Cityscape Summer 2020
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
Welcome to 2020. For our first issue of a new decade, Cityscape has taken up the 5 Ways to Wellbeing as a kaupapa, or set of principles, underpinning our editorial direction for 2020 and beyond. If you haven’t heard of them before, the 5 Ways – Connect, Be active, Take notice, Keep Learning, and Give – have been taken up by mental health agencies and organisations around the world. There is extensive scientific evidence that if practised regularly, the 5 Ways will lift your wellbeing. The challenge is to find ways to introduce these actions into our daily lives. Between the covers of Cityscape we have curated a selection of experts local and international that can help. Supporting local businesses by getting offline and in-store is one way to connect with your community as well as be more active and giving – as consumers, we often make big decisions about where to spend our money on the basis of saving a dollar or two. Remember, when you buy from a small business, an actual person does a happy dance! We have all our regular features and contributors as well, and all that’s hot in beauty, cuisine, home and events.
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Watching
Nick Paris from Lumière
reviews three of the best
from the current crop of
cinema releases.
THE GENTLEMEN
Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) is
back with a vengeance and a pitchfork in the ground! An
English drug lord wants to cash out of his weed business
to a bunch of Oklahoma’s dynastic billionaires. The
marvellous script (co-written by Ritchie) has the stamp
of High Noon and Quentin Tarantino all in one. Hugh
Grant is a screamer playing against type. He thinks he
has all the chips in this poker game but nobody told
Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell or Jeremy Strong.
MEETING GORBACHEV
Beating the drums for Herzogian darkness, the German
auteur strikes gold with a man that replaced the ageing
fossils of Russia and became a young, earnest leader
espousing transparency and more democracy. Trawling
through archival footage, Werner Herzog captures the
backstory with stunning efficacy and at times very
candid moments with its subject.
A HIDDEN LIFE
It’s been a long time between drinks for oblique helmer
Terrence Malick to summon the chutzpah of Days of
Heaven and Badlands. His latest, A Hidden Life, based
on a true story, is set in a little paradise in Austria where
invading Nazis force a conscientious objector, Franz
Jägerstätter, to arrive at a stark choice – to break his
silence and risk everything or pledge allegiance to save
his life. High up in the mountains of Radegund, Malick
responds with a heavy gravity of light and dark. To those
who witness it, this is within a whisker of genius!
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