Germaine Greer at RHG – 4 December 2008
Filming for the BBC 2 programme, Newsnight Review, took place at Rebecca Hossack Gallery Conway Street; the perfect backdrop for Germaine Greer's critique on the new and highly anticipated Baz Luhrmann film 'Australia'.
'...Nicole Kidman plays Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who moves to Northern Australia after inheriting a million-acre cattle station.
There she meets a rough stockman, Drover, (Hugh Jackman), and they embark on a cattle drive to Darwin just before its bombing by the Japanese in 1942.
The story is narrated by a young, mixed-race boy Nullah (Brandon Walters), who becomes a surrogate son to Lady Ashley.
Professional Australian Germaine Greer and the rest of the panel will be giving us their take on whether Luhrmann has created another "banquet of cinema...a film that will make you laugh, make you cry, make you swoon."'
Click here to read more – news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/7759481.stm#1