Director Fiona Hallenan chose Melbourne playwright Raimondo Cortese’s play ‘Features of Blown Youth’ as her contribution to this years New Directions program run by Newtowns’ New Theatre.
Cortese’s 1997 play was billed as a raw, violent and ultimately provocative Australian
Patrice Leconte’s ‘Intimate Strangers’ has an intriguing scenario. Anna is a thirties something woman with marital problems busily talking about her problems during her first appointment with her new psychiatrist. There’s just one little hiccup. She isn’t unburdening herself to
Last night I saw a New Zealand film ‘In My Fathers Den’. The film, written and directed by Brad McGann, and adapted from a novel by Maurice Gee, was the opening night film of this years’ Sydney Film Festival. It
I caught up recently with Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ at the Dendy cinema at Newtown.
This was a collection of some 11 short scenes featuring a widely diverse range of actors including our own Cate Blanchett. All of the
I recently saw this wonderful comedy again, and it still works so well.
For those who don’t know the story Dustin Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey, an out of work New York actor.
Dorsey is so desperate to get a job
I loved the new Greek film ‘A Touch of Spice’ which is currrently playing at Dendy at the Quays. This is a charming, touching film. It is autobiographical in nature being loosely based on the life of its writer/director Tassos
I enjoyed the movie ‘Wimbeldon ‘. If you don’t see it with expectations that are too high, you should too.
This is the story of an underdog. Paul Bettamy plays Peter Colt a veteran British tennis player who feels that
It was definitely nostalgia country when I went into the video store and took out Robert Mulligan’s ‘Summer of ’42’. This was a film that I originally watched in its original cinema release in my final school year many years
Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise’, simply put, is one of my favourite films.
The film tells such a simple, lyrical story. Two young travellers, french graduate student Celine (Julie Delpy) and American Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meet on a a Budapest-Vienna train.
Time for another visit to the video store! This time I picked up Randa Haines’s film ‘The Doctor’ starring William Hurt, Christine Lahiti and Elizabeth Perkins. It was another good choice.
‘The Doctor’ is an old film now, having been