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Plato’s Couch – NEAR DARK references
The following resources are cited in the Plato’s Couch podcast episode on Near Dark (Listen HERE): Benson-Allott, Caetlin (2010). Undoing Violence: Politics, Genre, and Duration in Kathryn Bigelow’s Cinema, Film Quarterly, 64(2), pp. 33-43 Bigelow, Kathryn (Director). (1987). Near Dark, USA: F/M Entertainment Braudy, Leo (2010), Near Dark: An Appreciation , Film Quarterly, 64(2), pp. […]
Continue reading...Plato’s Couch – NEAR DARK (1987)
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (1987) is the subject of the first episode of Plato’s Couch. Here I explore issues of genre, gender, violence and the film’s production history.
Continue reading...PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – September 25th
Monday, September 25, 2017
In this week’s episode the team discuss Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Nocturama and It’s Only the End of the World. With Thomas Caldwell, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson. Plato’s Cave – September 25th (Podcast link)
Continue reading...PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – September 18th
Monday, September 18, 2017
In this week’s episode the team discuss mother!, I Am Not Your Negro and Patti Cake$. With Thomas Caldwell, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Emma Westwood and Josh Nelson. Plato’s Cave – September 18th (Podcast link)
Continue reading...ANALYSIS: Broken Highway
Saturday, July 1, 2017
In this article for Senses of Cinema, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and I explore Laurie McInnes’ 1993 film, Broken Highway. In addition to tracing the film’s production history and the initial critical response, we examine various key themes and motifs present throughout the work. Into the Light: Hope, Despair and Haunted Doubles in Laurie McInnes’s Broken Highway […]
Continue reading...REVIEW: David Lynch: The Art Life
Monday, May 15, 2017
“I had this idea that you drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes and you paint, and that’s it. Maybe girls come into it a little bit. But basically it’s the incredible happiness of working and living that life” – David Lynch on The Art Life David Lynch recently caused a stir when, in an interview with […]
Continue reading...ANALYSIS: Get Out
Monday, May 1, 2017
In this piece written for Overland, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and I examine issues of racial politics, cinematic representation and their relationship to the horror genre in writer-director Jordan Peele’s debut feature Get Out. Get Out and the Horror of Representation (link to article)
Continue reading...Viet Kong: Aping America’s Heart of Darkness
Friday, March 17, 2017
“The word remake is anachronistic to the degree to which our awareness of the preexistence of other versions (previous films of the novel as well as the novel itself) is now a constitutive and essential part of the film’s structure: we are now, in other words, in “intertextuality” as a deliberate, built-in feature of the […]
Continue reading...PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – 14th December
Monday, December 14, 2015
The Plato’s Cave team look back across the year and discuss their favourite theatrically released films of 2015. With Josh Nelson, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Cerise Howard and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – 14th December (.mp3)
Continue reading...PODCAST: ABC 774 – 4th December
Friday, December 4, 2015
This week on Friday Film, Raf and I discuss a selection of our favorite films from 2015 (including Mad Max: Fury Road, Creed, Birdman, Inside Out, Mommy, Sicario, Knight of Cups and Foxcatcher in a rooftop broadcast from Madame Brussels on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.
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