Tag Archives: New York
Film, Reviews
Moral baroque: the full and messy world of Margaret
Margaret is an important and beautiful movie which, after years of legal wrangling, never really made it to our cinema screens. Most of the trouble, supposedly, was in trying to get an edit of the film on which director Kenneth Lonergan and its producers could agree – … Read more
Column: Books and Writing
Maps with words: memoirs of Melbourne
This month marks my second anniversary in Melbourne. Since arriving here I’ve noticed something: there are an awful lot of books devoted to telling the stories of this city. I’m not talking about ‘official history’ books here (although there are plenty of those … Read more
Reviews
Film Review: Please Give
Please Give, Nicole Holofcener’s most recent film, opens with a panoply of breasts. They offer themselves unabashed, fragmented in montage, for scrutiny and appraisal. The array is set to The Roches’ self-deprecating tune ‘No Shoes,’ and the track’s wittily constructed catalogue of grievances (‘I had no shoes … Read more
Books
‘Every now and then the city shook its soul out’: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin [review]
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (Allen and Unwin) ISBN: 978-1-4088-0118-5 RRP: $32.99 It is August 1974, and at the bottom of the World Trade Centre, birds are being scooped into zip lock bags, so ‘dazzled by the building’s lights, they crashed into the glass’. It has just been constructed; … Read more
