Richard Cotter

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

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

matriarch: spell binding story telling

Simple, pure, crystalline, charming and clear, MATRIARCH sets the bar high for the Sydney Fringe Festival.

MATRIARCH is story telling at its most compelling with actor writer Sandy Greenwood sharing the story of the matriarchal line of her family from …

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the rich man’s house: andrew mcgahan’s farewell novel

Monoliths and mansions, Andrew McGahan’s posthumously published novel, THE RICH MAN’S HOUSE, features both, and in its size and complexity, mirrors both.

A mountain of a book, THE RICH MAN’S HOUSE is a mansion of rooms – geographical, geological, psychological, …

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dragged across concrete: epic crime saga

Things go bad “like lasagne in a can” in S. Craig Zahler’s DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE.

Imagine if you will, Mad Max and Martin Riggs at 60 and you get an inkling of Mel Gibson’s character, Brett Ridgeman, a cop who …

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the australian dream: it’s the goodes

Scoring a goal with every frame, THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM is a documentary that uses the remarkable and inspirational story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes as the prism through which to tell a deep and powerful story about race, identity …

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miles davis: the birth of the cool

Stanley Nelson’s sublime documentary, MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL, starts with a quote from Miles Davis – Music has always been like a curse with me. I have always felt driven to play it. It has always been the …

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the nightingale: a beauty of the beastly

Throughout settler-colonial history, the bodies of women both black and white have served as a battleground.

Australia’s ugly past swoops down like a vulture on carrion, a blowfly on effluent, in Jennifer Kent’s historical horror story, THE NIGHTINGALE.

Writer director …

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korean film festival: art & seoul

Celebrating 10 years of screening the very best in Korean cinema Down Under, The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA), returns to Sydney i 22-31 Aug, with a program that features a whopping 22 films, 13 of which are Australian …

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once upon a time in hollywood: unmissable

Once upon a time in Hollywood, a brash young kid called Quentin Tarantino delivered an electric two step uppercut with Reservoir Dogs and a knockout blow with Pulp Fiction, establishing a career that has survived nine pictures.

His latest, ONCE …

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wink: nudge,nudge

Photo by Robert Catto,

With psychiatrists like Frans, who needs enemies.

When Gregor, a patient of his, confides that he has skinned his wife’s cat and further more kept its pelt in a box and takes it from time to …

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late night: better late than never

After almost 30 years, a groundbreaking talk-show host suspects she may soon be losing her coveted seat on late-night television unless she manages a game-changing transformation in LATE NIGHT, the first feature film from Emmy-nominated writer and producer Mindy Kaling, …

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