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Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and…
We share some of our favourite finds from around the internet this week.30 abandoned places that look beautifulTake a coffee break and have a long look at these eerily stunning images of 30…
Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and…
We bring you some of our favourite finds from around the internet this week.Why Steven Soderbergh quit making moviesSteven Soderbergh (Traffic, Magic Mike, the Oceans Eleven series) has recently…
Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and…
Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and…
We bring you our favourite findings from around the internet this week.It’s … Groundhog Day! 20 years onGroundhog Dog is one of those quietly classic films – it’s not showily clever, it didn’t win…
We bring you our favourite findings from around the internet this week.Using the internet to market books in AustraliaCrikey’s Amber Jamieson has interviewed digital marketing staff at a number of…
When The First Tuesday Book Club asked Australians to vote for their favourite Aussie books of all time, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief was ranked number two, beaten only by Tim Winton’s…
By Andie FoxMiddle age can make you a more savvy audience for art … but also a lazier one, as it must be squeezed into an ever-more time-poor life. Andie Fox realises that she’s become so risk…
David Sedaris has long been opposed to seeing his work adapted for the screen. He told the New York Times that a decade ago, he began work on a movie adaptation of his essay collection Me Talk…
We share five of our favourite links, articles and issues from around the internet this week.George Monbiot on climate change and Australia’s heatwave‘Climate change denial is almost a national…
We share five of our favourite links, videos and articles from around the internet this week.No, Actually: Debunking a Christmas film favouriteLove, Actually, Richard Curtis’s celebrity-packed…
By Rochelle Siemienowicz Go to your local cinema on any given day, and more likely than not, the screens are dominated by recycled superheroes in suits, animated animals voiced by celebrities, and…
Adam Zwar, creator of Wilfred and Lowdown, will direct a dramatic live reading of the classic film 12 Angry Men for the Wheeler Centre this month. We spoke to Adam in advance of the event about the…
By Adrian MartinIn the lead-up to 12 Angry People, our dramatic live reading directed by Adam Zwar, film critic Adrian Martin takes a fond look at the Oscar-nominated 1957 film 12 Angry Men. He…
We share five of our favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Why your passwords don’t protect youWired senior writer Mat Horan was famously targeted by cyberhackers earlier…
We bring you our five favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Playing with your foodErnie Button really, really loves cereal. He’s spent the past decade working on a series…
The annual Foxtel Screenwriter’s Address, presented by the Australian Writers’ Foundation, recognises the ways in which writers shape our society and culture. Each year, a leading Australian…
This video contains some strong language.The annual Foxtel Screenwriter’s Address, presented by the Australian Writers’ Foundation, recognises the ways in which writers shape our society and…
Scriptwriting professor John Glavin told the Washington Post recently that turning a book into a film works best when the writer is willing to reinvent the book to suit the film medium, rather than a…
We bring you our favourite links and articles we’ve found around the internet this week.Mad spoof of Apple mapsApple maps has to be the most embarrassing product launch in Apple history (and a…
By Clementine Ford In this edited version of her Lunchbox/Soapbox address, Clementine Ford asks why men like Alan Jones think women are ‘destroying the joint’, exposes how Hollywood contributes to…
Hey Girl, it’s Paul RyanIn the tradition of the Ryan Gosling ‘Hey Girl’ meme, lovestruck conservative ladies have started a tribute Tumblr dedicated to blue-eyed Catholic boy Paul Ryan, aka the…
In a passionate attack on the idea that gender equality has been reached and feminism is irrelevant, Clementine Ford explains why there is much left to be achieved – and presents a slew of…
Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood gave a memorable performance at the Republican convention last Thursday. But he was thoroughly upstaged by his co-star: an empty chair.Eastwood spoke to the chair – and …
The Wheeler Centre and MIFF are proud to present the Adrian Wootton Illustrated Film Talks, supported by MIFF 37 South Market & Accelerator. Adrian Wootton is co-director of Dickens 2012, the…
The Wheeler Centre and MIFF are proud to present the Adrian Wootton Illustrated Film Talks, supported by MIFF 37 South Market & Accelerator. Adrian Wootton is co-director of Dickens 2012, the…
