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- Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning (Sarah Krasnostein 2022) 26 June 2022Subtitle, 'Mental Health and Vulnerability in Australia'. This looks like being a companion piece to Gail Bell's 2005 Quarterly Essay, The Worried Well: The depression epidemic and the medicalisation of our sorrows.
- Stan: My Fair Lady (Directed by George Cukor 1964) 26 June 2022Running at nearly three hours, complete with musical Entr'acte, this is looks deeply weird to me now, though the charming elegance I remember it as possessing when I saw it back then is still in evidence. It's had to imagine a remake, especially a remake by British filmmakers.
- A Stasi COmedy (Leander Haußmann 2022) 25 June 2022The Stasi – the East German secret police – are an unlikely subject for a comedy, but this movie pulls it off. I'd love to hear what old East Germans think of it, though. For me there was a particular pleasure in a moment when we saw a character leaving the station at Prenzlauer Berg, which we did at least daily when visiting Berlin more than a decade a […]
- Starter for 10 (Tom Vaughan 2006) 25 June 2022A nerdy UK college rom com, n which Benedict Cumberbatch and James McAvoy are unbelievably young, not to mention James Corden!
- Becoming Elizabeth (2022) 24 June 2022A bodice-ripping Succession-style Tudor origin story.
- Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning (Sarah Krasnostein 2022) 26 June 2022
Me fail? I fly! 