Articles Tagged 9/11

PODCAST: ABC 774 – May 17th

In this week’s Friday Film segment I chat to Raf about J.J. Abrams’ blockbuster sequel Star Trek: Into Darkness and the latest film from Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance, The Place Beyond the Pines plus talkback on ‘Filmic worlds you’d gladly inhabit for the rest of your life’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. […]

PODCAST: ABC 774 – July 20th

It’s a Batman special on this week’s Friday film segment as Raf and I explore Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, the film’s debt to Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and its contemporary political resonances, on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. ABC 774 – July 20th Episode (.MP3)  

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – June 18th

This week the Plato’s Cave team review Rock of Ages, Take This Waltz and Margaret plus we examine post-9/11 politics in contemporary cinema. With Josh Nelson, Thomas Caldwell and Tara Judah. Plato’s Cave – June 18th Episode (.MP3)

REVIEW: New York: A Documentary Film

It’s been called the city that never sleeps, the Metropolis of America, the Capital of the World or simply, the Big Apple. Whatever names it goes by though, few places on Earth have exerted such a profound influence upon the Western cultural and political imagination as New York City. Beneath the bright lights of its […]

REVIEW: The Happening

It’s not uncommon in cinematic parlances to talk of a director as being at the peak of their career: Ford, Hitchcock, Scorsese, and Spielberg etc., have all been spoken of as having a golden period at some point or another. Were it equally fashionable however, to speak of directors as being at their lowest ebb, […]

FEATURE: The Perils of Pop Culture Politics

Hollywood cinema has long occupied a space along the fault lines of America’s political divide; producing films that occasionally challenge, but more commonly reinforce various dominant ideological beliefs. It is, after all, the town that practically invented the ‘happy ending’, an industry founded on an unwavering belief that no matter how bad things get, good […]

REVIEW: Your Mommy Kills Animals

A woman dressed in a fur coat is walking through a shopping mall. Suddenly, a man carrying a baseball bat approaches and beats her to the ground. Stripping the coat from her lifeless body he wanders casually away. A title card fades up on screen; “What if you were killed for you coat?” It’s a […]

REVIEW: Hirokazu Kore-eda Retrospective

There’s a term that film critics often use to describe a work that captures and magnifies some enduring characteristic of our population: the ‘human condition’. It’s an overarching term with various existential connotations, one that’s too often applied as a kind of linguistic ‘get out of jail free’ card when confronted with imagery at once […]