DESPITE several things to quibble about, the 124 minutes of Nicholas Stoller’s film, co-written with lead actor Jason Segal, bring wit and strong performances that take us sufficiently distant from the beaten rom-com path to…
AFTER Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) loses her husband in a road accident, she spends three years working in an office and living a solitary private life obsessed with memories. Conveying this information consumes the first third…
LOCAL filmmakers will have the opportunity to learn all about programs and initiatives at this year’s ScreenACT Expo Night on Thursday, May 3. Highlights include: the Low Budget Feature Pod; artsACT’s Project Fund 2013; ScreenACT Development…
WHETHER, when making this lovely film, Emilio Estevez, writer/director/actor and son of the principal character both on and off screen, had in mind Sir Walter Raleigh’s lovely gentle poem “The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage”, written on…
WATCHING the first two-thirds of Keiran Darcy-Smith’s thriller, co-written by actress wife Felicity Price, had me disagreeing with that title. But I stuck it out as is my duty and the last part sort of…
LATE yesterday, staff at the ANU School of Music received a letter from head of school Prof Adrian Walter via an email from the general manager’s office, saying that he was no longer on leave….
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
CANBERRA’S music community will be saddened to hear of the death in Denmark of pianist and former director of the Canberra School of Music, John Winther. Winther was born on August 20, 1933 in Copenhagen,…
IT WAS undoubtedly the noisiest, and the coolest, rally in town as staff, students and members of the public gathered at the ANU’s Union Court today to protest against cuts and changes at the School…
