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Tag: Australian Film

The Daughter (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Actor and theatre director Simon Stone staged his modernised version of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck for Sydney’s Belvoir...

Civic Mythology in Cinema: a sequence from Gallipoli (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

An academic piece.Amidst the visual and narrative sprawl of Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, the sequence in which the...

Lake Mungo (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

“I runne to death / and all my pleasures are like yesterday”, as John Donne wrote, is the epigram...

South Solitary (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Shirley Barrett’s debut feature, 1996’s Love Serenade, won the Cannes Camera d’Or prize that year, and established her as...

Animal Kingdom (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

Having received a record number of AFI Award nominations, therefore standing at the apex of an unexpectedly strong year...

Cinema Oz Part Three: 1990-Present

...and, at last, faithful readers, the third and concluding part of my Australian cinema primer for GreenCine, looking at...

Thirst (1979) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

One of the key works of Antony I. Ginnane’s wave of international audience-seeking Aussie-made horror movies of the late...

The Combination (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

David Field, one of Aussie cinema’s relatively unsung bastions as an actor, makes his directing debut with a study...

The Tender Hook (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

.. Or, Who Killed The Australian Film Industry? Case No. 278. This sorry excuse for a period drama takes...