Image: The first review that Evan Williams wrote for The Australian covered Peter Weir’s Gallipoli.
Evan Williams, film critic for The Australian for 33 years, has died at the age of 84.
Sandra Hall, a prominent reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald and known to be forthright, is grateful for his support. The two families became friends. ‘He was a great film buff,’ she says, ‘and had a high end film projector in his house. We would do lunches and screen a film.