Hogan even got a Golden Globe. A good example is Russel Crowe's Australian film The Water Diviner. The film literally cut the audience in two, with many critics heralding it as a masterpiece, and just as many questioning its very right to exist. “Because Gregori has created this world, we created it through his eyes. “The agenda was set by Rowland S. Howard himself,” Richard Lowenstein told FilmInk. Firstly, unlike just about every other Australian film ever made, Bran Nue Dae is a feel-good movie, principally designed to invigorate rather than provoke. I also can't think of a good Aussie comedy movie in recent decades.....but I'm not a good one to ask because I'm not a comedy movie fan. It's too a great extent because of Americanism. In comparison to The Dish however, by more or less the same mob, overrated. "The Shiralee" "Breaker Morant?. “This gave the film a strong authenticity.” As well as this authenticity, 52 Tuesdays is also nothing short of an emotional tour de force. Money is the least important factor to making great movies. (2001) Widely credited with reinventing the modern movie musical, Baz Luhrmann’s giddy, kaleidoscopic Moulin Rouge! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) With the whirling, hyperactive juggernaut that is Mad Max: Fury Road, Australian action pioneer, George Miller, returned from years of animated niceties and threw down the gauntlet to his much younger peers, letting them know that when it comes to crunching metal, shredded tyres, terrifying villains, and flawed anti-heroes, he is the king. Where's the line drawn? one of my all time favourite (anti)war movies too. news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site, image of this purportedly legitimate sign, Curfew lifted in Vic as whopping new fine introduced. Why are Australian Films always awful? Thursday is Australia Day, so to pay tribute to our Antipodean chums we've picked out the best films from Down Under . The result was the 25-minute charmer, Smokes And Lollies, which told of three spunky fourteen-year-olds that Armstrong met at an Adelaide drop-in centre: Kerry Carlson, Diana Doman, and Josie Peterson. Written and directed by big time talent, Abe Forsythe (who dealt just as pithily with our national identity in his gut-busting 2003 comedy, Ned), Down Under takes a relatable, intimate approach to a wide-canvas subject, distilling the essence of the riots into two car loads of young men – one full of Cronulla “Aussies”, and the other driven by “Lebs” from Sydney’s south-west – caught up in the day’s heated aftermath, which saw retaliatory violence explode in different parts of the city. November 2020; Upcoming Blu-ray; View all ... On Demand. That's something Labor and Greens don't like. Our very last scene was Heath and I playing handball on the road in Kings Cross. Why is when you see even major Aussie stars like Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman etc in old Aussie films they have that stilted Aussie style of acting, then they go overseas and they learn a much better style. Precisely, often a Hollywood movie spends more on marketing than it does on production. Its not Australian. Balance it against a truly awful production like 2:22 ... international cast, grossed $422 at the box office. 1Sunday to far away(AFI award winner) 1975#2The year my voice broke. They all have their moments and most would be a lot better with extra editing. Unless you're talking about those pretentious "high art" or experimental films, in which case, I would pass anyway. Absolutely dull and boring. “Li Cunxin’s family was not only poor, but they lived under one of the most repressive regimes in history, which was run by a lunatic. She hated the film, but I bet she banked her cheque! Good list, but you missed two of the best.... Two Hands, and Hercules Returns! Hail is a potent vision of the human spark that exists even in the gutters of life, and is based on the real life of Daniel P. Jones, whose tortured youth defies belief, and more than accounts for the pain and suffering that he’s experienced as an adult.