Author Archive: Guest Reviewer
Fremont
Directed by Babak Jalali (2023) Our insightful Guest Reviewer, Rita, gives us her thoughts on “Fremont”. Rita exhorted us to see it and we are really sorry that we missed it, because Rita knows what is what. So thank you Rita. Please send us more reviews of the weird and the wonderful. See also Rita’s equally succinct review of “Challengers“. I am really interested in your critique(s) on this film. I was gripped by this strange but engaging little gem. Loved the odd beauty of the following. She said, “I brought you a deer.” He replied, “I wanted a deer.” …
Continue Reading →Scatterbrain
By E. H. Visiak (1878-1972) He goes wool-gathering ‘neath the stars; He hath a screw loose: Scatterbrain. He hath a window loose that jars Open to heaven, and falls shut again.
Continue Reading →Barrie Kosky’s Das Rheingold
(Palace Nova, October 2023) Reviewed by Philippa Thomas Barrie Kosky’s Das Rheingold worked superbly in the live screened London Royal Opera performance seen by some lucky Adelaide Wagner lovers at our Palace Nova Prospect cinema this month. The screening included a short explanatory interview with Kosky and conductor Antonio Pappano, where Kosky explained that his own planned Ring cycle deals with “recognisable human beings with all their flaws” within a context of “the unexplained“. His stress is on the origins from Greek tragedy rather than Norse mythology. Many opera critics have reviewed this production positively – both Pappano’s conducting and…
Continue Reading →The Old City
By Margot Jakobsen Moments of teenage conflict with Dad, explode into my adult mind. “You treat me like the enemy!”, he says. “You are!” Then softening, “Dad, you’re damaged by the war.” “What!? Are you a psychiatrist, now?” “You don’t win by yelling the loudest!” “You don’t respect me.” “You have to deserve respect!” No surrender. I left Adelaide for Sydney, and that was hard for him to forgive. Now my father, the school librarian, is in a beige, plastic casket in the wall to ceiling shelves that I made some time ago out of cypress floorboards. I enclosed some…
Continue Reading →KIIN
Kiin, Modern Asian Dining, 73 Angas Street, Adelaide, 22 March 2023 Kiin (Thai for ‘eat’) is Adelaide’s newest Thai restaurant, with a modern (‘fusion’?) menu amid understated but tasteful and comfortable surroundings. It is just up from the court precinct, so if you don’t mind dining amid lawyers, there’ll be no problem. TVC visited one mild Autumn night, and were enchanted – nay, dazzled – by a very funky bill of fare. We had: A BBQ Chicken thigh skewer, smoked and served in a light yellow curry, which was fragrant and full of heat; A lychee prawn pop popper (pop in the…
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