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Once the greatest boy band of the '80s, BOYTOWN re-forms with its original members. Leaving their now humdrum lives for one last crack at the big time, BOYTOWN return to the stage with slightly older fans and slightly larger pants to complete some unfinished business.



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Kevin Carlin is one of Australia's most accomplished directors of comedy and drama. His pilot episode of Always Greener was nominated for an International Emmy for Best Drama. He co-produced and directed for television Big Girl's Blouse, which was nominated for a Golden Rose of Montreaux Award for comedy. He co-produced, directed and co-wrote the series Eric starring Eric Bana. In 2005 Kevin directed the feature film The Extra and the telemovie Little Oberon which was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Telemovie.

RABBIT-PROOF Fence -- featuring the Golden Globe-nominated score by Peter Gabriel -? is a powerful true story of hope and survival and has been met with international acclaim! At a time when it was Australian government policy to train aboriginal children as domestic workers and integrate them into white society, young Molly Craig decides to lead her little sister and cousin in a daring escape from their internment camp. Molly and the girls, part of what would become known as Australia's "Stolen Generations," must then elude the authorities on a dangerous 1,500-mile adventure along the rabbit-proof fence that bisects the continent and will lead them home. As shown by this outstanding motion picture, their universally touching plight and unparalleled courage are a beautiful testament to the undying strength of the human spirit!

A comedy drama about a modern wedding, where the bride plans an extravagant celebration, the groom can?t believe his luck, the parents and ex husbands and current wives and girlfriends squabble over who is going to pay for it all, and standing on the side, waiting for disaster to strike ? is the groom?s best friend.Skye and Lachlan are in love and they are getting married. And they both agree that the way to demonstrate their absolute confidence in each other and in their future together is to make the wedding a big one.Could anything go wrong? Well, her grandmother being rushed to hospital doesn?t help. And neither does her parents? panic about the size of the wedding. Nor her mother?s doubts about her choice of husband. And her stepbrother, Jack, seems to go a little crazy, although it?s hard to tell if it?s just his normal craziness or whether he?s going more mad than usual with jealousy. Lachlan doesn?t want his absent father to come to the wedding, but it looks like they?re going to need his generous offer of money.

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Born from a profound desire to tell the story of the forgotten militiamen of the Australian campaign along the Kokoda track in 1942, the film is inspired by the story of a platoon of the 39th battalion. The story visually describes their extraordinary courage, mateship, endurance and self sacrifice.

Good Aussie film and to based on true story

Tommy Matisse is a gifted musician studying at London's Royal Academy of Music, where he is striving to write a brilliant new operatic song called "One Perfect Day" in conjunction with his girlfriend Alysse back in Australia. When Tommy's sister Emma dies of a drug overdose after a night of clubbing with Alysse, he returns to Melbourne and breaks up with Alysse when she admits her part in Emma's death. As Alysse seeks solace in drugs and in the arms of a manipulative nightclub owner, Tommy undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene. Fate brings them together again when Tommy reworks their opera by infusing classical music with electronic beats, but further tragedy is just around the corner...

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A teenage girl and her younger brother (Jenny Agutter and Lucien John) find themselves alone in the outback after their mentally ill father drives them to a remote location for a picnic then commits suicide. Scared and unable to find their way back home, the brother and sister are rescued by a young Indigenous man (David Gulpilil in his acting debut) on ?walkabout? ? a rite of passage in which a young man must journey through the bush alone. The three characters fall into ?naturalistic? roles of mother, father and child; and the little boy learns how to bridge the language divide between his sister and the young Indigenous man. Roeg?s critique of notions of civilised and uncivilised behaviour romanticises ?traditional? Indigenous culture. In a vivid sequence, Nicolas Roeg inter-cuts Gulpilil hunting with images of a suburban butcher chopping and wrapping offal. The privileged perspective of the young white woman protagonist problematises the constraints of both cultures.

Love can turn you upside-down.

