Carl Nilsson-Polias

This new album compiles a range of compositions for theatre by Alan John. The works are commissions from Company B Belvoir St, Sydney Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare and range from incidental music to settings for Shakespearean songs. Along the way, one gets to hear snippets of play text read by Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, […]

A feature film from director Jan Svankmajer is a rare treat for fans of the stop-frame genius, but if that isn’t enough to draw you to see this film, then how about adding references to the Marquis de Sade and Edgar Allan Poe, spicing it with nudity, and adding liberal lashings of blasphemously good-humoured debauchery. […]

Werner Herzog films have always been fascinated by other men’s utopian fantasies, while maintaining the filmmaker’s own distinctly sceptical perspective. In both Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo Herzog had born-to-act-madmen Klaus Kinski playing Europeans with utopian dreams for South America. In Grizzly Man he had the real and fatally flawed fantasies of Timothy Treadwell, who made the […]

Paul Greengrass’ film, which tracks the fate of the fourth of the hijacked planes of September 11, 2001, is not a sweeping tale of broad strokes but a finely wrought, brilliantly detailed and horrifically engaging film of people facing an inconceivable hopelessness and frighteningly imminent mortality. It is impossible to leave politics aside, or be […]

The Balkan war of the early nineties heralded the first common usage of that sordid neologism “ethnic cleansing”. Never before had a phrase so horrifyingly wrapped in irony such bloody and rapacious acts. In the wake of an awkward peace, achieving a semblance of normality is almost impossible for those survivors who have experienced the […]