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I've had this filing system for a very
long time, since I was about 12 or

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something like that.

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It's updated almost every day.

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Basically the top part is major
directors, not every director, because

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would be impossible, but major
directors.

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So Peter Weir, all his films are listed
here.

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Starting with Count Vim's Last Exercise
in 1967,

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a short film.

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I know you can do these things today
through the internet, but I like my own

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system.

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He's a cinephile.

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So many of the filmmakers know him.

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Everywhere around the world.

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I can't imagine a life without film.

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I try to see a film every day.

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At least one.

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He lives in a celluloid world.

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Doesn't stop.

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I mean this in the nicest way possible.

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Professorial. Put out your hat!

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David Stratton is slightly terrifying
because he has an encyclopedic knowledge

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of cinema.

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It is his entire life. If you like, it's
his religion.

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Yesterday I was watching a 1934 film.

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Things I've missed.

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Trying to catch up on the past.

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He has seen more films than I think
anyone else I know.

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Well, he's definitely seen more than 1
,000. Tell him he's dreaming.

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Has he seen 10 ,000? I bet he has.

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The latest film I saw has a number of...
20 ,000.

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No.

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25 ,254.

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Oh, my goodness.

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Oh, my God. That doesn't obviously count
if I see them again.

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And that's one of the reasons David
Stratton is David Stratton, because he's

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seen more than you have.

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I don't know why I'm so obsessed. I
suppose it became an obsession when I

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young, and it just took over my life,
and it's still there.

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I think David has made an immense
contribution to Australian film, and I

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it's been unique.

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In the various roles that he's played,
he's taken Australian cinema to the

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world, but he's also brought world
cinema to us.

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the philosophical bloke from Broken
Hill.

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A story about Chips Rafferty and the
Overlanders, because the Overlanders had

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just come out.

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realize that means standing us in the
cattle out there, don't you? Well, we

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think this trip's crazy anyway. You're
likely to lose the whole lot, horses and

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all, so we're getting out.

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You could hardly not notice Chips
Rafferty. He was such an iconic figure

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film and he was so larger than life and
yet so down to earth.

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One of my friends at school at Salisbury
had an older sister, and she had

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Picturegoer. So I discovered Picturegoer
through Bridget.

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See, I remember her name.

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And I had a bit of a thing for Bridget.
She was, like, two years older.

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Yeah, so that's how I discovered it, and
I persuaded my parents to subscribe, to

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add it to their newspaper subscription.

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I don't think any of the family would
describe themselves as cinema lovers.

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We get on all right, but we're not close
because we have nothing in common at

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all. I'll be honest with you.

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I wouldn't care less if I never saw
another film in my life.

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Wowza. Right, Jackie, let her go.

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Take them over the top. Can't you see
it? Yeah.

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We'll have them climbing ladders before
we're through with them. This should be

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interesting.

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It wasn't a sealed road then. It was a
dirt road.

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Oh, yeah.

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Wake and Fright. That's a tough watch.

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Wow.

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No -one's going to live happily ever
after in that film.

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They screened the film. Somebody said to
me, I've got to go home and have a

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shower.

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I said, yes, that's what I want. I want
you to feel the heat, the sweat, the

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loneliness.

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Endless space.

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That space was damning.

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But one of the most devastating things
about the film for me was that Chips

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Rafferty, who was this great hero in The
Overlanders, was playing this policeman

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who is so friendly and yet so quietly
menacing.

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It's an incredible performance, and
sadly it was his last performance.

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You clever blacks never like to stop in
the one spot long, do you?

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Depends on the place.

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What about another beer?

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I think the whole thing with aggressive
friendliness is very interesting. When I

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was travelling, the same sort of thing
happened. Someone would shout you a

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and you only wanted one, but you had to
have another one, otherwise it was rude.

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He says, you know, let me buy you a
drink. And the guy says, no. And he puts

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hand on his shoulder and says, let me
buy you a drink. And it's terrifying.

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You know that bloke's going to say,
yeah, as many as you want to.

