ivan Sen’s transfixing detective story takes its title from a remote, fictional opal mining town in the South Australian desert, surrounded by a ravaged landscape of craters and dirt mounds that evokes some barren, faraway planet in the stunning drone shots that punctate the film. The bone-dry, pockmarked earth, where many locals live in underground dugouts to escape the extreme heat and dust clouds, provides a bracingly atmospheric setting for this distinctive cold-case procedural. Led by an almost unrecognizable Simon Baker as a jaded cop, Limbo weaves in themes of racial inequity, broken individuals and fractured families to build quiet potency.
Indigenous Australian filmmaker Sen used the genre tropes of the Western to reflect on Aboriginal identity and the uneasy relationship of First Nations people to the country’s justice system in Mystery Road and Goldstone. In Limbo, he veers closer to noir in a film that has similarities...
Indigenous Australian filmmaker Sen used the genre tropes of the Western to reflect on Aboriginal identity and the uneasy relationship of First Nations people to the country’s justice system in Mystery Road and Goldstone. In Limbo, he veers closer to noir in a film that has similarities...
- 2/23/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Location Managers Guild International has announced the winners of its 9th annual Lmgi Awards with HBO’s Succession, Netflix’s Stranger Things and HBO Max’s Station Eleven topping the television categories, and House of Gucci and No Time To Die receiving the Motion Picture honors.
Hosted by Paul Scheer, the awards ceremony and reception took place tonight at the Los Angeles Center Studios before an audience of 400, including Lmgi members, industry executives and press.
The Lmgi Awards spotlight international features, television and commercials in which the creative use of filming locations set the tone, enrich the character and enhance the narrative.
Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, which was filmed throughout Italy, won for outstanding locations in a period film, and James Bond pic No Time To Die, which was filmed in London, Norway and Jamaica, The Faroe Islands and Italy, was honored for outstanding locations in a contemporary film.
Hosted by Paul Scheer, the awards ceremony and reception took place tonight at the Los Angeles Center Studios before an audience of 400, including Lmgi members, industry executives and press.
The Lmgi Awards spotlight international features, television and commercials in which the creative use of filming locations set the tone, enrich the character and enhance the narrative.
Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, which was filmed throughout Italy, won for outstanding locations in a period film, and James Bond pic No Time To Die, which was filmed in London, Norway and Jamaica, The Faroe Islands and Italy, was honored for outstanding locations in a contemporary film.
- 8/28/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
“Stranger Things” and “Succession” were among the top winners at the 9th annual Location Managers Guild International (Lmgi) awards on Saturday evening.
The awards ceremony and reception took place at the Los Angeles Center Studios before an audience of 400 attendees, including Lmgi members, industry executives and press.
“Succession,” which shot part of its third season on location in Italy, took home the award for outstanding locations in a contemporary television series, while “Stranger Things” won for period television series.
Last season’s awards contenders “No Time to Die” and “House of Gucci” also took home awards.
The Ridley Scott film, which was shot on location in Italy, won for outstanding locations in a period film. The James Bond entry, which was filmed in London, Norway and Jamaica, picked up the award for outstanding locations in a contemporary film.
The Lmgi Awards spotlight international features, television and commercials in which the...
The awards ceremony and reception took place at the Los Angeles Center Studios before an audience of 400 attendees, including Lmgi members, industry executives and press.
“Succession,” which shot part of its third season on location in Italy, took home the award for outstanding locations in a contemporary television series, while “Stranger Things” won for period television series.
Last season’s awards contenders “No Time to Die” and “House of Gucci” also took home awards.
The Ridley Scott film, which was shot on location in Italy, won for outstanding locations in a period film. The James Bond entry, which was filmed in London, Norway and Jamaica, picked up the award for outstanding locations in a contemporary film.
The Lmgi Awards spotlight international features, television and commercials in which the...
- 8/28/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
‘No Time to Die’ director Cary Joji Fukunaga and location manager Charlie Hayes recently shared the idea behind the film’s locations and how the landscape of each place helps in telling the story with regard to the mood and tone of the movie and how locations are always a fundamental component of the James Bond […]...
- 2/25/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Australian actress Samara Weaving has been set for the lead role in Fox Searchlight’s upcoming thriller “Ready or Not,” which is scheduled to shoot in the fall, Variety has learned exclusively.
The Radio Silence directing team of Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin is helming from a script by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy. Fox Searchlight picked up the rights last fall for the project, in which a young woman is invited on the night of her wedding by her new husband’s rich, eccentric family to participate in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
Tripp Vinson is producing via his banner, Vinson Films. James Vanderbilt, Bradley Fischer, and William Sherak of Mythology Entertainment are also producing. Executive producers are Tara Farney, Tracey Nyberg, and Radio Silence’s Chad Villella.
Weaving played the role of Penelope, the naive 19-year-old girlfriend of John Hawkes’ Charlie Hayes character,...
The Radio Silence directing team of Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin is helming from a script by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy. Fox Searchlight picked up the rights last fall for the project, in which a young woman is invited on the night of her wedding by her new husband’s rich, eccentric family to participate in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
Tripp Vinson is producing via his banner, Vinson Films. James Vanderbilt, Bradley Fischer, and William Sherak of Mythology Entertainment are also producing. Executive producers are Tara Farney, Tracey Nyberg, and Radio Silence’s Chad Villella.
Weaving played the role of Penelope, the naive 19-year-old girlfriend of John Hawkes’ Charlie Hayes character,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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