Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 14 November 2008
2 Comments
SBS television has been called many things, including the 'sexual broadcasting
service', because of the risqué foreign language films that it shows. SBS radio is the ultimate melting pot, a symbol of an inclusive Australian
multiculturalism in which different languages and cultures are
respected.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 November 2008
3 Comments
The Edmund Rice Centre's Phil Glendenning is is the ordinary gruff Australian bloke abroad - a
Merv Hughes or an Ian Chappell, not naturally articulate but enduring
and not to be fobbed off with smooth talk. His
silent listening is the moral centre of this powerful SBS TV documentary about returned asylum seekers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Max Richards
- 11 November 2008
1 Comment
Old colleague, McCann.. (philosophy, retired), still with the sad face and the gaberdine mac.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Laming
- 07 November 2008
After nearly 40 years living in Indigenous communities, Brian McCoy manages to move through difficult terrain with the sure-footedness of an ancient Aboriginal tracker, and a confidence founded on years of sitting, listening, observing and quietly healing.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 05 November 2008
3 Comments
First she gave up sugar in her tea. His Catholic guilt nagged him, and he followed suit. Then came fat-free milk. There is a puritan streak in today's narcissistic culture of gyms and dieting that makes anathema many of life's little luxuries.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 04 November 2008
5 Comments
It's 1996 and I'm saddling up to give the Sir Robert Menzies Lecture at London University. My topic is Henry Lawson and Manning Clark. 'Manfred who?' asks a baffled London colleague. The lecture's on Melbourne Cup Day. It could be an omen.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Burke
- 04 November 2008
3 Comments
too much America is not good for you ... Follow your own
Confucius-Marx mix ... Let them learn Mandarin, China — you have enough
people to swing it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 October 2008
1 Comment
In life and art Nick Cave is drawn to the potent territory where the sacred meets the profane. Steve McQueen's brutal, beautiful portrait of Irish republican prisoners of an uncaring Thatcher government achieves a similar transcendence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Turning 40 is like any age — unless you're a woman. French writer Anais Nin wrote that we 'are made up of layers, cells, constellations'. Is it any wonder that at 40 those layers and cells start to settle in places we'd rather they didn't?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Isabella Fels
- 28 October 2008
2 Comments
I love the way you go from fat to thin ... Straight to curly
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 24 October 2008
2 Comments
Marsden shows us Hamlet, Horatio and Ophelia as
children playing in the forest. They discover a dying badger and
agree it needs to be euthanised. Hamlet stalls.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 October 2008
5 Comments
It can be hard to spot the villain in a Coen Brothers movie. The ill-fated scheme at the heart of their latest comedy is instigated by Linda, an endearingly goofy gym employee who longs to be able to afford cosmetic surgery.
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