Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Featured image- Pic of author by Dennis Drenner.
A fission and fusion of fashion and crime fiction, Barbara Bourland’s I’LL EAT WHEN I’M DEAD is a ferociously funny satire of the gloss and goss industry.
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Featured image – Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in A QUIET PASSION.
Emily Dickinson was first featured in Terence Davies cinematic ode to Liverpool, Of Time and The City, which contained his recitation of “I reason, earth is short …
Istanbul should be renamed Catstandenobled after viewing KEDI, a purrfectly affectionate catumentary about the feline inhabitants of the pearl on the Bosphorus.
KEDI could be renamed as well. May I suggest, The Mognificent Seven, as Director Ceyda Torun catalogues a …
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Nick Broomfield’s documentary about Whitney Houston, CAN I BE ME?, is such a slow burn affair that interest for the general view may well splutter before it ignites.
It begins with the 911 call …
It looks a million dollars but THAT’S NOT ME cost a mere $60,000.
THAT’S NOT ME begins with the picture’s protagonist, Polly, sitting on the toilet clutching an air freshener and delivering an Oscar acceptance speech.
Polly is an aspiring …
Invariably, the great surprises and sincere sensations of the Sydney Film Festival come from documentary film makers shining cinematic spotlights on our past, present and futures, rectifying the forgotten by elevating remembrance, examining the individual and celebrating the universal.
Two …
It’s forty years since Eraserhead fixed David Lynch into the cultural landscape. We know what he’s been doing since then, especially lately with the new episodes of Twin Peaks, but what came before?
DAVID LYNCH : THE ART LIFE …
Currently in competition at The Sydney Film Festival, THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE will not be in line for any award Peter Dutton might lend his name to.
Khaled, a young Syrian refugee who has lost virtually all of his …
“Our only responsibility is to remain irresponsible” is the motto of Laibach, the Slovenian band invited to appear in North Korea, a tour documented in the bizarre, beguiling and brilliant documentary, LIBERATION DAY.
Famous for their art rock interpretations of …
Two very different films about child abuse are among the picks of this year’s Sydney Film Festival (7-18 June).
Benedict Andrews first feature film, UNA, is a taut tale of sexual obsession.
Based on David Harrower’s play Blackbird, the …