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...example. Premiering on April 24, his new play Self Esteem is a cracker: a suburban satire which splits the seams of political correctness, returning Australian theater to its Jacobean roots. Then little over a week later, local cinemagoers will get their first glimpse of Cowell the leading man in writer-director Matthew Saville's haunting police drama, Noise, in which he plays a police constable battling the hearing disorder tinnitus while unwittingly caught up in the hunt for a Melbourne serial killer. It's a tough call, but Cowell somehow turns this fuzzy antihero into someone strangely likeable and oddly...
...young TV scriptwriter as he enters Alcoholics Anonymous, and was penned during Cowell's 11 months back on the wagon. "It was in that [turning-30] Saturn return-phase, if that exists, so it was a very reflective, very confronting year," says Cowell, in another unguarded moment. As Noise writer-director Matthew Saville points out, "He doesn't throw up barriers to the world, or to himself, which makes him sort of exploratory." And a multi-tasked talent well worth discovering...
Portrayals of genocide and mass murder victims are so frequent in modern media that our memory and compassion has grown short-lived. Today, we are concerned for the victims of Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath...
...melted butter, the world would keep spinning. Now, I’m all but an expert at the art of “bug catching,” an expression that stirs up more drama than the average land-dweller would think. “Islander,” writer-director Ian McCrudden’s latest project, chronicles the life of a lobster fisherman learning to accept the consequences of an act which tears his life apart. Although the film’s plot lacks narrative drive, the strong sense of place, quirky subject material, and solid acting carries...
...happened in Yugoslavia and to an extent in Iraq, and it broke out like a sweet fever among East Germans after the Wall came down in 1989. They called it Ostalgie--Eastalgia--and in 2003 it suffused the hit film Good Bye, Lenin! But for the imposingly named writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Ostalgie is a sickness in need of treatment. His urgent, exceptional first feature, The Lives of Others, is the ideal antidote. It has richly earned its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film...