Stephanie Bunbury
Stephanie Bunbury is a film and culture writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
‘People are used like meat’: How Russia’s greatest director is taking on Putin from exile
Against a backdrop of domestic murder, Minotaur director Andrey Zvyagintsev rages against the Russian regime. This time, they won’t mistake the message.
- Stephanie Bunbury
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No Berlin-style fracas, but at Cannes, the politics were on screen and off
A film about political polarisation has won the festival’s top prize – a fitting choice given the temper of the times.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Her dad won the Nobel in Literature – but he hasn’t read her book yet
Naomi Ishiguro is stepping out of her famous father’s shadow to forge her own magical path in fantasy fiction.
- Stephanie Bunbury
How secret recordings and a dangerous seduction tore a billionaire family apart
As “The Richest Woman in the World”, Isabelle Huppert steps into a world she cannot understand.
- Stephanie Bunbury
John Travolta flags Australian visit after donating ‘majestic’ Boeing 707 to museum
The veteran star was in Cannes for the premiere of his directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach when he delivered an update on the future of the plane.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Why John Lennon’s son Sean watched Steven Soderbergh’s latest film with a lawyer
The director’s film John Lennon: The Last Interview uses a conversation conducted hours before the musician’s death in 1980. But that’s not what has observers feeling anxious.
- Stephanie Bunbury
From an interloper in shorts to an honorary Palme d’Or, Peter Jackson is a hit at Cannes
On the acclaimed director’s first trip to the Palais, he was kicked out over a dress code violation.
- Stephanie Bunbury
There’s a lot of poo in this show. Audiences can’t get enough
Florentina Holzinger has been known to make audiences vomit, but the explosive final scene in A Year Without Summer has struck a chord.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Rebel Wilson’s film The Deb lands US deal as it relaunches in Cannes
Protagonist Pictures announces news of a US distribution deal with a “relaunch” of the film on day one of the Cannes Film Festival.
- Stephanie Bunbury
Why a film about motherhood tested Jodie Foster in more ways than one
After 58 years on screen, the Hollywood star shows her mastery of French in a film about psychoanalysis and maternal ambiguity.
- Stephanie Bunbury