From the yearly archives: 2015
A quick post about the last three books I’ve read this year and then my list of best books. I loved Grief Is The Thing With Feathers. Poetical, magical. Beautiful writing. It takes a while to realise what the author’s doing. It’s a novel but reads like a memoir. I had to check it wasn’t [...]
I joined the Melbourne Cinematheque this year and recommend it as well worth the $150 ($130 concession) annual membership fee. I was lured in by the Ingrid Bergman season at the end of August. The Cinematheque runs ‘seasons’ of mostly six, sometimes four, films by a particular director or film star. This one was called [...]
It’s so long since I have written anything about what I’ve read this year! Last summer in fact. So here is my autumn and winter reading. First, remembering our sojourn in Paris last March, I read one of the few non fiction / non memoir books for this year. I suspect I should have read [...]
⭐️⭐️⭐️ These are my final reviews from this year’s festival. Enjoy. 1001 Grams. A sweet film about love and grief. Attractive main character who works in Norway’s centre for managing weights and measures. At home she drinks alone in a cold, modern house (shades of IKEA) that is silently being stripped of furnishing by her [...]
On my final day I had a true festival experience, sitting through the three parts of Miguel Gomes Arabian Nights. Three full length feature films: The Desolate One, The Restless One, The Enchanted One. Showing us life in Portugal in the present day through a number of different stories. Here is a review that explains the [...]
