Australian and New Zealand Films
All flash and style but little substance in “Occupation: Rainfall”
Luke Sparke, “Occupation: Rainfall” (2020) Here’s a brisk and flashy science fiction action film done
Australian and New Zealand Films
Tusalava: a unique animated classic inviting many interpretations
Len Lye, “Tusalava” (1929) It must have been astonishing enough when it was first released
The Empire’s 2016 Coup in Turkey: an entree into the history of fraught relations between two NATO allies
Carlton Meyer, “The Empire’s 2016 Coup in Turkey” (Tales of the American Empire, 22 January
My Salinger Year: a small-scaled film that never leaves its comfort zone
Philippe Falardeau, “My Salinger Year” (2020) A film about finding your own voice and creative
Two & Two: a study of how an individual dedicated to the truth can live in a police state society
Babak Anvari, “Two & Two ” (2011) Notable for its minimal grey and dreary setting
Strategic Flows, by Jacek Bartosiak: stream-of-consciousness monologue on geostrategy and geopolitics
Hubert Wala, “Strategic Flows, by Jacek Bartosiak” (Strategy & Future, 11 January 2021) Strategy &
Some Like It Hot: a cheerful screwball satire about the search for love and security
Billy Wilder, “Some Like It Hot” (1959) Astonishingly this classic Hollywood slapstick comedy still holds
Tribes: fast, witty lesson on identity politics as tool of control
Nino Aldi, “Tribes” (2020) In societies obsessed with categorising people on the basis of arbitrary
Round-up of Films seen in 2020
Dear USE readers and visitors, Funnily I had anticipated at the beginning of 2020 that
Life in the Day of Aliya Mustafina: a beautifully made if insubstantial short documentary
Glen MacKay, “Life in the Day of Aliya Mustafina” (2020) Since 2009 when she joined