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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film of the week
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 August 2008
One was shot on location in Pakistan by an amateur Sydney filmmaker. The other is a cartoon made by an Iranian expatriate about life in Tehran. What do such different films have to tell us about humanity in the Middle East?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Making money for the Nazis
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 May 2008
The Jews forced to work on Operation Bernhard, producing counterfeit currency for the Nazis, lived in relative luxury compared with others in concentration camps. This presents a daily ethical dilemma to the characters of The Counterfeiters.
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AUSTRALIA

What Paris did next
- James Massola
- 13 June 2007
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The big news recently has been Paris Hilton, the heiress and celebrity who is famous for being famous. Hilton has been in the news because she was sent to jail for drink driving. One wonders what all this has contributed to the sum of human existence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Is this really the worst drought on record?
- Brian Matthews
- 02 April 2007
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Statisticians of weather can have a shot at telling us where this drought stands in the pantheon of arid disasters. Is this the 'worst drought' in a thousand years, as Mike Rann is said to have claimed? Who knows?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film locates warmth in Stasi darkness
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 April 2007
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The Lives of Others is part of the recent wave of acclaimed German films focusing on the country’s troubled 20th century, while simultaneously seeking out stories of hope, inspiration or simple humanity.
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AUSTRALIA

Blind cricket tourist who sees the point of sport
- Paul Daffey
- 24 December 2006
Andy Gemmell, who is 54, is in Australia on a long holiday during which he’s going to the cricket and the races and catching up with friends he met through the Compton Arms in Islington, London. The main difference between Andy and other Ashes tourists is that Andy is blind. From 12 December 2006.
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RELIGION

Blind cricket tourist who sees the point of sport
- Paul Daffey
- 23 December 2006
Andy Gemmell, who is 54, is in Australia on a long holiday during which he’s going to the cricket and the races and catching up with friends he met through the Compton Arms in Islington, London. The main difference between Andy and other Ashes tourists is that Andy is blind.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Of gods, monsters and fairytales
- Dorothy Lee
- 08 July 2006
Tolkien’s epic resists allegory, but Dorothy Lee found it open to mythological and spiritual exploration.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Feeding the habit
- Geoffrey Milne
- 06 July 2006
Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On disc
- Juliette Hughes, Maryanne Confoy
- 03 July 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Annelise Balsamo, Gordon Lewis, Juliette Hughes
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Language so lovely
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 18 June 2006
Chris Wallace-Crabbe on After Shakespeare: An Anthology and The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, both edited by John Gross.
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