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Reading & watching- The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles 2019) 7 December 2019Essentially a two-hander with Jonathan Pryce as the man now known as Pope Francis and Anthony Hopkins as the man now known as Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, both of them brilliant and with great chemistry between them, this is much more interesting and complex than I expected. Also funnier, though really there's just one joke, which depends on the stereoty […]
- Defiant Lives (Sarah Barton 2017) 7 December 2019This is a wonderfull, revelatory documentary about the struggle for disability rights in Australia, the USA and the UK. Change doesn't happen with sweet civility as the only engine
- Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson 2017) 3 December 2019Wonderful performances by Daniel Day Lewis as a weird high-end dress-designer, Lesley Manville as his purse-lipped sister/manager, and Vicky Krieps, a waiter in a cheap eatery who he takes in as his model/muse/lover. The story is weirdly perverse, confirming my sense that Paul Thomas Anderson movies aren't my pot of tea. (I hated Boogie Nights and haven […]
- Night Fishing (Vicki Hastrich 2019) 3 December 2019For the Book Group, no discussion until late January, probably, but it came quickly from the library ...
- Friday Black (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2019) 3 December 2019A book of short stories by a young African-American writer.
- The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles 2019) 7 December 2019
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Moreno Giovannoni’s Fireflies of Autumn and November verse 3
Moreno Giovannoni, The Fireflies of Autumn and other tales of San Ginese (Black Inc 2018) The Fireflies of Autumn begins with a bang. To be more precise, one of its first stories is a tall tale involving a vast explosion … Continue reading
SWF 2019: Friday
I was in England when last year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival broke away from its harbourside venue, so this is my first Festival at the Carriageworks. I miss stepping out of dim rooms full of bright words into the dazzle, or … Continue reading
Southerly 75/3
Elizabeth McMahon and David Brooks (editors), Southerly Vol 75 No 3 2015: War and Peace (The Journal of the English Association, Sydney, Brandl & Schlesinger 2016) In last May’s Quarterly Essay, Blood Year, David Kilkullen quoted Trotsky: ‘You may not be interested in … Continue reading
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Rhyme #4 and Southerly 75/1
Elizabeth McMahon and David Brooks (editors), Southerly Vol 75 No 1 2015: Elemental (The Journal of the English Association, Sydney, Brandl & Schlesinger) Rhyme #4: What’s in a title (with anagrams)? Blow the wind southerly, Southerly, southerly, rattle our windows and … Continue reading
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