Issue 2022 September 17
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Cinema Review – Oh So Very English Vampires: The Invitation
2022 is the centenary of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, the first cinematic riff on the Bram Stoker-Dracula-Vampire mythos. I’ve written on Nosferatu, but a new release offers an elegant and eloquent counterpoint to Murnau’s Expressionist nightmare. The Invitation is, in many ways, the aesthetic mirror image of Murnau’s conception of vampirism. Murnau’s vampire is the embodiment of disease, a barely controllable animal and master…
Albo’s Political Masters Break Cover at Useless Gabfest
Arguably none of the outcomes from the Albanese Government’s Jobs and Skills Summit required the hoopla of holding an actual national summit to achieve them. The Australian Financial Review’s political editor, Phil Coorey, had the best line on the summit, describing it as a two-day episode of The Drum – the ABC television program where some left-wing commentators get to agree with some…
