Monthly Archives: October 2012

How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 4. Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien. (pt Two)

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This is a post based on Slavoj Zizek’s little booklet How to read Lacan. For the previous post to this one, go here. This is not my writing – this is my attempt to condense sections of the book so we can understand them together. For the first in the series, go here. It is important […]

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The American Soldier – Fassbinder does Godard

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It can be difficult with Fassbinder films over and over again. I’ve said on this blog in the past that he is one of my favourite directors and yet I can only take him in certain doses. If I were locked on an island with nothing but a screen and Godard films I’d think I’d […]

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Pierrot le Fou – Godard and the ecstasy of words.

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One of the lines in Pierrot le Fou (Pierre the fool or Crazy Pete) is a quote or at least an echo from Rimbaud, Une Saison en enfer – A season in hell. This is one of many art references in this film, but possibly sums up this intense period of film making for Godard. […]

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Savage in Limbo – John Patrick Shanley and Workhorse Theatre company ask should I stay or should I go?

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In the world of Plato’s cave, truth is an elusive and frightening thing. Because it finds us, we are in a perpetual dance with it – a dance of desire, awareness, shock and avoidance. This pattern plays itself out within us unless we decide to embrace our own truth and risk the accompanying fear and move forward […]

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The Knowledge – Pantsguys and John Donnelly reveal a tougher side of life.

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John Donnelly has worked in various primary and secondary schools across London, Essex and Kent, including programmes aimed at curriculum development, Irish and Romany Travellers, enterprise, literacy, sex education, addictions, student voice.  In an interview for The Guardian, he says: “I’ve mostly worked in schools in Kent and Essex, where there has been a huge […]

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To Rome with Love – Woody Allen and the whistle-stop tour does Italy

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Is it my imagination, or has Woody Allen finally grown up? Vicky Christina Barcelona teeterd on the past and the future for him, Midnight in Paris was a refreshing look at a great director, not back in form, but using his wit and wisdom to create something fresh, and now with To Rome with Love we have […]

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Hilary Mantel wins the Booker again

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Well, it’s a post on the run, but I thought I would share with you all that the very very clever Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize for fiction. This is her second win, making her the only English writer to win the prize twice and the only winner to ever win […]

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Outing – Discussion of the ultimate taboo: Antenna Documentary Film Festival

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I just saw the most difficult and controversial of documentaries. However, like all serious takes on taboo subjects that never get discussed properly, it was enormously enlightening. Here is the film festival blurb for Outing, to give you an idea of what this film is about: Sven is a goofy, floppy haired 26-year-old student. He is also […]

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Looper – A mothers love will save us all.

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Time travel has not yet been invented but 30 years from now, it will have been. I am one of many specialized assassins in our present called loopers. So when criminal organizations in the future need gone, they zap them back to me and I eliminate the target from the future. Loopers are well paid. […]

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Eugène Atget – Old Paris: photography of life at its most still.

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I was lucky enough to attend the Eugène Atget exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW a couple of weeks back.  I have collected A few of the images here. These have simply been collected from a search.  I have linked them all back to the exhibition web page. If anyone sees any image represented her […]

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