Richard Cotter

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

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

a private spy: the letters of john le carré.

In 1977, Clive James declared in the New York Review of Books, John le Carré’s The Honourable Schoolboy “is about as twice as long as it should be”. Two years later he wrote in The Observer of the television series

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join margot robbie: get your tickets

Paramount Pictures Australia is excited to announce MARGOT ROBBIE and DIEGO CALVA will be heading to Sydney to present their highly anticipated new film BABYLON.

Margot Robbie and Diego Calva will attend the Australian Premiere on Monday, January 16 …

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japanese film festival: three good reasons

This year’s cinematic calendar began with Drive My Car, the instant classic Japanese film that went on to win best foreign language film at this year’s Academy Awards.

How fitting therefore, that the year ends with a festival of Japanese

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ennio: the maestro

Momentous and monumental, the latest film by Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso), ENNIO – THE MAESTRO celebrates the life and legacy of the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone.

Revolving around an interview between Tornatore and Morricone recorded

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something in the dirt: dig it

There’s something in SOMETHING IN THE DIRT that you’ll dig if you like excavating the off beat and surprising in your movie going experience.

One of the wildly original science fiction films of recent memory, SOMETHING IN THE DIRT is

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the stars at noon: nude study with moon

Margaret Qualley is magnetic – mischievous, manipulative, maddening as Trish, a young American who wants only one thing: to return to the United States from a forced exile in Nicaragua in Claire Denis’ film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novel, THE

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kompromat: be smershed

From Russia With Love without the fun, The Courier without the frisson, KOMPROMAT is a flat thriller that fizzles rather than sizzles.

Gilles Lellouche stars as Mathieu, a gregarious and dedicated civil servant who accepts a posting to Irkutsk as

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splice here: a projected odyssey

The projectionist as protectionist, SPLICE HERE is an epic exploration, examination and explanation of why film matters, it’s evolution, devaluation, and resurrection.

Just as Digital sounded the death knell for vinyl, it similarly sealed film’s fate as the predominant server

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she said: all the precedents,man

All the precedents, man. Coercive control to blatant anatomical assault, this is the reputation that precedes the person making another run at the office of the President of the United States.

He’s named and shamed at the beginning of SHE

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