..Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. I think it’s my first ‘motion capture’ movie on the big screen, (although I’ve seen bits of Beowulf on Foxtel) and, while it’s impressively realistic in capturing movement accurately, it falls a bit flat in nearly every other respect. Having said that, the backgrounds are stupendously rich and detailed and…
..election campaign characterised by profound shallowness and intellectual mediocrity by both political parties and the media, I wrote …..“Many years ago I recollect seeing in scratchy black and white an interview between Walter Cronkite and an aging Dean Acheson who had been the Secretary of State in the Truman Administration. He had played a central…
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.. is no immediate evidence for this assumption. For example, there have been occasions when we’ve been playing to an apparently indifferent crowd, and yet when we’ve finished playing, a selection of those very same people has made a point of letting us know just how thrilled they were with the music. That has a…
..Rock, near the Geelong sewage outflow, to Barwon Heads. On the Saturday we went about half way along so that we could return in time for lunch and wine with friends, but on the Sunday we went the whole way there and back. Two interesting things. On the Saturday Mary had dropped one of her…
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..& roll and proudly wearing my legendary brothel creepers (made in Australia). There was a dance on at the local hall. They had a Maori band playing who could play anything and they were pretty good I thought. They must’ve had a talent quest segment because I found myself up on stage and the band…
..pulley, at the top of the building and hoisted up a couple of barrels of bricks. When I had fixed the building, there was a lot of bricks left over. I hoisted the barrel back up again and secured the line at the bottom and then went up and filled the barrel with the extra…
.. if he’s got a cold when I ring, but he doesn’t want to leave Rotorua as the few friends he has left in the world are there or thereabouts. Maria and I intend to pay him a visit in April when we’re in New Zealand for a short holiday, but we’re not going to…
..winner. I hoped it would get better. But it didn’t. Whatever Weiwei turned his hand was boring. Uninspiring. Bloated. Very big and very pointless. I had gone to the National Gallery of Victoria to see the latest blockbuster of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei. I went with some trepidation as, whilst I think that Warhol…
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..hold them up to the light, they’re as transparent as the shroud of Turin. I suspect if Jesus were around today he would be just the sort of bloke to wear corduroys. It seems a long time ago now, but corduroy was once (briefly) a fashion fabric. It was The Beatles of course, but other…
..area of expertise whose utility in the context if the universe is on a par with the politicians and the clergy. It justifies its existence through largely demeaning activities designed to engender a sense of feigned happiness, whilst disguising that its role is to extract the maximum amount of work with the minimum amount of…
.. culture in which process BBC radio and TV played a pivotal role. The preservation of The Arts as a rarefied pleasure reserved for those of noble birth couldn’t be sustained and so the definition of culture had to be broadened, and broadened in such a way as to include and respect the way of…
..not generally natural to where wombats delve. Many fragile metres of foil and fibreglass were regarded as a mere inconvenience to its general construction and mining operations and were demolished both rapidly and noisily in the small hours of a winter morning as it waddled and crumped its way under the house to directly underneath…
..relations add up to it being a non-starter. The one thing that’s obvious from an Australian perspective is that the cartoon’s overtly and undeniably racist. Given that, I found it interesting that the debate in The Press is centred on whether the cartoons are actually racist or not, which shows that context is playing a…
..“Geordie” (which the Danes renamed ‘Skotten svinger hammeren’), “The Belles of St Trinians” and ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’ were soon to delight us with their gentility and niceness. No, these were films of gritty realism, difficult subject matter and controversy. Films that made one think rather than leave the cinema with a warm fuzzy feeling. I…