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  DVD Review: He Died With a Felafel in His Hand - Reviews World Cultures
He Died With a Felafel in His Hand features widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and English language subtitles for the hearing impaired.
He Died With a Felafel in His Hand runs for 103 minutes and is rated MA 15+, with medium level coarse language and adult themes.
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Roadshow Entertainment.
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Felafel gained widespread good reviews, for not only its themes, but also the entire look of the film itself (It was shot on 35mm, and is one of the best looking films I have seen) and is a good example of the direction the Australian film industry seems to be taking.
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand is a roving character-driven movie, that takes the viewer not only through the highs and lows, not to mention the horrors, of share-housing but also the emotional journey of friendship, love and the problematic question of existence.
He Died With A Felafel In His Handâs strongpoint is not only within the roving structure of the storyline, characters and the themes that it presides.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2002/felafel2.htm   (2903 words)

  
 HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS HAND
Driven by absurdist humor, random off-the-wall moments of originality and a generally anarchic tone, "He Died With a Felafel" mixes the heightened silliness of youth cinema with a more studied, film-literate approach.
Film:He Died with a Falafel in His Hand is fairly good film that is based on a successful book and play of the same title.
Overall:He Died with a Falafel in His Hand is released by Film Movement a fine new company founded by a group of film programmers who are attempting to give little seen non-distributed films a second life.
www.filmmovement.com /filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=3   (1121 words)

  
 He Died With a Felafel...: triple j film reviews
To this day Felafel is a book which speaks to the "share houser" in all of us, a tome which gets up close and personal with filthy bathrooms, toxic fridges, bucket bongs and eccentric, borderline psycho real-life characters.
Likewise He Died With A Felafel In His Hand the film is a unique work in its own right, perhaps not quite as brilliant, but excellently, courageously even...
Felafel (the book) was a wonderful catalogue of share house anecdotes, an amalgum of JB's personal experiences and urban myths passed down from flatmate to flatmate.
www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s370063.htm   (985 words)

  
 Richard Lowenstein
In Lowenstein's hands, He Died With A Felafel In His Hand presents an intelligent portrait of the highs and lows of share household life, as it takes a shot at exploring the dynamics of desire and existence, and reflects upon the differing psychologies of Australia's major cities.
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand also revisits the theme of mid-twenties breakdown (16) which was first broached by Lowenstein in Dogs In Space, as both films set their focus on a group of alienated, over-educated, underemployed youths, struggling together to find meaning and direction in their lives.
Lowenstein has described He Died With A Felafel In His Hand as the “emotional sequel” (18) to Dogs In Space, and while the focus of these two films on the social phenomenon of share household life would naturally lend itself to comparison, there is a marked stylistic difference between them.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/lowenstein.html   (2630 words)

  
 HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS HAND movie review, In Film Australia
John Burningham’s book ‘He Died With a Felafel in His Hand’ is about the kinds of crazy crap you experience in shared accommodation housing.
Without a central narrative tying the others together, ‘He Died With a Felafel in His Hand’ veers dangerously close to becoming a character study of one person, an interesting move considering the banality of the film’s material.
If you haven’t read the book, you may be able to interpret ‘He Died With a Felafel in His Hand’ as a quirky commentator on how social conditions can affect an individual, which is probably what suits it best.
www.infilm.com.au /reviews/felafel.htm   (804 words)

  
 The eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters
When Ashley returned to New Orleans and told her grandparents that she wanted to work full-time at the snowball stand, she feared they were on the verge of the closing it for good.
For each cream flavor she cracks open a can of evaporated milk with a church key, adds it to the bottle, caps the top with her hand and shakes.
The old hands found it endlessly amusing to watch the look on the FNG's (Fucking New Guy's) face as they explained they were lighting C-4 on fire.
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 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand is a novel by John Birmingham, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press (ISBN 1-875989-21-8), consisting of a collection of colourful anecdotes about living in share houses in Australia with variously dubious housemates.
The title refers to a deceased heroin addict found in one such house.
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 Sharing, Not Caring: He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
So in a sense Felafel is two films in one, as if Lowenstein were trying both to cater for Birmingham's fans and to tell a less broadly comic story of his own.
Everything is rehashed.' An implausible blend of super-sophisticated vamp and PC feminist, Anya is viewed by the film with a mix of distrust and awe, as if Lowenstein suspects that what she represents will sooner or later triumph over the existential moonings of Danny and his kind.
Felafel's longest, most formally ambitious sequence marks the only point where Lowenstein makes an effort to recapture the crazed energy of Dogs In Space (it also has the film's only real party).
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/16/felafel.html   (1998 words)

