Movie Genre - Top Ten Australian Movies

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The Proposition
The Tracker
Ten Canoes
The Piano
Rabbit Proof Fence
Cars That Ate Paris
Lantana
The Castle
Shine
Bad Boy Bubby

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Piano is surely a NZ film?

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Youā€™re terrible blitz

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The Big Steal was great. Early Ben Mendlesohn and Claudia Karvan.

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Malcolm was very entertaining and Iā€™d second Bad Boy Bubby, Lantana and The Big Steal.

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Forgotten all about that one.

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Ah yes, @wimmera1, my mistakeā€¦It is mostly a NZ filmā€¦

The net tells me this: ā€˜Though the filmā€™s credits make no mention of it, as official co-productions are required to do, the film is generally considered a French/Australian/New Zealand co-production.ā€™ I guess that disqualifies it?

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I think the director plays a big part in the nationality of the film.
Obviously thereā€™s grey areas.
I wouldnā€™t call Driving Miss Daisy an Australian film.
But Iā€™d be more inclined to call Apocalypso an Australian film than a South American one.

Itā€™s tricky.
But The Piano is also set in NZ, soā€¦

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Point well taken. I guess that fact has always been obscured for me, because Holly Hunterā€™s character Ada may have been partly inspired by an old young gf of mine. Apparently Jane Campion met her in Braidwood, NSW at a party or some such social event.

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Any love for The Lighthorseman?
Simply Ballroom?
Dead Calm?

Oh and I know it;s a tv series, but Spyforce was just the ducks guts in our house.

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Muriel

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Didnā€™t love puberty blues on first watch but I reckon itā€™s one that stands up OK to rewatch.

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If weā€™re talking name dropping, my cousinā€™s in a couple of films named in here.

Gets to sing a little song, too.

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Canā€™t believe that The Adventures of Barry McKenzie hasnā€™t had a mention or more importantly Bazza holds his own.

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Go on then. Weā€™re paying attentionā€¦

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Thatā€™s no fun.

Penos knows!

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With Clive James having his ā€œbloodā€ drained by Donald Pleasanceā€™s vampires, only to have the blood come out amber.

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  1. The Quiet Room
  2. Look Both Ways
  3. Lonely Hearts
  4. My First Wife
  5. Travelling North
  6. Flirting
  7. A Womanā€™s Tale
  8. Innocence
  9. Mary and Max
  10. Feeling Sexy
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Lantana. Such an intelligent film.
Muriel
Proof
Wake in Fright. Once seen, never forgotten
Man of Flowers (Paul Cox)
The Castle

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Best soundtrack of an Aus film?