The Death of Venus: Inside The Eye of the Storm (Fred Schepisi, 2011) David Melville February 2014 Key Moments in Australian Cinema Adapted from a 1973 novel by the Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm is a tale of disintegration. Of a family, of a culture, of an entire social and psychological way of life. An upper...
The Filmmaker as Adaptor: Fred Schepisi Takes on Patrick White in The Eye of the Storm Brian McFarlane October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier It needs real nerve to come out of a film based on a famous novel and declare unreservedly that you enjoyed the film much more than the book. I mean, books came first. Literature, as a study, preceded film by d...
