Opening this weekend, the Gallery’s Australian Cinématheque hosts a major film program of works by mercurial American film and broadcasting prodigy Orson Welles. ‘Orson Welles: A Retrospective’ is a ticketed program and screens at GOMA until 28 May 2014. Acclaimed filmmaker, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer Orson Welles (1915–85) worked extensively in radio, theatre, film…
Mary Russell Mitford, talented writer and poet though she was, couldn’t have been more wrong about the fashion of fairytales, which are as popular today as they have ever been. I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. Mary Russell Mitford to…
For the ‘Contemporary Australia: Women in Film’ program, we’ve been working with Margaret Pomeranz who has curated the season of films screening from 21 April – 18 July 2012. The ‘Women in Film‘ program will kick off with a discussion on women in Australian film chaired by Margaret with three talented Australian women directors. We’re…
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