CULTURE: Film
CULTURE
A Port for the Soul: Aki Kaurismäki’s 'Le Havre'
Helen Garner
A watchman strolling late one night on the wharves of the French port of Le Havre raps his stick on the side of a container, and hears the...
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Margaret Simons
Pluck an episode from the midstream of human life and it can be hard to glean meaning. Sometimes there is just senselessness and mess. If...
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MEDIA
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary: Julian Assange
Robert Manne
Julian Assange has told the story of his childhood and adolescence twice, most recently to a journalist from the New Yorker, Raffi...
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Life Sentence
Victoria Laurie
His father, Anthony, has since graduated to one of Perth’s higher security prisons, which is also where Malcolm’s 21-year-old brother,...
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Kate Jennings
Every road leads to a reckoning. In Olivier Assayas’ movie Carlos, the Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez – AKA Carlos the Jackal...
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Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
My land is that of the Gumatj clan nation, which is carefully defined, with boundaries and borders set out in the maps of our minds and,...
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POLITICS
The Brutal Truth: What Happened in the Gulf Country
Tony Roberts
In 1881, a massive pastoral boom commenced in the top half of the Northern Territory, administered by the colonial government in Adelaide.1...
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CULTURE
Treasure in the Attic: The golden age of singer–songwriters
Robert Forster
As far as romantic professions go, it’s up there with lighthouse-keeping, lion-taming or jobbing as a private detective in Los Angeles in...
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CULTURE
Beginners: Mike Mills in conversation
Mike Mills, guest of the Melbourne International Film Festival 2011 and director of feature film Beginners, is the quintessential modern...
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WORLD
After Life: Wim Wenders’ 'Pina' and Alain Corneau’s 'Love Crime'
Louis Nowra
It was a hot night in Adelaide in 1982 and I was sitting in a ramshackle town hall about to watch a dance piece, Kontakthof, created by a...
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CULTURE
Like the Day and Night: Terrence Malick’s 'The Tree of Life' and Julia Leigh’s 'Sleeping Beauty'
Helen Garner
Terrence Malick’s new movie The Tree of Life (in national release), recently garlanded with the Palme d’Or at Cannes, comes muscled up with...
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CULTURE
Shipped Down Under: Jim Loach’s 'Oranges and Sunshine' and Mark Lewis’ 'Cane Toads: The Conquest'
MJ Hyland
In the late 1980s, Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys investigated the postwar deportation of care-home children from England to...
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