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June 2007
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The Serious Business of Comedy:
the films Charlie Kaufman
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Funny
isn't it; while comedy is probably more popular than drama at the Box Office,
we rarely see it given recognition at film awards: drama reigns supreme*.
The
reasoning? Because comedies make us laugh, they are not taken seriously.
But
making us laugh is a serious business - it takes a lot of skill, good
filmmaking and insight into the human condition to tickle an audience's
funnybone.
Just
ask Charlie Kaufman, possibly the most talented comedy writer working in
Hollywood today...
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Rebels
with (and without) a cause: 'outsiders' on DVD
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In the commercial world pop idols are often encouraged to manufacture an
'outsider' image to appear "cool", sell more CDs/books/magazines etc, and to
appear more desirable to a particular "demographic".
It seems that having the image of an "outsider' is perceived as sexy and highly
marketable.
The history of film shows otherwise: while more often than not artists are
'outsiders' in society (ie "isolated or disconnected" from the community),
rarely do they have an easy time of it...
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Megan Spencer has spent way too much of her life in the dark, all for a
good cause though - watching movies as a professional film critic. for the last
six and a half years she has been serving the ever-increasing hunger for film
and DVD reviews as radio triple j's resident film critic, and a year ago joined
the new line up of long-running SBS-TV film review program, The Movie Show.
And the impossible question to ask a film critic: what's her favourite film?
"Blue Velvet would be at the top of the list, so would Fight Club... But then
again American In Paris makes me cry every time."
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TV's Winter Wonderland
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Now
My two favourite wintery TV shows were Roland's Winter Wonderland and the
Hanna-Barbera cartoon Breezly and Sneezly.
Now
Roland was a rat who headed to his Alpine retreat with his brother Reggie, his
girlfriend Glenis the Guinea Pig, and his mates Errol the Hamster and Kevin the
Gerbil.
Now
Breezly Bruin the polar bear and his offsider Sneezly Seal hung out in an igloo
in the Arctic.
Think
Ah, they don't make 'em like that anymore. Here's some other icy TV treats to
warm your soul...
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TV Freak
Scott Goodings is crazy about TV. Scott's first TV memory is an episode
of "Matlock Police" called "A Piece Of Cake". His first experience of the
medium in colour was seeing a Hector The Cat road safety commercial through the
window of the CBA bank in Cheltenham in 1975.
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Babel,
alleges biblical myth, was a tower built by humanity to reach Heaven; to which
God, in his smiting way, responded by sentencing mankind to a life of confusion
by causing them to speak different languages. It's this notion of a
disconnected race that director Alejandro González Iñárritu explores in his
collage of four stories set against a modern world... Read full
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That
wacky Idi Amin: like any jolly tyrant, the infamous Ugandan warlord enjoyed a
good practical joke, a cute Disney comic, and dressing up like a cowboy to
lasso official patsies and regale the party with his accordion stylings...
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The
most potent fantasies are often born from the most despairing of contexts: much
more than expressing a desire to escape adversity, they're rallies to action,
affirmations of the power of the imagination to transcend anything... Read full
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You
have to admire Kyle Gass and Jack Black for turning what is ostensibly a TV
skit into two full-length albums, a couple of world tours and, most recently, a
movie. Problem is, the joke - two portly guys, one bald, pretending to be rock
stars with acoustic guitars - is starting to wear thin...
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Will Turner: Where's Elizabeth?
Jack Sparrow: She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set
to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just
like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of
course, Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman.
Movie:
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
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