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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 for Peter Weir's The Last Wave (1977).

FILM№ 02

The Last Wave and the rain Sydney could not explain

Peter Weir's 1977 film puts a corporate lawyer in a drowned city and asks what a settler place owes to the ground and weather beneath it.

BRONTE HAUGHEY30.09.2026

Typographic cover for an essay on the composer Burkhard Dallwitz.

MUSIC№ 03

Burkhard Dallwitz wrote the score everyone credits to Glass

Eleven of the twenty tracks on The Truman Show soundtrack are by a Melbourne composer, and almost nobody outside the credits has ever said his name out loud.

KIERAN BOUSTANY16.08.2026

Typographic cover for an essay on the composer Bruce Smeaton.

MUSIC№ 04

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

ESSAYS№ 05

Watching Picnic at Hanging Rock in a room I could not leave

Three women vanish into a landscape that does not want them, and I watched it from a flat with no balcony in Fitzroy.

MARA DENG12.11.2020

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