Archive for 'Arts'
Five Minutes with Festival Director Nashen Moodley
With Sydney Film Festival dropping its full 2012 lineup last week, and the festival starting in just a few weeks, it’s time you got to know incoming Festival Director Nashen Moodley, who took over from Clare Stewart at the end of last year. The South African-born cinephile comes to Sydney after eleven years as the [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2012 under Arts, Sydney Film Festival 2012.
Tags: Nashen Moodley, Sydney Film Festival
[COMEDY: Review] Henry Rollins: The Long March
Based on the line stretching out of the Seymour, through the courtyard and around the corner onto Cleveland Street, Sydney absolutely loves Henry Rollins. Given that this show was his fourth in as many evenings at the venue, it was a testament to the former Black Flag and Rollins Band frontman’s longevity and talent that he drew in such a substantially-sized crowd – all quite happy to wait in the cold, despite the fact that Rollins is a not-infrequent visitor to our shores, and his opinions are readily available via his radio and television shows.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 461 (May 7), Live Comedy Reviews.
Tags: Benjamin Cooper, Henry Rollins, Seymour Centre, The Long March
[FILM: Review] W.E.
For her sophomore feature, Madonna sets her sights on one of the great romantic scandals in modern history – the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée and socialite Wallis Simpson that impelled him to abdicate the throne. It’s often rendered as a 20th century fairytale – a prince with the world at his feet, giving it all up rather than keeping his lover hidden, as society’s moral codes had compelled so many of his ancestors to do. And he didn’t just give up a throne; he gave up his family, who exiled him and his new wife from England.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 461 (May 7), Film Reviews.
Tags: Film Review, W.E Abbie Cornish
[THEATRE: Review] Food
I think it’s fair to say that we live in a food-obsessed society: conversations about weight or eating pervade almost any social situation, our television seems to be a constant stream of cooking and weight-loss shows, while we ourselves seesaw between planning the next meal and planning how to shed it. This conflict forms a key part of Food, the latest of ten new Australian works featured in this year’s Belvoir season.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 461 (May 7), Theatre Reviews.
Tags: Belvoir Theatre, Food, Henry Florence, Kate Champion, Steve Rodgers, Theatre Review
[THEATRE: Review] Reasons To Be Pretty
Let’s face it, everybody wants to look good. Whether it’s to find a partner or keep a partner, to make someone jealous or convince someone to hire you, there are countless reasons to be pretty. This is what underpins Reasons To Be Pretty, the third instalment of a Tony-nominated theatrical trilogy that focuses on our modern day obsession with physical appearance, penned by American playwright Neil LaBute in 2008.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Arts, Brag 461 (May 7), Film Reviews.
Tags: Darlinghurst Theatre, Reasons To Be Pretty, Review, Roslyn Helper, Theatre