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 Street ...
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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 ...
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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 to ...
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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 for ...
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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 the ...
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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 ‘70s ...
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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 of ...
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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 a ...
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