Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a film critic on Melbourne radio station Triple R with the Plato’s Cave programme and a co-editor of the journal Senses of Cinema. She is the recipient of the 2016 Award for Best Review of an Individual Australian Film from the Australian Film Critics Association, and writes books and articles about cult, horror and extreme cinema.

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The Art of Immortality

The Art of Immortality

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

David Bowie’s first film role has the hallmarks of a career that constantly challenged the world’s perception of him. Earning him the grand total of £30, twenty-year-old David Bowie made his screen debut in the late 1960s in Michael Armstrong’s silent horror film The Image. Today, this fourteen-minute film is striking for its simplicity. But […]

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The Art of Immortality

The Art of Immortality

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas