December 2011
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Errol Morris: ‘We’ve forgotten that photographs are connected to the physical world’
Writer and Oscar-winning documentary maker Errol Morris talks about the nature of truth, art and propaganda in photography. Drawing examples from the photographs of Abu Ghraib and the Crimean war, cited in his book Believing is Seeing, he argues we’ve often underplayed the link between...
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Movida’s new Pacos Tacos is a great venue, but the taco’s are not much chop. They’re all made the same, just with different meat and are pretty darn bland. Everyone just stick to the Taco Truck!
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This is the documentary Project Grizzly, a 1996 National Film Board of Canada documentary about the lifelong project of Troy Hurtubise, a man who has been obsessed with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close, ever since surviving an early encounter with such a bear.
If you’ve not got time to watch it at least check this bit out, it’s hilarious!
Oh and you have to watch him...
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The teaser trailer’s out for Sasha Baron Cohen’s new film The Dictator. This isn’t much to go on but there were not many laughs… Come on SBC!
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I was taken out to birthday dinner the other night to the brand new Gorski and Jones on Smith Street, from the peeps at Alimentari who’ve brought us thousands of breakfasts and schnitzel wraps over the years. We got the ‘Bistecca porcini butter’ for two and it was seriously the best steak i’ve ever eaten, and with the kingfish and the oysters, it’s totally in the...