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Tagged: Australian film
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Storm Boy, the classic Australian film based on Colin Thiele's novel, is now 40 years old.
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Submerge yourself in 80s goodness with glimpses of fashion, music, technology, film, television, radio, sport and advertising from the decade.
The 1980s was all about excess: greed was good, hair...
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Australian filmmakers have produced their fair share of movies featuring zombies, vampires and ghosts – as well as marsupial werewolves, mutant pigs and murderous crocodiles.
But some of our most...
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Welcome to the world of The Dressmaker, where haute couture and the Australian outback are brilliantly combined.
When Paris-trained fashion designer Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet) arrives in the...
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According to prolific cult director Brian Trenchard-Smith, Ozploitation is 'genre homage through an Australian lens: boisterous, anti-authoritarian, wide angle'.
Trenchard-Smith should know – he made...
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The first Australian film nominated for an Academy Award ('Oscar') won - Kokoda Front Line! in 1942.
Since then, Australian productions and co-productions have been nominated in virtually every...
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The NFSA and the National Portrait Gallery proudly present a star-studded exhibition.
Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits explores striking portraits emerging from 100 years of Australian movies...
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Muriel’s Wedding has left an indelible mark on Australian popular culture since its release in 1994.
The NFSA celebrates the film with this collection of rare videos, costumes, oral histories,...
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Malcolm is a beloved Australian comedy from 1986 about a mechanical genius played by Colin Friels. Directed by first-time director Nadia Tass, the central character of Malcolm was inspired by her...
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Wake in Fright is a classic from the early days of the 1970s Australian film renaissance. The film was restored by the NFSA and re-released in 2009.
It had been thought lost for decades until the...