Computer Chess is currently playing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. Surely one of the most intensely disappointing aspects of the digital age is capitalism’s ability to domesticate it. It seems quaint now, but when we were first faced with the rapid expansion of computer technology and its mind-boggling abilities […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
May
28
Computer Chess – Andrew Bujalski reminds us that Computers used to be exciting. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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May
26
Vicky Christina Barcelona – Woody Allen and the impossibility of our desires. (Film review)
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In The Perverts guide to Ideology, a certain emphasis is placed on our desire and the impossibility of its fulfillment. This is a Lacanian idea (and one I think at this point in my intuitive travels makes a lot of sense) and it is double interesting to remember that Woody Allen has been through a […]
May
25
The Perverts Guide To Ideology – Slavoj Žižek says we are responsible for our dreams. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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This is a review of The Perverts Guide to Ideology which is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. Grab your tickets here. I already am eating from the trash can all of the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively […]
May
24
Only God Forgives – Nicolas Winding Refn and the Oedipus reach. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Only God Forgives is showing at the Sydney Film Festival in Competition. Grab tickets here. His destiny moves us only because it might have been ours — because the Oracle laid the same curse upon us before our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first […]
May
23
The Hangover 3 – What’s not to love? (film review)
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I saw The Hangover part three earlier this week. I took a demographically appropriate eighteen year old white male along with me, and he laughed all the way through, as did all the people around me, and claimed the film to be an almighty success by the end. As for me, I laughed also and for […]
May
22
Blancanieves – Pablo Berger and the rediscovery of beauty past. (SFF Film Review)
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This is a film review of Blancanieves, which is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. Get Tickets here. It’s shocking I know, but I haven’t seen The Artist. It has everything I love, including being apologetically French, and I am ashamed to say I suspect it was its popularity that turned me off. This is […]
May
20
Mistaken for Strangers – The National, The Berningers and rock stars. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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Music films are a highlight of the Sydney Film Festival this year and among them is the heartwarming, fascinating Mistaken for Strangers. Officially, Mistaken For Strangers is a rock documentary about The National and the biggest world tour they had yet encountered. The National are a fascinating band because – as the title of the […]
May
17
Sping Breakers – Harmony Korine goes wild. (film review)
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I knew as soon as I saw the trailer, I was going to love Spring Breakers. Spring Breakers is biting social satire. Those who regularly attend the real spring break would be hugely offended if they understood or even recognized subtle (or not so subtle) irony, but fortunately (as Harmony Korine seems to think) those people don’t exist. The […]
May
15
Richard the 3rd (or almost) – Timothy Daly brought to life by Markus Weber and the King Street Theatre. (theatre review)
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In the play commonly titled No Exit, but more accurately titled In Camera, John Paul Sartre deals with the concept of sins, our relationship to them, hell, eternity and his all time favorite subject, authenticity. Because his character Garcin utters the phrase “hell is other people” , the primary themes of the play have been […]
May
14
The Perverts Guide to Cinema – Slavoj Žižek and the reality of cinematic fiction. (film review)
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(This is a review of Sophie Fiennes film The Perverts Guide to Cinema. The follow up to this film, The Perverts Guide to Ideology will be shown at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. ) I don’t know about you, but for me the most interesting thing about cinema both past […]
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