Richard Cotter

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

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sydney czech & slovak film festival

Dendy Cinemas are once again hosting the Sydney Czech and Slovak Film Festival.

The festival begins on March 27 with the opening night film Jan Palach at Dendy’s Opera Quays. The evening will commence with a cocktail on arrival and …

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grounded: major marvel

Captain Marvel is rocketing up the multiplex box-office at the moment, but, for my money, there’s a major marvel playing at Riverside Theatres at the moment that beats the kapow! out of that CGI blockbuster.

Like Captain Marvel, GROUNDED features …

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the divorce party: a mini inverted dimboola?

How many NIDA graduates from 2017 does it take to put on a play?

In the case of THE DIVORCE PARTY, the answer is three.

Set in a dingy forecourt of a Chinese restaurant, four disparate people commingle whilst taking …

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sometimes always never: the end is nighy

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NEVER is a triple word score of a film, literate, eloquent, elegant and laugh out loud sartorial mix of syntax, vocabulary and word play.

Bill Nighy plays Alan, a stylish tailor and Scrabble hustler. …

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russian transport: a human traffic jam

Imagine Brighton Beach Memoirs evolving into Little Odessa, and you have something of the tone of Erika Sheffer’s RUSSIAN TRANSPORT.

The play begins with established Russian Jewish emigre couple to Brooklyn, New York, Diana and Misha, welcoming Diana’s brother, Boris, …

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painting in the shadows: little whiteley lies

Art dealer and accidental sleuth, Alex Clayton made quite a splash last year in her debut adventure, THE PORTRAIT OF MOLLY DEAN. A follow up caper was much anticipated and with PAINTING IN THE SHADOWS, author Katherine Kovacic has followed …

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seed bomb: tick,tick,bloom

Mind change trumps tree change in Daniela Giorgi’s SEED BOMB, a subtle, combustible comedy.

Sleepwalking city slicker, Kat, thinks a tree change to the country is what she needs to get her life in order. She’s been living with her …

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everybody knows: jaupo, juapa!

Everybody knows that wedding nights are for kid making not kidnapping, but in EVERYBODY KNOWS, everybody is clueless.
Or are they?
EVERYBODY KNOWS is the latest film from from Oscar winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, a gripping and jaupo thriller about …

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