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
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
Looper – A mothers love will save us all.
posted by lisathatcher
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. […]
Eugène Atget – Old Paris: photography of life at its most still.
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
Killing them Softly – Andrew Dominik reveals America is a business.
posted by lisathatcher
When I saw Killing Them Softly on the line up at the Sydney Film Festival I confess I did a wide berth. I was like “oh god – ANOTHER one?” about this film. I know there is nothing fresh in cinema (supposedly) and I know Lars von Triers Melancholia is about the death and drudgery […]
Mo Yan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
posted by lisathatcher
For those of you who think you can bet on this competition, I say give up now and promise me you will never try again. Mo Yan of China has won the 20102 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mo Yan Born: 1955, Gaomi, China Residence at the time of the award: China Prize motivation: “who with hallucinatory realism merges […]
Mother Küsters goes to Heaven – Fassbinder and the the question of what comes after exploitation.
posted by lisathatcher
Mother Küsters goes to Heaven (1975) is another of those chilling Fassbinders. Chilling, not just because of the subject matter, but also because it stars Armin Meier who will kill himself over his love for Fassbinder in three years after this film is made and about whom Fassbinder will make In a Year of Thirteen Moons. Typical of Fassbinder it […]
Creel Pone #7 – Vocals and Electronic noise.
posted by lisathatcher
It was the 1960’s that brought electronic music to the masses. Suddenly anyone could have a listen – add to that, its prevalence in cinema, and this type of music actually started to attract fans. However, it was in the paper, “A Sketch of a new Esthetic of Music” written by Ferruccio Busoni in 1907 that […]
Shadow of a Doubt – Hitchcock offers us a little Freud.
posted by lisathatcher
Shadow of a doubt is an early Hitchcock piece of masterful film making (1943) primarily around the theme of doubles, or twos, a theme Hitchcock would re visit many times over in future films. In this film no one is singular, everyone comes in a pair. Two detectives, sisters and brothers husbands and wives, uncles and nieces, two […]
Tasogare: Twilight. The light between day and night. Music as pure beauty.
posted by lisathatcher
I was lucky enough to attend a Keith Fullerton Whitman concert earlier this year (let’s just say I’m a HUGE fan) and while I was there I picked up a stack of discs at the door as I am want to do at these sorts of thing. One of the amazing discs I happened to […]
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