Essays
When a powerful foreign entity like Netflix reboots an Australian series, who can be said to really shape Australian culture? Early one September morning in Melbourne, I awoke to find my Twitter feed abuzz with tweets about the new hit Netflix series Heartbreak High, itself a reboot of the much-loved
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Two directors from different parts of the world, with very different outputs and reputations, absorbed and re-interpreted the culture of their respective countries in contrasting but not entirely dissimilar ways While director Jean-Pierre Melville was French, very sophisticated and, at least eventually, respected by cinephiles the world over, English-born Australian
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What is an Australian cinephile today? In his essay ‘No Flowers for the Cinephile (1987)’, recently re-published in a collection of writings entitled Mysteries of Cinema, Australian film writer Adrian Martin finds himself ruminating on the history of cinephilia in Australia. Read today, the piece provides a gateway into considering