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Wake In Fright

March 2023

  • Australian actor Jack Thompson AM. Shot supplied by National Geographic to promote immersive Our Country exhibition in Sydney in 2023.

    Jack Thompson on David Bowie, the climate crisis and posing nude: ‘I didn’t need persuading’

    The actor narrates a 40-screen immersive exhibition of Australian land and wildlife, shot by 25 cinematographers. ‘This environment is our heritage and our responsibility,’ he says

July 2020

  • Dead fire damaged trees

    The unmissables
    The Australian book you should read next: Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook

    The story of the preppy city-bred schoolteacher in outback Australia is easy to explain, the novel’s nightmarish tension not so much

June 2019

  • A production shot from Wake in Fright, adapted from Kenneth Cook’s novel by Declan Greene, at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, 2019.

    Wake in Fright review – channelling the gothic nightmare of settler Australia

    Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
    Zahra Newman brings Kenneth Cook’s novel to the stage in shamanic, hallucinatory performance

October 2017

  • A screenshot from the 2017 TV adaptation of Wake in Fright showing on Network Ten

    First look review
    Wake in Fright review – TV remake of classic outback thriller lacks bite

    Ten’s contemporary adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s novel substitutes hard drugs for cold beer but loses its sunburnt sting

January 2017

  • The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert

    Match the sweltering summer scene to the Australian film – quiz

    Red deserts, sweaty brows, scalding sand and swimsuits. Nowhere does summer quite like Australia – and nowhere is it captured better than on film. But how well do you know your classics?

December 2016

  • Hugo Weaving, Claudia Karvan, Gordan Churchill and Josh Lawson

    2017 the year ahead
    Australian TV to watch in 2017: big names, new talent and classic stories revisited

    Claudia Karvan, Richard Roxburgh and Miranda Tapsell are among the favourite faces starring in new television series

November 2016

  • A still from the 1971 Australian film Wake in Fright directed by Ted Kotcheff

    The making of Wake in Fright: 'I wanted people to watch the film and be sweating'

    From actors downing 30 pints of beer a day to the quandary of filming a kangaroo shooting scene while vegan, veteran director Ted Kotcheff goes back behind the scenes of the Australian thriller

March 2014

  • wake in fright

    Wake in Fright – controversial Ozploitation thriller

    Ted Kotcheff's bleak and terrifying Australian epic, lost for decades, is electrifying, writes Mark Kermode

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

    This week's new films
    The Grand Budapest Hotel, 300: Rise Of An Empire, Paranoia: this week's new films

    The Grand Budapest Hotel | 300: Rise Of An Empire | Wake In Fright | Paranoia | The Stag | Escape From Planet Earth

    • Wake in Fright review – 'Lost weekend in the dark heart of white Australia'

    • What you should watch this week
      Why Wake in Fright is the one film you should watch this week – video

    • Wake In Fright: the almost-forgotten film that kickstarted the Aussie new wave

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