A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Australian and New Zealand Films
Len Lye, “Tusalava” (1929) It must have been astonishing enough when it was first released with its original piano music score by woefully under-rated Australian experimental…
Carlton Meyer, “The Empire’s 2016 Coup in Turkey” (Tales of the American Empire, 22 January 2021) Rather light on the day-to-day details of the attempt by…
Philippe Falardeau, “My Salinger Year” (2020) A film about finding your own voice and creative outlet, and being able to express that creativity, “My Salinger Year”…
Babak Anvari, “Two & Two ” (2011) Notable for its minimal grey and dreary setting which throws all the audience’s attention onto the dialogue, the plot…
Hubert Wala, “Strategic Flows, by Jacek Bartosiak” (Strategy & Future, 11 January 2021) Strategy & Future is a Polish thinktank founded by lawyer / speaker /…
Billy Wilder, “Some Like It Hot” (1959) Astonishingly this classic Hollywood slapstick comedy still holds up well more than 60 years after its release. The jokes…
Nino Aldi, “Tribes” (2020) In societies obsessed with categorising people on the basis of arbitrary and artificial criteria such as race and gender self-identity, this short…
Dear USE readers and visitors, Funnily I had anticipated at the beginning of 2020 that I probably wouldn’t see as many films in 2020 as I…
Glen MacKay, “Life in the Day of Aliya Mustafina” (2020) Since 2009 when she joined the Russian senior national women’s gymnastics team, Aliya Mustafina has become…
British Films, Multi-media Presentations
Alan Cox, Heathcote Williams, “The Red Dagger” (2013?) Presented in six parts on Youtube, British actor / poet Heathcote Williams’ poem essay “The Red Dagger”, a…