Keywords: Brisbane Writers Festival
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 October 2009
3 Comments
Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David plays a lovable misanthrope in Woody Allen's latest film. The character's fatalistic views on romance take on an uncomfortable air when you recall the seedy aspects of Allen's personal life.
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MEDIA
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 October 2009
13 Comments
Marrying Out recalls the vicious sectarian divide between Catholics and Protestants in Australia during much of the 20th century. Blame is allocated to neither Protestants nor Catholics, but to the human propensity for distrust and hatred.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 October 2009
9 Comments
It is testament
to the virility of Che Guevara as a revolutionary symbol that, with the 'Che Christ', his image is used
to augment the understanding of Christ as a social radical. A new biopic takes Che as far from myth and symbol as possible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 September 2009
1 Comment
The first feature film about Australia's most notorious convict shares a potent symbiosis with Dante's Inferno. Director Jonathan auf der Heide believes there is a repressed need for violence beneath the 'veil' of human civilisation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 September 2009
5 Comments
Addressing members of the Australasian Catholic Press Association, MasterChef winner and Catholic Julie Goodwin decried the vicious and personal nature of
some online forums, and the so-called journalists who draw upon them for articles.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- 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
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 August 2009
Joseph Pulinthanath's film cost less than the costume budget for a Bollywood film.
His encounters with the peoples of the 'anthropologist's paradise' that is North-East India drove him to respond to injustice in the region.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 August 2009
5 Comments
'Cinema,' says director Robert Connolly, 'can take the audience and show them a tragedy in a way that creates empathy. I was interested in exploring the ability of this country to compel people to tell its story. It's hard not to start caring for what happened there.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 April 2009
13 Comments
Mary is a socially awkward adolescent, growing up in 1970s
suburban Melbourne. Her penpal Max
is a lonely New Yorker, a chronic overeater with Asperger's. Adam Elliot's films are not just about difference. They are about justice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 March 2009
2 Comments
A French satirical paper was sued for portraying Muslims as terrorists and labelling them 'jerks'. The editors would have us believe it's a case of free speech versus censorship. But there's more to it than that.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
31 Comments
We should feel deep regret when the bullets pierce the hearts of the Bali Bombers. Neither just nor useful, the death penalty is immoral. Prime Minister Rudd is well positioned to contribute to its abolition.
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