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Original Australian theatrical poster for Gallipoli, showing a young soldier in a landscape of sand and sky.

Gallipoli and the two pieces of music that are not Australian

Peter Weir's 1981 war film has no composed score to speak of. It has a French synthesiser record and a baroque lament, and between them they say everything the picture needs.

KIERAN BOUSTANY16.10.2026

Theatrical poster image for John Hillcoat's The Proposition (2005).

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The Proposition was scored from motifs, and that is why it sounds like heat

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis wrote the music for John Hillcoat's western from motifs, not from frames, and the film's strange, hymn-like heat is the result.

KIERAN BOUSTANY04.10.2026

Typographic cover for an essay on the composer Bruce Smeaton.

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Bruce Smeaton and the scores you were never meant to notice

He won four AFI awards for original score, and the most famous cue in his most famous film belongs to a Romanian pan flute player.

KIERAN BOUSTANY23.07.2026

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