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“My name, should you know it remains unspeakable and is spoken — malediction.”
Brendan Fletcher debut feature film Mad Bastards has just opened in cinemas. He tells The Art Life’s Andrew Frost of the projects long gestation, the art of directing non-actors and the seven year journey to bring the story to the screen… And learn how to win one of four double passes to the film.
Have you noticed that it’s not just people who sell ‘handmade’ soap at markets complaining that our culture has become too high-tech, too overloaded with meaningless information, too much about voyeurism and instant gratification, too lacking in real human connection?
Andrew Frost clicks through the extras on the DVD release of Exit Through The Gift Shop
Marcus Trimble writes on the architectural vision of Christopher Nolan, from Batman Begins to Inception…
Ian Shadwell wonders whether Inception is great entertainment or an over-inflated pseudo-profound hodgepodge – or maybe both?
The perhaps accidental revelation of Matthew Barney: No Restraint is that the artist comes off as a bit of a dunce…
Terence Davies’ essay film Of Time and the City shifts through public footage for private memories…
Just who is the author of the doco Exit Through The Gift Shop wonders Michael Hutak. And does it really matter?
Believe the hype: Animal Kingdom is one of the best Australian films of the decade writes Ian Shadwell