Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 April 2009
The narrator of Philip Roth's novella The Dying Animal is self-indulgent, narcissistic, and driven by the urge to sexually conquer. The film Elegy transposes Roth's log of masculine decline into a mournful lament for the dead.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 15 April 2009
Joe's plans for a family business foundered on his son's refusal to get out of bed before 10am. Joe was not used to 'spilling his guts', but he needed to talk, and he knew that my experience of teenage vagaries was extensive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- William Rush
- 14 April 2009
2 Comments
Her face gives little away except .. there is a definite invitation to worship .. which we do in our own way .. hearing in this hall .. built with unholy oil, whispers of war
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 April 2009
3 Comments
The filmmakers interviewed numerous asylum seeker advocates. Most were women, advocating on behalf of young men. Their relationships were intense and complex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 08 April 2009
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Prior to the devastation of Monday's earthquake, L'Aquila was a
picturesque hillside city of 75,000 inhabitants nestled in the Gran
Sasso mountains. It was not always a plagued, razed purgatory.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeff Klooger, Rory Harris and Janette Fernando
- 07 April 2009
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In Rembrandt's painting, the risen Christ .. wears a jaunty hat ... So roguish! .. So impious! Impish, even!
.. He has come to greet his girlfriend .. Mary Magdalene
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Carolyn Masel
- 03 April 2009
Vincent Buckley's work evolves from the explicitly religious to the
exploration of experience. But when individual and common experience of love, suffering, or
conflict is treated with such depth of seriousness, the result is much the same.
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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
- Gabrielle Bridges
- 01 April 2009
3 Comments
Twins were born in a country town. John lived in the male world of farms and pubs. Jane married an angry patriarch like
her father, and unwittingly copied her mother with silence and
sedatives. Later she would watch her brother die.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C. Smith
- 31 March 2009
All along the cell-block .. The singing echoes like a threat .. voice flatter than Bob Dylan's .. loaded with false jocularity .. his sweat sour in the grey slot
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 30 March 2009
10 Comments
Ronald Conway (1927–2009) was of a rare breed in Australia. He stood
against the prevailing climate of thought which ignores important questions of faith, spirituality and human experience, and
focuses on the conventional and politically correct.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McKernan
- 30 March 2009
3 Comments
With typical irreverence we have taken some glee in the
conflict between politicians and the military. Indeed in
our history there has been tension, not to say a distrust,
between the military and politicians in Australia.
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