Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Brace yourself for the first great film of 2020, seven days after the season that celebrates the birth of Christ-possibly the most sublimely Christian film to start the new year. I’m talking pure, crystaline Christianity, the real thing, not the …
Ken Loach keeps striving for the humanity sometimes lost in modern cinema. His latest film is SORRY WE MISSED YOU, a couer de cinema for couriers in the gig economy.
The casualisation of the workplace brings a casualtyisation to the …
Any film that begins with I Want To Hold Your Hand by the Beatles and ends with Heroes by Bowie, is well ahead of the game and JOJO RABBIT is so far ahead in the comedy stakes this year you’d …
The setting for PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE is 18th century France, specifically a remote island in Brittany, where Héloïse lives with her mother and their maid.
Her mum needs her married so she engages Marianne to come and …
THE TRUTH pairs Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche for the first time, as a celebrated actress and her estranged daughter whose tentative reunion offers an opportunity to either repair or irrevocably fracture their relationship.
Denueve plays Fabienne, a film star, …
“Don’t you agree that sex is at the core of personality?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “people are complicated.”
People certainly are and Mary Gaitskill builds on this short exchange in her excoriating new book, THIS IS PLEASURE.
There are …
A heart stopping reminder of what a poem can do, Sarah Holland-Batt’s Pursuit Music has all the crackling, cascading cadence of a neon noir thriller, the lyrical language of on the lam iambics, the rhythm of the road, its bolt …
All images by Clare Hawley
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, with a two for one deal at the Kings Cross Theatre, a double bill of two brand new Australian works, GOOD PEOPLE and SHANDY’S CORNER.
Both works …
The song remains the same – So long, Marianne, it’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Nick Broomfield’s Marianne & Leonard – Words of Love is a compelling refrain to …
Now hear this.
If earlier glowing reviews of Emma Viskic’s two previous books featuring the deaf detective, Caleb Zelic, Resurrection Bay and And Fire Came Down, have fallen on deaf ears, now is the time to rectify this glaring omission …