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Rosemary NeillSenior Writer, Review

Rosemary Neill is a senior writer with The Weekend Australian’s Review. She has been a feature writer, oped columnist and Inquirer editor for The Australian and has won a Walkley Award for feature writing. She was a dual finalist in the 2018 Walkley Awards and a finalist in the mid-year 2019 Walkleys. Her book, White Out, was shortlisted in the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

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‘breathtaking’Review

Anthony Hopkins in “Freud’s Last Session.”Credit...Sabrina Lantos/Sony Pictures Classics

Some would have loved a ‘bloodbath’

Matt Brown says directing screen legend Anthony Hopkins in a bio-pic about Sigmund Freud was among the ‘greatest’ experiences of his working life.

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COVER STORYReview

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 13: Juliette Binoche is photographed for the LA Times at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on November 13, 2023 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Justin Bettman/Contour RA by Getty Images)

‘This film is going to be a nightmare’

Juliette Binoche had doubts after her ex-boyfriend was cast as her lover in a new period romance. The French screen legend was proven right when a fight broke out in rehearsals.

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REVIEWReview

Australian soprano Jessica Pratt, Pratt (c) MarcoBorrelli 2

The remarkably modest Australian soprano conquering the world

Ahead of her Brisbane ‘homecoming’, superstar Jessica Pratt talks performance anxiety, homelessness, an unhinged bride – and living in Dame Joan’s shadow.

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ArtsNation

STC blow as artistic director readies to bow out

Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company artistic director, plans to step down as company reels from deficit crisis.

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ExclusiveNation

8/3/24: Playwright David Williamson at his apartment in Sydney who has come back out of retirement. David has retired twice but is back writing for the theatre, with three new plays being produced this year. His latest work, The Great Divide, is about property development and economic inequality in contemporary Australia, and its season has already been extended at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre. John Feder/The Australian.

With three new plays, ‘retired’ Williamson still has much to say

David Williamson has retired – twice – but is back with a new play that tackles greed and the property crisis.

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balancing actArts

Jacob Boehme's Guuranda, Adelaide Festival 2024

Festival with wow factor

With a line-up of established stars and talented upstarts, Ruth Mackenzie’s first Adelaide Festival program was off to a flying start.

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ReviewReview

French film director Catherine Breillat. PIC: Marie Rouge / Unifrance.

‘Awful #MeToo extremism worse than McCarthyism’

French film maverick Catherine Breillat refuses to judge a character who has sex with her teenage stepson. Oh, but what about if the sexes were reversed? Breillat has a bright response to that.

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stageStage

Productions shots of Sarah Snook in Dorian Gray. PIC: Marc Brenner

Critics go Wilde for ‘virtuoso’ Snook

Australia’s Succession star Sarah Snook earns five-star reviews for her ‘brilliant’ and ‘virtuoso’ solo turn in Dorian Gray in London’s West End.

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RASTA & APPRENTICEReview

British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir learned to talk, play guitar and move like Bob Marley for a new bio-pic driven by the music legend’s family. Picture: Supplied

The harrowing assassination attempt on Bob Marley

British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir learned to play guitar, talk and move like Bob Marley for an ambitious biopic that included a notorious episode in the reggae giant’s career.

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FILMArts

Michel Vuillermoz and Catherine Deneuve in The President's Wife.jpg

Secrecy’s star role in Alliance Francaise festival highlight

The biggest program of French film outside France will this year feature Catherine Deneuve as Bernadette Chirac, and Johnny Depp as King Louis XV.

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