Adrian Martin
Masterpieces, Arts & Letters
Film Masterpiece: Rolf de Heer - 'The Tracker', 2002
Adrian Martin
Australian cinema is prone to chronic understatement – shrinking away from opportunities for sex, violence and catharsis. The Tracker is an...
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Inglourious Basterds: Can Hollywood rewrite history?
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In this lively and thought-provoking seminar, four eminently qualified speakers engage in a wide-ranging...
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Inglourious Basterds: Can Hollywood rewrite history? (p2)
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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 In this lively and thought-provoking seminar, four eminently qualified speakers engage in a wide-ranging...
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Contempt: Richard Brody’s 'Everything Is Cinema'
Adrian Martin
In 2003, the veteran independent director Nigel Buesst made a documentary, Carlton + Godard = Cinema, about a small band of film-makers...
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The Host with the Most: Bong Joon-ho’s 'The Host'
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Bae Doo-na, with her large nose that would never be allowed past Hollywood's cosmeticians, her crazy eyes and her general physique -...
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Who’s Your Mummy?: Margot Nash’s 'Call Me Mum'
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Perhaps more than any other image, the spectacle of a ‘stolen' child - a child taken away from its natural parents by a malevolent...
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A Story of Spin: Stephen Frears’ 'The Queen'
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It's the type of bold mixture we have not seen on a big or small screen since Kennedy Miller's local epic The Dismissal: on the one hand,...
More ...Resistible: Ann Turner’s 'Irresistible'
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One of the things that immediately gives away mediocre Australian films is their ill-chosen titles. Irresistible: a snappy, intriguing hook...
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