Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ”Australian Film Censorship Board” true cinéaste versions of brand new release ”Cinematograph Films”. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ”red carpet Opening Night” at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ”two house seats” for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty’s Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events.
As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall.
Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ”Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week”, plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing.
Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ”Software Design Project Manager”, PLUS each evening until quite late – – – Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant – product-placement consultant – mystery-shopper consultant – playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader – arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast.
NTlive MISANTHROPE, FIVE-STAR TRIUMPH, SANDRA OH ELECTRIFIES THE NATIONAL THEATRE. When the lights dimmed in cinemas across the globe for the National Theatre Live broadcast of THE MISANTHROPE, audiences were not merely settling in to watch a filmed live …
NTlive LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES IS A FIVE-STAR TRIUMPH OF MODERN THEATRE, FLAWLESS MASTERCLASS IN MALICE – There are moments during live theatre events, yes vanishingly rare and utterly electrifying, when the very molecular structure of the air inside the …
NTlive THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, TRIUMPHANT STYLISH REVIVAL ELECTRIFIES – These are the rare moments in live theatre, now captured forever onto our cinema screens, all thanks to the magic of National Theatre Live, and …
Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE is undeniably still a towering monument of 20th-century drama, that has lost none of its power to shock, provoke, and to reduce audiences to stunned silence. Point Break Theatre Company’s searing new production, is running through …
COME ALIVE! Fully Redefines the Very Meaning of Spectacle. There is a distinct, almost sacred, quality to the silence that falls over a packed auditorium during the final, trembling seconds before each show begins. Silence woven from …
There are nights in musical theatre, that remind you exactly why you fell in love with the art form, in the first place. Nights where the alchemy of performance, music, direction, and design fuses into something transcendent, something that lifts …
AN OVATION FOR THE AGES – Precious, unforgettable, rare moments in a theatregoer’s life, arrives when the boundary between performer and character dissolves so completely, that one forgets to breathe. NTlive’s THE AUDIENCE, captured in crystalline high definition during its …
Two strangers. A bench. A park. James Litchfield’s staging of Edward Albee’s AT HOME AT THE ZOO at the Flight Path Theatre, strips the essential theatrical experience, back to its raw beating heart, and in doing so …
Roughly halfway through THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU there is a moment when the chaos of a blaster battle subsides, and the film’s titular duo find themselves momentarily still. Din Djarin, the armoured bounty hunter whose face we have come …
THE CUT THAT PERFECTED A CLOCKWORK ORANGE – IN PRAISE OF THE CUT 1972 AUSTRALIAN R-RATED VERSION. There exists, in the strange and often misguided history of film censorship, a peculiar phenomenon, with the creation of the accidental masterpiece. Sometimes …