ginger and rosa
Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA, screened at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival, is a lovely film about two teenage girls on the cusp of growing up and of England’s transfer from its post World War II gloom to the swinging …
Sydney Arts Guide
midnight’s children
If ever there was a film which produced mixed feelings, it is MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s prize- winning novel of the same name.
At its core this is a tried and true theme of babies, both …
nederlands dans theater 2
We have been privileged to see a program of four very strong contrasting works as performed by the excellent young dancers of NDT 2 ( The ‘second company’ so to speak of Nederlands Dans Theater).
First up was the magnificent …
opera’s triple threat
A hefty combined birthday party (centenary for Britten, bicentenary for both Verdi and Wagner) this concert featured the combined dazzling talents of the Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus and Orchestra under conductors Brett Weymark and Anthony Pasquill and especially the …
dare to win- ron desiatnik
Lawyer Ron Desiatnik has given himself a break from editing legal textbooks that are referenced in courts around Australia with his first foray into fiction writing, something much lighter, a children’s story, DARE TO WIN.
It wouldn’t be a boy’s …
let’s explore diabetes with owls- david sedaris
David Sedaris’ Greek grandmother was a leviathan litterer. The woman would throw anything out a car window. The important thing for her wasn’t a clean outside but a clean inside. “Look at the sky, littered with clouds, or the beach …
me and rory macbeath- richard beasley
ME & RORY MACBEATH (Hachette) by Richard Beasley is reminiscent of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Twelve year old Jake Taylor lives with his single parent barrister mum, Harriet, in a street in suburban Adelaide. It’s the street that houses …
farewell, my queen
At Versailles, on the eve of the French Revolution, a mosquito squadron chooses who will lay feast to their blood lust. And the winner is……………. Sidonie.
Meanwhile, in Paris a swarm of another kind is bloodletting. When news of the …
sydney film festival 2013 preview
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It’s not rocket science to sense that THE ROCKET may well be the best Australian film of the year.
Set in the rarely seen tribal mountains of Laos, THE ROCKET is a gripping yarn of a young boy triumphing …