Sydney Arts Guide

Cinema

dead man down

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DEAD MAN DOWN (MA) teams Colin Farrell  with the  original girl with the dragon tattoo, Noomi Rapace, in a screwball guns a blazing revenger.

It reteams Rapace with her Dargon Tatoo director, Niels Arden Oplev in his American feature debut…

Cinema

a gun in each hand

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Opening the Spanish Film Festival tomorrow and then going into general release shortly after, A GUN IN EACH HAND evokes some swaggering macho Western, but in this case of this Catalan comedy, it’s a delicious and sublime irony.

An ensemble …

Australian Cinema, Cinema

satellite boy

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SATELLITE BOY (M) could well be the STORM BOY of its time. Again a sublime sense of place in a beautiful part of country, this time the Kimberley, around Wyndham and the Bungle Bungles, and again with an eco message, …

Cinema

the past

Director and writer Asghar Farhadi has followed up his wonderful film, A SEPARATION, with another outstanding and engaging drama.

Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) has flown to France to finalise his divorce from Marie (Bérénice Bejo, who played Peppy Miller in THE …

Cinema, Opera

becoming traviata

This superb, enthralling film will have opera and theatre people agog. One of the many films of this year’s Sydney Film Festival it came under their ‘Sounds on Screen’ section. It is a fascinating insight, a unique documentary behind the …

Music

tale of two cities

Appropriate to this anniversary year, the program for this concert entitled TALE OF TWO CITIES had a particular focus on Benjamin Britten, works he would have known and been influenced by and works which have been influenced by him and …

Dance

breathing monster

BREATHING MONSTER is a joint presentation by Performance Space and National Art School which opened at the Cell Block Theatre on Friday, 14th June.

This performance is a challenging work. It attempts to connect to the audience’s visceral responses …

Theatre

stepping out- the musical

This show, based on a great book by Richard Harris, takes us to the world of adult education classes, in all its diversity. This production’s practical and convincing set enrols us immediately in the right atmosphere.

Class members bring much …

Cinema

tenderness

Director Marion Hänsel’s film TENDERNESS, screening at this years’ Sydney Film Festival, is a funny and tender film.

Ski instructor Jack (Adrien Jolivet) has injured his leg in a snowboarding accident with his girlfriend in the French Alps and needs …

Cinema

the internship

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Google gets the giggles in THE INTERNSHIP, re-teaming THE WEDDING CRASHERS duo of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

Here they play a couple of dinosaurs whose time has run out – literally. Salesmen for a watch company, wrist chronometers have …

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