your favourite aussie movie

the blue collar guy in me gives it up to 'kenny'
but then again i haven't seen either 'malcolm' or 'hercules returns' yet

A new print of Wake In Fright has been located (ironically in the US). It's just been showing at the Sydney Film Festival.

and a special good'ay to you mate.

Cheers mate.

to think this, what we have, them the they try to label.
pee S, i found out that 'the smoke' precluded even the CLEAN!
however, i recommend raising the dollar @ the expense of the british POUND. so that australia remains the surfing capitol of the GLOBE.

youtube MR in hawaii cir' 79.

finally a thread i used to know something about

in order from one to whatever comes after one

walkabout
last wave
romper stomper
year of living dangerously
picnic
second mad max
chant of jimmy blacksmith
Gallipoli,
lantana

Was The Coca-Cola Kid an Aussie film or was it just set there Either way it's on my list even if just for Greta Scachi.

Yes, Coca Cola Kid was indeed an Australian film, and Greta Scacchi emerging from that Santa suit is easily one of the greatest moments in cinema from the 1980s. I believe she was Tim Finn's girlfriend at the time, wasn't she, and that's how he ended up in the movie? Or I guess maybe he was in the movie already and met her during filming. Who knows or really cares, I guess.

From Finn she went on to Vincent D'Onofrio, and from D'Onofrio to her first cousin...ick. Even she wasn't sexy enough to overcome the turn-off factor there. (Though I might have actually watched Star Trek: Voyager if she had been cast as Capt. Janeway, as was rumored was going to happen at one point.)

For the record, I cast my votes for favorite Australian move to either The Road Warrior or Babe. Predictable choices, maybe, but they're predictable by virtue of being damn great movies.

"That'll do, Pig. That'll do."

I want those words on my tombstone.



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There was an online poll recently where you voted for your favourite Australian film where postage stamps will be made for the top few.
I voted for Breaker Morant (1980), mostly for it's anti-Britishness.

I liked one of them coming-of-age movies with Noah Taylor, way back.

Coincidentally, just two nights ago I got Picnic At Hanging Rock. Haven't watched it yet though.

Roeg's Walkabout was great.

Two Australian comedies that I fell for: Cosi (in which a group of mental asylum inmates stage Mozart's opera) and The Castle (in which a man fights to keep his family's home from being condemned).

Greta Scacchi was pretty smokin' in White Mischief (a British film, not an Aussie one).

I can't argue with any of those selections except for "The Coca-Cola Kid". My suggestions:

Proof
Careful, He Might Hear You
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Piano
The Dish


Aitch - Did you ever seen Don's Party? I saw that in the early `80's because I had heard it was really funny. Maybe to someone well versed in Australian politics because I sure didn't get it. Or perhaps, that fact that I was 14 or 15 and the humor might have been way over my head.

Flirting might be the Noah Taylor film you're looking for, or the film before it, The Year My Voice Broke.

The Coca-Cola Kid is, strangely enough, considered more of an Eastern European film because of its director, Dusan Makavejev. Yeah, that Santa scene is worth the price of admission, and the "Coca Cola" theme song Tim Finn comes up with almost does. I found a copy of it using Napster years ago, and it winds up on all my mix cd's.

The Cars That Ate Paris is also a great film.

Don's Party? Don't worry, some of it went over my head because I'm not from Melbourne. Having said that, it's a great snapshot of the social landscape at a time when the conservatives were in power seemingly forever. The clever thing about it was, it was pretty successful, yet David Williamson's taking the piss out of a group who would have been the bulk of the audience. He would never have thought of it as a movie when he was writing it, that's for sure.

Williamson did the screenplay for Gallipoli which features on Mr Baker's list. He's actually in the scene where they're playing footy in front of the Pyramids, he gets smashed.