Arts on Film: Virtuoso Violinist.
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
A double bill on renowned violinist, Itzhak Perlman, is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday May 15 in Arts. Two films by Christopher… Read More ›
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Beethoven, music and film
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
A recent trip to the cinema has inspired guest blogger Jane Miller to explore a little further: Have you seen the recent film Performance featuring Christopher Walken and Philip Seymour… Read More ›
Seeing the new year in with a rather large white whale…..
During my short Xmas/New Year break I didn’t get around to reading that pile of books glaring at me from my bedside table; I didn’t even get started on the… Read More ›
New DVDs: Haydn, the New York Times, the Don & more.
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
New DVDs arriving into the collection include the following: In Search of Haydn: a film by Phil Grabsky Michel Legrand and the cinema A classical and film composer are… Read More ›
Outside-in cinema has a few bugs
Well before films, music, photography, and all manner of other idle pursuits took over, I found nothing more fascinating than the insects that crawl beneath my feet. When people stepped… Read More ›
Redefining childishness at Outside-in cinema
A few years back, I was sitting in the crowd at a Kristina Olsen concert, when she slipped into one of many between-song anecdotes. She recalled a question that a… Read More ›
Virtually catastrophic events at Outside-in cinema
The potential for societal collapse as a result of our increasing reliance on computers has long been a favourite theme of speculative fiction in cinema, with few film-goers able to… Read More ›
Films about film: behind the dream factory facade
To celebrate the Melbourne International Film Festival, part two of our film studies festival: History of Australian cinema: directed by Alan Anderson, Joan Long and Keith Gow This documentary covers… Read More ›
Superheroes, Supernatural and Surf; all in a day’s work for the Arts Library
Film, New books, Rare Books & Arts, Television:
A selection of books proving that there’s more to popular culture than meets the eye…… Shazam! : the golden age of the world’s mightiest mortal by Chip Kidd and Geoff… Read More ›
Outside-in Cinema and Babies: Beyond the Odessa Steps
The first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of babies in films is pretty harrowing: the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein’s epic, Battleship Potemkin (which was famously… Read More ›
