Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia
Zak Hepburn is a Melbourne-based film critic, film programmer and cinema manager. He appears on the ABC's nationally broadcast “News Breakfast” as the resident film critic for the weekly “Now Showing” segment. Zak is also the General Manager of Melbourne's iconic Astor Theatre, where he curates and operates the Astor’s eclectic program of repertory and event cinema.
I first came to Miloš Forman like many others, I suppose. As a young film lover in a small country town growing up, the international cinema offering at the local Civic Video was somewhat lacking, beyond copies of Like Water for Chocolate and Cinema Paradiso. Like all decent VHS rental stores of a certain period, […]