Joe and I visited this exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW in November 2024. It's on until the 9th of February 2025 and I strongly recommend a visit. Marketed as an in-depth retrospective featuring more than 100 works, most of which have never before been seen in Australia it's a great opportunity. I've always liked his paintings which are … [Read more...] about Magritte
Books October – November 2024
This Devastating Fever, Sophie Cunningham I liked this a lot. It's a terrific evocation of the Bloomsbury set, about which I've read a lot except not so much about Leonard Woolf. He's the focus here. We follow the trials and tribulations of a writer as she attempts a biography of him; taking years and years, finally giving up when she sees … [Read more...] about Books October – November 2024
Books Pre-Praiseworthy
I read these books back in September - October both before and during my reading of Praiseworthy when in need of light relief. The Friday Afternoon Club, Griffin Dunne I read this before starting Praiseworthy. It was spruiked as a memoir by a Hollywood insider that was a cut above the usual, but I didn't find it so. The author is of the … [Read more...] about Books Pre-Praiseworthy
MIFF 2024 – Favourite Films
Having finally completed my MIFF 2024 film reviews, here, here and here; and thought about their impact I’m finally able to set down my favourites. They’re listed below - bolded and italicised just to distinguish the titles from each other. There were so many it’s been quite hard to whittle them down from the forty films I saw. Films which took me … [Read more...] about MIFF 2024 – Favourite Films
MIFF 2024 The Rest
These are my remaining films. All were really very good, but except, perhaps, for the first one, which I would put higher now that I've thought about it for a while, all had flaws that stopped them being great. Audrey I had no expectations of this film but I always check out at least one Australian film at MIFF and enjoyed lots. In these … [Read more...] about MIFF 2024 The Rest
MIFF 2024 Really Good Films
It's always hard at MIFF to grade the films you see. As it happened I think I was a bit harsh about all of these movies. I gave them all between none and eight stars instead of ten. The first few because they were the first I'd seen, the later ones because there were a couple of things that were less than perfect but all of them were really, really … [Read more...] about MIFF 2024 Really Good Films