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3) Sweetie
Series
Criterion collection volume 356
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Campion, director of The Piano, will always be remembered for this stunning debut feature. The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie.'
9) Blue murder
Publisher
Subversive Cinema
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Impeccably researched and written, this dramatization of the dealings of detective Roger Rogerson with notorious criminal Arthur "Neddy" Smith delves into the attempted murder of an Australian policeman and police corruption in New South Wales, Australia.
10) The last wave
Series
Criterion collection volume 142
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately, into a prophesy that threatens a new Armageddon, wherein all the continent shall drown.
11) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
13) The shiralee
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After his wife leaves him, an Australian migrant laborer takes his daughter on a journey through the Outback.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom...
16) The proposition
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcement. The only way for him to save his younger brother from the gallows is to dismiss his moral judgment and kill his psychotic older brother within nine days.
Series
Publisher
Infinity Arthouse
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As long as the holy site known as 'where the green ants dream' is safe, the aboriginal natives believe that their culture, and Earth itself, will be safe. When a major corporation plans to mine the site, it sparks a revolt.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What chance have you got when your dad's a cop, your mum's a frighteningly understanding parent, your brother wets the bed, your best friend's a heavy metal devotee and then you fall in love at 12 and three quarters years old? It can only mean trouble, worry, mega-embarrassment and some wild, wild times. Lockie Leonard, hot surf-rat, and his family have just moved to the most remote town on earth, Angelus. For Lockie this is a total life disaster:...
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