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Reading & watching- YouTube: October: Ten Days that Shook the world (Sergei M Eisenstein 1927) 26 September 2017Made as part of the 10 years anniversary the October Revolution, this is a brilliant movie in its own right and an excellent companion piece to China Miéville's October (2017).
- The King's Choice (Erik Poppe 2016) 25 September 2017A moment in Norwegian history. The king chooses what the film judges to be the lesser of two evils. The wretchedness of a country being invaded is made viscerally real. A spectacular sequence where a German battleship is destroyed by artillery and torpedoes. No Hollywood heroics; no Hollywood resolution.
- Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 011 (Benjamin Law 2017) 24 September 2017Benjamin Law in conversation with David Marr at the Seymour Centre the other night did a great job of making me want to read this: for another horror story about the Australian on the warpath, and also for a factual account of the Safe Schools program that was the target of that mendacious warpath. (And predictably they attacked him personally when the essay […]
- Atypical (Robia Rashid 2017)) 17 September 2017x a family sitcom that revolves around a boy with Aspergers in high school who has managed extraordinarily well up to this point, but whose dawning interest in sex is throwing things into turmoil. Not just played for laughs, but funny just the same.
- Archipelago (Adam Aitken 2017) 17 September 2017It's been a while, but it's great to have another book of Adam Aitken's poetry.
- YouTube: October: Ten Days that Shook the world (Sergei M Eisenstein 1927) 26 September 2017
