Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Let them eat cake. Attributed to Marie Antoinette, what does it really mean? Let the starving stew in sugar? Or feed the hungry the finer things?
There’s certainly plenty of food for thought in Vanessa Bates play PORN.CAKE the confronting
In the cosmos of the credit card cosmopolitan, those who have the biggest deck carry the big stick of social status. That’s the central plank in THE UNSPEAKABLE ITCH, the latest collaboration of Kate Smith and Drew Fairley, a “till
The Spanish Film Festival launched last Monday evening at the Chauvel Cinema with sangria and savouries and a screening of the sweet Argentinean comedy, CHINESE TAKEAWAY.
Predominantly from Spain, the festival features films from other Spanish speaking countries, including Argentina,
Andrey Zvyagintsev is a man who makes movie masterpieces.
After his breathtakingly beautiful THE RETURN, the movie maestro returns with ELENA (M), a film that revels in the minutiae of life and makes it riveting.
Spare, precise, with a stylish
TAKE THIS WALTZ (M) takes its title from the Leonard Cohen song, which itself was taken from Lorca. It is not, however, some slavish cinematic illustration of the lyrics, rather a thematically entwined rumination of romantic love.
Margot, played by
King Christian VII of Denmark would rather be an actor than a monarch. Statutes are given short shrift but whole screeds of Shakespeare are committed to memory- although something is rotten in the state of Denmark does not rank; indeed
One of the highlights of the closing weekend of the Sydney Festival is MONSIEUR LAZHAR, a Canadian GOODBYE MR CHIPS by way of TO SIR WITH LOVE.
Nominated in this year’s Oscars as best foreign language film, this concise and
Actress and singer-songwriter Joanna Weinberg returned to Camelot on Sunday 27 May with her acclaimed show THE PIANO DIARIES. THE PIANO DIARIES is the story of Joanna’s life written on the piano, instead of in a diary.
Her father, a
Art mirroring reality or reality aping art?
Where does one begin and the other end?
Should art lead or follow?
Without reality there is no art, but art is not merely the factotum of reality.
What elevates art is imagination
One of the great mysteries of this year’s Academy Award nominations was the omission of Pedro Almodovar’s scintillating THE SKIN I LIVE IN, from the Best Foreign Language Film category. THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R) the spooky, kooky Almodovar