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* Contents derived from the 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Nowhere Near Hollywood,
single work
criticism
There is a special sort of loneliness about sitting in a cinema on your own. Over the past year, I have frequently found myself watching an Australian movie as the sole member of an audience and, on three occasions, with only one other person in the cinema. Once the lights go down, it can be an uncomfortable, even spooky, feeling of detachment. Movie-going should be a communal activity of human smells, the eating of food, united laughter and tears. It heightens our pleasure to be able to share common experience in a dark cave, entranced by what is happening on the giant screen filled with light. Unfortunately that didn't happen to me very often, and the solitude probably made some dark films even grimmer.
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Bright Stars : Sophie Gee on John Keats and Fanny Brawne Revisited,
single work
criticism
John Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne have survived as a largely complete collection, and are now the subject of renewed interest thanks to Jane Campion's film Bright Star (released on 26 December [2009]), which retells the story of Keats's truncated passion with his 'dearest Girl'.
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[Review] So This Is Life,
single work
review
— Review of So This is Life : Scenes from a Country Childhood 2009 single work autobiography ; (p. 78)
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