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By: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Date: 7th Jul 08
Format: Festival
Mood: Rad
What:
MIFF - Artist Docos
Where:
Check the program from July 11
When:
Uh. Check the program
How much:
Tickets here from July 11
The popularity of the music documentary section of MIFF may lead many - like your idiot housemate - to assume that this is all the doco program has to offer. Not so! If he proves difficult to convince, take him to see these; if he refuses, get a new housemate.
Surely there is nothing less foreboding than the saccharin pop of ‘80s sweetheart, Tiffany. But I Think We're Alone Now hurls us into the abyss of two stalkers, both obsessed with America's favourite ex-teen queen.
Bad-ass feminist punk icon Kathy Acker may be dead, but her furious intelligence lives on in every gloriously foul-mouthed, angry woman around. When director Barbara Casper asks Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?, the answer is we all are, and we should bloody well celebrate it.
Following his visit to MIFF last year to present his Joe Strummer doco, Julien Temple works closer to home in this adaptation of the opera The Eternity Man. The tale of reformed metho-drinker Arthur Stace, famed for writing the word "eternity" in chalk on Sydney streets for 40 years, it is tagging taken to an ethereal plane.