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My memorable moment with chips was on
the very first day in a pub. I said,

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action.

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What is this head? Cut.

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He said, this isn't real beer.

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I said, be sensible, chips.

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At this rate, by 10 o 'clock in the
morning.

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You'll be drunk. We'll have to send you
home, he said.

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Ted, darling, you look after the
directing, and I'll look after the

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He's only got two states of being.

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Dangerous or dead, nothing in between.

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Can I get you a beer?

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Get a film history around the old place?
A lot of film history around here,

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yeah. That's good.

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Cheers. Cheers.

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There was this extraordinary life, a
madness.

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When those scenes when they're driving
that car madly across the landscape,

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yahoo, head out the top.

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Ted Koch here brought a reality to the
screen that was crucial for all

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Australians and all would -be filmmakers
in this country to meet themselves for

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the first time.

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And I know people left the screenings
saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's

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us. That's not who we are. This is
terrible.

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The way a culture exists today can be
traced back to its origins. With the

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fleet rolling in, that violence is just
lurking below the surface.

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And sometimes it can be scary. And it
makes for powerful characters.

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Back in the early 80s, I wrote, few, if
any, Australian films made since Wake

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and Fright have had the intelligence,
the power, and the fearful beauty of

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masterly film.

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35 years later, I still think that's
true.

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My recollection of my brother David was
he wanted to see every film, every

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single one, in any language.

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And he would always write a critique of
it when he got home.

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I wouldn't mind betting that somewhere
in the barn are the first ones he ever

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wrote.

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Overlanders is 1946, so it's filed under
1946.

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And I've actually noted that I saw it at
the Gaumont Cinema in Trowbridge in

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1947.

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I haven't got an exact date. Well, you
can forgive me that because I was, you

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know, seven years old at the time.

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It's a very good film, widely proclaimed
and enjoyed by all.

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There are real thrills in the hardships
enjoyed by the travellers. A superb film

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in my childish handwriting.

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And a picture pasted in.

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Some people's hobby was collecting
stamps. Mine was collecting movies.

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I can remember him spending hours and
hours and hours doing that.

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In the summer holidays, I'd be out
playing cricket with my friends and he'd

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going to the movies and then writing
about it in his bedroom.

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My father thought it was a complete
waste of time.

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Muriel, did you steal this dress?

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No. You're terrible, Muriel.

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Sits around the house like a dead
weight.

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Watching TV, sleeping all day, getting
arrested at weddings.

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You're useless.

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You're all useless.

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PJ suddenly, you know, came out of the
gate and you're like, who is this guy?

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Better finish your orgasm.

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He just nailed the Australian humour.

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It came out of his memories of feeling
like an outsider in his own family,

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actually, in his own town, you know,
growing up in a sort of really ochre,

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Coast town.

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The main character is based on my
sister, but a lot of the things that

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you know, I experienced.

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We've told you a thousand times how to
do your hair, but you never listen. You

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never wear the right clothes.

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You're fat.

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You listen to... 17th music.

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A lot of the lines which get the biggest
laughs are things that people actually

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said.

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Hi. What a coincidence.

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You mental case!

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You keep away from us!

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Are you a real handler? No.

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The screenplay for Marriage Reading
really jumped out to me as

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Girls that I understood. She was this
kind of outsider and I went, well,

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I think I could play this.

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Nicole's having an affair with Chuck.

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Muriel saw them fucking in the laundry
on your wedding day.

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And look, not everybody got it. I
remember at the time reading, I think it

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Schofield who wrote this horrible review
about this dreadful movie about this...

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unfortunate fat actress who'll never be
seen again and her unattractive friend.

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You think I could be famous?

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Sure.

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For what?

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I don't know. I could be an actress.

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You're mental enough.

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Casting is everything.

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I look back on it and I go, what would
that film be like without those two

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women? But the most important thing is
to convince people that you two are

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really in love. What about the blonde?

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It's very funny.

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But there's such dark stuff in there.

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How can you stand this?

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You push me around in this chair. You
cook for me. You even help me dress. I

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hate it.

