The autobiography from film critic David Stratton was officially launched at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney last night by Australian novelist and playwright Tom Keneally.
The 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival has announced Booker Prize winning novelist, J. M. Coetzee, as the seventh and final juror for the 2009 Natuzzi International Award for Best Feature Film.
The pop singer will open the show with a performance of her hit song “Fireworkâ€.
The Sydney Film Festival's 2013 Ian McPherson Memorial Lecture with feature Australian actor Jack Thompson, and ABC TV host David Stratton.
Russell Crowe's The Water Diviner is in the running for nine awards from the Film Critics Circle of Australia.
David Stratton is the curator and patron of the inaugural Great Britain Retro Film Festival.
The pair had a wide-ranging chat at the Chauvel last night as guests of the French Film Festival, of which both are patrons.
All ten films - Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977), Raging Bull (1980), The King Of Comedy (1982), Goodfellas (1990), The Age of Innocence (1993), Casino (1995), The Aviator (2004)