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Keywords: Beautiful Kate

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Imelda Marcos the Musical

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 15 April 2010

    'Like most politicians, she was driven by psychological angels and demons', writes musician David Byrne of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady ofthe Philippines. Byrne has written a 'musical' about Marcos' life. From the outset, he risks deifying a monster.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Winter Games cool Aussies' long hot summer

    • Michael Visontay
    • 15 February 2010
    1 Comment

    The Winter Olympics make for beautiful television — skiers hurtling down the slopes, snowboarders doing somersaults in the air, skaters dancing on the ice. Yet they occupy an unusual place in our imagination. They feel more like recreation than competitive sport.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Samson and Delilah and other great Australian stories

    • 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

    When parenthood is a mixed blessing

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 03 September 2009

    Roo makes a quick buck starring in a porn film. Trisha and Katrina are arrested for shoplifting. Orton and Stacey are runaways from an untenable home life. Blessed finds hope in the cracks between mothers and their teenage children.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Incest and redemption

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 06 August 2009
    5 Comments

    The publicity poster for Beautiful Kate is as ambiguous as the controversial Bill Henson photographs it so blatantly references. The film unpacks these ambiguities, not solving but exacerbating them and making them sing with empathy.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Haunted by the ghosts of SIEV-X

    • Rochelle Siemienowicz
    • 12 June 2008
    4 Comments

    Hope documents the fate of the people-smuggling vessel SIEV-X and the 353 people who died when it sank en route to Australia. The film suggests a parliamentary inquiry is essential into the Howard Government's handling of the tragedy.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Harsh lighting exposes moral wrinkles

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 27 February 2007

    Comprehensively drawn characters demonstrate that guilt has a way of catching up with people, forcing them to make a clear choice regarding where they will seek long-term happiness.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The Mermaid

    • Kate Llewellyn
    • 25 April 2006

    Poem by Kate Llewellyn

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The boy who would not grow up

    • Frank O’Shea
    • 25 April 2006

    The life and writings of J.M. Barrie gave rise to great creations, controversies and connections

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick reviews

    • Brooke Davis, Elizabeth Allen, Joel Townsend, Robert Hefner
    • 21 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living; Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs; The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change; and Does my head look big in this?

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