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Tuesday, March 24 2009
Part 2: The Virgin Suicides to The Blair Witch Project (May - August 1999)
In Part Two of our look at the most memorable films of 1999, we experience music, foul-mouthed mayhem, and a late, great auteur's final cinematic statement.
Friday, January 11 2008
A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female
From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.
Wednesday, January 9 2008
Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male
From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007.
Columns
Friday, January 27 2012
'Library After Air Raid': On the Survival of Culture Amid the Barbarity of War
War is a science, science is an art and art, as Library After Air Raid attests, is everything.
Friday, January 7 2011
Artful Living
How do writers, painters, filmmakers, and musicians get by in other cities of the world? Asprey and his partner, priced out of Sydney, hoist their backpacks and set off for a trip around the world -- on an artist's budget — to find out.
Wednesday, November 10 2010
Paul Robeson: A Resonant Voice That Will Never Be Fully Silenced
Modern day 'political' celebrities can't hold a candle to Paul Robeson, who always flaunted his politics even when it was perhaps most dangerous to do so.
Wednesday, October 16 2002
Superman Said Suicide Is a Shame
Every child knows that monsters will not appear in Sydney, as they crawl into Tokyo's harbour; that asteroids only plummet on American cities; that aliens visit small towns around the world 'except' Australian ones . . .
Wednesday, June 12 2002
Flavoured Underwear Not Found Here
For you see, if the Prime Minister were caught giving his aid a DVD player that he had purchased with taxpayer funds, the episode would have ended with the Prime Minister being chased down a hallway by a camera crew and a journalist screaming out, 'Is this what our taxes are for?'
Reviews
Wednesday, July 6 2011
Ten Films to Watch for from the Sydney Film Festival
Ten highlights from the Sydney Film Festival that you should look out for on movie screens around the world.
Monday, June 27 2011
Sydney Film Festival 2011 – 'A Separation' takes the Competition Prize
A worthy winner – A Separation is an extraordinary piece of work with genuine insights into the society and culture it depicts. It is the crowning jewel in a dazzling selection of films for this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
Wednesday, June 22 2011
Sydney Film Festival 2011: 'Hanna'
This premise of wild girl unleashed on the world is not exactly original, but Hanna has an intriguing angle to it – it’s not often it’s a female in the lead role for this genre,
Friday, June 17 2011
Sydney Film Festival 2011: 'If a Tree Falls' + 'The Hungry Tide'
These two documentaries share the same common environmental preoccupation.
Thursday, June 16 2011
Sydney Film Festival 2011: 'Sleeping Beauty'
Sleeping Beauty is a clever and knowing perversion of the fairy tale.
Blogs
Wednesday, August 25 2010
Neil Gaiman Reads New Short Story At The Sydney Opera House
Earlier this month, award-winning author Neil Gaiman contributed a short story, to Harper Perennial's recent Fifty-Two Stories experiment, Neil Gaiman contributed a short story, The…
Wednesday, May 28 2008
Sydney Writers' Festival Recap
Last week was my first Sydney Writers’ Festival -- I somehow missed it completely last year. Even this year I only managed a paltry two…
Tuesday, May 27 2008
Book spotlight: Sydney Pollack by Janet L. Meyer
A reviewer at Classic Images called it "the most detailed filmography I have ever come across". Janet L. Meyer's Sydney Pollack: A Critical Filmography is…
Tuesday, May 27 2008
Genuine Class - Sydney Pollack (1934 - 2008)
He got his start like most pre post-modern moviemakers, via the still struggle medium of '50s/'60s television. There, his approach was allowed to take root…
Friday, May 2 2008
Camels on Bondi: the Sydney Writers' Fest commercial
It's just two weeks until Jeanette Winterson officially opens the Sydney Writers' Festival. The event brings together writers from Australia and the world, to discuss…
News
Thursday, January 8 2009
The Sydney Festival is transforming Sydney, again
The Sydney Festival 2009 Saturday January 10 – Saturday January 31 The Sydney Festival, a three-week overload of music, theatre, dance and the kind of…
Tuesday, May 27 2008
Sydney Pollack was an actor's director — and an actor's actor
Director Sydney Pollack was an actor's director who saw stars in uncharacteristic conjunctions and alignments. He made Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand a couple in…
Thursday, October 11 2007
In suit-hairdo uniform, Tilda Swinton becomes legal evil
TORONTO -- Maybe it's the military lineage (she comes from a long line of generals), but Tilda Swinton is probably one of the few actresses…
Media
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