Bill Mousoulis

The Boat with No Name (Australia, 2022, 95 mins, dir: Phil O’Brien & Jeffery Baxter) “You know, people think money is the currency, but, time is the real currency, because you only get so much of it, and you gotta spend it wisely.” – dialogue in The Boat with No Name The Boat with No Name is a unique and extraordinary Australian film.

Before I begin, a qualifying note or two. As an overview of cinema in the ’90s, this piece is limited in many respects: I am a film-maker, not a film critic; I have only seen about 50% of the films I should have seen; and I am biased towards a certain type of film. Thus, the following is far from an objective critical analysis – it is simply a listing of the films that have meant something to me in the ’90s, as a cinephile. As will become apparent, I love realist cum humanist cum formalist work.

The “Greek Weird Wave” just got weirder. Alexandros Avranas’ Miss Violence (first unveiled at Venice) had its premiere screening on home soil at this year’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) and promptly catalysed a hot-bed of discussion that will no doubt be continuing well into the new year.