Last year a woman premier presented the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards at the Art Gallery. Tonight a non-Labor premier, just as rare a beast in the 10 of these dinners I’ve been to, did it at the Opera Point Marquee, … Continue reading
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Reading & watching- Jack Irish Season 3 (Peter Temple, Andrew Knight and others 2021) 15 June 2021Time is passing and the first episode of this series has a couple of shocking developments, apart from Jack having hus usual terrible time.
- Heroic Losers (Sebastián Borensztein 2019) 12 June 2021Spanish title is La odisea de los giles, which I think means Fools' Odyssey. It's a pleasant enough comedy heist movie. It probably loses a lot in translation. I found myself for the first time ever wondering what an Australian remake would be like.
- Cousins (Ainsley GardinerBriar & Grace Smith 2019) 11 June 2021A story of three Maori girl cousins with a strong allegorical feel: one stays on the marai, one goes to university and becomes a lawyer, the third is taken from her family and becomes a lost soul.
- The Trick is to Keep Breathing (Janice Galloway 1989) 10 June 2021This is for the Book Group, a classic Scottish novel..
- Minamata (Andrew Levitas 2020) 7 June 2021A strange hotchpotch of a movie, trying to avoid the White Saviour trope while having Johnny Depp as the star. The story of the village of Minamata taking on a huge company that was poisoning their water with mercury, and using US photographer W Eugene Smith to catch international attention. Johnny Depp's voice is wonderful, and there are some Kurosawa- […]
- Jack Irish Season 3 (Peter Temple, Andrew Knight and others 2021) 15 June 2021