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But somehow it's a comedy.

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Have you left Mum for Deidre?

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I really cried for that mother when she
went to that wedding.

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It was so traumatic.

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I arrived at the church.

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And they were filming, filming, filming,
and no one had done anything with me,

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and I was just there, like, watching it.

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And then PJ came to me and said, oh, my
God, we've got to be out of here in 15

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minutes, and what are we going to do
with you?

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I said, bring her up the aisle, and I'll
get into the last pew.

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And he said, oh, God, that'll be good,
that'll be good.

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And I said to Tony Collette, when you
come up that aisle, do not, do not look

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me.

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So she came up the aisle and she walked
past me.

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And then I broke.

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And it was one take.

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As a filmmaker, you're always asked why
comedy and tragedy together

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as if the two have to sit at separate
tables.

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When I was growing up, I wanted to see
life as I experienced it, which was

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happiness, sadness, you know, sometimes
all in a morning.

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Muriel, you can't come barging in here
without warning, trying to turn Rhonda

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against the people who love her, against
the people who were there for her when

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she needed them.

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Yes, she can.

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Sorry, Mum, you know I love you, but you
drive me crazy.

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And you three want a bunch of
cocksuckers.

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People responded to that film because so
many people also felt like outsiders.

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He's had people all over the world come
up to him and say, I am Muriel.

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Even Julia Roberts said it to him.

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And he went, no, you're not.

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She said, I am, actually.

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When he left... He certainly gave the
impression that it was a holiday, a long

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holiday, but still a holiday.

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The fact that he'd been supporting the
Sydney Film Festival in some sort of

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voluntary way, maybe in the back of his
mind he'd thought, wouldn't it be

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wonderful if I could stay here and do
this?

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Any chance of getting The Forbidden
Planet again?

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You've seen it three times.

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When David started working at Stratton
Sons of Me, he probably bunked off in

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afternoons to go to the movies.

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There were rows over the supper table
about his performance, and the position

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that our father took was, well, it'll
never do you any good going to watch

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movies in the afternoon.

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Because on the one hand, it was a dream
job. I couldn't have imagined anything

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I'd rather do.

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But on the other hand, I had told my
father that I would go back to England

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work in the company and I felt an
obligation to that, so I was very, very

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I don't think I made a phone call at
all.

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I think I wrote him a letter.

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My father was beside himself with fury,
absolutely.

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I mean, he was dreadful for a few weeks.

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What's going on? Your brother's being an
idiot.

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So what's new?

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Did you know about this?

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Have you tried it?

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I think somehow with Lantana we did
touch

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on things that people recognised in
their own relationships, in their own

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families. they perhaps couldn't talk
about easily.

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Hello.

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You look like you're enjoying yourself.

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Yeah, I am.

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That's good you're having a good time
while our son's at home smoking pot.

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Leon, I know. I was the one that told
him if he's going to do it, he should do

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it at home where at least we can control
it. Why didn't you tell me?

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Because you haven't been around much
lately.

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I guess that's what I do really like
about films, getting under the surface,

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getting to that subterranean psychology
in people that...

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But it's what we're all about, really.

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Film is a bit more than just
entertainment to me.

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Film is the ideal medium to actually say
a few things that you can't say any

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other way.

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What about me?

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Oh, I almost forgot.

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You, my precious.

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You are my life.

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You are my life.

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If anybody asks me my

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favourite Brian Brown role...

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I honestly think I'd say Beautiful Kate.

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I sort of got to play a character I
hadn't played before. I didn't want to

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the part.

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When she said to me, you know, when she
said, I want you to play this man in it,

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I went, first of all, I'm not old
enough, Rachel.

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I said that in Toronto at the film
festival. The whole audience laughed.

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Why did you run off like that then?

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Can you answer me that?

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Look, we couldn't do this some other
time, could we?

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You have any idea?

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How much we needed you here.

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We didn't have a film industry at all.
Yes, we had newsreels, television had

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started, but we weren't...

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to make feature films.

