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Fiona Villella Fiona Villella i(A67311 works by) (a.k.a. Fiona A. Villella)
Gender: Female
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1 Film in the Age of COVID Fiona Villella , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , July no. 95 2020;

'Occasionally throughout isolation, I’ve experienced that moment when two seemingly disparate films ‘talk’ to each other. Recently, I watched Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019) and The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) back to back. Both are set in Sweden. Both are portraits of devout communities living in pastoral hinterlands. And both are very different. One utilises the horror genre to show, with calculated restraint and control, religious devotion as a form of sociopathy. The other, an elegiac fable, is much more humanist and loving in its portrayal of God-worshipping protagonists.' (Introduction)
1 Wild and Precious –A Film by Bill Mousoulis Fiona Villella , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , December no. 65 2012;
— Review of Wild and Precious Bill Mousoulis , 2012 single work film/TV
1 Untitled Fiona Villella , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , July-August no. 27 2003;
— Review of Japanese Story Alison Tilson , 2002 single work film/TV
1 Comedy Dominates Awards Fiona Villella , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: Muse , November no. 234 2003; (p. 19)
1 Long Road Home : Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence Fiona Villella , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , March-April no. 19 2002;
1 Opening Night, The Tracker Fiona Villella , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , July-August no. 21 2002;
— Review of The Tracker Rolf De Heer , 2002 single work film/TV
1 Interview with Leah Purcell Rose Capp (interviewer), Fiona Villella (interviewer), 2002 single work interview
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , September-October no. 22 2002;
1 Journey Fiona Villella , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Muse , March no. 215 2002; (p. 17)
— Review of Rabbit-Proof Fence Christine Olsen , 2002 single work film/TV
1 An Interview with Jane Mills Fiona Villella (interviewer), 2001 single work interview
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , April-May no. 13 2001; Editor's note: In this interview, Jane talks freely about the series and what she hopes it will achieve.
1 Untitled Fiona Villella , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , April-May no. 13 2001;
— Review of Yolngu Boy Chris Anastassiades , 2000 single work film/TV
1 Materialism and Spiritualism in The Goddess of 1967 Fiona Villella , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , April-May no. 13 2001; 'Perhaps the best word that describes the distinct quality of Clara Law's latest film The Goddess of 1967 (2000) is postmodern. Unlike any other contemporary Australian feature-filmmaker, she betrays an astute, experimental attitude to the medium, an inclination to gather and juxtapose markedly different people and places and disparate cultural meanings (the outback, machine and modernity, the city) and a strong interest in states of transition, dislocation, and isolation. In Goddess, a blind girl "B.G" (Rose Byrne) and Japanese man "J.M." (Rikiya Kurokawa) journey through the Australian outback in a Citroen named 'Goddess' toward a 'heart of darkness' or primal, originating point that ultimately sets the soul of the young blind girl free. Intermittently punctuating what is essentially a forward-journey-back-in-time are flashbacks of the past, mainly of B.G.'s past but also J.M.'s, a Roland Barthes quote, and advertising footage and statistics celebrating the superiority in design and manufacture of the Citroen. However, despite the postmodern sensibility and sophisticated experimental play with sound, music, camera work, colour and the landscape, ideas of character and story remain essentially conventional and clichéd throughout Goddess, producing a strange mismatch effect throughout the film.' (Author's introduction)
1 Australian Film - the Year 2000 in Review Fiona Villella , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , December-January no. 11 2000;
1 Untitled Fiona Villella , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , September-October no. 9 2000;
— Review of The Boys Stephen Sewell , 1998 single work film/TV
1 Contemporary Australian Cinema - A Symposium Fiona Villella , 2000 single work column
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , September-October no. 9 2000; A collection of passages by various critics and writers on recent Australian films set in suburbia.
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