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Dorothy (2007)
A Wonderful Place To Visit
Not to sound like too much of a prating, garrulous fan, but "Dorothy" is an exceptional, accomplished and sensitive piece of film-making. Jasmine Adams and Josh Benn have collaborated to produce a distinctive visual style that beautifully frames the isolation and awkwardness of the souls dwelling within the Roadside Motel.
It's incredibly lazy of me to make comparisons to David Lynch when talking about "Dorothy", but I think I can justify the analogy with this statement: David Lynch makes films about deaf people on drugs, stylised paeans to miscommunication punctuated by a mostly immobile camera. "Dorothy" contains no deaf people, no midgets, no Kyle McLachlan and no weirdness for the sake of weirdness, rather, it is a lush, uncomfortable, amusing and heartfelt trip to a place and person isolated from everywhere else. Plus, it's beautifully shot. It's what David Lynch should be doing, instead of, well, whatever it is he does now.
The film's tone is at once engaging, sinister and rich. You will visit an environment that could sustain a feature film. This is a breathtaking piece of work.
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Australians Like To Kill People and Wear Brown!
In an age when the Australian movie scene is dominated by "larrikin" family comedies, gritty urban dramas shot on cheap film stock and whatever epic movie Peter Jackson gestates in the grit under his fingernails, David Caesar has crafted a small celluloid gem. A movie about the enduring Australian goal of killing everything in our path until one day the entire world will hit itself on the thumb and say "Bugger!" instead of "Sh*t!", "Dirty Deeds" is a camp classic, a knowing pastiche of the Australia of the early 1970s with more lashings of violence than most people care to remember. The film's depiction of Australian organized crime is in itself fantastic, the gangsters drink lager, run poker machines and swear a great deal. To see them in action is to wonder if Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield would've stood a chance against these corduroy thugs. Why, it's exactly like the real thing! Dirty Deeds - A Movie For Anyone Who Remembers Australian Criminal Activity. Go see it, you'll never want to visit the Land of the Great Wide Melanoma again.