Film
- Jennifer Herron
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I am so glad that Helen Garner has written a sympathetic review of Aki Kaurismaki’s film Le Havre (‘A Port for the Soul’, April). His films ... privileged, yet somewhat perplexed that his films didn’t always receive the admiration that they deserved. ...
Letters to the Editor - admin - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Cad and a Gentleman
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of 20 feature films in little more than 25 years, as well as some documentaries and no small amount ... easy categorisation, and it’s more apt to talk of a signature energy : Winterbottom makes films ... 9 Songs ). Now and again he fails, though not abjectly. His films are never lowbrow, but he can ...
The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2012-05-03 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Drawn Faces
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for nearly ten years, Plamka files her drawings to the ABC and Channel 7, to be filmed for the evening news. ...
The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Wave of Song
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and upbringing; the French she learnt as a 21 year old when auditioning for the film Slogan in 1968, starring ...
The Monthly - Robert Forster - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- '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
- Marilyn Monroe: A rumbling of things unknown
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(Film, Marilyn Monroe, Popular culture, London Review of Books) ...
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- Prime Time's Graduation
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(Film, Television Masterpieces, Vanity Fair) ...
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- 'Life in Movement' by Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde
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is not entirely a tragic film. Filmmakers Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde mine footage from Liedtke’s past, and follow ... by DJ Trip, it is a moving, powerful film about a powerful (and always moving) woman. As a dancer, ... devoted to her, admitting that her death still feels like “someone taking away food”. The film gently ...
The Monthly - Anna Goldsworthy - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Port for the Soul
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a Kaurismäki film before, said in a baffled tone, “These people look as if they’ve all had a stroke.” I ... (April 2012, Film, Aki Kaurismäki, Film, Film criticism, Le Havre) ...
The Monthly - Helen Garner - 2012-05-10 16:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Autumn of the Patriarch
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by the Cuban medical team. That night he and the photographer came round to talk about a Timor film festival ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- James Cameron's rocket plunge to the deep end of the planet
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James Cameron's rocket plunge to the deep end of the planet " In a stroke, James Cameron has upended the field - literally and figuratively. A man known for imaginative films ( Titanic , Avatar ), he has reinvented the way that people ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-20 14:26 - 0 comments
- Oscars 2012 winners
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(Film, Guardian) ...
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- George Lazenby & Cubby Broccoli
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to be James Bond. The job was up for grabs. After five films, Sean Connery decided he was getting typecast ... government film subsidies. After a string of forgettable but profitable action adventure movies, he went bust when his self-financed film about Oscar Wilde proved impossible to promote in America. Never saying ...
The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- 'The Clock' by Christian Marclay
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installation, I prefer to think of it as a majestic, circular film (it is exactly 24 hours long). It demands ... of bleary-eyed assistants – sifted through thousands of films, retaining any clips in which a clock or watch face ... or five, sourced from several different films. At times Marclay’s obsessive finessings extend even as far ...
The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The art of the Meryl Streep Acceptance Speech
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General item (Film, New Yorker) ...
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- Cinema and its Discontents
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David Cronenberg’s 'A Dangerous Method' and Roman Polanski’s 'Carnage' Peter Conrad If psy ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Attack of the Clones
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Don Watson “They should just clone ministers, you know. So we’re born at 55 with no past … and no genitals. Just a world of robots. It’s like a futuristic film, and you’d enjoy that wouldn’t you? You’d be in your little ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-03-01 11:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Coup By Any Other Name
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but for the light coming from Wayne Swan’s office. It seeped betrayal. Instinctively, I started filming everything in front of me. I wandered from Swan’s office to Gillard’s office and back to Rudd’s. I filmed clocks ... Police. “Were you filming?” I showed every photo and video I had taken, and deleted them all, ...
The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- Children’s Lib
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finds mothering “easy peasy” and loves every minute. Not long afterwards, a film the stuff of urban ... in the film has real reason to feel ambivalent about parenting. Her seriously disturbed son turns out ...
The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Christos Tsiolkas on Pauline Kael
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General item (Christos Tsiolkas, Film criticism, The Monthly) ...
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- Citizen Kael
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it and on re-visiting the film I had Kael’s voice in my head, so powerful is my memory of her distinct, visceral style; ... In her critique of his 1970 film, Husbands , she again took him to task for his lack of discipline ... dismantled and prior to the arrival of the multi-screen blockbuster. The titles of Kael’s collected film ...
The Monthly - Christos Tsiolkas - 2012-02-08 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Lord Monckton and the Future of Australian Media
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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
- 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 ...
The Monthly - Adrian Martin - 2011-10-06 12:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
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in Space , Richard Lowenstein, with a film about hackers. Assange spoke about the 290 years he might ... Cryptonomicon , Indecent Communications ; a cypherpunk porno film, Cryptic Seduction ; and even ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
