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Pierrot le Fou – Godard and the ecstasy of words.

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One of the lines in Pierrot le Fou (Pierre the fool or Crazy Pete) is a quote or at least an echo from Rimbaud, Une Saison en enfer – A season in hell. This is one of many art references in this film, but possibly sums up this intense period of film making for Godard. […]

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To Rome with Love – Woody Allen and the whistle-stop tour does Italy

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Is it my imagination, or has Woody Allen finally grown up? Vicky Christina Barcelona teeterd on the past and the future for him, Midnight in Paris was a refreshing look at a great director, not back in form, but using his wit and wisdom to create something fresh, and now with To Rome with Love we have […]

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Shadow of a Doubt – Hitchcock offers us a little Freud.

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Shadow of a doubt is an early Hitchcock  piece of masterful film making (1943) primarily around the theme of doubles, or twos, a theme Hitchcock would re visit many times over in future films. In this film no one is singular, everyone comes in a pair. Two detectives, sisters and brothers  husbands and wives, uncles and nieces, two […]

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Melancholia Non Grata: Lars von Trier and the Infinite Sadness

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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 […]

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Dogs Barking – Pantsguys do Richard Zajdlic and bring in-yer-face to Fringe. (Sydney Fringe Festival)

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A sign outside the performance of Dogs Barking in the King Street Theatre reads: Dogs Barking contains coarse language and cigarette smoke … as if these are the most confronting elements about this “in-yer-face” theatre production written by Richard Zajdlic. It turns out to be a poor warning for the uninitiated into “in-yer-face” theatre, a style […]

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Keyhole – Guy Maddin dreams of Ulysses (Sydney Underground Film Festival)

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The official site for Guy Maddin’s Keyhole has this to say about the film: After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot […]

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Francopherenia – James Franco on the complexities of being James Franco (Sydney underground Film Festival)

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At any other time in the history of television, trying to convince the world your guest starring appearances on General Hospital are a work of art would be impossible. However we live in a time of tolerance when it comes to pulp media.  There is a new cultural fascination for what was once derided and […]

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Jack Killed Jack – Thomas De Angelis writes for his contemporaries (Sydney Fringe Festival)

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I just spent a very enjoyable hour and a half at the Italian Forum Cultural Centre watching a nice little piece of theatre written and performed by a small group of twenty-year-olds. The play is largely about being twenty, and being twenty in the face of a decidedly non twenty-year-old tragedy. Seven young people decide to spend a weekend […]

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Sydney Fringe Festival

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Hello everyone… Well I am out of hibernation now and looking forward to giving you tons of music reviews, film reviews and Booker Long List feedback.  But most exciting of all at the moment is the Sydney Fringe Festival that started on Thursday this week. I’ve booked myself up for lots of goodies:  Some live music, […]

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Writing for Dusted Magazine

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I promise I won’t do this every time there is a review posted, but I am pleased to let my readers here know that my first review for Dusted Magazine is up, and you can check it out here. I’ve been following Dusted Magazine for a while now and am thrilled to be a part […]

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