Pathos
in Plasticine
Adam Elliot's animated blobs tug at the heart - and could soon land
their Australian creator an Oscar
Battlers
Take a Bow
Two new plays set in Sydney look at epic working-class struggles
through the living-room keyhole
Hearts in
the Picture
With a hot passion for movies and melodrama, Tracey Moffatt compresses
worlds into her frames
Face-Lifting
The Australian Ballet vaults over its troubles
Federation
of Dunces
A feverish Don Watson canes Australian officials for succumbing
to the blandishments of bizspeak
The
View From Abroad
Peter Conrad looks at the Australian photo archive, and his own
early life, through an expatriate's eyes
Following
the Signs
A rock star in his teens, Ben Lee is now discovering a more complicated
identity
Hook, Line
and Thinker
In Finding Nemo, a fish discovers it can pay to be the little guy.
Its director knew that all along|
The German
Question
Why does history neglect Max Beckmann? Maybe because so much of
his art is about its dark side
Ladies Who
Lunge
Two big chick-flick sequels want to tell us about empowerment. But
only one knows what to say
Driving Out
Demons
With a geeky car and a litter of malformed cherubs, Australian and
New Zealand artists put antipodean anxieties on show at the Biennale
Mean Green
Superhero
Eric Bana, Hollywood greenhorn, plays the nongreen side of the Hulk.
(The part that requires acting.) It could make him huge
Move Over,
Andy Warhol
Painter, sculptor, cartoonist and handbag king Takashi Murakami
hits it big by marrying art and commerce
This (Sad)
American Life
On her new CD, Madonna lectures on the crises of modern life. Her
personal crisis is more compelling
London's
Art War
The brash new Saatchi Gallery vies with the Tate Modern for the
title of hippest museum in town
Man and Myth
More than a century after his execution, bushranger Ned Kelly continues
to inspire a distinctly Australian iconography
Ladies' Night
Out
Femme films are chic around Oscar time. But what can women hope
for the rest of the year?
The
Passion of Mel Gibson
His Jesus film is bloody, bold - and in Aramaic. Here's an exclusive
look
A Slash
of Genius
An exciting exhibit shows how Lucio Fontana sliced through centuries
of tradition with his cut-up canvases
A
Sigh For Old Saigon
The made-in-Vietnam film of Graham Greene's The Quiet American is
a compelling look at love and war, and the strange bedfellows they
make
Surfing
an Earthquake
Through her Chimbu grandmother's eyes, Deborah Carlyon records the
shocks of a head-on cultural crash
Star Trek
Inc.
With a crackling new action film and a sexier TV series, the Trek
brand gets a new look-again
Lure Of
The Rings
In the bold second film from Tolkien's trilogy, the forces of good
are tested
Sermons
from On High
A new collection of essays by Nobel prizewinner V.S. Naipaul showcases
both virtues and faults
Hannibal
Inc.
Dr. Lecter has spilled a lot of blood and made tons of cash. the
chilling RED DRAGON continues Hollywood's unlikeliest franchise
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