Why is Australian Cinema so Grim? Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (Pop Screen 173) Nick Cave

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In the same year, Nick Cave sang The Mercy Seat and appeared in this brutal prison drama, the first film from his regular music video collaborator John Hillcoat. You'd ask if he was OK, but it's late-'80s Nick Cave: he a...

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