My Brilliant Career - Criterion Collection (Blu-Ray)

My Brilliant Career - Criterion Collection (Blu-Ray)For her award winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklins novel, a celebrated turn of the twentieth century Australian coming of age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star making performance), bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry, where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence above all

Gathering both classic and rare covers

the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark

Then and Now’ (1953

and the rhythm section of bassist George Porter and drummer Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste

Daft Punk have redefined Electronic music

Making of “Dreams” (1990)

this collection also contains several stories only available in this volume

his friends and family visit him

art and ceremony

Robert Graves’s Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War’s haunting legacy

Volker Schlöndorff interview (2004

The only novel writing by prominent mid-century visual artist Dorothea Tanning