  
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He kept notes on all of them and this is what formed the basis of his first novel He Died With A Felafel In His Hand.
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand comes with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack, which is surprisingly good.
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand is based on the novel by John Birmingham.
www.dvdbits.com /reviews.asp?id=865   (1150 words)

  
 He Died With A Felafel In His Hand (AU - DVD R4) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
Based loosely on the novel by John Birmingham, He Died With A Felafel In His Hand has earned its fair share of criticism for not staying true to the novel.
There’s nothing going on but at the same time everything is happening, all ending up in Sydney where things come loosely together when he dies with a felafel in his hand.
Coupled with a decent audio and video mix and despite a practically bare-bones disc, He Died With A Felafel In His Hand is a must see film and a worthy addition to any collection.
www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/he-died-with-a-felafel-in-his-hand.html   (1219 words)

  
 the scam: Various - He Died with a Felafel in his Hand Soundtrack
He Died with a Felafel in his Hand - soundtrack
We may never have any intention of actually going to see He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, but despite all this, there is a case for the soundtrack album of the aforementioned being given credit, at least for serving as a reasonably decent collection of songs.
All in all it's a tidy little disc, well worth the five bucks you'll probably get it for in the second-hand stores, now that the movie hype has passed and most of the reviewers have traded theirs in for cash.
www.renewal.org.au /scam/felafel.html   (357 words)

  
 He Died With A Felafel In His Hand - FAST FOOD IN SLO-MO
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By dipping in and out of FELAFEL one gets a sense of house-sharing in the’80s and ‘90s in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
See it as part two of a double bill on a pizza (or felafel) and video night.
www.geoffrey.com.au /review.htm?ID=69   (490 words)

  
 In review: He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
Funny, philosophical and forthright, He Died with a Felafel In His Hand tracks the life of Danny (Noah Taylor), a terminally unemployed, debt ridden young writer who is in the midst of his 47th chaotic shared household experience in Brisbane, Australia.
Much like the cult novel and film versions of Less Than Zero, the story of He Died with a Felafel In His Hand has borne two great texts which stand up well in their own right, whilst also complementing one another.
He Died with a Felafel In His Hand is similarly destined to be an instant cult favourite.
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 DVD & Movie Reviews: He Died With a Felafel in His Hand
He Died With a Felafel in His Hand starts with a death and then traces nine months of our anti-hero's trials of life.
He's a would-be writer whose main ambition is to write for Penthouse, although his writers' block is causing a problem.
He Died With a Felafel in His Hand is a very different type of movie and one that you'll either rave about or think...
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 DVDown Under Review - He Died with a Felafel in his Hand
This would have to be one of the strangest films I’ve seen recently and very difficult to summarise so I will just give you an idea about it and you can see it for yourself as this one is a difficult film to really categorise at all.
He died with a felafel in his hand is based on the book by John Birmingham which I haven’t read and really don’t think I could read after watching the film.
I get the felling it would come across as a disjointed and hard to follow story, which I found was the same with the film at times.
dvdownunder.com.au /reviews/2002/felafel.htm   (769 words)

  
 theage.com.au - The Age -
Meanwhile, the company's publishing arm, Fandango Libri, has released Italian translations of John Birmingham's He Died With A Felafel In His Hand and Dorothy Porter's three novels, The Monkey's Mask, Akhenaten and What A Piece Of Work.
Many Italian commentators began with detailed culinary explanations of the felafel, noting that the snack was as popular among young Australians as pizzas are among young Italians.
But He Died With A Felafel In His Hand pulled in only $1 million at the Italian box office, compared with The Last Kiss', $30 million.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/03/04/1014705030668.html   (685 words)

  
 DVD Talk Review: He Died With A Felafel in His Hand
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He Died with a Falafel in His Hand is fairly good film that is based on a successful book and play of the same title.
He Died with a Falafel in His Hand is released by Film Movement a fine new company founded by a group of film programmers who are attempting to give little seen non-distributed films a second life.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=5757   (660 words)

