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Reading & watching- Sydney Festival: Vigil 25 January 2020A moment on the eve of Australia Day to think about the day before the First Fleet arrived in Warrane /Sydney Harbour. A stunning setting in Barangaroo, with 250 Aboriginal flags – one for every year since Cook's arrival. Wesley Enoch gave a brilliant speech about the importance of what Aboriginal culture has to offer, and our need to acknowledge our re […]
- Who Are These Strangers and Where Are They Going? (Fiona Foley) 25 January 2020This is a wonderful retrospective of Badtjala artist Fiona Foley's work, curated by Djon Mundine. The gallery is open on 26 January, so if you're in Sydney there's something to do on that day that won't leave you feeling icky. Stunningly beautiful work that's also deeply challenging and informative about obscured history.
- Everything's Gonna Be OK (Josh Thomas 2020) 25 January 2020This follows the success of Josh Thomas's Please Like Me. I'm not sure his brand of observational comedy translates to a US sensibility: everyone seems to shout a lot in a way they didn't in the Australian production. And while the bumbling father is pretty much the same character as in PLM, he's much less convincing here, but maybe that […]
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller 2019) 24 January 2020This is a film that takes a lot of risks. I'm sure some people will find it unbearably mawkish. I was thrilled. It does assume its audience is familiar with Mr Rogers, a US children's TV personality. The show never came to Australia, but the movie works anyhow: is he as nice as he presents? He's certainly a tough interview because he just keep […]
- The Weekend (Bernhard Schlink 2008, Translated Shaun Whiteside) 21 January 2020Just to make it a hat trick of weekends.
- Sydney Festival: Vigil 25 January 2020
