Richard Cotter

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

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

enough said

Enough said that ENOUGH SAID is a rom com for the older gen.

Actually, there’s a lot to be said about ENOUGH SAID, where the age of the two protagonists might cause Gen X and Y to preface carbon to

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the counselor

THE COUNSELOR2

The collaboration of Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy is irresistible.

The director of THELMA AND LOUISE and the writer of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN seems a match made in movie heaven.

Add a cast the stuff box office dreams …

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the boy colonel

THE BOY COLONEL100

 

In a little over a year from now we will be commemorating one hundred years since the start of the First World War. A century on, we are still uncovering, like the bodies of the fallen in French and

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jfk the smoking gun

THE SMOKING GUN

More fodder for the Kennedy conspiracy canon as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of JFK in Dallas, November 22, 1963.

Former Australian detective, Colin McLaren, takes up the conspiracy cudgel in the cold case of the century

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the butler

THE BUTLER

All the presidents, man.

That’s one of the joys of Lee Daniels’ ballsy new film, THE BUTLER (M).

It’s the story of White House Silver Service Black Man Cecil Gaines who served the President of the United States from Eisenhower …

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red-volution

Rudyard Kipling famously waxed lyrical that East is East and west is West, and never the twain shall meet. I don’t know if he ever met Mark Twain, but the twain twixt eastern and western art has certainly been met …

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all my sons

Announced earlier this year, Darlinghurst Theatre Company will open Eternity Playhouse with Arthur Miller’s ALL MY SONS, which will preview from November 1, and open on November 5.

We used to celebrate Guy Fawkes on that date and hopefully the …

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solo

The double 0 in the title is a nice touch in the James Bond continuation novel, SOLO by William Boyd (Jonathan Cape).

There are lots of nice touches in SOLO, which celebrates the 6oth anniversary of the publication of Casino …

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lasseter’s bones

Sifting the truth from the myth of Harry Lasseter and his fabled reef of gold is like lassoing a shadow. A 20th century Burke & Wills story of expiration in the thrall of exploration the tale has endured and …

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prisoners

If we are, as Thoreau ejaculated, most of us, leading lives of quiet desperation, what happens when we are javelined into loud desperation?

This is the swampy antediluvian sphere examined in PRISONERS (MA) the latest film from Canadian uber director, …

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