coup de chance : allen’s masterclass in filmmaking
Woody Allen’s COUP DE CHANCE (STROKE OF LUCK) is his 50th feature film, and once you get over the shock, and it is a big that the film isn’t in English you can settle in and enjoy a very engaging …
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ellen van neerven : personal score
PERSONAL SCORE is van Neerven’s reflections on what it means to play sport in Australia as a queer, First Nations sportsperson. Sports, as I know it in Australia, is presented as everything good about being Australian – it brings people …
deadly game: raising caine
There’s more than one occasion reading Michael Caine’s thriller, DEADLY GAME, that one thinks of his immortal phrase in the film, The Italian Job, “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”
DEADLY GAME reads like the movie Michael …
sydney philharmonia choirs: bach’s christmas oratorio @city recital hall
Above: The four soloists joining Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for this concert: (l to r) Margaret Plummer (mezzo-soprano, Penelope Mills (soprano), Andrew Goodwin (tenor) and Christopher Richardson (bass-baritone). Featured image, orchestra and choir was led by Brett Weymark. Images: Keith Saunders.…
valerie taylor : an underwater life @ the national maritime museum
Valerie Taylor has recorded the marine environment and shared her knowledge with the public for over 60 years, staunchly advocating for better protection of the ocean, its animals, and their habitats.
Celebrated globally, Valerie has become one of the most …
portia geach memorial award: people’s choice winner announced
North Coast artist Seabastion Toast has won the 2023 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award with her portrait of fellow artist Karlee Rawkins.
The $1,000 People’s Choice at the Portia Geach exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery is given in memory …
sydney philharmonia choirs : carols at the house
How blessed are we!
To enjoy this concert of Christmas music performed by our finest choirs at the resplendent Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House. At interval we stepped out to get some fresh air and there was the …
midnight murder at hamlington hall : a great night @ the ensemble
There’s nothing like going to a night at the theatre knowing you will be laughing recklessly for 90 minutes.
Director Mark Kilmurry and actor Jamie Oxenbould have pooled their talents yet again to write a timeless ‘comedy of errors’. The …
so late in the day: exquisite micro masterpiece
Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure, Claire Keegan’s SO LATE IN THE DAY is sheer perfection in story telling.
Like Raymond Carver’s So Much Water So Close to Home, SO LATE IN THE DAY crystallises life changing situations elevating the …
marina abramovic : a visual biography : a work of art
The life and work of leading conceptual performance artist Marina Abramović come together in this impressive new book that effectively blurs the lines between the art and the artist. And so it has been in much of her work …