Richard Cotter

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

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rocketman: the dwight stuff

ROCKETMAN is certainly the Dwight Stuff, a musical medley of the mercurial rise of Reggie Dwight and his metamorphosis into the music legend that is Elton John, the gifted musician, who set himself on a treadmill of fame and fortune …

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on artists: pains in the arts

Ashleigh Wilson’s essay ON ARTISTS is a pain in the arts.

Wilson quotes George Orwell- “If Shakespeare returned to Earth tomorrow and if it were found out that his favourite recreation was raping little girls in railway carriages, we should …

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peterloo: pertinent 200 years on

Mike Leigh’s latest big canvas production, PETERLOO, is a magnificent class struggle epic of prodigious weight that plucks a pivotal event in English history from the dustbin of obscurity.

Pic begins on the last day of the Battle of Waterloo, …

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music from the movies: sydney philharmonia choirs

 

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES kicks off with the monumental Millennial megahit, Frozen, then proceeds to navigate a course of varying degrees of nostalgia, mingling classical compositions used in movies and music written specifically for film.

A …

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long shot: charlize theron for president!

Can Fred Flarsky ever forget Charlotte Field and find true happiness?
It’s a long shot brought to short stop in LONG SHOT, a deliciously captivating, deliriously romantic political comedy.

I don’t think its drawing a long bow entertaining the idea …

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commander in cheat: who’s foozling who?

Does Robert De Niro play golf? On principle, he probably proscribes the putting and Penfold 7s , seeing how totally opposed he is to the golfing megalomaniac Donald Trump.

Bobby will probably like a new book out that seeks to …

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batch: season of new work at griffin

Like a trance Ted talk, David Finnigan, fearless writer of Kill Climate Deniers, tears through a litany of tropes that might make the subject of climate change more palatable and conversational in YOU’RE SAFE TILL 2024.

That’s only five years …

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frida kahlo: viva la vida

Frida Kahlo, as her personification on stage tells us, is the artist who gave birth to herself.

It takes a little while but Kate Bookalil gives birth to Frida in a wonderfully theatrical way in FRIDA KAHLO: VIVA LA VIDA …

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