treachery

Cheaters, liars, tricksters and traitors

Reviews:

• Extracted: A cerebral puzzler that explores the truths and lies we tell ourselves
• True Love: The dangerous consequences of lying to your spouse
• The Bad and the Beautiful: Vincente Minelli’s tale of glamorous betrayal in Hollywood
• Breaker Morant: An Australian New Wave tale of scapegoats in the Boer War
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Cold War secrets and lies
• Andrei Rublev: A Jesus and Judas theme runs through Tarkovsky’s portrait of the mystical artist
• Lone Wolf and Cub: The adventures of samurai Ogami Ittō and his three-year-old son Daigorō, disgraced after being betrayed by a rival clan
• Lust, Caution: Espionage, seduction and entrapment in 1940s Shangai
• The Killers: Perfidious Kitty Collins causes the Swede’s downfall in this classic film noir
• Les diaboliques: A twisted tale of murderous marital betrayal

Articles:

• Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Theatre of Treachery from All about Eve to Cleopatra
• When Men Betray Men: Disloyal manly love in the Western
• The Treachery of Memory and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
• [This title is not to be seen by unauthorised persons]: Spies from the East

Reel Sounds:

• Roman Polanski’s The Tragedy of Macbeth

Alter Ego:

• Elizabeth Wilson is Wicked Lady Margaret Lockwood

Radio:

• True Love: Interview with Fabio Guaglione and Enrico Clerico Nasino: The makers of sci-fi drama True Love discuss trust and betrayal, using genre to analyse a romantic relationship, and other ‘locked room’ films. Friday 18 May, 5pm, Resonance 104.4 FM

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Illustration by Katriona Chapman