Philippa Hawker
Film and Arts Writer at Australian Book Review
Host at The ABR Podcast
Film and arts writer. Go Saints
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1 month ago |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Philippa Hawker
Film This year, Cinema Reborn brings treasures to the big screen that include a work by Tarkovsky, some vampire eroticism and the largest Australian contingent yet. By Philippa Hawker. SHARE Copy Link Bluesky Facebook X LinkedIn Every year, Cinema Reborn brings a brief yet densely packed festival of recently restored movie treasures to Sydney and Melbourne.
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1 month ago |
insidestory.org.au | Philippa Hawker
Spare and haunting, Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These works in undemonstrative ways. The prose has an inexorable quality, a kind of flow; the accumulation of detail is graceful, precise and telling. There is an apparent simplicity in the events it describes that might suggest it would be easy to bring to the screen. But there are considerable challenges in its quiet, distilled narrative and in the nature of its central character, Bill Furlong, a restrained, elusive figure.
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2 months ago |
australianbookreview.com.au | Philippa Hawker
Umberto Eco said of Alexandre Dumas’s novel The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) that ‘it is one of the most exciting novels ever written and on the other hand, it is one of the most badly written novels of all time and in any literature’. It was the unnecessary length and the repetitions that appalled him most. Yet when he tried to produce a more elegant, distilled translation, he gave up: he began to wonder if the repetitions and redundancies were a necessary part of its structure.
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2 months ago |
insidestory.org.au | Philippa Hawker
Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada begins with the preparation of a room. There’s a practised efficiency as well as a ritual quality to the way three people unpack boxes, move furniture, shift a Christmas tree, set up cameras, monitors and lights, mark a spot on the floor with an x made out of gaffer tape. This is a rare straightforward moment in a film with an apparently simple premise: the recording of the recollections of a dying man.
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Mar 4, 2025 |
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Philippa Hawker
In 1972, 19-year-old Maria Schneider was cast in her first lead role, opposite Marlon Brando. After the film’s premiere, one of America’s best-known critics proclaimed it a masterpiece for the ages. For Schneider, the trauma she experienced on the set of Last Tango in Paris was only the beginning. For French filmmaker Jessica Palud, Schneider’s story needed to be told, but not as it had been in the past. It was time for a different perspective.
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RT @New_Wave_Film: Happy 80th Birthday Jean-Pierre Léaud!!! The quintessential New Wave actor. Our top 5: 5) The Mother and the Whore, 4) D…
Thanks to @roughcut_film for running my interview with Bertrand Bonello on his fascinating film The Beast. Thanks too for great edits!
“We are in the centre of mutation, and it’s impossible, no one can tell what the world of cinema will be in five years." Philippa Hawker (@philippics) talks to Bertrand Bonello about fear, imagining the future, the power of Léa Seydoux, and much more. https://t.co/2oFRLspbXW
