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[Published in The Lifted Brow, Issue #17, Music Edition, May 2013] Dogs in Space (1986) is one of those bastard anomalies in the history of Australian film. In a decade when most directors were being funded to make jingoistic stories like Breaker Morant (1980), Gallipoli (1981), The Man From Snowy River (1982) and Crocodile Dundee (1986), […]
March 1, 2013
[Published in The Lifted Brow, Issue #16, The Perth Edition, Mar 1 2013] The opening shot of Wake in Fright (1971), Ted Kotcheff’s unforgettable outback nightmare, has always been my reference point for Western Australia’s inscrutable landscapes. We begin with an image of nothingness, an aerial view of barren plains that stretch on to the […]
December 2, 2011
WINNER OF THE 2011 IVAN HUTCHINSON AWARD FOR WRITING ON AUSTRALIAN FILM FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION [Published in The Lifted Brow, No. 13 (December 2011)] Australians love a battler. Oft touted as the national type, the battler’s spirit has been invoked in the guise of Howard’s “ordinary Australians” or Gillard’s “working families”. From […]
May 1, 2013
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