Australian Film
- 'Wish You Were Here' by Kieran Darcy-Smith
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expertly winds up the suspense; it is a rare joy to watch an Australian film with such a tight plot and, ...
The Monthly - Mandy Sayer - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Autumn of the Patriarch
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as I pulled on my shoes and we shot off to the base where an Australian helicopter was waiting to take ... and a German investigative journalist joined us, as well as the Australian pilot and crewman. I was jammed up ... remembered Australian soldiers from the time of the Japanese occupation – maybe it was a folk memory rather ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Lord Monckton and the Future of Australian Media
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daughter of the Western Australian mining magnate, the late Lang Hancock, one of the most right-wing Australians of the postwar era. As reported recently by Jane Cadzow in the Good Weekend , Hancock once ... to members of the Mannkal Foundation. His talk was filmed and, strangely enough, delivered to YouTube. Graham ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments
- A Coup By Any Other Name
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backbenchers and backroom boys “backgrounding” the media against Rudd. The Australian had been savaging Rudd ... The Australian had been savaging Rudd almost daily; clearly something had gone down with its editor, Chris ... but for the light coming from Wayne Swan’s office. It seeped betrayal. Instinctively, I started filming everything ...
The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- Children’s Lib
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to strike a chord “with stressed-out Aussie mums” in Melbourne’s Herald Sun . The Australian ’s ... happier doing almost anything other than childcare, even housework. Australian mummy blogs, websites ... finds mothering “easy peasy” and loves every minute. Not long afterwards, a film the stuff of urban ...
The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Fred Schepisi & Vladimir Putin
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international production ever filmed in the Soviet Union. Now here he was, jury chairman of the 2007 Moscow Film Festival, on his way to lunch with no less a personage than the president of Russia, Vladimir ... early, escaped into advertising and dreamed of making films. In 1976 he wrote, produced and directed his ...
The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2012-02-08 15:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Film Masterpiece
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(film masterpiece, film masterpiece) (October 2011, Masterpieces, Arts & Letters, 20 Australian Masterpieces, Arts Masterpieces, Aussie Masterpieces, Australian Film, Cinema, Film Masterpieces, Modern ... Adrian Martin Australian cinema is prone to chronic understatement – ...
The Monthly - Adrian Martin - 2011-10-06 12:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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of the Year”. If Rupert Murdoch, who recently turned eighty, is the most influential Australian of the post-war era, Julian Assange, who will soon turn forty, is undoubtedly the most consequential Australian ... was first discovered. The Australian Federal Police conducted a long investigation into the International ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Hard Times
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free-speech protections as white Australians, yet here was a man talking of misuse of power among his own ... as an Australian citizen to keep informed. When the intervention was announced in June 2007, Driver had his eyes ... were alienated and neglected by our fellow Australians. We weren’t even acknowledged to exist ...
The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment
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them with the rape convictions of Middle Eastern Australian men in Western Sydney. His comments, ... of Lebanese Australian boys were doing at Cronulla was not asserting their difference but rather embracing Australian culture enthusiastically. Hage says the behaviour of the Lebanese boys at the beach was a product ...
The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2011-03-16 10:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Treasure in the Attic
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at the edge-of-city record fairs, the great majority of the work of the first generation of Australian ... concerning a topic that always grabs space and opinion: which are the best Australian albums? The appearance ... came from the ABC’s youth music broadcaster, Triple J, which under the title ‘Hottest 100 Australian ...
The Monthly - Robert Forster - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- No Script, No Storyboard
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Themes at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will come to agree. Kentridge makes stop-motion animated films through a laborious process of drawing and erasing, arranging and rearranging. His early films, made between 1989 and 2003 – a period straddling the end of apartheid – were grouped under ...
The Monthly - Sebastian Smee - 2012-03-09 09:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Island Rising
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favourite picnic spots and cultural hubs? The 1980s handover of Australian Defence Force lands to Sydney ... To be an island, as we Australians know, is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Bailey says the Harbour Trust ... artist Banksy, opened in November. Cockatoo Island Film Festival has taken up offices to prepare its ...
