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The Getting of Wisdom **** (1977, Susannah Fowle, Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, John Waters, Hilary Ryan, Barry Humphries) – Classic Movie Review 9350

Director Bruce Beresford’s attractive, episodic 1977 Australian coming-of-age film The Getting of Wisdom about turn-of-the-last-century girls’ school life is taken from an autobiographical novel by Henry Handel (Ethel) Richardson, with an effective screenplay by Eleanor […]

Feb, 05

A Cry in the Dark **** (1988, Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Nick Tate, Charles Tingwell, Lewis Fitzgerald, Bruce Myles, Dale Reeves) – Classic Movie Review 8899

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1988 A Cry in the Dark stars Meryl Streep, who gets to try an Aussie accent this time as Seventh Day Adventist Lindy Chamberlain who goes on a camping trip with husband […]

Sep, 12

Bliss **** (1985, Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8817

Director Ray Lawrence’s 1985 provocative Australian fantasy comedy drama Bliss is an Australian Film Institute Best Film/ Best Director/ Best Adapted Screenplay-winner about an adman who tries to shake himself to life again after the […]

Aug, 11

The Rescuers Down Under *** (1990, voices of Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy) – Classic Movie Review 8184

The 1990 cartoon animated adventure The Rescuers Down Under is the enjoyable Disney sequel to their 1977 hit The Rescuers, with the cartoon mice Bernard and Miss Bianca (again voiced by Bob Newhart and Eva […]

Mar, 01

Marine Raiders ** (1944, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 7383

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1944 RKO Radio Pictures release Marine Raiders is a minor but intriguing wartime action movie plus romantic drama, with the emphasis on the details of Second World War troop training. Pat O’Brien and […]

Aug, 01

My Brilliant Career **** (1979, Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Patricia Kennedy, Aileen Britton) – Classic Movie Review 7341

Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 Australian feminist drama My Brilliant Career stars Judy Davis, giving a commanding performance in her second film as Sybylla Melvyn, the fiercely independent, self-assured Aussie bush-farmer’s daughter who wants to take […]

Jul, 25

Rebel *** (1985, Matt Dillon, Debra Byrne, Bryan Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7309

Co-writer/ director Michael Jenkins’s 1985 Australian movie Rebel stars Matt Dillon as the eponymous American Marine sergeant Rebel, a traumatised American deserter from World War Two, who, while recuperating from battle, falls for married Aussie nightclub songbird […]

Jul, 19

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