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Keywords: Fantasy

ARTS AND CULTURE

Samson and Delilah and other great Australian stories
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
1 Comment
Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut, Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Children and other wild things
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 December 2009
4 Comments
Max has an erratic imagination, and is prone to extremes of emotion. There are hints of mental illness, but, really, he is simply Every Child. Following a ferocious fight with his mother, he flees into fantasy and becomes king to a group of melancholic monsters.
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AUSTRALIA

Football, sex and poetry
- Sarah Kanowski
- 02 June 2009
7 Comments
Sex scandals can make celebrities out of the most unlikely figures. But just how similar is the case of the Oxford poetry professorship candidate accused of sexually harrassing his students, and Australian Rugby League's group sex scandal?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Animated Lebanese terror
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 April 2009
1 Comment
In 1982, Lebanese Christian militiamen murdered 800 civilians at Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. Ari Folman witnessed the massacre as a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. He sets out to reveal those repressed memories.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A child's suffering for sainthood
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 April 2009
1 Comment
Within the cloistered world of Opus Dei, a young girl, Camino, is dying. The Church hierarchy and its emphasis upon a Father-God have displaced the nurturing instincts of Camino's mother, who urges her daughter along the path of suffering.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Aged Lothario's terror and redemption
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 April 2009
The narrator of Philip Roth's novella The Dying Animal is self-indulgent, narcissistic, and driven by the urge to sexually conquer. The film Elegy transposes Roth's log of masculine decline into a mournful lament for the dead.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A farmer's life
- Gabrielle Bridges
- 01 April 2009
3 Comments
Twins were born in a country town. John lived in the male world of farms and pubs. Jane married an angry patriarch like her father, and unwittingly copied her mother with silence and sedatives. Later she would watch her brother die.
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AUSTRALIA

Fashion fix won't mend failed states
- Michael Mullins
- 01 December 2008
1 Comment
A fashion magazine proposed that 'blowing the budget on something outrageously extravagant will let you know you're still alive'. There is a place for fantasy during financial hard times, but there are also good reasons to act decisively.
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ENVIRONMENT

Paying the climate change piper
- Tony Kevin
- 09 September 2008
7 Comments
In The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a town tries to buy a cheap solution to a terrible problem, and their children pay the price. In light of Garnaut's latest, coservative climate change recommendations, it seems we may need a Class 5 tropical cyclone slamming into Brisbane to jolt us into decisive action.
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AUSTRALIA

Protesters not to blame for Viet vets neglect
- Tony Smith
- 22 August 2008
11 Comments
Vietnam War supporters have been silent since creating the moral disaster faced by returning soldiers. These veterans were judged as failing mythical standards set by previous generations of warriors, and have suffered ever since.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Young writers uncaged
- Gabrielle Bridges
- 28 May 2008
1 Comment
One of the teenage mums writes poetry. The Goths are into dragons and wizards. A girl in a wheelchair says, 'Melanie. A novel.' A tattooed youth drawls, 'Sean. Dirty realism.' Reading work aloud is voluntary but most are keen.
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AUSTRALIA

Writers miss out on election handouts
- Rocky Wood
- 14 November 2007
1 Comment
Elite sportspeople are often lauded by the Prime Minister. But we need to go back to the Whitlam era to find a government that has actively and significantly supported writers and other artists.
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Keywords: Fantasy