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Melbourne Film Blog: Waleed Aly: a coherent voice of reason
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Film reviews, news and discussion by Paul Martin. They come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has.". Sunday, May 02, 2010. Waleed Aly: a coherent voice of reason. As I previously posted, this weekend saw Williamstown Town Hall host the Williamstown Literary Festival. Yesterday, I attended a number of events, bookend by my favourites: a screening of Paul Cox's The First Wife. Confronts the...
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Melbourne Film Blog: DVDs for sale
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Film reviews, news and discussion by Paul Martin. They come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has.". Friday, November 26, 2010. This is so sad, Paul. I think its a good thing. All that material crap really weighs you down. Come back, Paul Martin. Have you seen the state of film criticism on the internet lately? Melbourne film bloggers who are lame:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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PULP FRICTION: Riffs and rants on popular culture: BITCHFEST '10, or: Farewell Pulp Friction Australia (Part 2 of 2)
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PULP FRICTION: Riffs and rants on popular culture. Saturday, January 1, 2011. BITCHFEST '10, or: Farewell Pulp Friction Australia (Part 2 of 2). Been an interesting year for me, personally. I became a full-time student for the first time, studying filmmaking at RMIT, and made my third short film. the first that really felt like. I also struggled epically with finances, which meant that I saw a few less films than usual. However, my friend Lee Zachariah and I started a monthly movie podcast, called. A Fra...
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House of Self-Indulgence: Andy Warhol's Bad (Jed Johnson, 1977)
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Monday, April 11, 2011. Andy Warhol's Bad (Jed Johnson, 1977). In a perfect world, unwanted pets and babies would kill themselves more often. If only they could leave this mortal coil. Floating around out there (two things that were practically crying out for your undivided attention in the late 1970s), who's got the time or the energy to murder or hope anymore? And directed by interior designer Jed Johnson. Sort of way, the dark humour, hilarious anecdotes about hideous éclairs, despicable acts and poli...
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Melbourne Film Blog: Welcome back
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Film reviews, news and discussion by Paul Martin. They come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has.". Saturday, June 12, 2010. It is apparent at times in all our lives that we come to a cross-road. Often times we just indicate and continue, and yet at other times we stall in trepidation or confusion. My absence of late is due to this phenomenon and so to update and return I say:. Thanks gu...
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PULP FRICTION: Riffs and rants on popular culture: BITCHFEST '10, or: Farewell Pulp Friction Australia (Part 1 of 2)
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PULP FRICTION: Riffs and rants on popular culture. Thursday, December 30, 2010. BITCHFEST '10, or: Farewell Pulp Friction Australia (Part 1 of 2). Secondly: Is that another year gone already? 2010 kicked off a new decade in-. Wait a minute. Just have to get something out of the way first. Hollywood continued to look for "tentpole" franchises, but preci. And, from what I hear, Darren Aronofsky and BLACK SWAN, Danny Boyle and 127 HOURS, and so on. Superman, Daredevil, Electra,. There are more genres than c...
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Melbourne Film Blog: Animal Kingdom
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Film reviews, news and discussion by Paul Martin. They come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has.". Monday, April 12, 2010. David Michôd, Australia, 2010). And Samson and Delilah. If pushed, I could also include Ten Canoes. And Three Blind Mice. And now Animal Kingdom. Simply backing his car out of his drive-way. We know the urgency of the situation, but he’s oblivious to the d...Some ac...
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Melbourne Film Blog: Accidents Happen
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Film reviews, news and discussion by Paul Martin. They come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that's magical and that's the power that film has.". Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Andrew Lancaster, Australia, 2009). The Australian kitchen-sink dramas (KSDs) of recent years have usually not failed, but not succeeded either. They kind of sit in this nether region where they look nice, have good performances and handle worthy. Davis plays the m...