Past Programs
Arts and Culture - 2008
Film with Jason Di Rosso
29/11/2008
Jason reviews the Baz Luhrmann epic Australia and the horror film Quarantine.
Film
22/11/2008
Jason reviews Quantum of Solace, the latest in the Bond franchise, and Fugitive Pieces, in which a Canadian writer is haunted by childhood memories of the Holocaust.
Australia-Asia Literary Prize
22/11/2008
Now to a tangible example of what the new Asia-Pacific community that Kevin Rudd is trying to promote might be like. He's pushing ahead with this idea and, publicly anyway, he's emphasising its political, economic and security aspects. But without some routine cultural interaction underneath all that, won't that idea remain somewhat lofty and removed from the real communities in the region? Well last night, winners were announced in a bold effort to set up some better relationships. The inaugural winners in the extremely lucrative Australia-Asia Literary Prize were named at a Perth ceremony and the overall winner of the $110,000 prize was our own David Malouf, for his collection of work, The Complete Stories.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
15/11/2008
Jason reviews Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. This Scott Hicks documentary is about the famous composer.
And The Wackness, a tale set in mid-nineties Manhattan, from writer/director Jonathan Levine.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
08/11/2008
Jason reviews the French romantic thriller Roman de Gare, and Hunger, the story of IRA volunteer Bobby Sands who died during the Maze prison hunger strike in 1981. It's written and directed by Steve McQueen.
Film with Julie Rigg
01/11/2008
Julie Rigg reviews Choke, an adaptation of a novel by Chuck Palahnuik. It's about a former child conman who grows up to be a sex addict. It stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston.
And Julie reviews The Women. Diane English has remade this 1930s classic.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
25/10/2008
Jason reviews Brideshead Revisited and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, a satirical romantic comedy starring Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges and Kirsten Dunst.
Revival of the classics Read Transcript
25/10/2008
Dr Simon Goldhill is someone who manages to successfully straddle two very different worlds -- the world today and the world of Ancient Greece. And with book titles that include Love Sex and Tragedy, this Cambridge scholar is helping to reinvigorate interest in and the study of the ancient world in Gen Y. In fact he has been dubbed the rock star of the classical revival.
Film with Julie Rigg
18/10/2008
Julie reviews three films: Burn After Reading, A Coen brothers film; Man On Wire, a documentary about Philippe Petit's wirewalk between the Twin Towers in l974; and Crooked Business, a Gold Coast crime comedy from Chris Nyst.
Glamour
18/10/2008
Stephen Gundle has written a history of glamour, and why certain individuals -- from Lord Byron to Brad Pitt -- can hold great fascination.
Films with Jason Di Rosso
11/10/2008
Jason reviews Body of Lies, a spy thriller directed by Ridley Scott starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Russell Crowe.
And Towelhead, directed by Alan Ball, a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic coming-of-age story about an Arab girl growing up in suburban America.
My Amalfi Coast
11/10/2008
Like most twenty-somethings, Amanda Tabberer went to the Amalfi Coast in Italy to learn the language, but ended up falling in love with, as she says 'the best looking boat boy on the coast', opening a boutique, and raising her son Marco.
She made the jewel-like town of Positano her home for eighteen years.
She is back in Australia now and shares her memories in a beautiful coffee table book titled My Amalfi Coast.
Film with Julie Rigg
27/09/2008
A review of Journey to the Centre of the Earth. It's in 3D and stars Brendan Fraser.
Also Eagle Eye, Stephen Spielberg's new movie.
Films
17/05/2008
Jason reviews the new film starring Bette Midler, Helen Hunt and Colin Firth, Then She Found Me, and a French Holocaust drama, Un Secret.
Film with Julie Rigg
10/05/2008
Film with Jason Di Rosso
03/05/2008
Jason reviews Moliere, a French bodice ripper with Romain Duris, and Iron Man, a Marvel comic adaptation with Robert Downey Jr.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
12/04/2008
Jason reviews the Imax U2 film and Bruce Petty's film, Global Haywire. This film is a mix of animation and live action.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
29/03/2008
Jason reviews St Trinian's, directed by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson and starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and Tallulah Riley.
And Never Back Down, directed by Jeff Wadlow. A movie about a fight club at a Florida high school and a kid who must learn to control his anger.
Film with Julie Rigg
22/03/2008
Julie reviews Brick Lane, a film adapted from the Monica Ali novel, and Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. This is a thriller about two brothers, played by Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman, who plot to rob their parents' suburban store. It all goes horribly wrong.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
15/03/2008
Jason reviews The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana, and Death Defying Acts directed by Gillian Armstrong.
Film with Julie Rigg
08/03/2008
Julie reviews The Black Balloon and highlights from the French Film Festival.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
01/03/2008
Jason reviews In The Valley of Elah. Tommy Lee Jones stars as a father who tries to solve a military cover-up regarding the disappearance of his son. Also King of Kong, a documentary about the rivalry between two middle-aged men over who is the world Donkey Kong video game champion.
Film with Julie Rigg
23/02/2008
Julie reviews Margot At the Wedding, with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nicole Kidman in a study of rivalry between adult sisters; and Talk to Me, a biopic about Ralph 'Petey' Greene, an ex-con who became a talk radio host in Washington in the sixties.
Film with Julie Rigg
09/02/2008
Julie reviews There Will be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the story of a ruthless man building an oil empire in the early years of California. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
And The Mist, with Marcia Gay Harden in this Stephen King adaptation.
Film with Jason Di Rosso
02/02/2008
Jason reviews The Jane Austen Book Club and Charlie Wilson's War starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Kate Llewellyn Read Transcript
02/02/2008
The poet's autobiography is a striking self-portrait of a life of triumphs and regrets.
