Author David Stratton

David Stratton

David Stratton is a critic, television presenter and one-time festival director who has had a significant impact on Australian film culture. He is the co-presenter of At the Movies on ABCTV, film critic for The Australian, and author of The Last New Wave, The Avocado Plantation and I Peed on Fellini. From 1966 to 1983 he was the director of the Sydney Film Festival.

For John Flaus

October 2014

John Flaus Dossier

Image: Flaus as the priest in Newsfront (Phillip Noyce, 1978) I met John Flaus on 5 October 1963. I had been in Australia for only a little more than two months, having arrived from England as a £10 Pom. For f...