Favorite Australian films

Favorite Australian films Mar 9, 2017 14:52:38 GMT spiderwort likes this

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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 9, 2017 14:52:38 GMT

Mar 9, 2017 13:32:57 GMT spiderwort said:

Mar 8, 2017 6:09:05 GMT Matthew the Swordsman said:

Some of my favourites:
The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
The Back of Beyond (1954)
Jedda (1955)
Mike and Stefani (1952)

Also, though not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, I really like the b-movie Night Club (1952) because it is the only 1950s feature film set in contemporary Melbourne.

Haven't seen any of these wolf, but I'm intrigued by them, because of their dates. My relationship with Australian films begins in the 1970s. And a silent film! Wow. I wold love to see that one.

There were a decent number of Australian silent films given the small population at the time, although few of these films survive. I know of three that are on DVD, "The Sentimental Bloke" of course, the other two being "The Kid Stakes" (1927, it's also on Region 0 Blu-Ray), and "The Woman Suffers" (1918, sadly on DVD-R only).

There were also a decent number of 1930s films made in Australia, but very few in the 1940s/1950s/1960s. Ironically, TV helped revive the Australian film industry, since the production of TV shows provided the experience needed for the industry to be revived.

EDIT: One example of the TV/Film connection I'm talking about, can be seen by looking at the filmographies of a lot of 1970s Australian film actors/actresses. A lot of the same TV productions keeping popping up in many of their filmographies (ABC's one-off TV plays in the late 1950s/early 1960s, the Crawford crime drama productions during the mid-1960s and onwards, made-for-export series like "Skippy" during the late-1960s, etc....)