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Title |
Year |
Director |
Your thoughts |
Votes |
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Kokoda |
2006 |
Alister Grierson |
Rare Aussie war movie with heart. |
4 |
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Lantana |
2001 |
Ray Lawrence |
AFI nomination |
113 |
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Malcolm |
1986 |
Nadia Tass |
8 AFI Awards including best film. Its funny, it's about Melbourne, it's just great. |
24 |
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You Can't Stop the Murders |
2003 |
Anthony Mir |
Brilliant off beat comedy. Iconic dancing scenes. Murder, suspense, comedy, thriller, love ... has everything - a real roller coaster of a movie! |
1 |
| |
Muriel's Wedding |
1994 |
P.J. Hogan |
AFI nomination |
47 |
| |
Ned Kelly |
1970 |
Tony Richardson |
Mick Jagger took time in the prime years of The Rolling Stones to give a credible performance as Ned Kelly. |
0 |
| |
Hotel Sorrento |
1995 |
Richard Franklin |
Not a bad little film. Has it's place. |
0 |
| |
The Lighthorsemen |
1987 |
Simon Wincer |
An important historical work. Like Gallipoli, highlights contradictions of war. Great cinematography, especially the charge sequence. A good Aussie caste. Jon Blake's first major film before a car accident wrecked what was a promising career. |
22 |
| |
December Boys |
2007 |
Rod Hardy |
Beautiful landscape and awesome story line. |
0 |
| |
The Sum of Us |
1994 |
Geoff Burton, Kevin Dowling |
One of the finest, most positive films about gay people ever made |
10 |
| |
Melvin, Son of Alvin |
1984 |
John Eastway |
Can't wait for the third-generation follow to this, with Graeme Blundell as grandfather to another reticent stud. |
0 |
| |
Noise |
2007 |
Matthew Saville |
Intelligent and engrossing. Beautifully acted and directed. An understated but important Australian film. |
5 |
| |
Australia |
2008 |
Baz Luhrmann |
It touches my heart and history; it connects the past with the present and allows us, as a nation, to move forward - if the critics will cease their chatter and let it heal us. This is the story I have been waiting to be told since I was a small child and experienced the divide between town and country, between one skin colour and another. |
9 |
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The Last Bullet |
1995 |
Michael Pattinson |
Because it stays in my memory. It is the conflict between 2 nations and 2 men and how after it's all over they becomes friends.
And when at an international reunion many years later the Japanese granddaughter/interpreter asks how they new each other the answer is "we fought together in the war". |
0 |
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We of the Never Never |
1982 |
Igor Auzins |
Excellent adaptation of autobiography
of city woman, Jeannie Gunn, who was an early settler on a station in N.T. more than 100 years ago. Sensitive portrayal of conditions at that time. Superb photography. |
0 |
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The Last Days of Chez Nous |
1992 |
Gillian Armstrong |
Fine cast in family drama scripted by Helen Garner; accomplished direction by Armstrong. |
1 |
| |
The Year of Living Dangerously |
1982 |
Peter Weir |
Exciting drama starring Mel Gibson at his best. |
13 |
| |
Dead Calm |
1989 |
Phillip Noyce |
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0 |
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Russian Doll |
2001 |
Stavros Kazantzidis |
|
1 |
| |
Dirty Deeds |
2002 |
David Caesar |
Takes Two Hands to the next level. |
0 |
