volker schlondorff’s diplomacy

Director Volker Schlondorff dedicates his film version of DIPLOMACY, adapted from the French playwright Cyril Gély’s 2011 successful stage show, to the late American diplomat, Richard Holbrook. Holbrook was the man who, together with Swedish diplomat, Carl Bildt, brokered the …

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the harbour party @ fleet steps

Mardi Gras-inset

Colours everywhere in this beautiful harbour city of ours.  The last day of Summer and a dance party backgrounded by the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge.  Blue water, white sparkling ship sails and a mirror ball of epic proportion.  …

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sex, love and therapy

A superb soufflé of a film, SEX, LOVE & THERAPY benefits from a sultry, sensual and sexy performance from Sophie Marceau.

Marceau plays Judith, a sex addict who has been dismissed from her job due to her addiction and has …

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3 hearts

What a tangled web we weave when we decide to allow the spiders of secrecy to spin their sticky entrapments.

Harried to potential cardiac arrest candidate, tax inspector Marc, misses his train back to Paris after working a case in …

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the new girlfriend

Transgender transgressions is the bedrock of this interesting intriguer, close bosom cousin to the films and style of Hitchcock and Almodovar.

Based on a Ruth Rendell novel, THE NEW GIRLFRIEND sounds like a romantic comedy and one might think that …

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07 The Garage Sale

short + sweet sydney top 80 week 6

06 Brainstrust PUB-1

Short and Sweet Theatre Sydney is the largest festival of ten minute plays in the world, running over two months. Week 6 Top 80 provided yet another group of very highly entertaining plays.

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the connection

the connection

Anyone with a fondness of and for the Academy Award Winning film, The French Connection, will relish the French perspective of the case in THE CONNECTION (LA FRENCH).

In 1975 Marseilles, dedicated magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin) risks his …

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the kitchen @ the york

the kitchen 2

Two people cooking a dessert accompanied by twelve drummers is a left field, intriguing premise for a concert. From it, Roysten Abel has fashioned a warm, winning night’s entertainment.

THE KITCHEN is a wordless drama featuring a couple, Mandakini Goswami …

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short+sweet theatre week 3 top 80

Short and Sweet Theatre Sydney is the largest festival of ten minute plays in the world. Now in its 14th year, the festival takes place over a period of two months starting in January each year, with over 160 brand …

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