Cinema Nova
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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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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 -
Watching Movies: Bloody Shakespeare
Ok, so I should probably admit right off that this only barely counts as a movie; it was the National Theatre Live’s recording of ‘Coriolanus‘. This was staged as a play in the Donmar Warehouse in London, filmed, and shown at the Nova. ‘Coriolanus’ is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known plays, and is a political…
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Watching Movies: Happy Families
Today’s movie review will be of ‘August: Osage County’, an intense drama about the difficulties of living in the Weston family. Written by Tracy Letts, based on his Pulizter and Tony Award winning play of the same name, this story follows the relationships in the highly dysfunctional family as they try to deal with the…
Abigail Breslin, Adventure, August: Osage County, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, Cinema Nova, Dermot Mulroney, Ewan McGregor, Family, George Clooney, John Wells, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Melbourne, Meryl Streep, Movie review, Psychology, Relationships, Sam Shepard, Tracy Letts -
Watching Movies: Harry Potter is gay?!
One of the great things about Mondays is that it’s cheap movie day at the Cinema Nova in Carlton, Melbourne. To celebrate this fact I took myself to see ‘Kill Your Darlings’ yesterday. This film, directed by John Krokidas, is the story of the murder of David Kammera by Lucien Carr in New York in…
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Watching Movies: Blue Jasmine
I’ve recently discovered the joy of going to the cinema by myself. I don’t have to wait around for someone to be available to go with me, which is great because I have a bit of a weird schedule and I know lots of busy people. I don’t have to compromise and see a movie…
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