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	<title>Carl Nilsson-Polias</title>
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		<title>MIFF: It&#8217;s a Free World</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/08/04/miff-its-a-free-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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Ken Loach&#8217;s latest is a simple social realist film in a style not much different to what Vittorio De Sica was pulling out sixty years ago. The conflict is moral and economic, the characters humble but not necessarily noble. It is Loach&#8217;s gift for storytelling and rhythm that allow this well-run formula to evade cliché [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/06/26/london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the heart of Bangla Town in so-hot-right-now East London, crammed between Shoreditch twats and Bank district suits, comes a postcard of indefatigable nonsense and misplaced perspicacity.
I&#8217;ve never before had quite so long to explore one city, so it&#8217;s been an indulgent affair of aimless wanderings, suburban jogs, swims at London Fields and naps on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exit</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/06/09/miff-exit-sweden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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When people think of Swedish cinema they tend, depending on their tendencies, to think either of steamy sauna porn or the collected works of the recently departed Ingmar Bergman. But between these opposite poles of cinematic expression lie a whole range of movies that range from the compelling tragedies of Lukas Moodysson to the sweet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Un Secret</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/04/15/un-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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How does the authenticity of a story affect our reception of it? Consider that novelists in time gone by referred to their fictions as &#8220;histories&#8221;, even &#8220;true histories&#8221;. Meanwhile, today, fraudulent memoirs are held up for bitter condemnation and their authors made into pariahs. In Un Secret, we have a story based on fact &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Umbrellas of Cherbourg</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/04/09/the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacques Demy&#8217;s classic film from 1964 launched Catherine Deneuve into that heady stratosphere of aesthetic canonisation that the French do so well. In many ways, Deneuve&#8217;s career and name have eclipsed Demy&#8217;s, but watching his films reminds you of how bright his penumbra can be.
The Nouvelle Vague pin-ups Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut made their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Guincho: Alegranza</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/04/09/el-guincho-alegranza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alegranza is an album remarkable in its ability to simultaneously invite and dismiss comparison. El Guincho is Pablo Diaz-Reixa and he&#8217;s managed to sample half a planet worth of music without it coalescing into a lazy homogeneity. His beats oscillate with wild abandon and yet the album feels tightly sprung, like a jack-in-the-box that&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WOMAD: Mavis Staples &#038; Sharon Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/03/10/womad-mavis-staples-sharon-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The WOMAD festival shows off some very fine musicians from around the world who would otherwise slip well under the radar of commercial radio and media here in Australia. At the same time, it doesn&#8217;t forget that the Occident is part of that very same world and from The Cruel Sea to the Kronos Quartet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Season at Sarsaparilla</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/01/25/the-season-at-sarsaparilla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Film and theatre are tempestuous bedfellows. For every spirited success (take Louis Malle&#8217;s Vanya on 42nd Street) there are five flaccid failures. In Benedict Andrews&#8217; production of Patrick White&#8217;s The Season at Sarsaparilla the semiotics of cinema step firmly on to the boards.
This is a remarkable work of theatre. The direction is fluid and graceful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warriors of Art</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/01/25/warriors-of-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists
by Yumi Yamaguch
published by Kodansha International, distributed by Bookwise International
RRP $49.95
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this elegantly presented survey is that much of the artwork seems startlingly familiar. Certainly part of this familiarity might come about through the Yankeephile integration of Western tropes into Japanese life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Defying Acts</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2008/01/20/death-defying-acts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Nilsson-Polias</dc:creator>
		
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Gillian Armstrong&#8217;s latest directorial outing, Death Defying Acts, is a glossy cage of cinematic feints signifying nothing. The story is a pretty typical contrivance &#8212; a rich man offers a reward and a pair of likely aspirants try to con their way into a fortune. The twist is that the rich man is Harry Houdini [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris, Je T&#8217;Aime</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/12/31/paris-je-taime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take several established directors.
Add a handful of legendary actors (with a sprinkle of fashionable ones).
Fold in some cobble stones and avenues.
Add it to a well-greased pan, splash it with Pernod and put it into a fan-forced oven.
Remove it before it’s fully baked and serve with 4kg of icing sugar.
If you like the sound of that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noise</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/12/31/noise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noise is hardly an underrated film. It earned its makers a host of major nominations and some very handy wins. Yet, somehow, the rumble of critical acclaim wasn’t enough to launch the film with quite the stratospheric trajectory it seemed to deserve. Nevertheless, for those of us who simply missed out during its time in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Badi Assad and Kinky at Beck&#8217;s Bar</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/10/21/badi-assad-and-kinky-at-becks-bar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/10/21/badi-assad-and-kinky-at-becks-bar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Meat Market is one of Melbourne&#8217;s most beautiful venues. The cast iron meat hooks are still on the beams, the names of the butchers are still painted in copperplate and the arches of the central arcade give a classical lift to proceedings. Nestled in North Melbourne, the hall has been given a facelift for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharon Jones &#038; The Dap-Kings: 100 Days, 100 Nights</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/10/11/sharon-jones-the-dap-kings-100-days-100-nights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/10/11/sharon-jones-the-dap-kings-100-days-100-nights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Jones &#38; The Dap-Kings
100 Days, 100 Nights
Roll me up in some gold lamé, serve me up some sweet home cooking and call me your big daddy, because Sharon Jones has filled my glass with funk anticipation. From the first brassy intro to the last full-band fade-out, the album 100 Days, 100 Nights has the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Guantanamo</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/10/07/the-road-to-guantanamo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This film is a devastatingly good example of storytelling that is both potent drama and documentary. The documentary-as-film paradigm has gained momentum as audiences realise that the social milieu of the cinema is more conducive to collective outrage or edification than the isolating domain of television. Nevertheless, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’s film is strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Host</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/09/18/the-host/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monster movies are generally a critically maligned genre. But that&#8217;s because monster movies generally have all the cinematic quality of a two-week-old lamb kebab. On the other hand, Korean cinema is the hottest thing around the festival circuit. So, what do you get when you synergise it up with a Korean monster flick? You get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Jerome Bel</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/09/18/interview-with-jerome-bel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the big dance number at this year&#8217;s Melbourne Arts Festival has to be the Merce Cunningham residency, there are some other equally remarkable choreographers on show. Take Jérôme Bel for instance, the enfant terrible of French contemporary dance, whose work has garnered that heady mix of consternation, castigation and celebration synonymous with avant-garde.
A relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Shaun Parker</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/08/27/interview-with-shaun-parker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of rehearsals for his upcoming Melbourne Arts Festival production, This Show Is About People, Shaun Parker took time out to talk to us about the work and what brought him to it.
Parker graduated from the VCA dance school in 1992 and is credited as the director-choreographer of This Show Is About People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIFF: You, The Living (Sweden)</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/08/09/miff-you-the-living-sweden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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 In a wasteland of monochromatic post-industrial dullness we see fleeting moments of quiet desperation, quixotic humour and heaving torpor. It&#8217;s kind of like Samuel Beckett went to Ikea and came back with everything and a kitchen sink. The characters are beautifully realised archetypes and their stories, unravelled across intersecting vignettes, present modern maladies and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIFF: Interview (USA)</title>
		<link>http://www.carlnp.com.au/2007/08/03/miff-interview-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Theo van Gogh’s legacy as a filmmaker is darkly tied to the tragic end of his life but as Interview illustrates, his sense of humour is equally worthy of our attention. The film has the deceptively simple structure of a two-hander conversation that, in its rich text and complex psychological games, unearths a complex thematic [...]]]></description>
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