Great list.
It’s a shame one has to put the late great Paul Cox in brackets. He is a national treasure and our greatest filmmaker.
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Interesting. Who is your cousin?
Mary and max was beautiful
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100% you wouldn’t know his name but I daresay you’ve seen him in stuff.
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Chopper
Two Hands
Idiot Box
Black Rock
Malcolm
Gallipoli
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Black Rock was Heath Ledgers first big screen role I believe.
Very minor role though.
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Look Both Ways is an interesting one. It came out at the same time as Little Fish (Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, and Sam Neill in a smaller but very important part). Look Both Ways won all the awards, but I always thought Little Fish was the better film. It was also one of the few films to feature a disabled actor (Martin Henderson, who only has one leg). The acting by all of them is outstanding, it’s very neatly plotted and there’s a very tense resolution.
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I quite like Little Fish. It has one of the great musical moments in film with a perfect reworking of Cold Chisel’s Flame Trees.
But I don’t have it anywhere near Look Both Ways, which I rate as an utter masterpiece (and in my view as good a film ever directed by a woman). Its narrative style, use of art and thought provoking existential themes are so perfectly captured. It’s a really beautiful film in every way.
Amazingly it was Sarah Watt’s debut. She was diagnosed with cancer during post production and made a fine film about her treatment experience entitled My Life Without Sex.
She died shortly after. Two films. What a waste of talent.
BTW, have we had a top 10 films by a female director yet?
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Kenny
Looking for Alibrandi
Dangerclose - Battle of Long Tan
Sweet country
Yeah, the kid from Cheese TV had a bigger role haha
No love for My Brilliant Career?
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Does Happy Feet count?
Absolute corker of a movie
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I was thinking of it, but I haven’t seen it since it was released. I remember one scene, but not much else. It was the first “big” movie (big for Australia, minuscule for the rest of the world) for Sam Neill and Judy Davis.
Let’s get real, Australia hasn’t made 10 good films.
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Films made in Australia or Australian movies?
I’ll give it a shot in no particular order
Crocodile Dundee
Australian Rules
Pitch Black
Romper Stomper
Cosi
Nugget
The Hard Word
Malcolm
The Big Steal
Charlie n Boots
Breaker Morant or watching Paint Dry 
. Except for the Alf Stewart moments, Paint gets the nod.
I disagree. I’m very proud of our movies. And our directors, cinematographers and technicians are world class.
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That’s fine, it’s just my opinion.
All the movies that I have seen listed are just average at best. None make my top 100 movies.
Have you seen the movie The School?
Gallipoli would easily make mine.