Sunday Arts Magazine

6 Dec 2015

Film, Dandyman-Mocktales, Uncommon Aussies-portraits, MSO Program

Arts, Comedy, Music, Performing Arts, TV & Film, Visual Arts

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Brendan and Daniel are navigating the ship without David today and launch straight into talking film. Brendan attended the QV outdoor cinema–organised and promoted by 2 recent guests. Despite a great Meryl Streep film, the freezing weather marred his experience. Daniel saw In the Heart of the Sea directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth. This is the real-life story that inspired Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick. Daniel had mixed feelings and sometimes felt disengaged as many of the graphics weren’t great– 3stars.

Big News—A new Cinema program will be starting up soon on Joy, hosted by Daniel, called Out Takes at 7pm on Mondays. The main focus will be queer films against political, cultural and filmic backdrops but with room for other films and Hollywood gossip. What does queer film say about us? How are we being represented on screen and why is that important?

Later, Brendan talks about The Hollywood Retro Film Festival which is a celebration of old Hollywood classics. Brendan’s favourite is The Maltese Falcon—the perfect film-noir.He and Daniel discuss the era. Daniel’s favourite in the line-up is The Grapes Of Wrath and one not in the list—A Streetcar named Desire. The Film Fest started on 26 November and is continuing at Cinema Nova.

Special Guests today are:

12:02 to 29:38 mins—Performer Daniel Oldaker’s specialty is physical comedy. He did ‘theatre sports’ as a child and later learned circus skills and has done street theatre. He trained with Sacha Baron Cohen’s mentor in London and generally sought people who had a physical comedy edge. He has performed his act around the world without using speech so it has a universal appeal. He also loves the edgy element of improvisation. Daniel’s latest show is called Dandyman – Mocktales and is on from 9 to 13 December at The Butterfly Club at 7pm. It’s based on his life and his running from normality and wanting to be different. Audiences can expect some uncomfortable moments and from these, more comedy. It also involves Christmas and goodtimes and anxiety re goodtimes.

50:09 to 1:10:52 mins—John Cunningham is the Director of McCLelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. John talks about his background in Ireland, his views about art and how he was invited to come to Australia and direct an art gallery in Warnambool–which he did for 4 years, just before becoming director of McClelland. The park is 16 hectares of native bushland with hundreds of sculptures in it—a ‘magical place’. Together with the gallery, they receive 230,000 visitors a year! A new exhibition showing at McCLelland Gallery from 13 December 2015 to 21 February 2016 is Uncommon Australians: The vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling. These are portraits from the National Portrait Gallery with the Darlings’ view of the world and funded by them. Portraits of Australians who they admired or considered great.e.g.the Aboriginal QC Mick Dodson, Australian fighter in the French resistance in WW2 Mary White. Portraits are comprised of paintings, photos and tapestries. John talks about the feelings that art evokes.

1:11:44 to 1:22:58 mins—Sarah Curro is the first Violinist in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO). Her journey to this point came about from following her older sister around—learning violin, studying abroad, joining the MSO as a casual and then procuring a job there. The orchestra played standard fare when she joined but has branched out in recent times to play movie music amongst other things. Sarah loves playing this mixture of music and considers movie music as ‘modern music written in the 20th Century for something modern—but it’s in the classical tradition’. Sometimes the MSO has a ‘split week’ where they play 2 different pieces so they need to get casual musicians in. December’s and the 2016 program is on their website.

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