CINEMA REBORN IN THE MEDIA - Links to coverage by Philippa Hawker, CJ Johnson, Audrey Man and Grace Boschetti & Zac Tome

 

CINEMA REBORN IN THE MEDIA Cinema Reborn has had some nice media attention in the last few days and you may be interested in exploring the thoughts of Philippa Hawker in The Saturday Paper, CJ Johnson on ABC Sydney radio and Audrey Man writing for UTS Central News. Philippa Hawker’s piece devotes attention to a very interesting selection of our Cinema Reborn 2025 program - Tokyo Pop, Daughters of Darkness, What I Have Written, the Anna Kannava program and Leila and the Wolves. Read Her report  (or buy the paper out today)   https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film/2025/04/24/cinema-reborn  CJ Johnson, former President of the Film Critics’ Circle of Australia is shortly heading off to Cannes as a member of the International Critics Jury (FIPRESCI). On his regular Sydney radio gig with James Valentine on ABC702 CJ gave some attention to Cinema Reborn (“an extraordinary range of fascinating films”). He concentrates his recommendations on Holiday and Touch of Evil. CJ was fulsome about both but especially Touch of Evil. (“It’s one of the best films ever made…one of Orson Welles’s masterpieces... It’s his great film noir…) You can listen here  https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sydney-afternoons/afternoons/105192398 At the one hour mark James Valentine introduces CJ  and at the 1hour 18 minute mark and they talk about Cinema Reborn, until 1.24. Audrey Man is a young journalism student at UTS and has written a report on Cinema Reborn’s origins and its current program. Audrey interviewed Organising Committee members Geoff Gardner and Grace Boschetti for her piece. You can read it at https://centralnews.com.au/2025/04/24/australian-classics-premiere-at-cinema-reborn-festival/ Grace Boschetti & Zac Tomé from Cinema Reborn dropped in to the 3MBS studio at the weekend to talk about Cinema Reborn during the station's weekly program devoted to film music. You can hear the conversation, which runs from the 9 minute to the 16 minute mark at  https://www.3mbs.org.au/programs/film-scores  In case you have missed it…here is Cinema Reborn’s 2025 trailer. It was produced by Organising Committee Member James Vaughan and there’s an image in there somewhere of just about every film in the program.