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Author Nadine Whitney

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Nadine Hasselt Whitney holds qualifications in cinema, literature, cultural studies, education and design. When not writing about film, art or books, she can be found napping and missing her cat.

Shirley Review – A Film Made of Tremendously Seductive Dreams and Nightmares

Nadine Whitney
July 9, 2020
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Powered by JustWatch With Shirley, director Josephine Decker has created a film that is not in any way a literal or traditional biographic rendering of the novelist Shirley Jackson....

D’Art Review – Just Like the Goggomobil Dart: Something Quite Surprising and Joy Filled

Nadine Whitney
July 1, 2020
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What can an audience expect from a documentary about an art project that began with two old mates, one a painter and the other an eccentric collector, discussing what it would be like to paint a rare car in a ...

Forman vs. Forman Review – A Fascinating Excursion Through the Life and Mind of One of the Great Filmmakers

Nadine Whitney
July 1, 2020
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With the documentary Forman vs. Forman, writer and director Helena Treštikova has created an intimate and philosophical portrait of the multi award winning Czech/American director Milos Forman. Building layer ...

Leaving Allen Street Review – A Wonderful Piece About the Joy of Coming Together

Nadine Whitney
June 28, 2020
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Depictions of people with disabilities in films are often troubled with a predilection for filmmakers to craft their stories in a manner that will result in their stories serving as what is known as inspiratio...

The Assistant Review – A Quiet Film With a Loud Premise

Nadine Whitney
June 8, 2020
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Director and screenwriter Kitty Green’s first foray into the world of fictional filmmaking, The Assistant, is a quiet film with a loud premise about the culture that creates a hostile environment for women wor...

Come to Daddy Review – What the F**k Did I Just Watch?

Nadine Whitney
June 5, 2020
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This review contains spoilers. Every first sentence I’ve tried to write for this review I have ended up deleting in frustration. I don’t know where to begin with New Zealander Ant Timpson’s first full lengt...

The Daughter Review – A Powerful and Atmospheric Film that Lingers and Disturbs

Nadine Whitney
May 25, 2020
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The Daughter is an exquisite rendering of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck set in a small logging community in rural NSW, Simon Stone’s first feature is remarkably assured as it transposes Ibsen’s tragedy to a sma...

Charlie Says Review – A Muddied Character Study that Feels Incomplete

Nadine Whitney
May 15, 2020
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In the space of two years, three films about the Manson family murders appeared to varying degrees of critical and commercial success. The universally panned 2019 Hilary Duff vehicle The Haunting of Sharon Tat...

Rabbit Hole Review – Finding a Future After Spiralling Grief and Loss

Nadine Whitney
April 29, 2020
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From outré queer director and musical theatre genius, John Cameron Mitchell comes a revelatory piece of understated suburban melodrama exploring the complex nature of grief when complicated by intricate famili...

In Fabric Review – A Reminder That Peter Strickland is Capable of Far Superior Work

Nadine Whitney
March 19, 2020
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Peter Strickland is a stylist who wears his influences on his exquisitely curse embroidered sleeve. Whilst his homages to the stylistic influences of Italian Giallo were successful in both Berberian Sound Stud...
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