Misterman Old Fitz Theatre 10 to 27 June. You can grab your tickets here. Something seismic happens when Kate Gaul embraces Enda Walsh. She serves up what we go to Indie Theatre for (reverent capitals intended). There is a theatrical simpatico on display that can energise a room with that skillfully woven enticement to unconditional […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
June
18
Misterman – Kate Gaul electrifies the Old Fitz Theatre. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
June
14
Eisenstein in Guanajuato – Sydney Film Festival Review
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve been reviewing some films for the Film Fest over at The Essential. Check out my heated adoration of Eisenstein in Guanajuato here. Unapologetically Sassure / unapologetically Greenaway! Evolving like some erotic fevered animal for words, Peter Greenaway’s latest masterpiece sees him devote screen time to his great idol Sergei Eisenstein, a man be believes set […]
June
14
Results – Sydney Film Festival Review
posted by lisathatcher
Over at The Essential I have written about the great new Andrew Bualski film Results. Check it out here. The so-called godfather of mumblecore remains true to his off-the-beaten-track aesthetic with this step toward the mainstream inResults, a rom-com with a typically Andrew Bujalski twist on the mainstream genre. Given that romantic comedy is arguably […]
June
10
Venus in Fur – Grace Barnes and broadness of perspective. (Theatre Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Venus in Fur has been all the rage since it’s 2010 debut, strangely tapping into a BDSM trend that has hit the main stream with a flourish. The culmination of its success is the late 2014 film adaptation by Roman Polanski that remains close to the source material and is still fresh in the mind […]
June
08
The Emperor’s New Clothes – Sydney Film Festival review
posted by lisathatcher
The Emperor’s New Clothes is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival, and you can grab your tickets here. What is it about these anti-capitalitst films that calls forth our ugliest bourgeoise judgements that result in a desperate search for tiny criticisms that somehow act as a stabilizer for the ‘extreme’ rhetoric exhibited? Russell Brand […]
June
08
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch reflecting on Existence – Sydney Film Festival Review
posted by lisathatcher
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. It is usually the simplest of themes in which we see the darkest of ourselves, but no where is this more available and more ignored than in cinema, that great art form […]
June
05
My love don’t Cross that River – Sydney Film Festival review
posted by lisathatcher
My love Don’t Cross that River is now showing at the Sydney Film festival. You can grab your tickets here. My love don’t Cross that River is a South Korean film made by Jin Mo-young in 2014. It’s the story of a seventy-six year-long love affair between a husband and wife filmed over the last fifteen months […]
June
04
The Hunting Ground (SFF Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Hunting Ground is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can purchase your tickets here. Sexual assault experiences the same amount of false claims as every other crime (that includes robbery, car jacking and murder) and yet it is the only crime where a false claim is the immediate assumption, and the presumed […]
June
03
Dearest – Sydney Film Festival review
posted by lisathatcher
At several points during the first half of Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s emotional child abduction story Dearest, the camera hovers (seemingly unnecessarily) on smaller details of the mish-mash of life in Shenzhen, a major city in the south China province of Guangdong. Details such as a tangled collection of electrical wires each impossible to distinguish from […]
June
01
Articles at The Essential – My take on “The Rock” at San Andreas. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Over at the awsome magazine The Essential, my latest offering, a review of San Andreas is prepped and primed for viewing. Warning… (that will come as no suprise) I didn’t love this film. Check my review out here. The cynicism that overwhelms San Andreas is so maddening that its Americana puff-piece bullshit appears laughable, until […]
Lisa Thatcher 