The empowered eroticism of Anaïs Nin courses through the veins of Henry & June I’ve written an analysis of the film Henry and June in comparison with its source material, Henry and June the book by Anais Nin. It’s been published over at The Essential. Film director Philip Kaufman came under some criticism for bringing […]
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May
31
Articles at The Essential – An analysis of the adaptation of Henry and June (book) to the Kaufman film. (Article)
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May
27
Song One – The music of our united isolation. (film review)
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Like many films unfairly derided, if you skim the surface of Song One, and point-blank refuse to be seduced by its depths, there is plenty at which to poke a pointy critical stick. A small estranged family, already burdened by grief, are united over one member laying in a coma in hospital, by using music […]
May
26
(extra)ordinary, (un)usual – Pete Malicki and theatre to kick back to. (Theatre Review)
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(extra)ordinary, (un)usual New Theatre, Newtown Three shows Wed 13,20,27 May You can grab your tickets here. There are many reasons to go to the theatre, but perhaps the most common one is to be enthralled and entertained, with a good dose of giggle added in. It’s a cliché (and a bourgeois condescension) to state that […]
May
23
Shivered – Claudia Barrie and the industrial shrug (Theatre review)
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Shivered Mad March Hare Theatre Company You can Grab tickets here Theatre isn’t real, at least it isn’t as real as real life is real. One of my favourite things about theatre (besides the unsettling intimacy which overwhelms in deliciously small spaces) is the transgressive act of performance. Real people pretending, without shame, in front […]
May
18
The house of Ramon Iglesia – Subtle, poignant beauty at the old Fitz. (Theatre review)
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The House of Ramon Iglesia Mophead Productions at The old Fitz Theatre 12 May to 6 June You can grab your tickets here. The House of Ramon Iglesia has many poignant moments, but particularly affecting is a scene when, drunk and devastated at a swindle because of his own ignorance, Ramon falls in the streets on […]
May
17
Rhymes with Silence – Sydney creatives answer the question, Why doesn’t she just leave? (Theatre review)
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Rhymes with Silence 16 to 34 May, 107 Projects Redfern. You can grab your tickets here. A poignant poem sits at the end of the program for Rhymes with Silence currently playing at the 107 Projects theatre space in Redfern. It is by the great writer Kate Rotherham, who’s chilling ten minute play As a […]
May
17
Zeroville – Lies Lies and Propoganda go a little Avant Godard. (Theatre review)
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Zeroville Lies Lies and Propoganda Get more info here. Photos by Sasha Cohen As director Michael Dean states in his notes in the program to Zeroville, Stephen Hawking warned us at the end of 2015 “that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” And yet, states Dean, to […]
May
16
Mad Max Fury Road – George Miller and the feminist touch. (Film Review)
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Warning: This review contains spoilers. One of the strengths of the Mad Max franchise is its undisclosed historical time frame. This is never truer than in the first Mad Max film, when an opening sequence informs us of the near future setting, but remains poignantly ambiguous, as if to declare the exasperation of existing problems. A favourite […]
May
11
The Importance of Being Earnest – Furies Theatre and the importance of influence (Theatre Review)
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The Importance of Being Earnest Furies Theatre at The Exchange Hotel Balmain May 5 to 17 – You can Grab your tickets here (be fast – this one is selling out) The double is a concept that has intrigued readers and writers for many centuries, exemplified in the Dostoyevsky novel (of which he didn’t wholly […]
May
11
Clouds of Sils Maria – Olivier Assayas includes and subverts the male gaze. (Theatre Review)
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“We are made to need other people, we have no choice, yet we don’t know how to be with them. Not safely.” (From The bitter tears of Petra Von Kant, Play by Fassbinder) To imagine Clouds Of Sils Maria is a film about aging and the way an older actress might see herself reflected in […]
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