"It was the greatest Carnival Attraction I’d ever seen… His Super Power was Music." – Colonel Tom Parker An Australian Film Brand With just six films over thirty years (1992-2022), Baz Luhrmann and his creative and marital partner Catherin Martin have successfully created their globally marketable brand, BAZMARK, from an Australian production base, with major […]
In Luke Carman’s 2013 debut, An Elegant Young Man, the Kerouac-revering narrator from Western Sydney had his wayward literary influences corrected by a university education, and went running back to ‘beat, beat, beat’ on the doors of his old friends to apprise them of the fact ‘that Australia is not the place for ecstatic truth’. As the coy repetition suggests, the evangelistic about-turn was an ironic one: Carman had no interest in preserving the sanctity of an ‘Australian’ voice, dramatisin...
In 1893 on an isolated property, a heavily pregnant woman named Molly Johnson (Leah Purcell) and her children struggle to survive the harsh Australian landscape; her husband is gone, droving sheep in the high country. Molly then finds herself confronted by a shackled Aboriginal fugitive named Yadaka (Rob Collins). As an unlikely bond begins to form between them, secrets unravel about her true identity. Meanwhile, realizing Molly’s husband is missing, new town lawman Nate Clintoff becomes susp...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before (thing) See all of These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by kessenich Fri Jan 12 2001 at 22:52:57 If you can love the Australian Prime Ministers, then you can love anyone. -Martin Wilson Martin Wilson usually paints, but was inspired to do a hooked rug series of Australian PMs for the Federation wh...