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The mid-1900s had a slow start for Australian film, although the first Academy Award was won for an Australian film, Kokoda Front Line!. The industry picked back up during the 1970s with one of the first internationally released films, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and with the success of the series of Mad Max franchise films.
Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann [3] and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan.
Allied is a 2016 romantic war drama thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight.It stars Brad Pitt as a Canadian intelligence officer and Marion Cotillard as a French Resistance fighter who fall in love while posing as a married couple during a mission in Casablanca in 1942.
[and] if the film does really well he's going to need a lot of protection"; [6] reportedly, Kidman and Luhrmann set up a trust fund for Walters to secure his future. [ 7 ] Luhrmann, who also cast Walters in a Tourism Australia advertising campaign, claimed, "Our next leading man is about four-foot high, [with] long, sort of gold hair, and is an ...
Looking for Alibrandi is a 2000 Australian coming-of-age [3] [4] film directed by Kate Woods and written by Melina Marchetta (which she adapted from her 1992 novel of the same name). The film is set in 1990s Sydney, New South Wales and features a cast of Australian actors, including Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, the film's main character ...
[35] American critic Rex Reed, an early advocate of Wake in Fright, praised the film's restoration as "the best movie news of the year", and said it "may be the greatest Australian film ever made". [36] According to Australian musician and screenwriter Nick Cave, it is "the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence."
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Sue Charlton is a feature writer for her father's newspaper Newsday, and is dating the editor Richard Mason.She travels to Walkabout Creek, a small township in the Northern Territory of Australia, to meet Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee, a bushman reported to have lost half a leg to a saltwater crocodile before crawling hundreds of miles to safety.