For those of my beloved readers who are music fans, I am still occasionally reviewing here, but the Dusted site has moved to Dusted In Exile while the old site is in hiatus, and I am reviewing a fair bit there, so time is forcing me to do less here. I will still post music […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
March
08
Stack – Shameless Self Promotion
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Just a remainder that my book of short stories Stack, made free through Lulu by my publisher Les Editions du Zaporogue here, is available to be hated, admired, poured over, loathed, loved, lost or censured at the will and whim of all. In the manner of all cerebral seductresses, I have decided to shamelessly tease […]
March
07
Waiting for Godot – Riverside Lyric Ensemble take on life’s great challenges. (Theatre Review)
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Waiting for Godot Riverside Lyric Ensemble Tickets available here. Photo Credits to Petros Ktenas It is a brave company that takes on Samuel Beckett’s theatre changing play, directing, performing and producing Waiting for Godot is one of theatre’s greatest challenges for many reasons, one of which is the nuances that exist despite their remarkable ability […]
March
06
Hannah Arendt – Margarethe von Trotta and the image of the thinking woman. (Film Review)
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Hannah Arendt’s story surrounding the writing of The Banality of Evil is a shocking one, not so much for her adept philosophical statements, which are still apt (see Errol Morris’ documentary Dr. Death for just one of many examples of a reinforcement of her New Yorker essay) but rather for her astounding courage, or is […]
March
04
Reflect – Sue Peacock, Performing Lines and memories endless narrative. (Theatre review)
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Imagine a giant screen presenting you, the individual, as a contributor to a relationship, as a functioning member of society through your gestures – no assisting commentary for interpretation – then against that is your shadow, performing the same and different gestures, larger than life, but smaller than the recorded image, and out in front of […]
March
03
Gloria – Sebastián Lelio spotlights the invisible woman. (Film Review)
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One of the most, if not the most interesting place for cinema post 2010 is Chile. Its no accident that two breakout Chilean films wowed audiences in Cannes and Berlin in 2013 when nothing from Chile had been shown in Berlin since the 90’s. Young directors like Sebastián Lelio (Gloria) and Pablo Larrain (No) have drawn […]
March
02
30 Years Ago Today: Repo Man – Alex Cox and the Lattice of Coincidence. (Film Review)
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If Repo Man is the seemingly miraculous meeting of perfect dialogue with perfect performances with a directorial aesthetic that both pierced the facade of Reaganomics as well as accurately representing a relatively unknown, and yet soon to be infamous sub culture along with the perfect soundtrack, then it begs the question, how often are these […]
March
01
R.I.P. Alain Resnais
posted by lisathatcher
Alain Resnais died, aged ninety-one, leaving the world a sadder place for the knowing we will never see another one of his films. He has made two of my personal favorite movies that fall in my “top ten” (if such a thing can possibly exist) and they are Last Year At Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon […]
March
01
Le Weekend – Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi bring back a little Godard. (Film Review)
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Sometimes there is a thinness in who we purport to be. The post modern relief for anxiety is meant to be the project, our work, our relationship, our children, the stuff of life that we build are meant to give us meaning, not just occupy our time until we die, but one of the agonising […]
February
28
Fully Committed – Nick Curnow and Alexander Butt take us deeper and closer. (Theatre Review)
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Fully Committed Brevity Theatre Company with Sydney Independent Theatre Company 24 February to March 1 Tickets available here. There are people you fall in love with instantly because a quality shines from them, not as easily defined as beauty, not as fashion conscious as charisma, it’s what TV folk define as the ‘X’ factor and […]
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