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.
If you like an original film, this movie is alike an art appreciation class. And trying to work out what everyone’s real agendas are make this an excellent choice.
THE STOLEN PAINTING centres on a valuable work of art …
On my way to the Lyric for the MJ musical, my brain was floating catchy snaps of his songs. The auditorium filled with nostalgia as “Jam’, “Billie Jean” and “Smooth Criminal ” tore the air. “Thriller” was by far …
A whole new system of thinking about political economy or a simple blueprint to solve all of America’s problems?
The beguiling Dances of Gal`anta are arrangements of existing material that composer Zoltan Kodaly may have encountered as a child in the Hungarian town of Gal`anta ( today Slovakia). One is tempted to say that he simply took the folk …
…Somehow, throughout the war, Hiroshima stood untouched. Military leaders were mystified considering it was the major staging site for embarkation for Japanese activism in South-East Asia and China. War industries, military installations, submarine pens and 50,000 servicemen were located
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A detective story, this certainly is.
Driven by a quest to reclaim his family stolen legacy, leads Simon Goodman on a profound journey through the personal, historical and legal miasma that art restitution involves. It’s a story of how a …
For anyone trying to make sense of the Middle East, this narrative is harrowing with no punches pulled. The author Robert Fisk lays the dramatic and sweeping history of this region’s conflicts from a pedigree of over 30 years in …
When the Kriptonite-ian immigrant extinguishes an imbalanced military action, the techno-fascist Lex Luther repositions Sup as a traitor, rogue vigilante, an ‘alien’ with a secret agenda, my brain tweeked on the timely socio-political slant on Truth, Justice and the American …
This was a gripping read by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust, Saul Friedlander
DIARY OF A CRISIS explores the past turbulence and traumatic year of Israeli politics begining in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests