“Like a hyperactive Queen, I cruise culture daily. Have a thrill, a flash of ecstasy several times a week. My appetite is compulsive. Promiscuous.” Susan Sontag. Any story of Susan Sontag can’t help being the story of unfulfilled potential because that was the passionate belief of Sontag herself, that the race hadn’t been run and […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
October
20
Regarding Susan Sontag – Nancy Kates decyphers an icon. (Film Review Antenna Film Festival)
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October
14
The Case Against 8 – The long road of advocacy. (Film review)
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The legal system is impossibly convoluted, dry and surprisingly procedural over pacey and intelligent. It is the remarkable opposite of its pop cultural representation, where lawyers are presented as savvy think-on-your-feeters who outsmart the most brilliant opponents in court room battles that are won and lost on jurors biases, and judges moods. The true story […]
October
13
Kill the PM – Fregmonto Stokes and the layers of leftist conspiracies. (Theatre Review)
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Kill The PM Old 505 Theatre October 8 to 26 – You can grab your tickets here. Photographs by Lucy Parakhina Is leftist political passion a poison that rots the brain, a mind-barrel filled with un-absolvable guilt or a conspiracy to destabilise in order to plough fertile soil for an alien conspiracy? If the hard […]
October
13
Harvest – Louise Fischer and the problems of progress. (Theatre Review)
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Harvest New Theatre 7 October to 8 November – You can grab your tickets here. Roughly ten years ago, Harvest writer Richard Bean outed himself as a ‘Monsterist’, now defined as a playwright committed to large-scale works, with enormous casts, covering enormous themes and taking a (relatively) enormous amount of time. It’s a bold move […]
October
13
The Little Death – Josh Lawson and the quirky Aussie film. (Film review)
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I said to some friends a couple of weeks ago, after I had seen The Little Death, “Oh, you might really like this film. It’s cute, quirky and really quite funny.” A good friend turned to me and said “What Australian film isn’t cute quirky and really quite funny?” and I repeat this mini episode […]
October
06
The Motherfucker With The Hat – Moral relativism on the New York streets. (Theatre Review)
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The Motherfucker With The Hat Workhorse Theatre Company Darlinghurst theatre 19 September to 19 October You can buy your tickets here. Photos by Kurt Sneddon Moral relativism is one of the oldest conversations between humans since we learnt how to talk to each other. Too often it is used by the emotionally pampered as an […]
October
06
Gone Girl – David Fincher twists his way into our hearts. (Film Review)
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This review doesn’t actually contain spoilers! (amazing) David Fincher is no stranger to bringing a beloved pop/pulp novel to the screen while it is only just sliding off the top of the best seller lists, so there is a disarming confidence at play before we even get to the film, that it will be […]
October
03
Articles at The Essential.
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Pop over to the uber cool Melbourne based eZine The Essential, to check out what they’ve got going on. I’ve got two recently published articles there: Film Review: The Skeleton Twins Problematically, The Skeleton Twins is good because it seems to be a precursor for something else, such as a dramatic career for Kristen […]
October
01
The Films of David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. (Film Review)
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There is never any point obsessing over film awards, least of all the American Academy Awards, but I have to say, how Zodiac missed any nominations and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ever garnered anything other than a tech achievement nod is a mystery greater than the identity of the Zodiac killer. I know […]
September
30
The Films of David Fincher – Zodiac (Film review)
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Zodiac is, without doubt David Fincher’s masterpiece and unbeknownst to everyone at the time, it will become the benchmark for all future Fincher films. It is the perfectly realised balance of a fine script, brilliant performances, technical acumen and above all an implacable restraint that is made all the more potent for the films one hundred […]
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