No.4880
What are your favourite australian movies?
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No.4882
< —- #1 right here. I love it.
I've been meaning to see the Ozsploitation documentary too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996966/
Other than that I've only seen a small number of the most famous AU films.
Picnic at Hanging Rock was gorgeous, Walkabout was decent.
The Last Wave was a little crazy but still interesting.
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No.4885
Mine are:
1.Romper Stomper
2.Somersault
3.The Cars That Ate Paris
4.Two Hands
5.The Water Diviner
6.Wake In Fright
7.The Little Death
8.The Proposition
9.Lantana
10.Dead Calm
11.The Badabook
12.The Loved Ones
13.Romulus, My Father
14.Son of a Gun
15.Noise
16.The Snowtown Murders
17.West
18.Dogs In Space
19.The Mule
20.Red Hill
+21.Dark City
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No.4886
>>4885
And some other mentions are:
-Animal Kingdom
-Chopper
-The Boys
-Gettin Square
-The Rover
-Predestination
Decent movies
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No.4887
The Hunter (2011) and Tracks (2013) were fabulous films
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No.4888
Body Melt
Bad Boy Bubby
Dead-End Drive In
Razorback
Turkeyshoot (the 1982 version)
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No.4890
I like Peter Weir's The Plumber for a nice little psychological thriller. It came out on the same DVD as The Cars That Ate Paris.
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No.4891
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No.4892
-Roadgames
-Van Diemen's Land
-Long Weekend
-Lake Mungo
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No.4897
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
I flipped past this on TV and the colours were so vivid I had to hunt down the whole thing. You get a real sense of the searing heat of the island as you watch.
It's Michael Powell's final feature film. Scorsese's Film Foundation restored it in 2005.
Underwater scenes were shot by Australians Ron and Val Taylor, a husband and wife diver team with a long list of film & documentary credits.
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No.9834
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>>4882
>I've been meaning to see the Ozsploitation documentary too.
Here it is!
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No.10637
Anything good lately, from Australia or New Zealand?
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No.10644
Some old ones I saw lately:
Proof (1991)
Angel Baby (1995)
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No.10645
>>10644
Did you like them? I hadn't heard of Angel Baby but I see it won a lot of awards.
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No.10646
>>10645
Yeah I liked both of them, Proof more so.
Someone mentioned Noise earlier. I'd recommend that if you haven't seen it. Maybe not underrated critically, but under-appreciated even by arthouse audiences here.
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No.10997
Dingo (1991) by Rolf De Heer. Colin Friels and Miles Davis star. Rolf has made some interesting films.
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No.10998
>>10997
That's interesting. Miles Davis died in 1991, so Dingo was one of the last things he made. It's also one of his few acting roles:
1. Dingo (1991) .... Billy Cross
2. Scrooged (1988) .... Street Musicians
3. On the Edge (1987) (TV) .... Ozzie
4. "Miami Vice" .... Ivory Jones (1 episode, 1985)
- Junk Love (1985) TV episode .... Ivory Jones
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No.11703
Long Weekend is not one of the best Australian films but it's enjoyable regardless. The premise is simple: a couple departs from their comfy city life for a camping trip on the coast. Since this is a horror movie, their "long weekend" at the beach is far from relaxing. Nature actively attempts to punish the couple for their ecological carelessness.
Even though I liked Long Weekend, I have a gripe how it depicted the "man vs. nature" conflict. Often these types of stories project a moral code onto the natural world that simply does not exist. The underlying implication is that "evil" humanity deserves a comeuppance for its damaging impact on "good" nature. An audience will usually accept this notion. But humanity is not separate from nature or intruding on nature; humanity is part of nature. Furthermore humanity is not unique in its careless behavior. Animals can be extremely cruel and they act without conscience. Since nature does not care about the cruelty of animals, it's a stretch to pretend that it cares about humans behaving similarly.
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No.11837
>>4886
I've heard the boys is good and was told to look into it
Love me some Aussie grunge
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No.11900
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
the sequel; Flirting (1991)
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
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No.15805
I like environmental films about nature.
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No.15808
Malcolm
Footrot Flats (well, you might think it's NZian, but the production, and most of the voice actors were Kiwi-migrants in AU)
Razorback (when New Wave made an attempt at Horror)
(the first) Mad Max
Turkey Shoot (the original video nasty--but so fun watching it back on VHS. "The little one, Alfie!")
> He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
Oh god, no. Totally fucking turkey that had almost nothing from the book it was sourced from. "Dogs in Space" outdoes it.
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No.15811
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No.15822
>>15811
Goodbye inconnu, everybody else already left and now I'm leaving too
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No.15854
"There are plenty of them. I like:
Mad Max
The Castle
The Great Gatsby
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
and may others.
Do you know some new ones maybe? Where do you watch them?"
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No.15855
I've recently watched The Power of the Dog with
Benedict Cumberbatch. I usually look for movies within my subscriptions on Netflex, Hulu or HBO Max, however, I sometimes visit sites listed on https://www.firesticktricks.com/free-movie-streaming-sites.html to find sth new.
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No.15896
I really liked The Power of the Dog
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