Sam Twyford-Moore

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Sam Twyford-Moore is the author of The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania (2018) and Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home (2023).  His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Monthly, Senses of Cinema, the  Los Angeles Review of Books, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Review of Books, and many others.

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The accidental film school

Non-fictionThe DVD format – the Digital Versatile Disc – was invented in 1995 and reached the peak of its popularity in Australia in the 2000s, before the rise of streaming platforms in the 2010s. During those salad days, Australian entertainment companies started producing and selling DVDs at a rapid rate, building a library of local and international films. The Melbourne-based company Madman Entertainment were competitive players... The extras on their DVDs – making-of documentaries, deleted scenes, audio commentaries – allowed producers to have an active role in the historicisation of film; audio commentaries typically featured directors and actors rewatching and reminiscing together. But companies like Madman (and Criterion in the US), which distributed ‘art-house’ cinema, were more likely to invite film theorists and historians to provide an analytical reading of the film as it played.

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