Another video with one of my creative sons behind the camera:
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Reading & watching- Das Boot (Johannes W. Betz & Tony Saint 2018) 17 August 2019I haven't seen Das Boot, the film, and wasn't drawn to this series, which I imagined as a claustrophobic yet violent submarine story. It turns out that while there is that, there's a whole complex story on land as well, with actual women.
- Du côté de chez Swann (MArcel Proust 1913) 14 August 2019I plan to read À la recherche du temps perdu in French over the next year or so. This is the first volume.
- Veronica Mars (Rob Thomas 2019) 14 August 2019A reboot that works. The tag line, 'Still fighting crime like a girl', says it all. Kristen Bell has the same sassy charm as she did a decade ago, while around her everyone else has grown old.
- Belvoir: Life of Galileo (Bertolt Brecht 1938, adapted by Tom Wright 2019) 11 August 2019It doesn't seem so long since the last time Belvoir staged Galileo. That production, if I remember correctly, was strong and didn't muck around with Brecht's text unduly. This time it has been adapted, or condensed as he says in a program note, by Tom Wright who has made a career out of giving classic plays a makeover. Colin Friels was terrifi […]
- Waltzing the Dragon (Benjamin Law 2019) 9 August 2019Benjamin Law goes on two excursions, the first with his mother, the second with his father, exploring what it means to be Chinese Australian. The first episode has a lot about Queensland and extraordinary scenes in southern China as Benjamin and his mother visit the home town of her father.
- Das Boot (Johannes W. Betz & Tony Saint 2018) 17 August 2019
Cool! Well done Alex! Wonder if you’d be interested in doing a short clip for Thrill Seekers?
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