Disappointment
I can’t believe it, another idyllic image comes crashing down! Robert Doisneau’s famous ‘Kiss At City Hall’ was staged. And the couple only lasted a couple of months. Sigh.
Apparently this is old news. The photographer cleared the record in 1992 with these interesting words: “I would have never dared to photograph people like that. [...]
McDonald’s and nationalism
If you’re watching commercial television in Australia over the next 36 hours, keep an eye out for the McDonald’s ANZAC Day ad. I’ve heard it run at least twice this morning during my (even more football mad than me) neighbour’s Sunday morning sports show. It’s a fascinating example of how multinationals articulate with particular national [...]
Curious
Smart Women in Current Popular Culture: Call for Contributors to a New Forthcoming Anthology
For a new anthology on the depiction of intelligent women in the contemporary U. S. popular media (1980-present), I am seeking essays that explore the complex and sometimes contradictory depictions of smart women in popular media. How are women’s real lives [...]
Shifts
Steve Looking Wistful
Seeing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou last night made me think more about something I’ve been noticing at the movies lately, that is, how unfamiliar and welcome it is identify with the form of nostalgia represented on screen. I should qualify all of this in the usual way by saying this is [...]
Fahimeh’s Story
The SBSi day was fantastic. The highlight for me was Faramarz K-Rahber’s Fahimeh’s Story, which I had missed when it screened on TV, but won the IF award for embodying the ‘independent spirit’ last year. The director and star were both at the screening, which was evidently moving for them but also for us [...]
A dark day ahead
I’m looking forward to this SBSi event in Brisbane tomorrow. Not so much for the John Safran Q&A, though John Saffran vs God was some of the most fascinating television I’ve seen. I’m going more for the Homemade History features, which Jane mentioned in her paper at the Perth CSAA conference. And ‘cos it’s a [...]
Some form of sanity
If you haven’t seen it, Jon Stewart on the Schiavo case. It’s about 4mb, and very funny.
Bad Santa
“No one in American film right now does bitter white trash better than Billy Bob.”
Watch this film before attempting Christmas shopping! It may help.
6FU genius #2
Orchid lady: ‘Excuse me, but you can’t do that’.
Art school student who has just picked orchid: ‘It’s ok, Dick Cheney is my uncle’.
Sheilas
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