Author: Greg
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Conte d’hiver
[A Tale of Winter]Rohmer | 1991 | France 3rd watch; 2nd in cinema. A slight disruption to my year of watching Rohmer’s four seasons cycle as each season starts – I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to show this to The Girl on the big screen. And it will be no big ask to watch […]
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Man on the Run
Neville | 2025 | USA, UK There is an essential tension (if not absurdity) about Paul McCartney, and this doco comes pretty close to meaningful insight in exploring that tension. Here we have a guy – and I do mean “a guy” rather literally – who wants to be the only thing he can never […]
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Wuthering Heights
Fennell | 2026 | USA, UK Pretty [boring]. That said, a flavour of take I continue to see about Wuthering Heights concerns the “accuracy” or “respect” of the adaptation. One formed and shared in particularly bad faith called it “anti-intellectual” and “dangerous”. Movies are movies and books are books. Even when a book is adapted […]
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Conte d’été
[A Tale of Summer]Rohmer | 1996 | France 2nd watch. 2026 begins with me continuing my quest to re-watch Rohmer’s Four Seasons cycle in line with the “real life” seasons. This might just be the walkiest and talkiest of all the walk and talk stories out there (a compliment). Dinard, St Malo, and St Lunaire […]
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Ciao Bambino (and the Roxy)
Pistone | 2025 | Italy Had myself a night at The Roxy, including a three course dinner at Coco, their restaurant (Sunday roast: lamb shoulder). A yummy time followed up by this meditative coming-of-ager playing as part of the Italian Film Festival. Plumbs a straight line to the only ending it could have, but which […]
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Ninny Emerges
Have been having some fun sketching Ninny Spangcole from Burn The Witch.
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Sketching Tatsuki
Another sketch from Bleach: Tatsuki Arisawa, as she appears on the cover of Chapter 42. I really like this ‘candid’ image of her, which seems distinct from how she’s portrayed in the story. It’s like a ‘behind the scenes’ glimpse into her life.
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Sketching Rukia
My recent (and sudden) interest in manga has given way to trying my hand at something I’d always wished to be good at: drawing. I have zero skills when it comes to drawing by hand but I try not to let an empty tool chest stop me from starting something. While I am a long […]
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WandaVision
Today the family and I enjoyed a picnic above Wanda Beach, just north of Cronulla. Earlier in the year we purchased a pop-up sun shelter that makes it easy to get outside without worrying as much about Australia’s brutal sun. I intend to use it at every opportunity. There’s something very nice about grabbing some […]
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Wake In Fright
Kotcheff | 1971 | Australia | 35mm I’m new to the Yabba, so why not ring up my 1,600th movie with what is probably the best Australian film I’ve ever seen – and on a pristine 35mm print from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, while we’re at it. Wake In Fright had […]