Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

monsieur mayonnaise

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Kicked out of university. Makes a career as a people smuggler. Is this the sort of person we want to come to Australia? You bet it is!

It may sound like a Lubitsch comedy title, but MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE is actually …

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woody allen’s new film : cafe society

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The good news is that CAFÉ SOCIETY is arguably the best looking Woody Allen film ever. But Woody’s wit takes a back seat to the look – sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storraro production, design by Santo Loquasto and Suzy Benzinger’s

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2016 scifi film festival 19/10 to 23/10 @ randwick ritz

Get ready for Australia’s only SF Film Festival! The 2016 SciFi Film Festival tessellates into the continuum at The Ritz, Randwick, this coming week, premiering the best bleeding-edge science fiction features and short films from around the world over five …

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pedro almodovar’s ‘julieta’

‘The first reaction by Alberto Iglesias, my musician for twenty years, when he saw the edited film was that it didn’t need music. He liked it bare, just as it had been born in the editing room’, says director …

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holly throsby’s debut novel ‘goodwood’

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Here’s the good wood on GOODWOOD. It’s good.

Holly Throsby’s debut novel, GOODWOOD, is a lyrical, rolling ballad of a small country town hit with a one/two punch of grief and of a one/two punch of burgeoning sexuality for the …

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adrien bosc’s debut novel ‘constellation’

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Author Adrien Bosc does not consider his debut novel CONSTELLATION to be a prosopopoeia, a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified, or a figure of speech in which an imagined, absent, or dead person or thing …

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miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children

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There’s a spectacular sequence on the Ghost Train at Brighton Pier at what should be the climax of Tim Burton’s latest fantasy, MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. Watch out for the director as a wide eyed and terrified rider …

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the magnificent seven

Bodice ripped buxom widow beseeches black clad bounty hunter to bring unlovable rogue, Bartholomew Bogue to book.

The black knight, Sam Chisolm (didn’t John Wayne play a character called Chisolm?) played by Denzel Washington channelling Richard Boone’s Paladin, assembles a …

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life, animated

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The extraordinary documentary, LIFE, ANIMATED, is not a Disney picture but what an endorsement of the Mouse House, nonetheless.

Owen Suskind is an autistic man who emerged from years of silence and withdrawal as a child after immersing himself in …

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all of us & everything

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Featured Image- Author Bridget Asher, the pen name for Julianna Baggott, W.H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters.

Chick lit writ large, Bridget Asher’s whimsical novel, ALL OF US & EVERYTHING, is a three sister ring circus with an eccentric

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