A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
David Keane, “The True Story of Black Hawk Down” (2003) A very detailed documentary about the events that led to the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993…
Ryuhei Kitamura, “Aragami” (2003) The Japan Foundation Office across the road from where I work put on a week’s worth of Japanese films during the April…
“The Art and Science of Face Perception” – Symposium held in conjunction with 39th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Saturday 14th April 2012 (Art Gallery of NSW,…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Q&A Adventures in Democracy – Richard Dawkins versus Cardinal George Pell (Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV (ABC1), 9 April 2012) Managed to miss seeing this episode of…
Samuel Hobkinson, “The Romantics (Episode 2: Nature)” (2005) While searching for a Czech documentary “Zdroj” (“The Source”) on Youtube and not finding it there – it…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Sally Aitken, “Seduction in the City: the Birth of Shopping (Episode 2: A Modern Game)” (2011) Continuing briskly and trippingly from Episode 1 “A Genius Idea”,…
French and French-language Films, Northern European Films
Aki Kaurismäki, “Le Havre” (2011) A heartwarming comedy drama that focusses on deception and the plight of illegal migrants, “Le Havre” features characters, a plot and…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Sally Aitken, “Seduction in the City: the Birth of Shopping (Episode 1: A Genius Idea)” (2011) Ah, shopping – the bane of modern life or the…
French and French-language Films
Marcel Duchamp, “Anémic Cinéma” (1926) Here’s an intriguing 7-minute animated film that consists of a sequence of spiralling patterns, either of actual spirals or concentric circles…
French and French-language Films
René Clair, “Entracte” (1924) This film’s title derives from its originally being an interlude between two acts of a ballet. Director Clair deliberately sought to make…