by NRB | 23 Apr 2020 | Non-fiction |
Derek Rielly’s biography of actor David Gulpilil is a moving testament to a man who has left a unique imprint on Australia’s cultural life for the last half-century. It might seem appropriate that this book should have a subtitle along the lines of ‘the man and his...
by NRB | 18 Dec 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Films on Australian subjects in the 1960s were mostly pretty undistinguished. A case could be made for They’re a Weird Mob (1966), which captured something of our knockabout humour, and Age of Consent (1969), graced by James Mason and Helen Mirren, had some claims to...
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