Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 8, 2017 5:44:11 GMT
My Brilliant Career (1979) - Gillian Armstrong
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Peter Weir
Galipoli (1981) - Peter Weir
Breaker Morant (1980) - Bruce Beresford
Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) - Carl Schultz
We of the Never Never (1982) - Igor Auzins
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1978) - Fred Schepisi
The Year My Voice Broke (1987) - John Duigan
The Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) - Philip Noyce
I love the Australian films of these Australian directors. Many migrated to America, and I often felt their work suffered because of it.
A few that I would like to mention are...
Clay (1965) an independent and rare production at a time when the Australian Film Industry was virtually non existent. In other parts of the world thriving film industries were making a splash with the New Waves, this excellent solitary film I call Australia's ripple...
Morning of the Earth (1971) A teen of the seventies this film still manages to bring a tear to the eye. Those halcyon days are forever captured in this hippie surfie fused film. No dialogue just song, a lyrical and visual ode with deep respect for one another the sea and our environment.
Silent Partner (2001) A not for all tastes piece of Australian filmmaking lots of drunkenness and swearing. Two everyday blokes down on their luck have good fortune fall into their laps when the chance to train a greyhound dog is offered to them. Friendship and trust are elements that bind the characters in this black humoured film which is very south-side suburban Australia, low budget Aussie film treat
Dons Party (1976) and Sweetie (1989) come to mind before I go...