The Wheeler Centre and MIFF are proud to present the Adrian Wootton Illustrated Film Talks, supported by MIFF 37 South Market & Accelerator. Adrian Wootton is co-director of Dickens 2012, the…
This week, we’ll be celebrating Melbourne’s arts festivals at the Wheeler Centre Dailies.Today, we interview Michelle Carey, artistic director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, finding…
Film reviewer Anthony Morris responds to Bruce Guthrie’s recent suggestion that violent films might cause real-life violence. He argues that if you’re looking for answers to the Colorado killings in…
We share our favourite internet reads and discoveries over the past weekWhy French Bookshops Don’t Get AxedThe New York Times has reported that the French are doing things differently (as is their…
No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course…
We all know Jonathan Franzen is a twitcher. But did you know Tom Hanks likes to collect 1940s typewriters? Or that Johnny Depp likes to play with dolls?Sadly, Tom and the two Johnnies couldn’t join u…
In this globalised world, we’re increasingly drawn to stories from other places; talesthat immerse us in faraway cultures. And where better to find our stories than in fellowUNESCO Cities of…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
Internationally bestselling crime writer Peter James makes his living exposing the murky underbelly beneath the postcard-perfect facade of seaside Brighton. His Roy Grace series draws on the…
The talk of Twitter today is the surprising announcement that HBO rejected the pilot for the planned series of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Not only does The Corrrections have that rare…
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Australian Writers’ Guild, David Williamson AO – president of the AWG and acclaimed playwright and screenwriter – presents a major State of the Industry…
No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course…
Murakami pieFans and sceptics alike will enjoy this chuckle-worthy breakdown of a typical Murakami novel. there’s cats, classical music, bizarre dream sequences and jazz. It’s all there; the only…
Surreal, edgy and darkly comic, Etgar Keret has established his reputation as a major international talent. In Israel, he’s seen as a worthy successor to the Amos Oz generation with work that is as b…
No matter how compelling a novel or a film might be, if you have to study it, there’s always the risk you’ll end up hating it. Not any more! A gift to VCE students, their teachers (and of course…
We share five of our favourite links to news, reviews or articles that we’ve discovered over the past week.Feast of Thrones: Eyeballs, pigs’ heads and dragon eggsFans of Game of Thrones, the series b…
Publisher Hilary McPhee, editor of celebrated film-maker Tim Burstall’s diaries, explores the impetus to diarise and the appeal of diaries as windows to the past. Burstall’s diaries in particular…
We began our Monday morning at the Wheeler Centre with a bit of a giggle, after stumbling on a very funny website that brings literary characters to (startlingly) real life.The creator of The…
In a nice departure from the traditional Australia Day focus on flags and sporting heroes, The Sunday Age has marked the lead-up to the occasion with an editorial decrying our ‘tendency to…
Tom Stoppard joins us to speak about a career that spans nearly half a century. The winner of an Academy Award, four Tonys and a Gold Lion, he’s joined in discussion by writer and critic Alison…
Is it too soon? Just 11 years after it was first brought to screen, Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho is set to be remade. Variety reported last week that Lionsgate has a remake of the film…
Each year, the Australian Writers’ Foundation present the FOXTEL Screenwriter’s Address, a prestigious oration that has quickly established itself as an essential part of our film and television…
The reviews are starting to come in on the film adaptation, by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, the classic detective-adventure hero whose…
In a post-conflict society, with a still fragile justice system, establishing respect for human rights is crucial to nation-building in East Timor. An estimated 10,000 civilians, including women and …
Wootton uncovers Hawks, the hugely successful independent director of the age, responsible for The Big Sleep, Scarface, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Rio Bravo.
One of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century, author of such masterpieces as Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The End of the Affair, The Third Man and The Quiet American, among…
A former president of the UK Elvis Fan Club, Adrian Wootton recounts the history of Elvis Presley’s extensive career on the silver screen.
A former president of the UK Elvis Fan Club, Adrian Wootton recounts the history of Elvis Presley’s extensive career on the silver screen.