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When I did my first short film, when he
was running the Sydney Film Festival,

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people would boo and hiss at the films
and get up and walk out.

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But I think having those public
screenings opened doors for young

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At this point, we need to decide whether
this preoccupation with violence is

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necessarily unhealthy.

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And the question is an enormously
complex one.

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I remember after the screening, a
distributor said, we've seen the film,

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really interesting, I'd like to
distribute the film.

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And I was so naive, I said to him, what
does distribute mean?

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In the 70s, his hair got longer and
longer and his beard got longer and

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Hello, hello?

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Michael.

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What are you doing? Nice to see you.

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That's why I remember you had long hair
and flares. Long beard down to here. You

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were never fashionable. I must say, you
know, a bit dorky. See, fashion never

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interested me. I know. You don't have to
tell me that.

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Consider a man who's resolute,
determined.

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It was like a whole lot of people
crawling across the desert and suddenly

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there's somebody with water.

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All these filmmakers suddenly came
across the sand and said, we want some

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this, we've got things to say.

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Hey, what a colossal bit of skirt.

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Anyway, Watch Under was shortened to
Chunder. At the time that Beresford...

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Humphreys and I were making Barry
McKenzie. Tim Burstall was making a film

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called Stalk. Both of them represented
the first wave of ochre filmmaking.

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Burstall then picked it up again with
Elvin Purple.

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Many people in Australia felt these
films were absolutely abhorrent and were

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looking for nicer, sweeter films.

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And lo and behold, along comes Pickett
Hanging Rock.

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What we see and what we seem.

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How about a dream?

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A dream within a dream.

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It's something about the character of
Miranda that is spooky.

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I won't be here much longer.

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She's connected to, you know, other
worlds. She knows things other people

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know. From the moment I read it, I was
so excited by just how different it

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Cheers, ladies.

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Hang and rock.

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Peter Webb was pushing things much
further than a lot of other directors in

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realms that were going beyond the
naturalistic.

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There's a magic inside that particular
story.

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I've seen Picnic at Hanging Rock dozens
of times, but this is the first time

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I've been here, and it is extraordinary.
I feel like I know the place, and yet,

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of course, I don't know the place.

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Peter Wynn made a beautiful piece of
art, a lyrical look at the Australian

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landscape, and juxtaposed with these
uptight, ditched -up... young Victorian

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schoolgirls. I thought

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it was deeply beautiful, spiritual. It

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wasn't just telling a story. He was
using the camera in a way that was very

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artistic and like a painter.

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I wanted the film to look like one of
those Impressionist paintings that was

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produced by Tom Robertson, etc.

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Paintings were very romantic and what
struck me is the way they used to use

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harsh Australian light and make it quite
beautiful.

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And don't worry about us, Mademoiselle.

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We shall only be gone a little while.

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It had quite an influence on me.

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I think I saw John Jarrett in it and
went, I want to be in a film.

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It did have a lot of beautiful girls in
it. Maybe that's got something to do

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with it too.

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I saw Picnic at Hanging Rock and went,
oh, I want to be in a film like that.

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I want to play Miranda.

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And it gave me such hope. I thought, you
can make a film like that in Australia?

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Well, maybe I can.

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But maybe the reason that the film
embedded itself so deeply in the

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consciousness is because of the
mysterious atmosphere that Peter Weir

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create.

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When the girls actually walk up through
that little gap in the rock the last

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time you see them, there was some part
of me quite psyched up and just doing

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that moment like something was going to
happen as we went through that gap.

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That moment, Peter does this incredible
cut.

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That stayed with me forever. That was
absolutely chilling and a real, that was

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incredible mastery of filmmaking.

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Something terrible has happened.

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The mystery of it, it was beguiling.

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What happened to those girls?

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How can it just leave us like that in a
state of not knowing? And yet what an

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interesting place for a film to leave
us. And I think that's one of the

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of why it's been such an important film
in the Australian psyche.

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Australian cinema was blossoming.

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So I grew up with a love of Australian
cinema.

