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Jake Wilson

@movingtargets.bsky.social
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Film reviewer at the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Longer weekly essays at Moving Targets (www.jakewilson.com.au). Programmer at Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema (www.facebook.com/BBBCinema).

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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On the great David Gulpilil, for Metrograph's Cracked Actor series:
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Cracked Actor: David Gulpilil - Journal - Metrograph
Looking back at the inimitable Indigenous icon.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
For those in Melbourne, Australia: on July 19 the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema hosts its 2nd all-night microbudget marathon, with work by Colin Hodson, Alejandro Adams, Timothy Spanos, Rosina Hickman, Jake Barningham and more!! See www.facebook.com/BBBCinema for details of this event and others.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Tonight (Monday 30/6) at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema, 7 Hope St, Brunswick, Melbourne. Works by Kamal Aljafari, Agustina Comedi, Pedro Costa, Denis Côté, Federico Luis, Bill Morrison, Rita Pauls, Malena Szlam. Introduced by Dr Cristóbal Escobar. Doors open 6.30pm, screening 7pm.
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Short Films In Large Format
Event in Melbourne, VIC, Australia by Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema on Monday, June 30 2025
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
On the New French Extremity, Michael Haneke, Bluey, etc.
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Games
Fine holiday fun.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This week at the Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema: tonight (Sunday 22 June) is a MYSTERY FILM introduced by critic Philippa Hawker, then tomorrow is the classic Jesse James (Henry King, 1939) with Tyrone Power, introduced by me. Doors open 6.30pm, screenings start 7pm. Address at link.
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Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema | Melbourne VIC
Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 181 likes · 12 talking about this. Films you can't see anywhere else, since 2021. Regular screenings 7pm Sundays and Mondays till July...
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's been a little while with Moving Targets, but we're getting back on course with this belated review of The Phoenician Scheme:
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Going Straight
Wes Anderson stays on course in The Phoenician Scheme.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Tomorrow night, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm). Time for Melbourne's Don Weis fans to stand up and be counted.
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba
Event in Melbourne, VIC, Australia by Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema on Monday, June 9 2025
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
On Terry Chiu's Open Doom Crescendo, a favourite at the recent Brunswick Underground Film Festival (and now available on Blu-ray): www.jakewilson.com.au/p/the-outsid...
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Moving Targets goes long on the mysteries of Nathan Fielder.
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This Is Your Captain
Nathan Fielder keeps getting away with it in the second season of The Rehearsal.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What is Ryan Coogler really saying in Sinners? Some speculations.
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Blood Relations
Ryan Coogler's Sinners is a crowdpleaser with a difference.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Notes on Henry King's 1925 version of Stella Dallas, which I introduced recently at Cinema Reborn in Melbourne (and which is just as good as the Barbara Stanwyck remake).
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Stella!
Doing justice to bad taste in Henry King's 1925 version of Stella Dallas.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
What is John Mulaney doing? I tried to work it out, with special reference to Everybody's Live.
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Discomfort Viewing
John Mulaney tests the boundaries of Netflix with Everybody's Live.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Screening soon in Sydney and Melbourne at the Fantastic Film Festival Australia.
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Mock On
Super 8 rises from the grave in the independent Brisbane epic A Grand Mockery.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I didn't love the new Snow White, but I enjoyed writing about it.
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Heigh-Ho
Digging for significance in Disney's new Snow White.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New free post! Now with fewer typos!
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Strike Up the Band
The politics of jazz, and vice versa, in Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack To a Coup d'État.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In tribute to the late Val Kilmer, this week's Moving Targets piece is on Real Genius (paywalled, but you can read the opening).
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The Science Guy
Looking back at Val Kilmer in Martha Coolidge's Real Genius.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The late Corinne Cantrill and her husband Arthur, who survives her, were among the most significant Australian filmmakers of any kind -- and as people, also extremely significant for me personally. I wrote about Corinne recently in The Age, but this piece is less official, so to speak.
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Remembering Corinne Cantrill
Reflections on the life and work of a great filmmaker.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The new Moving Targets post, on two films that barely made it to cinemas here in Australia. For those in Melbourne, In The Lost Lands is still on at Reading Cinemas in Dandenong if you rush.
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Border Zones
On the margins of the mainstream with In the Lost Lands and One Of Them Days.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A call for contributions. Please share far and wide.
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Bulleke-Bek Brunswick Cinema
The cutting edge, the leading edge, the bleeding edge, the edge of reason, the edge of civilisation, the edge of meaning. On edge, losing your edge. The thin edge of the wedge. The edge invoked in...
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This should have gone up yesterday, here’s the latest Moving Targets piece, free for all to read, on Sophie Fillières’ Ma vie ma gueule, now at the French Film Festival. I also say a few things about her earlier films.
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Cracking Up
On Ma vie ma gueule, and other crazy comedies by Sophie Fillières.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In the Age today, my tribute to Corinne Cantrill:
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Film pioneer set fire to screens and didn’t care if you hated her work
Corinne Cantrill was one half of a couple whose experimental works caught the world’s attention.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
New on Moving Targets, on Jacques Tourneur's The Fearmakers (and why it matters how you see it).
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Lights Out
What's missing from the Blu-ray of Jacques Tourneur's The Fearmakers.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The latest free Moving Targets piece, on Frederick Wiseman's 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (screening in New York soon).
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Ideas Of Order
Systems at work and play in Frederick Wiseman's 2017 documentary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
My new Moving Targets piece, on Emilia Pérez and related matters. Paywalled, but the opening is free.
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Two Cheers For Emilia
Our Oscar coverage continues with a qualified defence of Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Moving Targets is back on schedule. This one’s free.
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The Wicked And the Brutal
Catching up with a couple of outsider stories in time for the Oscars.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Moving Targets this week looks at Severance – you’ll need a subscription, but the opening is free. movingtargets.substack.com/p/severance-cuts-loose
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
For the Age and SMH, I spoke to Miguel Gomes about Grand Tour. Not paywalled for the moment.
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You’ll struggle to define this film. Best just go along for the ride
Grand Tour is a “dysfunctional” romantic comedy in which language and love get lost in translation.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This week’s Moving Targets piece, something a bit different.
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Last Week In Brunswick
On memory, "structural film," and Malcolm Le Grice.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
New at Moving Targets, some notes on Inside Out 2:
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Not Feeling It
Phantom threads of sex and politics in the most popular film of 2024.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Departing from the regular schedule at Moving Targets, a special tribute to David Lynch. Again, this is free to read.
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David Lynch (1946-2025)
David Lynch wasn’t a weirdo.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This week, I wrote about Charles Vidor's 1944 Cover Girl, because it's never a bad time to write about Rita Hayworth musicals. The piece is not about David Lynch, but it's dedicated to him.
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This Is the Girl
Notes on Charles Vidor's reflexive wartime musical Cover Girl, starring Rita Hayworth.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Also online by me today, at the Age and SMH: a review of the very strange (not in a good way) Monster Summer.
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Spielberg meets Stranger Things in this paranoid teen-horror fantasy
Monster Summer, which stars Mel Gibson, is reminiscent of Jaws, but with a more nebulous enemy.
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Jake Wilson @movingtargets.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Here's the first paid post on my new film criticism Substack -- a look into the shadows of Clint Eastwood's Juror #2. Click over to read the first couple of paragraphs for free.
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One Anxious Man
Nicholas Hoult is in the hot seat in Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2.
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