Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

1773 posts by Richard Cotter

THE INVITE: GUILT EDGED

Funny as fuck, THE INVITE is arguably the funniest, wittiest, screwiest film of the year.

Reminiscent of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf with a dash of Woody Allen, THE INVITE is a

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FIRST LIGHT: LIGHT A CANDLE FOR THIS FIRST FEATURE

Contemplative as a Carmelite convent, FIRST LIGHT is a meditation on the vexing question, how can the gracious core ethics of a religion be warped into rousing support for things that are very inherently unethical?

Sister Yolanda has spent her

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GLENROTHAN: FOR PEAT’S SAKE

GLENROTHAN marks the feature directorial debut from Emmy and Golden Globe winner, acclaimed Scottish actor Brian Cox. It serves as a ‘love letter’ to Scotland, exploring themes of family, reconciliation, and heritage with warmth and emotional depth. Cox describes

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SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: TWO GEMS

More tracking than the Trans Siberian, a singularity of the single shot, a propensity for perpetual motion, a film within a film, BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT is one of the most exhilarating films of this year’s Sydney Film Festival.

Confounding

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THE CHRISTOPHERS: FORGEING INTO FORGERY

Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter, Ed Solomon forge into forgery with the fantastically fine art film, THE CHRISTOPHERS.

Working from a rich palette of textured writing, Soderbergh and his cast delve into the creative and commercial realm of art, its

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POWER BALLAD: SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Plagiarism. A plague on creatives. Copy that.

Plagiarism. It’s the slurry with the infringement on top.

Plagiarism. Where appropriation is not appropriate.

Plagiarism. It’s at the core of the first great feelgood film of the year, POWER BALLAD.

From the

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THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD: IDLE VICE

An embarrassment of bitches, vile queens and anti Semites, infest THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD, an investment not for the time poor.

Isabelle Huppert plays Marianne Farrère, a woman of many layers, by turns seductive, fragile, hard, and

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