Word: morant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aussie's have done it again. First, there was the cute koala bear in the Quantas commercial, then there was Breaker Morant. Then there was "G'day Mate." And now, add Malcolm to the growing list of charming, unique treats imported from Down Under...
...Breaker Morant...
They recognize Film Producer Freddie Fields and his friends in the Polo Lounge, but Fields is a long way from Beverly Hills, on patrol in deepest North Carolina. With him are Australian Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies) and several indisputable movie stars--notably Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek and Jessica Lange--in addition to the assorted children, nannies, pets, significant others, caterers, crew members, drivers, accountants, studio biggies, flacks, journalists, rent-a-cops, cutpurses and dancing bears that accumulate when a film company hits the road. Fields, Beresford and the rest have come to North Carolina for the filming...
...Double features are double fun, said Donald N. Fawcett '89, who is interested in seeing Breaker Morant and The Tin Drum...
AMERICAN AUDIENCES are just awakening to the breadth of extraordinary cinematic talent emanating from Australia. Initially, only the films with distinctly Aussie themes made it to this side of the Pacific--films like Breaker Morant and Gallipoli, which depicted with a bloody poignancy the British manipulation of the colony's armed forces during the early part of this century. Other successful films like The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and The Last Wave were classified as uniquely Australian because they delved into the racial tensions between the white settlers of the continent and the Black Aborigines whom they tried to wipe...