TAGGED: Australian film
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More than three decades after its release, Muriel's Wedding continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Amal Awad speaks to the film’s writer and director, PJ Hogan.

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Actor Chaydon Jay plays a young Elvis Presley in the film ELVIS (Baz Luhrmann, 2022).

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Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne star in this 1999 debut from director Gregor Jordan, one of the first winners of Tropfest.

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My Brilliant Career was the first feature of Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) graduate Gillian Armstrong, and the first time most Australians were introduced to Judy Davis, who had recently graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney.

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Jedda (1955) is Charles Chauvel’s last film and is historic both for being the first colour feature film made in Australia, but more importantly, because it is arguably the first Australian film to take the emotional lives of Aboriginal people seriously.

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Bad Boy Bubby was conceived as an experiment on virtually every level. It had 32 different cinematographers, for example.

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Dr George Miller's Academy Award-winning animated film about an Emperor penguin chick in Antarctica who can’t sing - but can dance.

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Warwick Thornton's feature directorial debut Samson and Delilah is a heartbreaking and thought-provoking film about two First Nations teenagers growing up in central Australia.

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Some believe that Newsfront, set in the late 1940s and incorporating extensive newsreel footage, is Australia’s best film.

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Heath Ledger stars as Australia’s most famous outlaw in this 2003 drama.