I’ve been to MONA. What a great place. What a great experience. It’ setting a high standard for other galleries to meet. From the start, getting the ferry across the water on a cold clear Hobart day it was a great experience. Landing, you see the gallery emerging from the rock: From there it’s up [...]
What’s ANZAC Day? Holiday or holy day? Interesting debate on twitter on the day itself. Opinions varied. Properly respectful? Warmongering? Nationalistic or jingoistic? A day to examine why we go to war or to protest against us going to war? Jeff Sparrow wrote a nice piece in Overland describing the evolution of the day over [...]
Saw Margin Call last night and really enjoyed it. Gripping opening as the down-sizers otherwise known as HR, turn up to tap people on the shoulder. Perhaps this had more resonance for a Victorian public servant, in the current context, than other audience members. It certainly gave the film a harder edge than it might [...]
Buck is a great little documentary, see it if you can, in the cinema or on video. I missed it at the MIFF last year but everyone who saw it loved it – one of the hits of the festival. I was disappointed because often these documentaries don’t get a commercial release. So I was [...]
I have been reading Diana Athill. What a woman! Born into the English upper classes, with a noticeably patrician, or Oxbridge accent all her life, she is honest about their strengths and weaknesses. Her family had an unshakeable self-belief in their own importance, unrelated to any actual history achievement – no great intellectual, academic or [...]
