YOU’D expect Simon Weaving, in his third year as director of the Canberra International Film Festival, to be full of weighty cinematic observations. After all, the cover picture for his program comes from a Danish…
WITHOUT slime-covered, multi-toothed monsters threatening to extinguish all human life, Steven Soderbergh’s medical research thriller is as convincing a horror film as you might ever hope to find. Scott Burns’s screenplay examines the science that…
SINCE World WarII there have been four major English-language productions of Alexandre Dumas’s rollicking adventure yarn. It presses many escapist buttons, ticks many boxes. And it provides a golden opportunity for an actress to chill…
WOODY Allen makes a fantasy time-travel visit to the City Of Light during three of its most notable cultural, intellectual and hedonist eras. Gil writes episodes for network TV series, but he’d dearly love to…
THERE’S no shortage of good news on the short film front from Canberra these days. A short film, “Finding Eric,” produced in Canberra with a cast and crew of more than 60, has been selected…
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…
