Richard Cotter

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

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mothering sunday: sensual swiftian swoon

MOTHERING SUNDAY is an exquisite costume drama even though the two leads wear nothing at all for a major portion of the picture.

Just as well it is set mostly on a warm spring day in 1924, where house maid

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gods and little fishes: death and a salesman

Photos © Bob Seary.

From an event unimaginable comes a play full of imagination, GODS AND LITTLE FISHES.

Recipient of The Silver Gull Play Award for 2020, GODS AND LITTLE FISHES receives its world premier at New Theatre with an

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man of god: canon blast

The late 19th Century bleeding into the early 20th Century was a turbulent time for the whole world, no less Greece, what with Egypt, Cypress, Turkey, WWI!

Written and directed by Yelena Popovic, MAN OF GOD tells the

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lunana: a yak in the classroom

Teachers touch the future.” That’s the belief of the denizens of Lunana, a remote, rural village in Bhutan. They still hold education and teachers in high regard and respect.

Ugyen (Sherab Dorji, in his feature debut) is a capital

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abracadabra: magical reading

I first encountered Robert Dessaix in the 1980’s when he presented Radio National’s Books and Writing. His interviews with writers were incisive- well researched and relaxed, making enthralling and rivetting listening. Already a voracious reader, I became a dedicated listener,

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the bob’s burger movie: fun between the buns

Arguably, the best Canadian Irish co production animated musical featuring a burger in a bikini, that’s THE BOB’S BURGER MOVIE, a feature film based on a popular animated television series.

I confess, I have never seen the tv series but

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ablaze: set to amaze

Family is gravity. And core to Tiriki Onus’ family is his grandfather, Bill Onus, a proud, articulate Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri man from Victoria, a truly heroic cultural and political figure who revived his people’s culture in the 1940s and

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german film festival: now showing

This year’s German Film Festival officially launched with the crazy satire, A STASI COMEDY, a story of secrets, surveillance, and sex.

Fuelled by a soundtrack that includes Canned Heat and Leonard Cohen, A STASI COMEDY unravels like a trippy German

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top gun: maverick

TOP GUN: MAVERICK is that rare bird, a sequel as good if not better than it’s progenitor.

Thirty odd years after the first film, Tom Cruise’s Maverick is still pushing the envelope, a test pilot testing the patience of the

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maigret: a morose nose for murder

There’s a melancholic mantle to MAIGRET, Patrice Leconte’s pensive policier based on Georges Simenon’s eponymous sleuth.

Gerard Depardieu puts his own indelible stamp on one of the most beloved characters from 20th century crime fiction, the titular Inspector Jules Maigret

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