The Wizard of Oz ruby slippers sell for $US28 million
Dorothy's sequinned ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the beloved 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz, have sold at auction for $US28 million ($A43.8 million).
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It was smiles all around when federal arts minister Tony Burke joined the National Film and Sound Archive retiring chair Caroline Elliott and CEO Patrick McIntyre to celebrate the archive's 40 years.
HELEN MUSA previews American director Stephen Soucy’s 110-minute doco, Merchant Ivory, showing at the British Film Festival.
The producer of Paddington In Peru says the late Queen Elizabeth II will feature in the new film.
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Grim start to an optimistic festival opener
Arts editor HELEN MUSA says the 2024 Italian film festival kicks off on Thursday with a glorious choice for opening night— a film called Gloria!
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‘My heart is broken’: Nicole Kidman’s mother dies
Nicole Kidman has been unable to receive an award for best actress at the Venice International Film Festival in person after the sudden death of her "beautiful, brave" mother.
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Cinema as you’ve never see it, seriously
Canberra is about to get only the third IMAX cinema screen in Australia when Dendy sparks up the laser projector on to a giant screen in November. But what is IMAX and where did it come from? SIMON COBCROFT has the answers.
One of the joys of the international film festivals is the experience of a different way of life and the Scandinavian Film festival’s screening of The Tundra Within Me is a perfect example, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Still fab after 60 years: ALISON BLAIR reveals how The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night made pop cinema history.
The steamiest movie of the year has almost no sex in it, says ALISON TAYLOR. How did Challengers do it?
On a recent Sunday afternoon, arts editor HELEN MUSA joined a crowd in Queanbeyan for Rebus Theatre’s screening of their film, Re-Emergence: Every Storm Gives Way To A New Sunrise.
From Hilde with Love, which will open the 2024 German Film Festival on May 7, is a movie about the Nazi era such as you may have never seen before, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Nicole Kidman has joined the ranks of Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro in receiving the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson will reunite to star in a new Bridget Jones movie, titled Mad About the Boy.
Australian actress Rebel Wilson says she felt "disrespected" on the set of the 2016 comedy film Grimsby.
Mixed reactions and high emotions have greeted the film premiere of Oppenheimer in Japan, where two cities were obliterated by the inventor's nuclear weapons.
Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story, The Body Snatcher, the in-demand Canberra actor and videographer, Craig Alexander, has embarked on his first feature film, Snatchers, to be shot exclusively in Canberra during April.
A mystery buyer has snapped up a Star Wars artefact described as "one of the most recognisable cinema designs of all time".
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer has won best picture at the Academy Awards.
