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Movie Review: Elena
Russian films in the post-communist era rarely get to our screens, although no doubt the film industry is as prolific as it has always been. Perhaps it's just that in some ways the new Russian society is very much like our own, with capitalism the driving force of social change and the nouveau riche exerting an influence that is not particularly wholesome or edifying for Western audiences.
April 9, 2012, 11:04 am -
Movie Review: King of Devil's Island
If nothing else, King of Devil's Island is the kind of film that makes you thankful you live in the convenience century - the 21st century - with its iPads, Thermomixes, electric Lazyboy recliners and those sensor-controlled soap pumps you don't even have to touch.
April 2, 2012, 10:10 am -
Movie Review: The Forgiveness of Blood
Joshua Marston is one of those rare American directors who cannot be accused of insularity. His striking debut feature, Maria Full of Grace, is about a young Colombian woman who becomes a drug mule, and was shot largely in Spanish and in a naturalistic style more European than Hollywood.
March 27, 2012, 11:24 am -
Movie Review: Medianeras
Early on in this inventive, charmingly oddball romance from first-time Argentine writer-director Gustavo Taretto, the multi-phobic Martin lays out his urban survival kit. It is a backpack full of essentials, without which he will not leave his apartment, something he rarely does anyway.
March 26, 2012, 2:22 pm -
Welcome to the machine
West Wheels Editor Steve Lague reports on the developing technology that could eventually cut out the human touch in motoring.
March 25, 2012, 4:51 pm -
Movie Review: The Deep Blue Sea
It's hard to imagine a filmmaker who has less in common with playwright Terence Rattigan than Terence Davies, whose visually lush and aurally rapturous studies of working-class British life are far removed from those crisp, clench-jawed dramas and comedies of the 1950s.
March 19, 2012, 11:25 am -
Movie Review: Circumstance
A friend once recounted a startling story that opened my eyes to what lies beneath - quite literally - the puritanical surface of the Islamic world.
March 13, 2012, 1:02 pm -
Movie Review: Footnote
The Israel Prize is obviously the equivalent of an Australian honours list - a prestigious award to academics and scientists who have made a lifetime contribution to Israeli life and culture.
March 12, 2012, 12:04 pm -
Magnificent 7 mark milestone
Imagine having to pick just seven films from the hundreds of critically acclaimed classics, international award winners and audience favourites that have screened over the 60-year history of the Perth International Arts Festival.
March 5, 2012, 9:54 am -
Music Review: Bon Iver
The 2012 Perth Festival's most celebrated contemporary music booking, a nine-piece Bon Iver, didn't disappoint at Red Hill Auditorium.
March 5, 2012, 9:25 am -
Review: Staff Benda Bilili
Hailing from the disease-ridden, inhospitable city of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Staff Benda Bilili’s name literally translates as “look beyond appearances.”
March 3, 2012, 3:46 pm -
African rockers the wheel deal
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of rock and rollers making a difference.
March 3, 2012, 4:30 am -
Angels fly and few devils in the detail
From the swelling vocal notes on the Cottesloe dawn to the first fluttering of angelic feathers over St Georges Terrace, the 2012 Perth International Arts Festival has been a study in the intimate and the epic.
March 3, 2012, 4:20 am -
Music review: The Magnets
When you go to a concert, it's easy to sit back, enjoy and let the music wash over you. English a capella group The Magnets demand more.
March 2, 2012, 11:06 am -
Music review: Tafelmusik
Canadian Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik's The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres, a combination of music, astronomy, theatre, photography, video and literature is literally out of this world.
March 2, 2012, 11:05 am
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