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Category Archives: Australia
Fedora heads down under
The blog will be quiet for the next few weeks as I head off to see the family in Sydney for the New Year. As always, special thanks to my followers (apparently several hundred of you!) and all my great … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Sydney
34 Comments
THE LAST TANGO OF DOLORES DELGADO (1992) by Marele Day
I really enjoyed this Australian private eye mystery from the 1990s, especially for its gender-bending sensibility, though it remains otherwise comparatively conservative in terms of its genre boundaries. What it did do though was make me ponder on the kind … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Friday's Forgotten Book, Private Eye, Sydney
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Hitchcock in the 1940s – vote now!
With the success of The Lady Vanishes, Hitchcock got a contract with producer David O Selznick and headed to Hollywood to make the Oscar-winning Rebecca – and never looked back. This period saw the director blossom as he got to … Continue reading
Posted in 'In praise of ...', Alfred Hitchcock, Amnesia, Anthony Berkeley, Australia, California, Cold War, Courtroom, Daphne Du Maurier, England, Espionage, Film Poll, Francis Beeding, London, Los Angeles, New York, Noir, Patrick Hamilton, Philip MacDonald, Screwball, Spy movies, The Netherlands, World War II
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Going walkabout
Fedora will be ‘going dark’ while I visit my family in Australia. Wishing you all a very happy new year and hope to see you again sometime soon.
Posted in Australia
32 Comments
Top 25 Courtroom Movies
As I have blogged before, I love legal drama on the screen. Maybe it’s because I trained to be a lawyer (in the interests of full disclosure, my legal background informs the work I do in education in terms of … Continue reading
Posted in 'Best of' lists, Australia, California, England, France, India, Scott Turow, Tuesday's Overlooked Film
Tagged Billy Wilder, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, Katharine Hepburn, Kirk Douglas, Lee Remick, Merlene Dietrich, Meryl Streep, Nigel Hawthorne, Orson Welles, Paul Newman, Tilda Swinton
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FRANTIC by Katherine Howell
This was Howell’s first book and launched the Ella Marconi series, which has reached its 8th volume (so far). Set in Sydney, Australia – I place I have recently come to know and love – this is a tense thriller … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Friday's Forgotten Book, Sydney
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Going walkabout
Fedora will be ‘dark’ for the next month while I visit my family in Australia. Wishing you all a very happy new year and hope to see you again in February.
Posted in Australia
28 Comments
Fedora’s 2014 in numbers
Fedora will be celebrating its fourth year next month, which seems the height of improbability really … WordPress offers an annual summary of the blog’s activity in 2014, which is interesting if somewhat inaccurate since it does not include my most … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
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The Empty Beach (1985) – Tuesday’s Overlooked Film
Bryan Brown played Australian private investigator Cliff Hardy in this adaptation of the fourth in the continuing series of mysteries by Peter Corris. As of this year Hardy has featured in 40 books, and as the author is usually credited … Continue reading
Going walkabout
Fedora will be going ‘dark’ for the next few weeks while I attend to other pressing (non mysterious) business here and overseas. Hope to see you all again in mid July.
Posted in Australia
34 Comments