Favorite Australian films

Favorite Australian films May 8, 2017 21:39:59 GMT spiderwort likes this

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Post by angel on May 8, 2017 21:39:59 GMT

Mar 8, 2017 4:34:45 GMT mikef6 said:

Here is a fist full of good ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

Muriel’s Wedding/ P.J. Hogan
The Castle / Rob Sitch
Chopper / Andrew Dominik
Lantana / Ray Lawrence
The Last Wave / Peter Weir
Look Both Ways / Sarah Watt
The Proposition / John Hillcoat
Jindabyne / Ray Lawrence

Many great films mentioned here (and in the rest of this thread) so I'd just be repeating titles if I made a list of my own. The only film I don't think has been mentioned yet that's certainly worth a look would be Fred Schepisi's The Devils Playground, a great little coming of age film about the trials of growing up in a Catholic seminary.

Incidentally, Lawrence's Jindabyne actually comes from the same source material as one of the storylines used in Robert Altman's Short Cuts: one of Raymond Carver's short stories - So Much Water So Close to Home. It's interesting looking at both films and comparing the way in which both directors handle the same story.