Next year it will be thirty years since Brian de Palma made The Untouchables (I know! I know!) one of the many rough parodies of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, which was made sixty-two years earlier. Gangster Squad is our latest incarnation in the long running homage (we even have the all-important massacre on the steps scene) to a […]
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Melancholia Non Grata: Lars von Trier and the Infinite Sadness
posted by lisathatcher
I attended a seminar last night completely devoted to Lars von triers film Melancholia. I wrote my own review of this film when I saw it, and I confess my response to it was mixed. While I adored aspects of the film, there were certain responses to it that turned me off parts of the […]
Room – Peter Malicki locks us all up and asks the hard questions. (Sydney Fringe Festival)
posted by lisathatcher
Throughout the performance of Room you will hear several films referenced. Cube, Saw, and The Matrix are some of them. All these films deal in some way with our abilities to observe ourselves within a stylised reality that has been created for us. They are each about the discovery that what we thought about our […]
Droplets – Dominic Lash moving sound around
posted by lisathatcher
The liner notes in Droplets, conceived by Dominic Lash tells us of a group formed by Lash specifically to focus on performance of works by the Wandelweiser collective. This floating group of musicians will be known as The Set Ensemble, and relate primarily through a shared interest in the work of Alain Badiou who deployes mathematical set […]
Happy Birthday Shakespeare – Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
posted by lisathatcher
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare I was adored once too. William Shakespeare
Les Cousins – Chabrol takes the French New Wave on a descent to Hell.
posted by lisathatcher
Backed with money inherited by his wife, Chabrol wrote, produced and directed Le Beau Serge in 1958, a film often cited as the first New Wave feature. Shot over nine weeks in Sardent, using natural light and real locations, the film portrays a detailed picture of working class life in a bleak provincial village. Reflecting the influence of both […]
The Cat from Cat Hill – Loris. Music that meanders through my subterranean caverns.
posted by lisathatcher
Deep inside my capacity for music listening is a vast potential for horizonal expansion with the texture of cyber-like plasticity. Separate from the music that now inhabits it, or rather tries to inhabit, is the space for music. Long before the music presented itself, something inside me – god, evolution or an expanding to nowhere […]
Film – Samuel Beckett takes to the flicks.
posted by lisathatcher
I watched a wonderful short film tonight. A man is running through the streets. he is spotted by a couple and recoils at the sight of them, running on past. The couple are shocked to see him. he runs on, till finally he reaches the door of a room. At the door he takes his […]
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