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Pictured: The stunning Megan Fox on the Red Carpet at the World Premiere of her latest film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in Tokyo. See more of Megan and the stars in the Film Spotlights section.

Bottom: Director of the film ‘Samson & Delilah’ Warwick Thornton (pictured) has called his prize for Samson and Delilah “the best bloody start” to his career. The Cannes International Film Festival jury described his Camera d'Or-winning film as “the best love film we've seen for many a year”. The movie takes an unflinching look at the problems of Australia's remote Aboriginal communities — violence, substance abuse and poverty.

Like its wildly successful predecessor Borat, Brüno is a mockumentary that captures outrageous interaction between a larger-than-life character and the unsuspecting public. In the making of the movie, Brüno infamously crashed Milan Fashion Week and the American Military before duping singer Paula Abdul, presidential candidate Ron Paul and a room of outraged rednecks in the Mid-West.

Just this week Brüno made a spectacular aerial entrance at the MTV Movie Awards calling himself the ‘dove of peace’ before a wardrobe malfunction saw him ‘fall’ face-down onto Eminem, who stormed out. His antics have been captured virally over the past 18months, making Brüno one of the most anticipated movie releases of the year.

BRÜNO hits cinemas worldwide on July 9
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The 58th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is pleased to announce that two stand-out Australian films will open and close this year’s festival. Coinciding with the 10 year anniversary celebrations of East Timor's Independence in 1999, MIFF will open with the political thriller, Balibo, at Hamer Hall on Friday, July 24. Director Robert Connolly (The Bank, Three Dollars) brings to life the moving and true story of five Australian journalists who go to East Timor in 1975 to cover Indonesia’s invasion. Their story is told through the eyes of a sixth Australian journalist, Roger East, who is lured to East Timor by José Ramos-Horta, to investigate the truth behind the death of the five men. Balibo features stand-out performances by Anthony LaPaglia, Damon Gameau, Gyton Grantley and Nathan Phillips among a large ensemble cast.

Director Rachel Perkins’ (Radiance, First Australians) all singing all dancing music spectacular Bran Nue Dae will close the festival with a Gala event on Saturday, August 8, 2009. The film, based on the popular comedic musical of the same name, features a stella cast including Geoffrey Rush, Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins, Deb Mailman, Nigali Lawford, Tom Budge, Dan Sultan and Jessica Mauboy

Bananaz, a documentary film by Ceri Levy, has just been released on DVD.

In the late 1990's Jamie Hewlett met Damon Albarn and the concept of Gorillaz was born. At the birth of the project, film maker Ceri Levy set about documenting this undertaking. The result is Bananaz, 91 minutes inside the remarkable real world of Gorillaz - ­the most successful cartoon band ever.

The film takes down the virtual walls of Gorillaz. Levy filmed alongside and behind the scenes from 2000 to 2006; from first drawings, animations, music and musicians, through to the faces behind the voices of Murdoc, 2D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs. The result is an unsanitised, free-wheeling documentary film; an intimate, honest and often hilarious account of the working relationship between Albarn and Hewlett. Included are appearances from; Dennis Hopper, De La Soul, Ibrahim Ferrer, Danger Mouse, Dan the Automator, D12, Bootie Brown from The Pharcyde and Neneh Cherry.

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