Few children in this country are raised with a genuine appreciation for poetry. For most kids, poetry and lyric verse is just another unit in their grade school and high school English courses that they consume begrudgingly with the hopes that the material in the next unit won’t be broken up into iambic pentameter. Is there a way to fix that? Can we do a better job instilling a love for poetry in youth whose every second of attention is fought for between television, the internet, friends, family, and everything else? In an age of instant gratification, where speed is king, poetry seems to run entirely against the grain. To appreciate the works of Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, William Butler Yeats or William Wadsworth, a certain degree of patience and contemplation is required; to that effect, God bless HBO for attempting to find a delivery system for poetry in...
- 11/16/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
For anyone expecting the indigenous cinema of Australia to still revolve around post apocalyptic resource battles between roving bands of homicidal punks or bawdy comedies concerning working class types being transported from the shimmering outback to a modern urban milieu – with hilarious consequences of course – then a visit to the Barbican’s London Australian Film festival over the weekend would have shattered this redundant orthodoxy. Now in its 17th successful incarnation, the festival screened an unintentional double bill of movies from two female directors, two talents whom have crafted a historical drama and one contemporary drama respectively, where the ancient antipodean landscape provides an atmospheric background to the human theatrics that unfurl in the foreground.
The first of this duo is the period drama South Solitary in which Miranda Otto stars as Meredith Baxter, an unmarried young woman whom is accompanying her uncle to a remote island in the late...
The first of this duo is the period drama South Solitary in which Miranda Otto stars as Meredith Baxter, an unmarried young woman whom is accompanying her uncle to a remote island in the late...
- 5/10/2011
- by John
- SoundOnSight
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