Carlton
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Watching Movies: Death in the Outback
On Monday I took advantage of the cheap tickets at Cinema Nova in Carlton. Seriously, $6 for a movie before 4pm – if you’re not working, why wouldn’t you? I was tossing up between ‘Frank’ and ‘The Rover’, I chose the latter because it started sooner. I’d heard a bit about the film, I vaguely…
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Watching Movies: Nymphomaniac
It’s been three days since I watched Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Vol I and II. It has taken me this long to work out what I want to say, and even so I’m just hoping I’ll be able to make some sort of coherent statement about it by the end of this post. These two films,…
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Short Thoughts: The Return of the King
Thursday night was my sixth Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show for the season. I went to La Mama Theatre in Carlton, my companion and I bought a ticket, we waited until the allotted time to shuffle in, sat down, and realised, this was not the show the thought it would be. La Mama, it turns out,…
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Watching Movies: Weekend Overkill
I haven’t done a Watching Movies post for a while, somehow life got in the way of taking myself to the cinema, but I thought I’d make up for it by seeing four films over two days. This post, therefore, will be short reviews of each of the four films, in the order that I saw…
Adventure, Alfred Hitchcock, Astor Theatre, Carlton, Cinema Nova, Constanze Knoche, Die Besucher, Festival of German Films, Grace Kelly, Hayao Miyazaki, James Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kim Novak, Lies Bagdach, Melbourne, Movie review, Palace Como, Rear Window, Relationships, South Yarra, St Kilda, The Wind Rises, Uwe Kockisch, Vertigo, Visitors