John Flaus, a Man with Qualities Lorraine Mortimer October 2014 John Flaus Dossier 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...
Poetry in the Air: Mad Bastards and Toomelah Lorraine Mortimer March 2013 Feature Articles 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...
Something Against Nature: Sweet Movie, 4, and Disgust Lorraine Mortimer June 2011 Feature Articles The author brings together two seminal films from differing eras that challenge audiences in complex and confronting ways.
Introduction to Edgar Morin on Ava Gardner Lorraine Mortimer December 2010 Feature Articles 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 World Tasted: Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie Lorraine Mortimer May 2008 Feature Articles 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.
