Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
When all unconverted Jews are expelled from Spain during th Inquisition, a 15-year-old Yonah Toledano is left behind. He begins a meandering journey, part desperate flight, part voyage of discovery. The story of his growth into manhood ‐ as a …
The US military and government are blindsided by an incoming nuclear missile launched by an unknown source. Remember Katherine Bigelow of director Oscar fame for the Hurt Locker and Point Break? What a relief, that A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE…
Luca Guadagnino is known for his provocative fixation on sensuality, desire and obsession, and with this movie he has amassed a compelling ensemble led by Julia Roberts who is given her most charged role in years.
Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, …
Whenever you position entertainers performing in neon-lit clubs and pubs, chances are there will be a wannabe gangster or two hanging about. Selling drugs and sex has always been a conduit for making quick do-re-mi, with potential customers invariably …
At the outset of 1870, the British Aristocracy could rightly consider them the most fortunate people on earth. They held the lion’s share of land, wealth, and power in the world’s greatest Empire. However, by the end of the 1930s …
It takes chutzpah, for a film maker to adapt the same source material as Stanley Kubrick. Yet, that’s exactly what director Florian Frerichs ( The Last Supper) has done with TRAUMNOVELLE (DREAM STORY) his film based on Arthur Schnitzler’s classic …
Arthur Schnitzler’s novella DREAM STORY (TRAUMNOVELLE) may be the best known as the genesis of Stanley Kubrick’s last completed film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999) staring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Although Kubrick shifted the story from Imperial Vienna before World …
Raul Hilberg’s THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWS is arguably the most important book ever published on the Holocaust. A controversy over the German edition of Destruction lies at the assertion that historians at the Institute for Zeitgeschichte for |
Above : Author pic. Credit Jane Bown
The book is a glaringly, intense, read – a personal account of being a correspondent in Vietnam, that is without doubt the quintessentially most visceral, persuasive depiction of the unearthly experience of war.…