Seeking work in the snowfields of Jindabyne, Heidi (Abbie Cornish), aged 16, meets a sympathetic motel owner, Irene (Lynette Curran), who offers her a place to stay. In her naive manner, Heidi meets Joe (Sam Worthington), a wealthy farmer's son. Clinging onto what the relationship could possibly offer her, Heidi gives herself to Sam, only to be disappointed when her feelings are not reciprocated. To overcome her internal struggles, confusing sexual intimacy with love, Heidi seeks to respond to her past and to the hurt she has caused others.

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Even today, the Australian outback (the never-never of the title) is a daunting place to be left alone. In 1901, it was even more rugged and wild. In this artful drama, Jeannie Gunn (Angela Punch McGregor), a very genteel and citified Victorian-era newlywed, joins her husband in the Northern Territory to help manage a station ("station" is Aussie for "a large ranch"). There she gradually sheds her prim ways and, thanks to her friendship with the local Aborigines, becomes a representative of an entirely new class, sometimes called "Australian outback women." In addition to chronicling the transformation of a Victorian woman, this film offers insight into the situation of Aborigine society at the time, and it received high praise from Australian reviewers. It is based on the diaries of Jeannie Gunn herself.

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Jack Flange (Alex O'Loughlin) takes up residence with a Hawkesbury River oyster farmer to be closer to his ill sister. During an oyster delivery Flange robs the fish market and mails the money to his new home only to have the parcel disappear. He suspects the charismatic Pearl, a local beauty with a fetish for expensive shoes, of stealing the money. While secretly investigating Pearl he finds himself hopelessly attracted to her.

From the creators of "The Believer", winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, comes a black comedy about a man caught in the most impossible of conundrums: in love with his hometown, New York City, but driven mad by its noise. Transforming himself into "The Rectifier", David takes on everyone from the schmuck who ignores his own car alarm to the city's most powerful citizen, the Mayor. As his daring grows, New Yorkers rally behind him inspiring David to win this fight by the most ingenious of schemes.

Nice Film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Synopsis
In the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, three Australian ?irregular? soldiers are tried by a British military court for the murder of 12 prisoners and a German missionary. The accused are Lieutenants Harry Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and George Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald). Morant, an English-born adventurer who has spent years in Australia, maintains he was following unwritten orders. Their inexperienced Australian lawyer (Jack Thompson) struggles to have his case heard.

Curator?s notes
The trial of Morant, Handcock, and Witton was enormously controversial at the time and remains so, more than 100 years later. The film rekindled the debate in 1980, but was itself attacked over accuracy. The script, based on a play by Kenneth Ross, argues that their trial was fixed from the outset. Lord Kitchener, head of the British forces, is shown agreeing that the soldiers must be sacrificed, in order to keep Germany from joining the war on the Boer side. At the same time, the film shows that the soldiers did kill the prisoners and the missionary. The question is whether these constituted war crimes and whether they got a fair trial.

With the recent war in Vietnam fresh in the public mind, these questions still had strong resonance in 1980. Debate still rages about whether Kitchener ever issued verbal orders to kill prisoners. The film represented Australia in the competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1980. Jack Thompson won the festival?s best supporting actor award.

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It's Erik Thomson with out a "P" have reported the mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good aussie film

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Little slow, but so glad i never got into this scene of drugs, life is bad enough with out that shit in it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Lucky miles is the funniest movie I've see this year. It takes the piss out of asylum seekers, boat people, Arabs, Indonesians, Cambodians, Anglo-Australians, indigenous Australians, Army reservists, police, country folk... if they're on the screen then the piss is taken. And it's a dry humour, as dry as the Aussie outback in which this film is set. What's more, not once do the actors treat their characters as anything less than real.

It's hard to write about this film because it's so well made. The stories flow smoothly, weaving into and out of each other. The pacing is pert, never once plodding despite the temptation to do so (these guys are wandering about in a desert, after all). The cinematography is dramatic but never intrudes.

Lucky miles makes a good companion to Wolf Creek for life in the far outback. It's a really good film (not just a really good Australian film) that'll have you in tears and stitches at the same time. See it.

The Australia, black comedy movie Lucky miles is directed by Michael James Rowland and stars Kenneth Moraleda, Rodney Afif, Sri Sacdprascuth.

