Richard Cotter

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

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

come: indecently entertaining

Come.

Journey into a world of happy hookings and bad bookings via Rita Therese’s memoir, COME.

Rita Therese is a 25 year old sex worker, photographer, philosopher and writer who entered the sex industry at age 18 and has worked …

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wild fearless chests: beaumont’s blazing bon mots

There’s a wild fearless heart beating in WILD FEARLESS CHESTS, Mandy Beaumont’s short story collection, a wild fearless prose heaving hot, molten truth down every page.

The longest story in the collection, Bright Light and All Brilliance is about child …

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everybody: a play for everybody

EVERYBODY is theatre for everybody. Bar none. Which is ironic because the venue, the Kings Cross Hotel has at least three. Bars that is.
EVERYBODY is the embodiment, the epitome, of everything old is new again.

Based on the medieval …

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in fabric: a phantom thread

Fashion fetish at its most fantastic, IN FABRIC is a freakish film of bespoke macabre- osity, a Lynchian labyrinthine ballad of a bad dress and bald primadonnas.

Like a Phantasm Phantom Thread, IN FABRIC is horror haute couture featuring a …

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queen & slim: in heat of might

Screenwriter Lena Waithe and director Melina Matsoukas achieve every shade of seriousness by means of elegant ease in their damnably deadly debut feature QUEEN & SLIM.

Out on a first time Tinder date that crackles with awkward forthrightness, a female …

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2020 alliance française french film festival

Always a feast, never a famine, the French Film Industry continues to flourish and furnish a fine buffet of film fare at the annual Alliance Francaise French Film Festival.

This year’s offerings run the gamut of genres – drama, comedy, …

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honeyland: best make a bee line

Best make a bee line to HONEYLAND and enjoy a bittersweet vicarious journey with an ancient apiarist, the embodiment of bio-diverse guardianship.

HONEY LAND begins with an astonishingly arresting vista of a mountain eyrie in the Balkans being ascended by …

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dark waters: dark and disturbing

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, DARK WATERS is a horror film where the monster is a corporation that presents itself as benign and benevolent, creating jobs for whole communities and manufacturing products used in every home …

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downhill: truth in title

Don’t expect an avalanche of laughs in DOWNHILL.

Although it stars Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, DOWNHILL makes for uphill enjoyment despite its under ninety minute run time.

Inspired by Ruben Ostland’s 2014 Swedish tour de force, FORCE MAJEURE, this …

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