Richard Cotter

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

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polish film festival sydney

POLISH FILM FESTIVAL SYDNEY returns this May to Palace Norton Street and The Ritz Cinemas with a fresh line-up of entertaining comedies, gripping crime stories, captivating dramas, and a bit of romance.

Commencing Sunday 7 May, the festival will show

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my neighbour adolf: the nazi next door

Doppelganger, disguise and deceit are at the core of the post Holocaust paranoia pic, MY NEIGHBOUR ADOLF.

Set in South America, 1960, Polsky (David Hayman), a lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor lives in the remote Colombian countryside, spending his days

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the giants: if you love this planet

Raised a Presbyterian, Bob Brown’s path is more practically pagan.

Son of a policeman, Bob Brown spent time in prison for his protests against environmental destruction.

Bob Brown doesn’t worship but embraces the natural world, with all its awe and

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ufo: wtf

UFO is WTF. Winding theatre and film. Or wrapping theatre with film.

It’s theatre, Jim, but not as we know it.

As theatre goers ran to the theatres to get away from the kitchen sing only to be confronted with

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the innocent

 “There’s someone in my life. My wife. She’s dead.”

So says Abel, the protagonist in THE INNOCENT, a film that joyfully pays homage to the great crime capers of the French New Wave and to Alfred Hitchcock, and is unabashedly,

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fantastic film festival: the survival of kindness

Daring, unconventional, and cutting-edge cinema is returning to Melbourne and Sydney with the highly anticipated return of the Fantastic Film Festival Australia (FFFA). Running from 14-30 April, FFFA promises to captivate curious audiences with its panoramic celebration of

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allelujah: not for sissies

 “Don’t leave it too late to die” is the sage advice of a matron in an aged care facility in the ironically titled ALLELUJAH.

The title comes from the song Get Happy composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by

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sydney film festival: first glimpse

Celebrating a momentous 70 years in 2023, Sydney Film Festival today released a special preview of 12 films to be featured in this year’s 7–18 June event. The announcement is in advance of the full program launch on Wednesday 10

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eo: nice ass

Nominated for best International Film at this year’s Oscars, EO is a quirky docudrama about a donkey.

It was always going to be a hard act to stop All Quiet on The Western Front from picking up the International Oscar,

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shy: a small masterpiece

Mum I’m a very disturbed young man”.

No poppet you’re lost, that’s different.”

Shy is lost in a swirling, twirling spiral of sex, spliffs and sound in Max Porter’s small masterpiece, SHY.

There’s nothing shy about the prodigious

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