July 6 – 12, 2024
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Culture
Film
Ingmar Bergman at the Scandinavian Film Festival
Ingmar Bergman stands as one of the world’s greatest filmmakers whose profound impact on the art form – as well as the author – resonates today.
Television
HBO’s Ren Faire docuseries
In HBO’s docuseries Ren Faire, the battle over who is going to succeed the geriatric ruler of the Texas Renaissance Festival throws a surreal light over contemporary politics.
Fiction
Ward
“Myrto sits on Moura’s motorcycle and listens a long time to the clamour of birds, vendors, traffic, yapping street dogs, feeling calm as she looks down side streets … sparkling bright moving black of dead-ends, of time running out of space, in the shade of an eye, then it opens again as an aperture dilating – cones of light into cones of light. She returns to her room around midnight and shadow-boxes until she collapses in a heap on her foam mattress.”
Books
Life
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Quotes
Politics
“Don’t let Putin’s pet parrots give this entire country psittacosis – which is a disease you get, by the way, from cosying up to pet parrots.”
“The former prime minister makes a late intervention into the UK election. Johnson himself is a notorious parrot-rubber – you can tell just by looking at him.”
Endorsement
“I don’t know what they’ve got in these performance enhancers, but I’m feeling pretty jacked up.”
“The US president attempts to sell branded water as a campaign fundraiser. Frankly, he’s going to need something stronger.”
Banking
“For this we are sorry and we are committed to continuing to make changes to better support our customers.”
“The ANZ manager responds after the bank was sanctioned for charging fees to dead people. It is not clear how many of them were still on hold.”
Assault
“I’ve said this from the beginning. I am not a church boy. I am not running like that.”
“The presidential candidate refuses to respond to reports he assaulted a babysitter several years ago. He did, however, deny eating a cooked dog – claiming it was a goat.”
Sport
“Wherever he goes … some people approach him and say, ‘Good luck, Paul, we understand.’ Others make outrageous comments.”
“The lawyer for rugby league columnist Paul Kent defends his client after a brawl outside a pub in Sydney. Kent had earlier called the man he fought a “dog head”.”
Crime
“When considering the evidence as a whole … a reasonable jury, properly instructed, could return a verdict of guilty”
“The magistrate commits Bruce Lehrmann to stand trial on two charges of rape. The case relates to alleged events in Toowoomba in October 2021.”
