Daniel Lammin is a Melbourne-based theatre director, and film reviewer for SWITCH (maketheswitch.com.au). He completed a Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University, and a Graduate Diploma (Directing) at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. His directing credits include Awakening (MUST/fortyfivedownstairs), Strangers in Between (Cameron Lukey/Don’t Be Down Productions) and Master Class (Left Bauer Productions).
It’s in no way an exaggeration to say that there is no other film like Robin Hardy’s 1973 masterpiece The Wicker Man. Buried by its studio on initial release but now revered as one of the finest British horror ...
For anyone familiar with German director Fritz Lang through his most iconic works, Metropolis (1927) or M (1931), his 1921 film Der müde Tod (Destiny) may come as a bit of a surprise. Though it’s as thematicall...