Author Michael Thornhill

Michael Thornhill

Michael Thornhill has been closely involved with both the creative and business aspects of the Australian film and television industries for almost 50 years. He started his career by making short films while working as a film critic for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. He is the director and producer of such feature films as Between Wars, The F.J. Holden and The Everlasting Secret Family, and directed John Flaus in his first onscreen performance in The American Poet’s Visit (1969).

John Flaus – Critic of Fortune

Michael Thornhill

October 2014

John Flaus Dossier

Image: Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher, 1958) The following short piece should be read as an unreliable memoir. John Flaus (hereinafter referred to as JF) was not a capitalist or even a tyro businessman....