Remember, remember the 5th of November!
Last night I enjoyed the pleasure of some of my favourite company, home-made pizzas (with extra olives of course) and three DVDs.
The first, viewed more or less only so I could finally answer yes to the standard ‘have you seen The Da Vinci Code’ question that invariably follows any discussion [...]
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Baz Luhrmann’s Australia – A Shared Experience
Posted in Art and About, Politics, Social Comment, tagged 1939, Aboriginal, Australia, Australia - Film, Baz Lurhmann, Brendan Walters, David Gulpilil, Germaine Greer, Gone with the Wind, Hugh Jackman, Indigenous Australians, Moulin Rouge, mythology, Nicole Kidman, Outback Australia, Romeo+Juliet, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Stolen Generation, The Wizard of Oz, White Australia on 25 March, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I recently had the misfortune of viewing Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. I say, misfortune for two reasons; the first, like every one else apparently, I felt the film was probably Luhrmann’s worst yet, and possibly one of the greatest epic film failures of all time. The second reason is far more concerning; in amongst Nicole Kidman’s [...]
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