Easily my most challenging moment of the Sydney Film Festival was Alexander Sokurov’s Faust – a film I billed as the best of the festival until I saw Holy Motors, which for me just nudged Faust to the side. In some ways the two films are very similar, taking a dystopian, ultra contemporary view of […]
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SFF: On the Road – Salles takes Kerouac for a spin
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One great thing that this film version of On The Road did for me was get me onto excellent whiskey. I must say, after watching the film the desire for one was intense. Was it watching these youths swill it for two hours or the desire to forget these youths that switched me onto it? […]
Exciting Newsletter announcement #1 – Booker Prize short listed author Stephen Kelman chats with Lisa Thatcher
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I told you the newsletter would be good! Exciting announcement #1 is: Acclaimed author Stephen Kelman – currently hard at work on his second book – has agreed to take a little time out to have a brief chat with me about the pleasures and pressures of being a first time author short listed for […]
Announcing: The Lisa Thatcher Newsletter
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A warm and very friendly greeting to all the lovely folk that pop in and read this blog. I want to take the opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your visits. I feel very encouraged by the strength of your response. The blog has now hit the “regular” 100,000 visits a month club […]
Happy Birthday Shakespeare – Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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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
The Sound of speaking Samuel Beckett – Happy Birthday
posted by lisathatcher
Rule Number One Take note one from pocket one and suck it! (take a listen to the above link) Beckett and love Beckett never reduces love to the amalgam of sentimentality and sexuality endorsed by common opinion. Love as a matter of truth (and not of opinion) depends upon a pure event: an encounter whose […]
Blue Eyes Black Hair – Marguerite Duras and the love of loss.
posted by lisathatcher
Among those watching the scene in the lounge from the road behind the hotel is a man. He makes up his mind, crosses the road and goes towards an open window. Just after he has crossed the road, no more than a few seconds, she, the woman in the story, enters the lounge. She has […]
Farewell Adrienne Rich – A valediction forbidding mourning
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I tried to get a copy of A valediction Forbidding Mourning for us today, to whisper quietly together about the passing of the sublime and beautiful Adrienne Rich. Copywrite laws forbid it, but I found something better. A young woman reading it for us. Take a look: Isn’t that lovely? Adrienne Rich’s ‘A […]
In a year with 13 moons – Fassbinder and the desperation of love
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“Every seventh year is a moon year. People whose lives are strongly influenced by their emotions suffer more intensely from depression in these years. To a lesser degree this is also true of years with 13 moons. When a moon year also has 13 new moons, inescapable personal tragedies may occur. In the 20th Century […]
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