What is inescapable in the Australian landscape is its cosmic character, one that mixes suggestively astral dust with the brilliance of the blinding sun. Desolate, parched earth becomes poetic affirmation, though it is the poetry of death and distraction, its stanzas luring the life from you. Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971), based on the … Continue reading To Wake in Fright