ROAD WARRIOR
STRICTLY BALLROOM
Both on my all-time top-ten.
your mom’s an australian film…
wait, what? just kidding…
i’m assuming you mean REAL aussie cinema, not LOTR or KING KONG? or were those kiwis? i’m American, i can’t tell…anywho:
WALKABOUT—OMG, i loved this movie. slow, but beautiful.
MAD MAX: oh yea, i’m the guy—i liked this one better than Road Warrior
HEAVENLY CREATURES—was this an aussie flick, or aussie by-way-of UK? in either case, it was FUCKING brilliant. Jackson’s best film to date.
You might find this thread of interest:
Ditch all the auteurs! Anyone seen “Australia”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYNO6SteaU
‘Australia’ was so bad I don’t know where to start….. almost made me want to move to new Zealand it was that bad…… or at least back to Tasmania!!
i have a favorite australian porn site. does that count? any visited abby winters? ;-o
What’s with the lack of one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people-eating auteurs? Foul!
Wow
They’ve raised over $76,000 in brushfire aid!
Also, WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM.
Hey, I love MAD MAX also. Just ROAD WARRIOR slightly more, but in no way of the camp that thinks it’s way better. BEYOND THUNDERDOME, on the other hand, is an entirely different and sad story.
Anything Ozploitative
Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Cars That Ate Paris are too obvious, y/n? I used to have the biggest crush on John Jarratt in Picnic. Now his character from Wolf Creek gives me nightmares.
“Head on a stick!”
everyones gonna hate me—didn’t care for Picnic At Hanging Rock. can’t put my finger on it…guess i felt cheated by the whole ordeal. wasn’t as spooky as i thought it’d be…i dunno. can’t say enough good about Walkabout though!
brushfire aid, i know right? adult entertainment rules!
OOoooo
How could I forget PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK!?
I’m such a sucker for that Zamfir score!
This is no joke.
Picnic and Cars are both good films…. but as a native I’ll opt for Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, The Year My Voice Broke, Baz’s Romeo and Juliet, Wake In Fright, Mad Max 2, Walkabout and Rabbit Proof Fence for starters.
Marq… it’s called bush fire aid….. and the reason it’s there is half of Victoria went up in smoke a couple of months back and over 200 people were killed. (Just so you know). and good on them I guess.
i know…hence the “i know right” (which in American lingo, is an affirmative—a “jolly good” or “bloody well-done” if you will) and the “adult entertainment rules” because, GASP this PARTICULAR adult entertainment site raised $76,000, as you pointed out…
not only do i watch the news, Abby made it a point to let her fans know about this tragedy on her website. i may be drunk, but i’m not a complete asshole, or an idiot for that matter.
^^okay, i was being a bit rude there. we get alot of fires in Colorado, so i can see someone (not me…i’m kind of a dick) thinking someone is being stupid about something that is very sensative and affects lots of people. however, my intention was never to be a dick. i applaud AbbyWinters for raising that money to help as many as she could. i hope no one thinks that i’d laugh or mock such a terrible thing. but my comments themselves were, and are, harmless: i know right. adult entertaint rules! (esp. when they raise over $76,000 in Bush Fire Aid)
Walkabout. The main reason being the music (provided by John Barry). Oh, and the bush (provided by Jenny Agutter).
My faves are: Pure Shit, Monkey Grip, Chooper, The Proposition, Walkabout, Ghost of the Civil Dead, Dogs in Space, Picnic at Hanging rock…
The Proposition, without a doubt. Galipoli is up there too.
Well, the new Australian films are hardly seen outside of Australia let alone inside. Most due to a lack of marketing.
I only like two Australian films. That’s right an Australian only likes two films created by his native film industry. That was The Wog Boy and The Proposition.
@Miss_Hardy- you mean Chopper right?
Breaker Morant, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Tracker, Ten Canoes, The Year My Voice Broke, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Gallipoli, The Last Wave.
Australia is a magnificent sporting nation, but from my viewing experience, its tradition of film-making seems to lag some way behind!
i did like:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Walkabout
The Proposition
Flirting
Babe
Celia
My Brilliant Career
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Ten Canoes
Somersault
Gallipoli
Babe is definitely one of my absolute favourites. Although I’m not sure it should count as a fully Aussie film…
The Proposition, Walkabout, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave, Gallipoli, Romper Stomper, Bad Boy Bubby, Ten Canoes, Mad Max, Dead Calm.
Patrick (1978) is OK.
I’m not so keen on some of the more famous violent Aussie films. I would like to recommend Celia (1989) by Ann Turner about a young girl growing up in a time of anti-Communism, rabbits and myxamotosis (sp?)- plagues feared in Oz- and the pressure to conform. She has her fantasies, and it’s a wise and magical as well as dark and politically astute.
of recent, The Black Balloon was, in my opinion, a brilliant piece of work for a first-time director.
I just remembered, one of my favourite films as a kid was Fatty Finn. I’ve been wanting to watch the 1927 Australian film The Kid Stakes – of which Fatty Finn was a remake – but I’ve had no luck finding it.
Well, has anyone seen any other modern Australian films? Like The Combination, or Samson and Delilah which is showing at Cannes I believe.
I do want to see Romper Stomper. Hopefully it will deal with the issue of neo-nazism better than American History X.
Rossoneri….. it does not. Although Crowe is very good in it.
Could you elaborate, Musycks?
I found Romper Stomper a little one dimensional, a bit of a one trick piece spelled out in blod type continually… Hando is a nut case get it. etc
AH X I thought took a wider view and benefited for it. That said Romper is pretty gritty, and some people loved it.
Mingle
Being the shameless patriot that I am, what’s with the lack of Aussie films on the auteurs? I’m busting to add Rolf de Heer’s Ten Canoes as one of my favourites.
Question for those of you outside Australia: what are your favourite Australian films? Do you have any, or are there just too few?