Wonderful praise for Sydney, Royal Botanic Gardens and St.George OpenAir Cinema in The New York Times this weekend. cc Australia Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Destination NSW FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: On my last night in Sydney, I managed to experience the perfect marriage of art and nature at the St. George OpenAir Cinema. For two months every year, stadium seating is erected in the Royal Botanic Gardens, by the lapping waters of Sydney Harbor and facing the floodlit Opera House. Every sense is catered to. I ate tempura-battered fish and chips from the cafe, sipped fine wine from the bar, and took a seat beneath the ancient trees in which fruit bats were frolicking. As darkness fell, an enormous cinema screen majestically rose from water level, accompanied by triumphal music. Almost any film would seem magical under these conditions, but tonight was the premier of “Tracks,” an adaptation of Robyn Davidson’s novel about crossing the Outback deserts with a team of camels. The whole event seemed like a conceptual artwork about the essential strangeness of Australia’s physical environment. Images of the barren interior deserts were framed by the sumptuously fertile backdrop of Sydney, the southern stars reflected on the inky water.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:16:55 +0000
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