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...Mclean here applies the finesse of fine art to the pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have been turning true crime into artful entertainment ever since Alfred Hitchcock dredged up the story of Ed Gein from Psycho's swamp...
...least of its satisfactions is Wolf Creek's felling of cultural stereotypes. So when Mick Taylor begins riffing on Paul Hogan's line, "You call that a knife?" one senses Crocodile Dundee being buried forever in an unmarked grave. It's little surprise to learn that the director's next project, Rogue, is to be about a marauding crocodile in Kakadu National Park - Steve Irwin, watch your back. Already one can see Mclean setting a steely trap for unsuspecting audiences to slip into...
...it’s common for an alienated teenager with a guitar to dream of selling out shows at Madison Square Garden, studying at Harvard tends to temper dreams of rock stardom. More young men here have their hopes set on being the next JFK than being the next Mick Jagger, but Carbone’s ambition still burns. It helps to have the right fuel. Called and Careless’s singer, Evan Gentler, 26, graduated college and came to Boston in August of 2003. Already aware that music was his passion, he placed an ad in The Boston...
...first white men to enter the area. Combined with the present-day memories of old people who could vividly recall the arrival of the gold-seeking Australian Leahy brothers and their "giant bird" planes, the effect was hypnotic. Joe Leahy's Neighbours (1989) followed, charting the struggle of Mick Leahy's mixed-race son Joe to be both a traditional bigman and a modern businessman running a lucrative coffee plantation on Ganiga land. The cash economy was seeping into their remote world, and the Ganiga longed for Joe's wealth. Black Harvest revisited the Ganiga five years later...
...doesn't quite match that of the rest of the book. But his afterword about the novel's creation is fascinating. The idea for the work, he says, originated with Brando. But it was Cammell--a rather louche, not untalented fellow (he wrote and co-directed the cultishly admired Mick Jagger movie Performance in 1970)--who did all the heavy lifting on both treatment and novel. Thomson says Brando chatted with Cammell about the story and scratched a few notes in the margins of the evolving manuscript. That is the not entirely surprising way that Hollywood legends write. Or should...