Tag: movies
The Sapphires: Australia’s answer to The Supremes
Last Thursday I had the good fortune to attend the Australian red carpet premiere of the new Australian film, The Sapphires, at the opening night gala of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Aside from minor damage done to my liver at the after party (hence the delay in blogging the event), it was a fantastic…
Pixelschatten: A man with a movie camera
There is a long-standing tradition in cinema for filmmaker’s to produce films that address their own mode of production. Since Dziga Vertov turned the camera on itself with Man with a Movie Camera (1929), we’ve revelled in the playful irony that the moving image allowed. This tendency becomes more pronounced with every filmic technological innovation,…
Child’s Play: Tough movies for little beasts
There are many myths about children and childhood, most of which relate to a misconception about the notion of innocence. We talk about kids as though they are friendly, effervescent bubbles of untainted purity, as yet uncorrupted by the difficulties and evils of the world. This is, of course, untrue. Anybody who has been a…
At the movies: Looking past the Popcorners and Noiseites
A recent article in a blog or newspaper (I can’t recall) on the social etiquette of cinema-going started me thinking about my own views on what is or is not acceptable within the realm of the movie theatre. It quickly became apparent to me that my views on the subject were militant to the point…
History and the movies: How to avoid telling lies and getting it wrong
I have long held a fascination with the complex and chaotic relationship that cinema has with the representation of history. Since the earliest beginnings of humanity’s attempts at iconographic representation, we have endeavoured to tear the past from the vague and intangible clutches of memory and thrust it into the living present moment. Despite these…