Synopsis
In an isolated South Australian fishing town, the only thing that connects two communities ? the whites and the blacks ? is football. Gary Black (Nathan Phillips) and Dumby Red (Luke Carroll) are an exception ? teenage best friends from different sides of the tracks. Dumby is the star of the football team and likely to become the next big Aboriginal star in the big leagues. Gary is the bookish son of a hard-drinking and brutal white fisherman, Bob Black (Simon Westaway). He is attracted to Dumby?s beautiful sister, Clarence (Lisa Flanagan). When their team wins the premiership, Dumby?s elation is short-lived. He is passed over for the Best-on-ground prize, setting off a chain of events that ends in tragedy.

This is a very modestly produced local gem that will find a huge audience, once people who've seen it start talking. Without losing any of the vision or even the painterly style of her celebrated short-films, director Sarah Watt has made one of the best Australian feature films for many years.

'Look Both Ways' is a film intimately about us, now, shot entirely on location in Adelaide (including at the Norwood Pool and Linear Park). It was rightly selected as the opening film for this year's Adelaide Film Festival. In her daring debut, Watt uses an innovative mix, interspersing live action with animated sequences and exhilarating montages. She tells a wonderful story, making universally relevant observations about modern life.

When one young man is hit by a train and another is diagnosed with cancer, repercussions spread through a group of Adelaidians over a scorchingly hot weekend. Nick visits a doctor for a routine medical and is given devastating news but has to wait until Monday for specialist advice. Meryl, returning from a funeral, has until Monday to finish her art project or lose her job. She imagines disaster at every turn, but soon finds reality tragic enough. Journalist Andy is thrown by his girlfriend's pregnancy. And then there's the train driver, his punk son, the newspaper editor and sundry members of their families.

While 'multi-character' films notoriously fail or simply aren't made, notable exceptions such as Robert Altman's 'Nashville', 'M.A.S.H.' and 'Gosford Park' have succeeded because of their great stories and brilliant ensemble acting. Here, Justine Clarke (Meryl), William McInnes (Nick), Anthony Hayes (Andy), Lisa Flanagan (Anna), Andrew S. Gilbert, Daniela Farinacci, Sacha Horler, Maggie Dence, Edwin Hodgman and Andreas Sobik all create authentic characters, and play naturally off each other. This reflects glowingly on Watt's skill as a director and on her clever visual story-telling and perfectly-pitched dialogue.

Themes of illness, loneliness and loss weave amongst motifs of trains, cricket and water, all beautifully shown by Watt's regular cinematographer Ray Argall. The inclusion of rapid-fire sequences of photographs collapsing long periods of time adds a unique dimension, while animated sequences echo Watt's brilliant short films 'Small Treasures' and 'Living with Happiness'. Andrew Plain's soundscape is similarly superb, from background suburban noises to clear conversations, well-matched songs and original music by Amanda Brown.

The result is an uplifting film about everyday heroism, with attractive, 'real' characters learning to relate genuinely. It exquisitely combines hilarious moments with darker comedy and unbearable poignancy, making it a gift rich with wisdom for mature audiences. Immediately enjoyable and deeply affecting as the film is with its combination of big ideas and fine detail, it also deepens with a second viewing. Chiming with deep truth, 'Look Both Ways' is a really great film. See for yourself.

trailers at this site

http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/beneath-clouds/clip1/

Lena (Danielle Hall) is a fair-skinned Aboriginal girl living in a small isolated country New South Wales town. She longs for the Irish father she never really knew. One day she decides to leave the town, hitting the road with little money, a backpack and a photo of her dad. Vaughn (Damian Pitt) is an Aboriginal teenage boy in a minimum-security prison. He is hardened by his anger at the world and spends his days woking in the prison pine plantation. He is disconnected from his family, but news of his mother's illness prompts him to break out of prison in the hope of reaching her before it is to late. Vaughn meets Lena at a truck stop on the road to Sydney. Initially both are suspicious and wary of each other, but their journey, mostly on foot and the odd lift, brings them closer to their search for purpose, identity and love.