The Monthly - Fiona McGregor - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 20 Australian Masterpieces Since 2000
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to identify the most significant Australian work of art in their field since 2000. ... major show by two Sydney-based iconoclasts, initially had Australian Vogue decrying the absence ... The show, accompanied by the rousing voices of the Australian Youth Choir, melded influences from Erté’s ...
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- A Journey through North-western NSW with Filmmaker Ivan Sen
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for the screening and handled the international media like a pro. For the film’s Australian release this month Ivan ... and especially the way it ended – “blew me away”. It was the first Australian film he’d seen. He saw a lot ... was nothing to the new solitude of the Australian Film Television and Radio School. In Sydney Ivan knew ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-15 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Television Masterpiece
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important, uniquely Australian voice. He knows us better than we know ourselves. I say we give him the key ... No. 72 Previous story: Film Masterpiece Next story: Contemporary Dance ... masterpiece, television masterpiece) (October 2011, Masterpieces, Arts & Letters, 20 Australian ...
The Monthly - Marieke Hardy - 2011-10-06 12:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Design Masterpiece
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upon will be the economy seat he designed for the new Qantas A380 (and which won the 2009 Australian ... and terracotta to represent the Australian landscape. The ergonomics are particularly inviting for the long-haul ... Architecture Masterpiece Next story: Film Masterpiece ...
The Monthly - Alan Saunders - 2011-10-06 12:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Film: John Sayles in conversation with Rolf de Heer (p2)
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of American society. At this Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival event, he speaks to Australian iconoclast ... Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival ... to genre screenwriter, to director and script doctor. His films have constantly troubled the conscience ...
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- Film: John Sayles in conversation with Rolf de Heer
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At this Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival event, he speaks to Australian iconoclast director Rolf de Heer ( Bad Boy ... John Sayles Adelaide Film ... to director and script doctor. His films have constantly troubled the conscience of America. He thrives ...
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- The Bolt Factor
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then Opposition leader. Barry was let go after he was notoriously filmed by Australian Story using Google ... Australian in April this year, that some people were unwilling to appear on Insiders with him, “because ... Bono and former US Vice President Al Gore, who showed his film An Inconvenient Truth . ...
The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Bowing to the Bard
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to watch, although his voice struck me as curious: an Australian accent in possession of a deeply theatrical ... at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Bell was an essential part of the early 1970s’ flowering of Australian ... curious to me that Bell had done so little film work. He joked that he wasn’t handsome enough ...
The Monthly - Louis Nowra - 2011-10-06 13:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Queen of the Night
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and polymathic cabaret performer. She is an elusive creature, allegedly Australian – born in Canberra, raised ... film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg , in which Meow Meow – alliteratively renamed ‘Maitresse’ – acted ... another of her un-Australian linguistic identities. “ Milch ?” she asked. “Black,” I said and, ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-10-06 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Water Under the Bridge
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be seen as such. Vast swathes of Australian life are subsidised, including the arts, academia and the film ... of crazy. The alternative reality crowd. Or I read the pronouncements of the Australian Greens, who would ... into “saline drains”. Åsa Wahlquist, the former rural correspondent for the Australian , began her book ...
The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- What Happens Next
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with the Australian Art Orchestra, in terms of their often implacable totality, but you can also switch focus and zoom ... Barrett’s film South Solitary needed another. And now there’s the Mass. At this point the Mass ... into a trio, in which form it had its Australian premiere in Sydney at the end of last month. A little ...
The Monthly - Andrew Ford - 2011-10-06 13:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Theatre/Film & Writing. An Adelaide Film Festival forum
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Film Festival 1833597 Compared to other national cinemas, the links between Australian cinema and theatre have always been ... Oscar Redding (director/writer), Chris Drummond (theatre director), Katrina Sedgwick (Adelaide Film ...
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