Adrian Martin is Melbourne-based. He writes on film and other arts, is a winner of the Australian Film Institute's Byron Kennedy Award (1993) and the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (1997). He is the author of Phantasms (1984) and Once Upon a Time in America (British Film Institute, 1998) as well as numerous essays in journals including Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Traffic and Senses of Cinema. He is currently film critic for The Age in Melbourne.