Writing in the dark
Paul ByrnesNotes from a recovering film critic, traveller and author
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Revisiting Fargo: Minnesota Not-So-Nice
CAUTION: spoilers ahead. Turn back now if you don’t wanna go down that road.
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When it came out almost 30 years ago, I watched Fargo with a sense of pleasure and pain. The cold seeped into your bones from this whitest of white films and...
David Stratton has ankled
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He was Strat or Strats to his friends, and there were many of us. He used the singular form when he reviewed movies for Variety - the ind...
If Liberty Valance ran for president...
In 2003, when the American Film Institute drew up a list of the greatest movie heroes and villains, Liberty Valance did not even make the top 50 bad guys. A gross injustice, I say. If Nurse Ratched and Hal 9000 made the grade, why not the m...
Hangmen also die!
Fritz Lang was a good liar. Even in Hollywood, where he faced Olympic-level competition, Lang’s lies were of podium standard. His biggest lie, the one that still lingers in writing about his career, is that he fled Germany a few hours after...
Where is daddy?
It can’t be easy being Walter Salles. It’s not his fault that he is the heir to a Brazilian bank, the largest in Latin America. Forbes says he’s worth about $US4.5 billion - but that makes him only the third richest film-maker in the world....
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Journo/film critic (ex-SMH and Age); two best-sellers about underage soldiers - The Lost Boys and Sons of War. Living in France and northern NSW.
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