Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Having just directed the comedy MURDER MOST FUNNY (still playing till this Sunday at Tap Gallery, by the way) with a very Danny Kaye-ish turn by Seaton Kay-Smith, it was a Zeitgeist moment for me when Danny Kaye was channelled,
In what is arguably the most astonishing, audacious and auspicious movie this year, Leos Carax’s HOLY MOTORS (MA) serves up a surreal slice of cinema that the likes of David Lynch would sacrifice their first born for.
It begins with
Too much for one cinema, the Russian Resurrection Film Festival has seconded the Event Cinemas, Burwood to its original showcase, the Chauvel in Paddington, to present a pageant of contemporary Ruski film making.
From blistering drama, to sizzling history to
Remember WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S, the comedy about keeping up appearances that a stiff is still very much alive?
Well Richard Linklater’s latest flick has a certain similarity.
What is it with the name Bernie that brings out the blarney in
New to DVD is David Cronenberg’s A DANGEROUS METHOD(M).
Sex, sex, sex. Is that Michael Fassbender ever thinks about? Fresh from his shenanigans in SHAME where he unashamedly showed his schlong, here he is a shrink and Carl Jung no
New to DVD is Terrence Davies’s film of Terrence Rattigan’s play, THE DEEP BLUE SEA .
On the face of it, THE DEEP BLUE SEA (M) seems terribly old fashioned and an odd choice of film for a 21st century
New to DVD is Derick Martini’s HICK. This film never made it to the local cinemas. Derick Martini’s adaptation of Andrea Portes novel is a mess – Portes in a storm- although Andrea is credited as screenwriter, so she shares
False, fallacious, facetious, fake, fraudulent, fiction. These are the F bombs that explode in well timed detonations throughout the drama of A HOAX, directed by Lee Lewis, currently playing at Griffin Theatre Company.
Winner of the 2011 Griffin Award, Rick
Hollywood dynastic DNA is all over AND IF WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER? (M) (Et si vivait tous ensemble?), a fine French film that features Jane Fonda and Geraldine Chaplin.
Fonda plays Jeanne married to Albert (Pierre Richard). She is dealing
Agnieska Holland’s film IN DARKNESS (MA) conjures not only SCHINDLER’S LIST but Nathan Englander’s recent short story collection, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK.
One may ask if everything has now been said on the subject