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Eraserhead: still the best
Two or Three Things I Know About Her: Godard's mid point essay about contemporary life as prostitution. Works just as well now and is the first example I give of a fiction film that does not require narrative.
The Sacrifice: Tarkovsky's sign-off. Saw it with group who complained about its slowness but I stopped listening as it continued to sink in.
The Thing from Another ... read more While browsing in Smith Street, I felt something cold touch my leg…After that, I started to notice boxes of torsos, scuffed limbs in baskets, and spooky mannequins everywhere.
Dark WaterI like reading other people's top ten lists but never think to make my own. I harbour a profound fear that I'll disagree with it as soon as I post it. This is why I'm dating this series of posts. These will be my top ten movies on the date I draw it up. No pondering. Straight up listfilling. Feel free to add your own to this and each subsequent list. Might be interesting to see how a few of us change it.Eraserhead - my favourite film from the first time I saw in in the early 80s to now. ... read more 
The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is upon us again. I spoke to my friend Tyson Namow who is one of the programmers of the film section of the festival about a few of the issues that occured to me after seeing the teaser program published on the website in March.On that, I've been asked to point out that this interview was conducted in March, weeks before the full program was published. For the sake of clarity, the festival program does NOT include the documentary To Hell and Back again (I don't believe either of us suggested ... read more I love street art sculpture; this is my third post about it (see Street Art Sculpture and More Street Art Sculpture). Not all of the street sculptures that I’ve written about are still there; some have weathered well, some have been painted over and others have been removed. Such is the nature of all street art. But there are some new ones around, especially the rainbows by GT who saved the best one for Hosier Lane.
GT spectrum sculpture, 2012, Hosier Lane
This is an amazing time in the history of Melbourne’s sculpture. 40 years ago the old ... read more
A cab careens through Rome, taking a young woman somewhere she didn't ask to go. Later, Linda, visiting Rome, waits for her sister to knock on her hotel room door. A filthy basement holds a number of women strapped to tables. Gotcha, it's a crime thriller.Linda goes to the police to report her sister missing and is led to the young but gruff Inspector Avolfi, chewing pizza in a basement wallpapered with grizzly crimescene photos. He's pursuing a serial killer who's ... abducting young women .... So they're on the case, working in tandem as ... read more 
A young woman is taken kicking, screaming and laughing demoniacally into an ornate old building. It's 1906. She's not possessed. She's hysterical, according to the newborn science of psychoanalysis. A little later, twitching in a chair in a sunlit room she receives a visitor. He's young and pleasant mannered. "I'm Dr Jung," he says. "I thought we might just talk today."So begins a triangle first professional intrigue and then ethics-breaching sexual compulsion as Jung nuts it out with the paternal Freud and Sabine the hopeful future doctor and mix it up like it's Saturday night. Jung becomes increasingly dissatisfied ... read more ‘Don’t criticise what you can’t understand’ – the times they are a changing on Little Oxford St in Collingwood.
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I was walking around the Collingwoods last week, and this is what I saw.
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Tweets from Wired @ Collingwood Tweets from Smith St
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