Tag: biography
Hitchcock & Sightseers
Saturday, January 12th, 2013 Film Reviews,Last year the film industry reflected on itself in My Week with Marilyn, this week we have Hitchcock. It’s pure Hollywood navel-gazing when directors make movies about other directors, in which the stars of the past are played by the stars of today – but it’s weirdly irresistible. It was a real test of Michelle […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower & Howzat!
Saturday, December 1st, 2012 Film Reviews,It’s hard to believe some people actually look back on their teenage years with nostalgia. That terrible state, when one is half-way out of the chrysalis of puberty – not quite an adult but no longer a child – is an ordeal we have to overcome if we are to take our place in the […]
Skyfall & Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Saturday, November 24th, 2012 Film Reviews,In his James Bond Dossier of 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote: “Not much mind is needed to notice that Bond’s adventures have been getting more fantastic all the time and some critics have actually done it.” After fifty years and some 23 features, it would be an understatement to say Bond’s cinematic adventures are getting more fantastic […]
Paul Kelly: Stories of Me
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 Film Reviews,Archie Roach reckons Paul Kelly is Australia’s “bard”. It’s what people used to say about Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson back in the days when poetry was a popular art. But for every man-in the-street who could recite parts of The Man from Snowy River in the 1890s, there must be thousands today who can […]