Film
Don’t Tell Me, Show Me: Directors talk about acting by Adam Macaulay
by John Rickard •
How Picnic at Hanging Rock not only touched American sentimentality but revealed as well the surprising news that Australians made movies is all history now. As is the short-lived, yet astounding success of The Thorn Birds, that renowned caterer to the American appetite for sex, violence and instant morality. Yet those who comment on the inroads Australian literature, the novel in particular, has made in the United States point always to that nostalgic film and encyclopaedic novel as the start of what one New York editor recently called "an explosion of American interest in Australian literature".
... (read more)The Last New Wave: The Australian film revival by David Stratton
by Jack Clancy •