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Adrian Martin
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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 discussion about Quentin Tarantino's subversive and divisive new film, Inglourious Basterds. Hosted by Age critic Philippa Hawker, the speakers are (in order): Mar... » play video
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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 discussion about Quentin Tarantino's subversive and divisive new film, Inglourious Basterds. Hosted by Age critic Philippa Hawker, the speakers are (in order): Mark... » play video
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In 2003, the veteran independent director Nigel Buesst made a documentary, Carlton + Godard = Cinema, about a small band of film-makers clustered around the Melbourne University Film Society from 1965 to 1975. Enterprising figures had scraped together enough money and resources to make a bunch of...
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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 - seemingly stalled between gawky adolescence and alluringly troubled adulthood - is a cult star in her home country of Korea, and beloved throughout various parts...
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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 state authority - crystallises the widespread sense that the modern world is wracked by, even defined by, pervasive trauma. And this is so not only in Australia,...
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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, liberal use of archival news and documentary footage, a torrent of newspaper front pages and headlines; on the other, free licence to fictionalise, to imagine...
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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 in the vein of Derailed or Malicious. But not far into the movie, you cannot help wondering who or what is meant to be irresistible in this story. Is it the...
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