ABBA: The Movie is a 1977 film about the pop group ABBA’s Australian tour. It was directed by Lasse Hallström, who directed most of the group’s videos. The film has become a cult film among ABBA fans. Its release coincided with the release of ABBA: The Album, the group’s fifth studio album, and features many songs from that album as well as many of their earlier hits, and one, “Get on the Carousel”, unavailable anywhere else.Read More »
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Based on Rosalie Ham’s best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture. —Sue MaslinRead More »
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.Read More »
Declared a national treasure by the Australian government for its amazing photography and vision, this stunning masterpiece by Albert Falzon is, to quote Chris Darling directly, “one of the most beautiful surf films of all time!”
This classic 1972 surfing film reveals a fantasy that takes place in three exotic lands: Bali, Hawaii, and Australia. It takes you away to a world where surfers make their own houses, surfboards, and live in harmony with nature.Read More »
rogerebert.com:
“Last Stop Larrimah” is a funny little documentary. Set in the Australian Outback, in a tiny town with a population of 11 people, the film first gives a picture of a group of wisecracking citizens—mostly elderly—who call this middle-of-nowhere place home. They share stories of late-night revelries at the local watering hole (the only bar in town) and proudly point to the lack of a police station but the presence of a pet crocodile. The rusty bush landscape soaked in the orange sun makes Larrimah feel like an ideal retirement spot. But, as is always the case, there is trouble in paradise.Read More »
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they’ll execute his younger brother.Read More »
A re-release of an acclaimed documentary classic by John Darling – A film about the life and death of the 116-year-old Balinese Master-Artist.
In April 1978, in a village situated in the fertile central hills of Bali, the island’s greatest living artist died at the age of 116. Lempad’s longevity was cause enough for wonder, but the magnificent body of art and architecture that he left behind is a greater tribute to an unusual man. He lived his creative life through the most traumatic century of Balinese history.Read More »
Imdb:
A desperate man flees his home country of China, in an attempt to escape the curse of Malice, a dark malevolent and vengeful Chinese Nu Gui. Chinese folklore believes that these demonic souls only haunt males that have done them wrong in their past life. In an attempt to hunt down a former Shinto associate for help, Zheng takes refuge in the city of Brisbane, Australia. His efforts are futile as the nu gui stalks him at every moment, tormenting him, mentally destroying him for weeks until he breathes his final breath. His suicide ritual fails him and his letter becomes cursed by Malice.Read More »
A visual onslaught of artistic ideas, showing how art relates to and intertwines with our daily lives.
Art, personified here as an opera-singing Valkyrie, hang-glides down from the clouds to check on the state of the arts in Australia – from painting, writing and music to dance, theatre, puppetry and sculpture. Featuring John Bell, Anna Volska, Reg Livermore, Rory O’Donohue, David Gulpilil and the work of Thomas Keneally and Patrick White among others, this is a phantasmagoria of filmic effects.Read More »