IN this 2012 Oscar-nominee for best Foreign Language Film, Israeli writer/director Joseph Cedar sets a father and a son at odds over professional achievement. At Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, Eliezer has spent 20 years writing a…
THE screenplay, which director Jean-Pierre Ameris co-wrote with Phillipe Blasband, belabours a single joke for longer than it can stand, thereby diminishing what could have been a charming comedy. Angelique has trained under a master…
AFTER reading Paul Torday’s book, I gave copies to two friends. So I awaited the film with great optimism. I left the cinema feeling mild disappointment. Simon Beaufoy’s screenplay adequately encapsulates the threads of the…
SOME may find it strange that the debut film from one-time real-estate agent JC Chandor, charting the first hours of the Global Financial Crisis, got classified MA without gun-fire, gore, automotive mayhem, punch-ups, time-bombs, drugs,…
IT’S more rewarding to ignore than give credence to the PR hyperbole accompanying Alexander Payne’s serio-comic family drama. George Clooney plays Matt, lawyer, principal in a family trust of a large parcel of undeveloped Hawaiian…
ACT Liberal arts spokesperson VICKI DUNNE reminds the ANU what the School of Music means to Canberra
Music student ROHAN MOORE, of Save Our SOM, says there have been no wins for the School of Music
CANBERRA’S musical heavyweights are throwing a free concert for the ACT community tonight to show the ANU what they can do. Organiser of the concert, pianist and masters student at the university, Andrew Rumsey, told…
THE ACT Division of the National Tertiary Education Union has condemned today’s announcement by the ANU of a possible fund-raising consortium as a case of exploiting community goodwill. NTEU said it was “a useful distraction…
