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Post by foxley on May 16, 2023 9:36:54 GMT -5
Giallo Danny has a book, the 100 Best Australian films, or something like that. He’s been working on seeing them all for years. A lot of them are hard to find in the US. Whenever I see an Australian film, I mention it to him and he’ll tell me if he’s seen it or not, and what he thought of it. I saw Turkey Shoot a few years ago. Danny hasn’t seen it. It’s not on his list. Sometimes I tease him about his hoity toity list, snubbing Turkey Shoot like that. (I’m just kidding him. I’m no expert on Australian film. I wouldn’t know about Turkey Shoot if I hadn’t seen Not Quite Hollywood.) Long Weekend isn’t on the list either. He came across it on a streaming service by chance and gave it a go. Long Weekend is fairly obscure film, even here in Australia. But very well done. It's a very minimalist cast, with the two central characters and (I think) only another 3 or 4 speaking roles. Very creepy and unsettling. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 16, 2023 10:51:03 GMT -5
My friend Giallo Danny really likes Australian films and he was telling me that Long Weekend is really good. I’ll probably watch it in the next few weeks. The original 1978 film is a fantastic psychological horror film. I haven't seen the 20008 remake so I can't comment on it (although the cast is certainly good). I haven't seen it either......not sure I can hang on for another 1,785 years. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 16, 2023 11:02:37 GMT -5
I haven't watched much genre film stuff from Australia....mostly the usual things that got exported to the US, with the usual suspects: Bruce Beresford, Peter Weir, Mel Gibson, George Miller, etc. It was years before I saw Mad Max with the original audio, as the version here was redubbed and Mel sounded like Cliff Robertson. It was a bit of a surprise to hear him with an Australian accent, in Road Warrior. When I worked at B&N, we had gotten in a book on Australian film (probably mid-90s) and I had seen a fair amount of what the book called the Golden Years, with stuff like Galipoli, Mad Max franchise, Adv of Priscilla, Odd Angry Shot, the Snowy River films, etc. There was one obscure one mentioned in there I had seen, on USA Network and spent a few years trying to find it, on the internet, after I got online: Touch & Go. It's a caper film about a group of suburban women who pull off robberies, disguised as men, and use the proceeds to aid a school for under-privileged kids. They pull a big heist on the vault of an island resort, but then lose the money. Not the greatest thing in the world, but I enjoyed it and every time I tried to find it, it would turn out to be the American film Touch & Go, with Michael Keaton. Finally laid hands on a copy, via ebay.
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Post by foxley on May 17, 2023 2:54:03 GMT -5
I haven't watched much genre film stuff from Australia....mostly the usual things that got exported to the US, with the usual suspects: Bruce Beresford, Peter Weir, Mel Gibson, George Miller, etc. It was years before I saw Mad Max with the original audio, as the version here was redubbed and Mel sounded like Cliff Robertson. It was a bit of a surprise to hear him with an Australian accent, in Road Warrior. When I worked at B&N, we had gotten in a book on Australian film (probably mid-90s) and I had seen a fair amount of what the book called the Golden Years, with stuff like Galipoli, Mad Max franchise, Adv of Priscilla, Odd Angry Shot, the Snowy River films, etc. There was one obscure one mentioned in there I had seen, on USA Network and spent a few years trying to find it, on the internet, after I got online: Touch & Go. It's a caper film about a group of suburban women who pull off robberies, disguised as men, and use the proceeds to aid a school for under-privileged kids. They pull a big heist on the vault of an island resort, but then lose the money. Not the greatest thing in the world, but I enjoyed it and every time I tried to find it, it would turn out to be the American film Touch & Go, with Michael Keaton. Finally laid hands on a copy, via ebay. This is probably the wrong thread but, by necessity, Australia has become very good at making low budget films. The original Mad Max is an excellent example. (And also of guerilla film making. They didn't have permission to shoot some of the stunts they did on public roads, so they were shot early in the morning when the roads were empty. And many of the extras in the gang were actual Hell's Angels who were being paid in slabs of beer.)
If you like quirky caper films, I can recommend Malcolm; an 1986 comedy about an autistic mechanical genius who gets roped in by a pair of petty crooks looking to use his inventions to pull off a major heist. It was an early starring role for Colin Friels.
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