Keywords: Melbourne Film Festival
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 August 2011
8 Comments
We passed Paul's house each day on the walk to primary school. One day on a whim we knocked and invited him to join us. Once out of sight around the corner we proceeded to berate him, and to rough him up. We thought it was such fun that we did it again the next day. Kids can be cruel. I'm ashamed to say I was.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 April 2011
1 Comment
Pavel's meanderings are soundtracked by rock music blaring through his earphones. Increasingly the iPod seems to symbolise some nonchalant skein that isolates self-centred youths from the world around them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 December 2010
2 Comments
This theatre of cruelty reflects the preoccupations of a protagonist unrestrained by physical revulsion, and evokes a nightmare world defined by sex and violence, where there is not much difference between the two.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 September 2010
1 Comment
A barroom brawl is transformed in Boy's head into a version of Michael
Jackson's 'Beat It' music video. It's 1984 and Jackson is at his artistic and popular peak: pre-surgery, pre-child
abuse allegations. Boy's worship is pure, but as an audience watching in
2010 we know the purity is transient.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 August 2010
1 Comment
Aaron initially rationalises his sexuality as
a test from God, a test that priveleges him, as it gives him an
opportunity to prove his resilience. Ultimately his affair with a younger man is rather more serious than
simply a rebellion against an oppressive ultra-orthodox society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 August 2010
6 Comments
Mother Fish recreates the journey by sea of a group of Vietnamese refugees. During an election campaign where both major parties are trying to win votes
with prejudicial rhetoric about 'border protection', a bit of truth and
humanity is just what's needed.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 January 2010
6 Comments
The case for Polanski's avoiding extradition has generally received a
sympathetic hearing. The
same sympathy is not generally shown to clergy who have
been tried for less serious acts committed just as many years ago. October 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
1 Comment
Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner
north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an
interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut,
Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 October 2009
2 Comments
The characters speak dutifully of Mass and Confession, but their Catholicism does not seem to pervade deeply, and contrasts with their unethical lifestyles. The adults, busy jealously guarding their own needs and desires, are oblivious to what their kids are up to.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 October 2009
22 Comments
The case for Polanski's avoiding extradition has generally received a
sympathetic hearing. The
same sympathy is not generally shown to clergy who have
been tried for less serious acts committed just as many years ago.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 14 August 2009
4 Comments
Attempts by the Chinese Government to stop a documentary about Uighur activist and leader Rebiya Kadeer from screening in Melbourne remind us that China is a vast country governed by very different values to our own.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 20 May 2009
10 Comments
I only met Bud Tingwell once. Like so many others, I went away the
better for the brief encounter. But the meeting also led me to ask
questions about what matters, and how we should nurture it in
Australian society.
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