Author Lorraine Mortimer

John Flaus Sydney Like anarchist and writer, Ursula Le Guin, and wily old pragmatist, Bertolt Brecht, we can rightly decry our need for heroes. I liked the way that someone introduced Noam Chomsky at an Anar...

I. Where the Crocodiles Are: Mad Bastards I am really proud of this movie most of all because it does justice to the tough men of The Kimberley who have transformed their lives by tempering their wildness, and...

The author brings together two seminal films from differing eras that challenge audiences in complex and confronting ways.

Long-time advocate of French sociologist Edgar Morin’s distinctive analytical poetics, translator Lorraine Mortimer’s introduction provides a context to Morin’s passion for cinema and his intellectual orientation generally.

The author of the forthcoming first English-language book devoted to the director, Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev, dissects this most sensuously complex film.