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They were iconic Australian films, which
we were really proud of.

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When Gopaloo rocked up in that film, you
know, it just made me feel proud.

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It made me feel awesome.

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I remember distinctly feeling that this
is the first time I've sat in a movie

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theatre. The accents are your accents.

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There was something of me on that screen
and that's what I was connecting to.

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It just felt good to watch those films.

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You know, the decade of the 70s in
Australian film was really...

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A period of looking back at our history.
Totally.

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I mean, Newsfront, apart from being a
wonderful film, is so informative about

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what was happening in Australia in that
post -war period.

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What do you think of Ben Chifley?

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He's a bit common, ain't he?

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Common?

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Well, six years ago, he was still an
engine driver.

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Ben Chifley's the second best prime
minister we ever had, mate.

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Don't you forget that.

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I mean...

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I didn't have Snowball Pot and Cuddle
Pie read to me when I was a child.

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I had Enid Blyton.

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Enid Blyton?

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The girls?

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No, she wrote books for boys as well.

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Anyway, that's beside the point.

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I grew up not

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seeing myself on screen.

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There are more voices coming from
marginal cultures because I think the

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a single monolith is changing. And I
think that's kind of...

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I say, look at your parents.

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Hardworking migrants, work two jobs,
struggle all your life, buy your kids a

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house. Yeah, that's purpose.

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What I wanted to imbue through the story
was a really kind of intense emotional

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sense of the character.

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There's a melancholy to him, a sense
that he can never be the conformer that

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parents want him to be.

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He's also dealing with his sexuality. He
doesn't want to be labelled as gay.

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Suddenly the lights come down and you
are immersed in a completely different

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world.

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As a young boy of an immigrant Southern
European culture and a homosexual,

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you know, it was something forbidden and
ugly and dangerous.

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Head On was beautifully realised by Anna
Kokkinoff.

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It was also very interesting to see this
very brutal film come from a woman's

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mind and perspective.

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It was really powerful.

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I think I can feel a Greek record coming
on.

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I'm an advocate for people of different
backgrounds to be telling their own

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stories. You just get a different level
of understanding and emotional

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connection.

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As it

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started playing in cinemas, a

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lot of Greek Australians came to me and
said,

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This film has given us the capacity to
talk to our parents in a way we've never

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been able to speak before.

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We were eternally grateful to our
parents for slaving away in factories,

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also needed to sing our own song and be
hybrid cultural beings that we were

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without those burdens.

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I was born exactly a week after Britain
declared war on Germany.

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So all my infancy and early childhood, I
was living in England during a war

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situation.

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My father was around when I was very
small and I couldn't really remember,

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then he was posted to the Far East.

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My mother was a volunteer with the Red
Cross.

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My grandmother effectively looked after
me.

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Granny used to take David out to see a
matinee every afternoon at one cinema or

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another.

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You have to put yourself in the sort of
situation of the wartime.

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You never knew when a bomb was going to
land because they were in southern

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England.

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I think they use it as absolutely a form
of escapism.

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Part of the difficulty that my father
and my brother had...

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was because my brother didn't know him
for the first five or six years of his

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life, because when he came back from the
war, he was a stranger.

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What was it like without a father?

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All I can say is that when the war
ended, my father came home from Asia.

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I was six years old.

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Logan, P .S.'s father, played by John
Hargraves, is absent for most of the

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but there's a memorable scene in which P
.S. meets his father for the first

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time.

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Hi, P .S.

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Here's a present for you.

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What is it?

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Why don't you open it up and see?

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He bought a present.

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It was a balsa wood model plane. Not
unlike this, but it had to be assembled.

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And that was the last thing I was
interested in.

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I rejected my father's present.

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I mean, what a terrible thing to do.
He'd been away all those years. He was

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seeing me for the first time for many
years.

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In hindsight, I feel sad about that.

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He never said anything to me about it. I
think he must have been disappointed.

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But I was probably a nasty child.

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Yes.

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I think that was it.

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Here is the story of my career.

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my brilliant career.

