by Dave Bradley | Jun 27, 2017 | Book, Books, Reviews
François Truffaut (Faber) 2017, 367pp, RRP $39.99 First published in 1966 and mostly drawn from a series of interviews conducted in 1962 (with help from a hard-working interpreter), this often-reprinted-and-revised tome is one of the key works of cinematic literature...
by Adelaide Fringe Contributor | Feb 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
Star Theatre Two, Fri 12 Feb If you know yours Cocks, you’ll know these blondes. The ‘Icy Blondes’ of the movies Vertigo, The Birds and Pyscho are all represented here, meeting for the first time in the white room. Hitchcock himself is noted as saying that blondes...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 7, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Lily Brett [Hamish Hamilton/Penguin] 2014, 213pp, RRP $29.99 Brett’s latest, a 42-strong collection of short stories (or sometimes near-anecdotes or even jokes), is being touted as a loving tribute to the city she’s called home for almost 30 years, and while, at...