Richard Cotter

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

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the power of the dog: home on the rage

 

A suicide widow with a half cooked son” seduces Phil Burbank’s brother, George, in Jane Campion’s rousing return to the cinema, THE POWER OF THE DOG.

Based on the novel by Thomas Savage, THE POWER OF THE DOG

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no time to die: double helix double o

 

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service out of You Only Live Twice, NO TIME TO DIE takes this Ian Fleming double helix and modifies and manipulates it into a James Bond epic that is, quite simply, precision engineered entertainment.

Working

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the dark hours: ballard & bosch investigate

 

While away the dark hours immersed in Michael Connelly’s latest thriller, THE DARK HOURS, and chances are you’ll be catching the dawn.

Featuring Connelly’s most enduring character, Harry Bosch and recent creation, Renee Ballard, THE DARK HOURS is as

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sydney film festival: souvlaki, slopes & sex

Highly influenced by Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amor, Danielle Arbid’s PASSION SIMPLE is a sublime study in erotic obsession.Helene is a literature professor in Paris researching a book on Aphra BehnShe has begun an affair with a younger man, a

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british film festival launches: the duke

 

It was speculated at one time that SPECTRE had masterminded the theft of the Goya painting, The Duke of Wellington, from the National Gallery, and that James Bond had tracked it down to the lair of Dr No on

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julia: cuisine queen

 

Salivating cinema, JULIA is a delicious documentary made by Betsy West and Julie Cohen who cooked up the Academy Award nominated RBG a couple of years ago.

JULIA is Julia Child, one of the modern era’s most entertaining and

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the many saints of newark: sopranos prequel

 

Despite having Ray Liotta appear in two roles, THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK is no Goodfellas.

However, Liotta’s performances are perfect, and perfect reason to see the film. He plays, Hollywood Dick, the father of the main character Dickie

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st. ali italian film festival: molto bene!

 

The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival has opened with the Australian premiere of Daniele Luchetti’s THE TIES (Lacci) which opened last year’s Venice Film Festival.

THE TIES is the perfect title for this film, because all the

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silverview: the spies that bind

 

Some sixty years ago, E. D. O’Brien, writing in the Illustrated London News, said of John Le Carre: “If he continues at this level, he will soar beyond any of the great names of this century.”

Applause for O’Brien

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