Articles Tagged WWII

PODCAST: ABC 774 – 2nd May

This week on Friday Film, I discuss the latest work from director Jim Jarmusch, Only Lovers Left Alive, and the debut feature from Australian filmmaker Aaron Wilson, Canopy. Plus, talkback on ‘favourite film soundtracks’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – 28th April

This week’s episode of Plato’s Cave features reviews of Cheap Thrills (DVD), and the debut feature from Australian writer-director Aaron Wilson, Canopy. Plus a report from the Tribeca Film Festival. With Josh Nelson, Thomas Caldwell, Cerise Howard and Tara Judah. Plato’s Cave – 28th April Episode (.MP3)

PODCAST: ABC 774 – March 7th

In this week’s Friday Film segment, I discuss renowned animation director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, The Wind Rises and the documentary, Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia. Plus, talkback on ‘animation films’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. ABC 774 – March 7th Episode (.MP3)

ANALYSIS: Opening Pandora’s Box: The Voice and Technology in The King’s Speech

The voice is elusive. Once you’re eliminated everything that is not the voice itself – the body that houses it, the words it carries, the notes it sings, the traits by which it defines a speaking person, and the timbres that colour it, what’s left? What a strange object, what grist for poetic outpourings… – […]

REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

It’s taken nine years, but the climactic (or rather penultimate) confrontation between the once dormant forces of evil and now failing powers of good has finally arrived on our screens. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 opens with the ominous words of war, “These are dark times, there is no denying”. Uttered by […]

FEATURE: Looking Forward to the Past

Ever since George Lucas decided it’d be a good idea to take us back to a ‘longer time ago’ in a galaxy ‘further away’, Hollywood has been increasingly overcome with prequel fever. Yes, barely a moment had passed since our realisation that Darth Vader was an annoying adolescent with poor acting skills that we noticed […]