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Once upon a time, to even want to be a
filmmaker, such as myself, if I say

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vainly, in 1952, was unthinkable.

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Don't you ever dream there's more to
life than this?

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I remember voicing it at a party and
saying, well, I'm going to make films,

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a girl saying indignantly, you can't say
that!

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And I said, well, I just said it.

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I was very scared of it and I didn't
think I was really ready.

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And it really was the moment when
someone said to me, oh, who are you

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cast? She's obviously got to be really
plain.

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And I said, well, why?

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And they said, well, because all the
time through the book, she's talking

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how ugly she is.

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Nobody loves me. And I went, duh.

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She's a girl, all women.

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pull themselves apart, especially in
adolescence.

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And that's when I thought, if a man does
this film, he'll completely stuff it

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up. He will never get it.

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How about a reward?

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Let me go.

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00:42:56,340 --> 00:42:58,200
No matter what, I have to do it.

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00:43:01,220 --> 00:43:02,720
Oh, the pillar.

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00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,640
Well, I was summoned to an audition.

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Margaret picked me up to go to the
casting.

474
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,260
I said, so is this a children's film?
Because she'd sent me the script.

475
00:43:14,740 --> 00:43:17,880
And she shrieked, no, no.

476
00:43:19,460 --> 00:43:24,120
And then I said, and, you know, what do
you have to do with the film?

477
00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:27,440
And she said, I'm the producer of this
goddamn movie.

478
00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:29,540
So it really didn't start well.

479
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,080
I was approached by one of them today.

480
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:32,980
He was very forward.

481
00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:35,020
He wanted to kiss me.

482
00:43:47,180 --> 00:43:51,320
I was working opposite this
extraordinary girl. This is like nothing

483
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:56,080
seen. She was vivid and alive and
present. What's the question?

484
00:43:56,420 --> 00:44:01,700
Bloody woman, I thought, I thought we
should get married.

485
00:44:03,460 --> 00:44:06,020
Well, what a handsome proposal.

486
00:44:06,620 --> 00:44:08,220
How could anyone say no?

487
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:14,240
She made it pretty clear from almost day
one that I was the lightweight.

488
00:44:16,860 --> 00:44:18,840
And never let me forget it.

489
00:44:20,820 --> 00:44:26,040
The film launched some brilliant
careers, not just Judy Davis as Sibylla

490
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,740
Neill as Harry Beecham, but also the
director, Gillian Armstrong.

491
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:35,560
I had a huge burden. Number one, it was
my first feature. Number two, I did

492
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:40,520
realise that all women were being
judged, really, on whether that film

493
00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:53,220
When Gillian suddenly came to prominence
and people were talking about, isn't

494
00:44:53,220 --> 00:44:56,680
this great, this is a woman director,
that's all I needed for me to go, yeah,

495
00:44:56,820 --> 00:45:01,880
OK, there's one, then there's going to
be more and I'm going to be one of them.

496
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,400
She's trying to kiss him.

497
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,000
Run!

498
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:09,400
Shut up. You shut up. What? This is
Bill.

499
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,440
David's initial reputation came out of
what he did at the Sydney Film Festival.

500
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:42,540
It was only through Variety that David
became kind of an internationally known

501
00:45:42,540 --> 00:45:47,240
critic. I wouldn't discount also his
look, because David was instantly

502
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:52,140
identifiable. The white hair, the white
beard, and kind of the same suit most of

503
00:45:52,140 --> 00:45:53,140
the time.

504
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:57,500
No other Australian critic became known
outside of Australia.

505
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,420
We used to ricochet into each other at
Cannes when I was over there trying to

506
00:46:03,420 --> 00:46:06,220
flog films and he was over there trying
to review them.

507
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,920
For a while, he joined me on the board
at the Australian Film Commission and

508
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,400
a very valuable ally.

509
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:18,680
And, of course, he was a warrior in the
cause of finding an audience for

510
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,820
Australian films, which was and remains
difficult.

511
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,020
This is my bat cave.

512
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:52,580
duty to try and do something with them.

