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christos-tsiolkas
Bad Australian Cinema, or How Watching One Perfect Day Made Me Want to Make a Bomb
Just what do recent Australian feature films amount to? According to Tsiolkas, bar an exception or two, not very much at all, leaving him with
The Atheist’s Shoah – Roman Polanski’s The Pianist
An analysis of Polanski's film in light of the question: can narrative cinema, with sensitivity and vision, conjure the complexity of history and, specifically, the
11’09”01- September 11: The Rest is Silence
Whilst appraising each episode and pointing to this film's unevenness, Christos argues overall for the importance of aesthetic responses to global political events like September
Through Clouds: A Discussion of Kandahar and Beneath Clouds
A revealing, perceptive contrast of two recent 'road movies' from different sides of the globe
Meet John Cassavetes
A review of Ray Carney's recent books on Cassavetes and a heartfelt homage to the director