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[Published in Screen Machine, Issue One, July/August 2012] Dead birds rain from the sky. A flaxen-haired bride flees through the woods, weighed down by her ragged gown and spools of grey yarn that ensnare her limbs. A mother holds her son to her breast, sinking into a golf green that dissolves beneath her feet. A […]
March 16, 2012
[Published in Crikey, March 16 2012] The state of arts criticism in Australia has been a topic of doleful conversation for a few years now. From all accounts, things are pretty dire. Critics across the disciplines are bemoaning the shrinking space in print media, the “everyone’s a critic” mentality of blogging, the timidity of Australia’s […]
February 21, 2011
Published on Screen Machine, February 21 2011 Ever since Sofia Coppola staked her claim as queen of the Hollywood indie scene in the late ‘90s, the criticisms leveled at her have remained the same across what is now arguably an auteurist body of work. Unsurprisingly, the critical response to her latest effort, Somewhere, has been no exception. When Somewhere took out the […]
November 26, 2010
[Published on Screen Machine, November 26 2010] Serge Gainsbourg was a musician whose work became inseparable from his star image. Transforming the French chanson, Gainsbourg’s transgression of generic and moral boundaries produced such infamous classics as ‘Je t’aime… moi non plus’ (a duet with then wife Jane Birkin, its scandalous lyrics accompanied by Birkin’s orgasmic sighs), ‘Lemon […]
July 1, 2012
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