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ALWAYS CLOUDY, ALWAYS NICESome major achievements will make Coopers’ 150-year celebrations that much sweeter, as The Adelaide Review talks to Glenn Cooper from the local brewery recently voted the world’s best family-owned company.
A MOVING LIFEAdelaide’s Closer Productions are establishing as a world-class boutique film house with the documentaries Life in Movement and Shut Up Little Man! With Life in Movement about to hit cinemas nation-wide, co-directors Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde talk to The Adelaide Review about their inspiring documentary on the short career and life of dancer Tanja Liedtke.
IS OBESITY THE NEW RACISM?Racist, sexist and homophobic jokes as well as quips about disabled people are frowned on but it is still okay to laugh at the obese. David Knight argues that fat jokes should go the way of the dodo.
PREACHING TO THE UNCONVERTEDRundle Mall is attracting more than just shoppers on Friday nights. David Knight reports on the recent spate of “hate speeches” in our premier retail precinct.
SNOWTOWNSnowtown is the most chilling Australian film of the year. Director Justin Kurzel speaks to The Adelaide Review about his feature film debut, which has been selected for Critics' Week at Cannes after its Adelaide Film Festival success.
FRED HANSENFormer Thinker in Residence Fred Hansen is in charge of the new Urban Renewal Authority (URA). The former head of Portland’s (Oregon, U.S.A.) public transport provider TriMet and second in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Clinton administration, Hansen will oversee the development and renewal of Adelaide’s CBD and its surrounding suburbs with his new role.
ENNIO MORRICONE REVIEWEnnio Morricone and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Elder Park, Friday, March 2
Review by David Knight
THE MAESTROThere is no living film composer as iconic as The Maestro, Ennio Morricone. The 83-year-old’s music has escaped the screen to influence popular culture with groundbreaking scores for Sergio Leone’s classics, as well as more than 50 years of cinematic masterpieces including The Mission, The Battle of Algiers, Days of Heaven and Cinema Paradiso.
THE TABLEFour experimental Polish musicians plus one table equals a wall of sound like you’ve never witnessed before with the show The Table, which will be premiered in Australia for the Adelaide Fringe.
THE AMAZING JONATHANAcclaimed stage and screen actor Jonathan Pryce is heading to Australia for the first time to star in The Caretaker. The 64-year-old star of Brazil and Tomorrow Never Dies will play the tramp, Davies, in the Christopher Morahan-directed production of Harold Pinter’s famous absurdist play.
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