As it Happened: The Last Bolshevik
SBS
Thursday, April 13, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Neville Spencer
This documentary traces the life and work of Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), whose experience as a film maker
Culture
News From Nowhere and Other Writings
By William Morris
Edited by Clive Williams
Penguin. 430 pp., $12.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Dave Riley
William Morris was an extraordinary man. Today, a year short of the centenary of his death, perhaps a
By Deepa Fernandes
While much is said, written and debated about the current situation of Aboriginal affairs, nothing makes as much of a statement as the opening of the Mangkaja print exhibition at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne on
Come Together: John Lennon in his Time
By Jon Weiner
Faber and Faber, 1995. 379 pp., $18.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
John Lennon angered all the right people. During the Beatles' first tour of the States in 1966, fundamentalist
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — November 11 is the 20th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, so we can expect to see considerable amounts of print space and airwaves devoted to analysing perhaps the most important event of
Harold
Written and directed by Steve Thomas
A Flying Carpet Films production
ABC TV, Sunday, April 9, 8.30pm
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This intriguing documentary reveals the story of Harold Blair, one of Australia's greatest opera singers
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
By Steve Martin
Directed by Neil Armfield
Return Season Director Andrew Tighe
Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
Reviewed by Allen Myers
Picasso at the Lapin Agile is set in a Paris cafe in 1904 — or possibly
A poem
em = By Sophie Villig
The sky used to be the limit
Now we've limited the sky
I don't know why
I don't know why
Reaching
but I can't find the sky
Heat is rising
and the sky is falling
I reach
losing
Childe and Australia: Archeology, Politics and Ideas
Edited by Peter Gathercole, T.H. Irving and Gregory Melleuish
University of Queensland Press, 1995. 245 pp., $16.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Vere Gordon Childe is renowned as the
By Rebecca Meckelburg
HOBART — The state attorney general, Ron Cornish, has banned 12 films that were due to be screened as part of Tasmania's inaugural Queer Film and Video Festival. The films have the go-ahead of the federal attorney general
The Fifth Celebration of Irish Music
Sydney State Theatre, March 17
Reviewed by Gail Lord
Unable to buy a ticket for this years's Celebration of Irish Music concert, I was lucky enough to be given a ticket while selling Green Left Weekly at
Hazed
By Phil Monsour and Sue Ferres
Reviewed by Lynda Hansen
This tape is a refreshing collection of songs penned by Monsour, well known for his passionate political lyrics, accompanied by Sue Ferres on harmonies and violin. The tape
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