Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH HER NEW NOVEL, An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough appears to have forsworn the model for guaranteed success she patented four years ago. With The Thorn Birds she proved she knows how to tell a good tale; as soon as her sweeping saga of love and tragedy on the Australian Outback was released, there was no doubt that it would be a hit. Whether you read it with one eye on the kids as they built sand castles on the Jersey shore or saved it to consume during coffee breaks, the epic sucked you in with its portrayal...
After the early release of the Derek picture in the Post, the Lampoon received calls from the French paper Le Monde the London Daily Mail and two Australian papers, Martin said...
...American movie without the gloss of Hollywood or the sex appeal of the stars has ended the Australian monopoly. Heartland, an independent effort funded by a $600,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is an American Australian movie, with all the homespun loveliness, all the warmth, all the quietude of such films as My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant, and The Getting of Wisdom...
...Archy and Frank is at once simple and affecting as it unfolds through the short, lyrical scenes. Both Lee and Gibson acquit themselves well in their roles and give sound, straightforward performances. Weir's direction of the background characters is better still. As random soldiers, desert wanderers and Australian ranchers, the supporting actors turn in a number of superb vignettes...
...film's strongest suit, however, is the magnificent cinematography of Russell Boyd. One after another, rich sequences of film fill the screen. Shots of furtive faces seen through the wheels of a passing train, or of a shimmering Australian desert, or of boatloads of soldiers making an amphibious assault through an eerie bluish fog make Gallipoli the kind of movie that you would not want to leave even if the sound track broke...