Monday, February 25, 2008
I haven’t seen Juno but according to wikipedia Anyone Else But You, the first track on the first album by The Moldy Peaches (which was released on September 11, 2001), is central to the film and a version is performed by the two main characters. The song was also used in a mobile phone [...]
one of the joys of melbourne on a monday : until 4pm the nova cinema in carlton only charges $5.50 admission. of course you are not the only person who knows this and the 4pm session of todd haynes‘ i’m not there is completely sold out. haynes is a seriously film literate director and he [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
as a certified lazy slut, i am always supremely happy to find someone else has done some work which i would have had to do, but for a while there i really thought that it would be up to me to write a lengthy polemic about the most over-hyped movie of 2007, the ridiculous into [...]
i like to go to events which are free, especially when its gratis status has not come about through sponsorship by a large multinational company. although often as not it is as much of a waste of time as an event where you do have to pay, at least i have only wasted time and [...]
posts are going to be a bit thin on the ground around here as i am currently in sydney doing an artist/writer in residence gig at ashfield municipal council in the inner west. apart from the fact that the only way to connect to the internet is via dial up (or by wifi in the [...]
a mouthwatering line up at the sydney film festival next month – unfortunately (or fortunately!) i am (only) going to be there for the last weekend. is the glass half empty or half full? well, i am going to miss a swag of goodies including david lynch’s inland empire which i also missed in new [...]
the weirdest thing about seeing spider-man 3 was that we, the rural cousins in wagga wagga, were apparently only the third place in the world to see it. yeah we beat the americans baby. the second weirdest part was having to hand in my mobile phone and seeing it put in a plastic bag with [...]
jairjun points to an issue of Granta which has an essay by the famous dutch writer Maarten ‘t Hart (that’s a genuine apostrophe in his name) who claims he was “hired as rat-trainer for Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu in 1979.” they didn’t get on. sadly granta doesn’t believe in putting its texts online, although the same [...]
possibly the worst film ever made in australia (and there have been some stinkers!) is surely somersault by cate shortland (2004) – it is a complete mystery to me how it won so many awards – so sam worthington is ok in a blokey sort of way, and the decoder ring soundtrack is pretty good [...]
Saturday, January 6, 2007
when in new york* i.j.oog reads … the brooklyn rail – and you can even read it in wagga wagga : the current issue of this not-for-profit free monthly magazine features a great interview with albert maysles, who made the controversial documentary gimme shelter, talking about his work :
A true documentary is shot with no [...]
