section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 September 2008
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The previous films of director Michael Haneke depict a media-saturated society disconnected from reality. His latest release is a critique of 'violence as entertainment', and every audience member is implicated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Coghill
- 09 September 2008
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blood and mood .. jigger the radio of my mind, turning .. it in and out of the band ... of unaccountable happiness .. What have I forgotten that I can stand .. to smile?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paddy O'Reilly
- 05 September 2008
The stories rub class against
class, age against youth, the past against the present. The collection is imbued with old-fashioned charm and a postcolonial awareness of what damage old-fashioned England once
wrought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
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In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 02 September 2008
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'Have you tried fruit?' said Francis .. 'Nothing to it that crackles and tears in the jaw!' said the head wolf. 'I will bake you bread' said the Saint .. 'It is nothing but air warmed and crusted, Entirely wrong for wolves.' And the thronged wolves .. Began to close
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Bartlett
- 29 August 2008
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In 2003 Elders of the Ngarrindjeri Nation stood up to the South Australian
Governor on traditional
lands issues. The same spirit of defiance personifies this chronicle of the stories and aspirations of powerful Ngarrindjeri women.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 August 2008
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During the 1970s, Australian cinema experienced what many now regard as its golden age. Who were the maverick filmmakers gleefully scuffing up the flipside of that glittering coin, and why does Phillip Adams despise them so?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What is Germaine to her personality? .. Her Catholic childhood I fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 25 August 2008
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Imagine the horror of a completely silent world. The deaf person requires strategies: they must make requests, or provide tactful reminders. Lip-reading is a useful skill, but beards and moustaches can provide difficulty.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What is 'Daddy's nigger rule', and what is the profound impact it has upon his son David's Tennessee childhood?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- 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
- Brian Matthews
- 20 August 2008
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We've seen the 'end of history' and the 'death of God', yet the humble book lives on. While technology buffs embrace the e-book, printed books continue to exercise an atavistic attraction through their fusion of form and content.
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