Green Guide‚„s Critical View
The Age
Thursday March 24, 2011
FREE TO AIRTURN BACK TIME:THE HIGH STREETABC1, 8.30pmAS THE High Street is dolled up to give the local residents a taste of what commerce was like in the 1930s, tonight's episode of this gimmick-driven, semi-documentary series charts the rise of a frightening new force in capitalism: the kiddie consumer. With the abundance of cheap sugar comes a lust for lollies, which are chomped on by newly empowered children who, thanks to better post-Depression conditions, now possess that most sought after of possessions: pocket money. The big drag on this show is that the rather interesting insights into the history and changing nature of the everyday shop front is fogged up by all the focus on the people playing the traders. JIM SCHEMBRIPAY TVCHEESE SLICESLifeStyle Food, 8.30pmTV TUROPHILE Will Studd is in Tasmania tonight and there are plenty of gourmet dairy products to tickle his fancy, including a wasabi cheddar and a raw-milk "trial cheese". This episode has a broader scope than usual. Studd is travelling with Sydney restaurateur Tetsuya Wakuda and the pair wind up visiting an oyster farm, a cider shop, a King Island seafood operation and even the workshop where Wakuda's new boat is being built. BRAD NEWSOMEMOVIELA GRANDE ILLUSION (1937)World Movies, 2.35pmLONG regarded as one of the landmark films of French cinema, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is the story of men at war. At the start of the Great War, Lieutenant Marechal (Jean Gabin) is asked to fly a reconnaissance flight with the aristocratic Capitaine de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay). Their plane is shot down over Germany by Commandant von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim), whose first act is to invite the captured Frenchmen to dinner. Men of a certain class believed they had a responsibility to treat the defeated with courtesy and charm. After that, they could be sent to a POW camp, where manners might drop just a little. SCOTT MURRAY
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