A long-time Frank Sinatra aficionado, Adrian Wootton gives an overview of Sinatra’s 60-plus years in showbiz and the 50-plus films in which he appeared, ranging from classic musicals to his…
Just over 50 years after his death, legendary American crime scribe Raymond Chandler remains a profound influence on crime fiction and crime movies. Not only were all of his novels adapted for the…
Cover of a 1947 propaganda comic book, via Wikipedia Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, co-hosts of the ABC’s At the Movies, recently visited the Wheeler Centre to…
(Click to watch video.) He’s written 24 novels and created two of crime and mystery fictions best-known contemporary heroes, Harry Bosch and Micky Haller…
Renowned film critics and ABC At The Movies co-hosts Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton take the reigns for this special edition of Texts in the City examining On the Waterfront — Elia Kazan’s…
The Shakespeare authorship question is perhaps literature’s most famous and enduring conspiracy theory. Since its birth in the early 19th century, some 70 different candidates have been proposed as b…
Poster of a Coffs Harbour Amateur Theatrical Society adaptation of Cloudstreet A Perth-based fan of the Tim Winton classic Cloudstreet believes she’s narrowed the location …
Nine-metre bronze sculptures of Saddam Hussein in the grounds of the Republican Palace, Baghdad, 2005, by Kim Gordon, USDoD, via WikiCommons The comedian Sacha Baron-Cohen …
Detail of Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate, released last week There’s no body. The body was hastily dumped. The photos are too inflammatory to be released. He…
Respected stage and screen actor Barry Otto joins Tony Wilson in this fifth Texts in the City session, this time looking at Louis Nowra’s Così.Drawing on Otto’s experience of playing colourful…
(Click to watch video.) What happens when women get behind a camera? How do they use cameras to cast a fresh look on the world around them? Organised by…
Could we have just witnessed the birth of virtual reality tourism? Television channel 13th Street Universal, which specialises in thriller and crime content, has produced an augmented reality film…
She Must Be Seeing Things examines what happens when women use cameras to cast new eyes on the cultures around them.Organised by the Melbourne Centre of International PEN to mark 2011’s…
An event that examines what happens when women use cameras to cast new eyes on the cultures around them.Organised by the Melbourne Centre of International PEN to mark 2011’s International Women’s…
In the third instalment of Texts in the City – our series focussing on VCE English texts – Tony Wilson is joined by film, television and theatre writer Mac Gudgeon.Discussing 1985 film Witness
A Long Island mansion believed to have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s description of Daisy Buchanan’s abode is set to be razed. In the novel, the house is in East Egg and faces Gatsby’s palace in…
(Image via WikiCommons)The Daily Beast reports that 15 previously unknown stories by the legendary writer Dashiell Hammett are due to be published following their discovery. The man who popularised …
(Dunwich Marshes, Suffolk, via WikiCommons)Fans of WG Sebald’s melancholic masterpiece The Rings of Saturn will be curious to see how two English filmmakers have transposed the book for the screen. …
Christos Tsiolkas' 2005 book Dead Europe is to be made into a film, Inside Film reports. The book’s plot follows protagonist Isaac as he’s besieged by his Greek heritage when he makes a trip to…
Poster for the 1992 film A new movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is being written without the writer who made the series famous, Joss Whedon.Over at Vulture…
Punctuation can tell you a lot about a person, but at Slate Nathan Heller has traced the rise and fall of film director Woody Allen all through his use of the humble comma. …
The LA Times has run a first-person piece from Fred Fox Jr, the man who wrote the infamous episode of Happy Days when Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli jumped a shark. It’s become an expression to mark…
Film maker Gillian Armstrong Last night saw the first session of Critical Failure, the Wheeler Centre’s week-long discussion on the state of Australia’s reviewing culture.T…
Have our film critics lost their way or merely their page space? And how should we be reviewing – and making – films in Australia?In a discussion led by Peter Mares, critics Adrian Martin, Mel…
Criticism is as essential to the industry as choc tops and popcorn, but if a bad word on Twitter can kill the box office what role do our critics have in the future of film? With thousands of movies …
Writing a screenplay or adapting a novel into a movie brings words to life, so Ramona Koval asks our filmmakers how they create and are inspired by books.Camille Chen talks about the usefulness of…
We’re shaped by what we read; at home, in our world views and in our careers. In this series the Wheeler Centre and ABC Radio National’s ‘The Book Show’ aim to uncover those links between work and…
