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[THE-DRY]
ESSAYS№ 01
Australian novels keep becoming Australian films and the novels keep winning
The adaptation pipeline from page to screen is the steadiest production line in Australian cinema, and the question is whether the films are earning the books or borrowing from them.
MARA DENG22.04.2025
MUSIC№ 02
The score for Force of Nature thaws what The Dry kept frozen
Peter Raeburn scored the sequel wetter, colder, and more anxious, and the alpine setting gave him room to breathe.
KIERAN BOUSTANY24.04.2024
FILM№ 03
Force of Nature proves Eric Bana can carry a franchise nobody expected
Robert Connolly's sequel to The Dry is looser, colder, and more confident about what kind of film it wants to be.
BRONTE HAUGHEY14.03.2024
INDUSTRY№ 04
The AACTAs went to Nitram and The Dry and the audience still was not watching
Nitram won seven AACTAs and The Dry won Best Film, and the combined domestic box office of the two was still less than one weekend of a Marvel sequel.
ODETTE MALOUF18.05.2022
FILM№ 05
The Dry gives Eric Bana a landscape and lets him stand in it
Robert Connolly's adaptation knows the difference between withholding information and withholding feeling.
BRONTE HAUGHEY18.01.2022
FILM№ 06
The five Australian films of 2021 that will still matter in a decade
The year gave us a portrait of a mass killer, a drought-country thriller, a sheep-farming feud, and a lucid day with a grandmother, and all four will last.
BRONTE HAUGHEY22.12.2021
ESSAYS№ 07
2021 was the year Australian cinema got serious and the audience looked away
Four of the year's most significant Australian films dealt in violence, guilt, grief, and landscape, and the domestic audience chose to watch something else.
MARA DENG14.12.2021
MUSIC№ 08
Peter Raeburn scored The Dry with heat and the absence of water
The score is a heatwave set to strings: dry, persistent, and impossible to escape.
KIERAN BOUSTANY08.11.2021
ESSAYS№ 09
Australian cinema keeps going back to drought because drought never really left
The dry country is not a backdrop; it is a condition, and Australian film returns to it the way a tongue returns to a broken tooth.
MARA DENG24.03.2021
FILM№ 10
The Australian films worth anticipating in 2021
The pipeline froze in 2020, but the films that waited are beginning to move, and several of them are worth the delay.
BRONTE HAUGHEY12.01.2021