MIFF Day 4

Animation (With Dogs)

A great collection of short animations, a few turds in the bunch but overall great.

Katyn

A thoroughly depressing film about a Soviet war crime in Poland, where 12,000 officers of the Polish Army were murdered and buried in mass graves. The USSR refused to acknowledge the crime and blamed the Germans after the war. The film tells the pain of a people forced to live a lie or face brutal repercussions. Brilliant filmmaking, but almost numbing in the horror of how a terrible crime against a people can continue to be perpetrated day after day after day.

Not Quite Hollywood

About bloody time! Finally a documentary that tells the tale of all those brilliant, bawdy and bloody Aussie films that nobody really talks about. Things like The Man from Hong Kong, Turkey Shoot, Patrick and the gazillion others that are out there. It's great to see a film that finally pays tribute to the other face of Australian cinema. You know, the one where the film is actually fun to watch...