The Australian filmmaker Rohan Spong spent a good part of 2008 travelling around the United States of America as a one-person film crew to document
Tag: Australian cinema
Film review – Lucky Country (2009)
This latest film by Australian director Kriv Stenders (Boxing Day, Blacktown) is set in the Australian bush in 1902, one year after Federation. The opening
Film review – Last Ride (2009)
Very earlier in Last Ride it becomes clear that Kev (Hugo Weaving) and his son Chook (new comer Tom Russell) are on the run. This
Wake in Fright: Personal impressions of an Australian classic from a first-time Gen-X viewer
I first read Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel Wake in Fright in 1990. It was a set text for my English class and not something that I
Film review – Wake in Fright (1971)
While watching the start of Wake in Fright you could be forgiven for thinking you were watching a Sergio Leone film. The music and opening
Film review – Bastardy (2008)
The Indigenous Australian actor Jack Charles, the subject of the documentary Bastardy, is a remarkable man. He founded the first Aboriginal theatre company in the
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