Richard Cotter

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

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drive my car: destination oscars

Nominated for four Academy Awards, DRIVE MY CAR motors along like a road movie version of Vanya on 42nd Street mixed with Waiting for Godot.

After playing in an acclaimed production of Waiting For Godot, theatre maker Kafuku makes

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the end of winter: catch this season

Actor – Jane Phegan
Photographer – Clare Hawley

It takes no time at all to warm to Jane Phegan’s performance in Noëlle Janaczewska’s poetic and potent monologue, THE END OF WINTER.

Sat mostly atop a sinking house, submerged by rising

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belfast: branagh’s beginnings

BELFAST has been brewing in Kenneth Branagh’s brain for half a century and now splashes onto the cinema screen in brilliant black and white and rose coloured hues.

With a title like BELFAST, you could expect a baleful film, a

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india sweets & spices: sweet & spicy

Sweet and spicy, INDIA SWEETS & SPICES is a surprisingly smart little offering, a rom com in the vein of Crazy Rich Asians, but more endearing.

Written and directed by Geeta Malik, INDIA SWEETS & SPICES is set in Ruby

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here out west: how the west is one

Hear out west. See out west. Go out west.

The cross-pollination of experienced industry creatives with bold new voices has resulted in something vibrant and unique and distinctly Australian in HERE OUT WEST, a marvellous mosaic of a movie that

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parallel mothers: peerless movie making

Almodovar, maestro of the melodrama, is at his peak with PARALLEL MOTHERS.

An unparalleled performance by Penelope Cruz propels this multi-layered story of misplaced babies and historical massacre. If there is better acting than this on the screen at the

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queen hades productions : a grain of sound

There’s a little bit of Minority Report running through the majority of Declan Coyle’s play, A GRAIN OF SAND, a Dick-ensian ( as in Philip K Dick) meditation on justice in a truly future technological state.

Dick imagined whether it

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flickerfest: make a fist of it

Flickerfest, Sydney’s Academy® qualifying and BAFTA recognised short film festival, is celebrating 31 years and rolling out the red carpet at Bondi Beach from 21 – 30 January 2022.

See a kaleidoscopic carnival of short films from at home …

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spencer: a pheasant pluck

They don’t want real people. There are two of us the real and the ones they photograph.” So says Prince Charles to Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain’s stylish, slightly surreal, SPENCER.

Kristen Stewart depicts a princess of wails, a

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wudjang: not the past

After Welcome to Country, the house lights flicker and the audience is plunged into pitch black.

Bangarra’s bold new enterprise, WUDJANG: NOT THE PAST, begins in the present, the lights slowly dawning on the image of a metal mouth mining

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