Remembering Bill Hunter: Australia’s Beloved Actor
Australian actor Bill Hunter, known for his roles in films like The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) …
Australian Film
“Fat Pizza” (2003): Outrageously Hilarious Slice of Aussie Comedy
Fat Pizza (2003) is an Australian comedy that defies traditional artistic standards but delivers an outrageously funny experience. Based on …
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 …
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 to …
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 an …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
