Archive for 'Arts Feature'
[FILM: Feature] The Inbetweeners Movie
The Inbetweeners Movie
Britain’s Most Romantically Inept Teens Conquer The Big Screen
By Nathan Jolly
When I sit down with actors Joe Thomas and Simon Bird, they’re in the middle of a whirlwind of press junkets and premieres – and the usual fare that goes along with such promotion (including a seven-course meal later that night). The two [...]
Posted: December 5th, 2011 under Arts, Arts Feature, Brag 440 (November 28).
Tags: Joe Thomas, Nathan Jolly, Simon Bird, The Brag, The Inbetweeners, The Inbetweeners Movie
[FILM: Feature] Toomelah
Toomelah
Ivan Sen Changes His Game
By Dee Jefferson
A photographer-turned filmmaker who grew up in rural NSW with an Aboriginal mother and an absent Anglo father, Ivan Sen exorcised some of his demons in his debut feature Beneath Clouds, about a teenaged girl who leaves the small town where she lives with her alcoholic mother, in search of [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 under Arts, Arts Feature, Brag 439 (November 21), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Dee Jefferson, Ivan Sen, The Brag, Toomelah
[THEATRE: Feature] Gross Und Klein
Gross Und Klein
Benedict Andrews on madness, method and working with Cate
By Dee Jefferson
When Cate and Andrew gave their 2011 season briefing, in September 2010, one production in particular stood out: a post-Cold-War reimagining of Botho Strauss’ Gross Und Klein, to be helmed by internationally renowned theatremaker Luc Bondy. Not only was it to be Blanchett’s [...]
Posted: November 21st, 2011 under Arts, Arts Feature, Brag 438 (November 14), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Benedict Andrews, Cate Blanchett, Dee Jefferson, Gross Und Klein, The Brag
[FILM: Feature] The Fighter
The Fighter
Joel Edgerton Steps Up in Warrior
By Dee Jefferson
It’s an overcast morning at Fox Studios, and Joel Edgerton has stepped away from Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby shoot, happening elsewhere on the lot, to do interviews for Warrior – his first ‘Hollywood’ leading role. He’s sporting a neat, thin moustache, and a pomade-lacquered 30s ‘do. The [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2011 under Arts, Arts Feature, Brag 435 (October 24), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Joel Edgerton, The Brag, Warrior
[FILM: Feature] Red State
Red State
Melissa Leo on the Kevin Smith Experience
By Alasdair Duncan
When you interview actors, you get used to hearing a lot of platitudes – glibly-rehearsed lines about what a pleasure it was to work with this or that director, what an honour it was just to be nominated. Melissa Leo is no fan of platitudes. A [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2011 under Arts, Arts Feature, Brag 433 (October 10), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Alasdair Duncan, Kevin Smith, Melissa Leo, Red State, The Brag