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Progress
For those that were concerned, it got better. A few weeks ago, I asked a colleague how everything was going. He replied, ‘I have too many balls in the air.’ I decided to take it one ball at a time. One ball per day, in fact. You can realistically only tick one big thing off […]
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Vale Hunter Cordaiy
Hunter strolling the Marche aux Fleurs, Nice. December 2012. Hunter Cordaiy passed away in Nice, France, on the 13th of January, 2016. Hunter was born in Sydney on 20 April 1950. In his 65 years he wrote 25 essays and over 200 film reviews, and contributed to many anthologies of films and directors. He interviewed the […]
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Ziggy played guitar
I can’t remember precisely when I bought The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, but I can definitely remember the first time I listed to it all the way through. I was catching the train from Sydney to Melbourne for a wedding in 2006. I’d been a Bowie fan throughout […]
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The snake charmer
Film theory via camera operators, this is amazing stuff from Anthony Bourdain’s man behind the lens. Transfixed on this future-past, the operator’s mind is split between now and later. The Present is displaced by near-present. The operator filmed the event, but is left with a peculiar feeling of not fully being there. Something has been lost. […]
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This weekend’s planned viewing
An ambitious list, but here goes… The American (2010), d. Anton Corbijn, the last hour or so. Don Jon (2013), d. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the last 40 minutes or so. Chasing Ice (2012), d. Jeff Orlowski. Suspiria (1977), d. Dario Argento. The Great Beauty (2013), d. Paolo Sorrentino. The Zero Theorem (2013), d. Terry Gilliam. The […]
Daniel Binns 