Richard Cotter

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

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minotaur: blind man’s buff

“Like any cop, I’ve seen enough evil to believe in the category. Or at least suspend my belief in it, on a practical, daily level.” says Rick Zadow, the protagonist of Peter Goldsworthy’s MINOTAUR, an existential super sensory detective story.…

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see you at the toxteth: cliff hardy revisited

 

Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the emergence of Cliff Hardy, the Sydney private detective created by Peter Corris.

To celebrate and commemorate, his publisher Allen & Unwin s releasing SEE YOU AT THE TOXTETH, the best …

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who you think i am: mother of a groom

“The internet is both shipwreck and life boat.” says Juliet Binoche’s conniving Catfish in WHO YOU THINK I AM, a blistering and unabashed study of malignant anonymity and identity fraud.

Binoche plays Claire, a university professor who lectures in literature, …

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camino skies: pilgrim’s process

A clutch of Kiwi Catholics take to the pilgrim trail in CAMINO SKIES, an eighty minute travelogue trek into tragedy and the pursuit of meaning.

Shot over 42 days, the film follows the journey of six strangers as they embark …

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table: fully furnished feast

 

“I hate this table” is the first line uttered in Tanya Ronder’s TABLE.

It is repeated again at the end of the play, but by then the beautiful crafting of the writing and the exquisitely precise staging of this …

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be natural: the untold story of alice guy-blaché

Prepare to be astonished. Prepare to be astounded. Prepare to be ashamed.

Pamela B. Green’s BE NATURAL: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, narrated by Jodie Foster, is a feature documentary that reveals for the first time the full scope …

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joe country: page turning murderer of sleep

Consider yourself kidnapped, held hostage, spirited away, your time ransomed.

Welcome to JOE COUNTRY where you are kept captive by a compulsively readable narrative that sweeps in like a rattlesnake and fangs it for over four hundred fabulous pages.

The …

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the keeper: kicking goals for reconciliation

“You can’t argue with the bereaved.” says a character in THE KEEPER, qualifying a reluctance to reconciliation and forgiveness.

Based on an incredible true story, THE KEEPER follows Bert Trautmann, a German prisoner of war incarcerated in England at the …

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relative merits: falling foul of folau

Don’t expect to see Israel Folau in the audience of RELATIVE MERITS.

His loss, really, because it’s about a footy player, Adam Grant, who states that playing the game is the closest thing to heaven on earth, that putting on …

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