  
 He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand (2003)
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for He Died With A Felafel In His Hand to receive a rating.
Our February 2003 selection, Richard Lowensteins's He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, was selected by our curators not only for it's darkly humorous portrayal of a generation approaching 30, but also for the film's striking fidelity to John Birmingham's cult novel upon which it is based.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/he_died_with_a_felafel_in_his_hand   (567 words)

  
 Comic Felafel :: ABC Tropical Queensland
When Mackay comic artist, Ryan Vella met John Birmingham, author of He Died With a Felafel in His Hand, he never expected to be creating a graphic version of the cult novel.
The pair met at Artspace Mackay for the opening of the Headspace exhibition last April, and so impressed was Birmingham with Ryan's work that he approached him to do a graphic adaptation of his novel to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
Known affectionately as Felafel, the novel was later made into a film starring Noah Taylor and an ensemble of young up-and-coming Aussie actors, and later modified for stage as well.
www.abc.net.au /tropic/stories/s1196279.htm   (390 words)

  
 He Died With a Felafel In His Hand | Cast & Crew | MTV Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He Died With a Felafel In His Hand
By his own count, thirtyish Danny has found himself sharing living quarters with one or more friends more than four dozen times in the past; one might imagine this would make him immune to roommate problems, but that soon proves not to be the case.
Just as Danny and Sam seem to be getting settled, Anya arrives, looking to reconcile with Sam; things get complicated for Danny, and he ends up moving in with Flip (Brett Stewart), an old friend with a severe drug problem.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/201792/castcrew.jhtml   (902 words)

  
 Movie Info for He Died With a Felafel In His Hand on MSN Movies
While sharing a house in Brisbane with a handful of sloppy guys -- and one woman, Sam (Emily Hamilton), who ought to know better -- Danny finds himself obsessing over his most recent relationship, which crashed and burned six months before.
The arrival of Anya (Romane Bohringer) picks up Danny's spirits, until he discovers she's dating Sam; this sets off his impulsive instincts, and too much spending (and too much damage to his rented house) forces Danny to high-tail it to Melbourne.
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand was adapted from the popular novel by Australian author John Birmingham.
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 Morrissey-solo
The book is called, "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand." by John Birmingham.
The movie also called "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand" stars Noah Taylor ("Shine", "Flirting", "The Year My Voice Broke", "Almost Famous") and will be relased next week.
Morrissey listed her as a 'symbolist' in this list that appeared in the NME in 1983: "Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer".
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 "Indies On Tuesdays: An Independent Film Festival" >> Films & Schedules
In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law’s tyrannical hand and her husband’s distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
We are proud to present the first film from a Film Movement member, Annette Solakoglu, and her timely message of universal concern.
Faithful to the cult novel by John Birmingham upon which it is based, the film follows Danny (Noah Taylor) through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia.
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 Amazon.com: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand: Books: John Birmingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand DVD ~ He Died With a Felafel in His Hand
He [really] died with a felafel in his hand -non fiction art, October 15, 2003
Written with flair and in such a way that each paragraph could be a new chapter, this book fascinates, and finds a new perspective for an everyday part of life for young people across Australia.
www.amazon.com /He-Died-Felafel-His-Hand/dp/1875989218   (1688 words)

  
 He Died With a Felafel in His Hand Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
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 A Literati
He Died With a Felafel In His Hand
But I HAVE read He Died With a Felafel With In His Hand.
A small triangular dagger with each side measuring four inches across flew out of the undergrowth and embedded itself into a tree, neatly flying through the space that had been occupied by Graud mere moments earlier.
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 Price Compare ISBN 1875989218 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand by John Birmingham - Direct Textbooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This was about the same time that the movie came out, a couple of years ago.

Written with flair and in such a way that each paragraph could be a new chapter, this book fascinates, and finds a new perspective for an everyday part of life for young people across Australia.

Hilarious, and I can't wait to get my hands on the sequel (actually I read this a while ago and haven't been bothered to look much...
He Died w/ A Felafel In His Hand B0006ZUJ8M
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 He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand - a film by Richard Lowenstein
He Died With A Felafel In His Hand is a darkly humorous search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude.
Faithful to the cult novel by John Birmingham upon which it is based, the film follows Danny (Noah Taylor) through a series of hilarious shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia.
www.mongrelmedia.com /films/Felafel.html   (138 words)

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