513
00:46:52,780 --> 00:46:54,500
Bring them closer to our way of living.

514
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:12,040
Dreaming again?

515
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,200
You know, Barty, sometimes I dream I'm
out there with them.

516
00:47:15,940 --> 00:47:17,340
Maybe I will go one day.

517
00:47:17,700 --> 00:47:18,700
Just for fun.

518
00:47:19,020 --> 00:47:20,020
Oh, Jedda.

519
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,160
Whatever would you do out in the bush
with all those naked monkeys?

520
00:48:03,370 --> 00:48:04,470
Why was it controversial?

521
00:48:05,130 --> 00:48:10,030
Well, I think it was controversial
because my grandfather had the idea of

522
00:48:10,030 --> 00:48:15,350
casting two unknown Aboriginal people in
the lead roles, and that was just not

523
00:48:15,350 --> 00:48:18,750
thought of in the mid -50s. It must be
fun to dance a croppery.

524
00:48:19,190 --> 00:48:20,590
Real wild fellow, one.

525
00:48:21,299 --> 00:48:25,260
Charles went to Menzies at the time to
see what sort of assistance he could

526
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:27,800
and Menzies was very, very scathing of
the whole idea.

527
00:48:28,020 --> 00:48:31,260
And a lot of media people at the time
and industry people said, you know,

528
00:48:31,260 --> 00:48:34,080
never make a film again, it'll be death
at the box office.

529
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:40,140
And I think in some way, I think that
even propelled my grandfather even more

530
00:48:40,140 --> 00:48:41,140
make this film.

531
00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:47,220
You have to remember that when Jeddah
was made, the Indigenous people of this

532
00:48:47,220 --> 00:48:50,200
country were not even listed among the
population.

533
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,660
They were part of the flora and fauna.

534
00:48:54,320 --> 00:49:00,880
No -one else was presenting an
Aboriginal man, a young Aboriginal

535
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,340
worthy of admiration and being seen as
beautiful.

536
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,160
I remember seeing Jeddah when I was
really young.

537
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:17,360
When you look at it, the Indigenous
characters, they've been dubbed over and

538
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,000
they're just someone going...

539
00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:25,340
You know, and that's meant to be them
speaking.

540
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:36,700
So I just look at that and I'm so
appalled by that laziness that the

541
00:49:36,700 --> 00:49:37,700
had.

542
00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:44,740
So there's some challenges with that
film, but it was of its time.

543
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,780
Films of that era were meant to have a
happy ending.

544
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,200
To have a tragic ending like that,
there's something in people's minds for

545
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:21,200
to come.

546
00:50:40,810 --> 00:50:47,410
As long as I've got you to love me,
every day is gonna be a fun, tiny day.

547
00:50:55,850 --> 00:51:00,190
Samson and Delilah was, I thought, a
very confronting film.

548
00:51:00,450 --> 00:51:03,170
Did you set out to make a confronting
film?

549
00:51:03,730 --> 00:51:05,530
No, but yes.

550
00:51:08,370 --> 00:51:09,810
I had these two characters.

551
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,160
I'm going to write a petrol sniffer's
love story.

552
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:19,080
It is an incredibly dark film. I'd be
bullshitting not only to those two

553
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:24,160
characters, I'd be bullshitting to
Australia if I was to make that film any

554
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:25,160
lighter.

555
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,580
Samson and Delilah were in some ways a
beautiful simplicity.

556
00:51:32,220 --> 00:51:33,300
It's his power.

557
00:51:35,420 --> 00:51:37,840
Extraordinary performances from both
those kids.

558
00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:41,300
The boy dancing, I thought, was just
incredible.

559
00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:54,020
Some films can rise to being what you
can safely classify as a work of art.

560
00:52:19,470 --> 00:52:24,250
There I actually learned something for
the first time that I'm looking at a

561
00:52:24,250 --> 00:52:31,150
culture that is struggling in their own
land and the horror is quite

562
00:52:31,150 --> 00:52:32,150
overwhelming.

563
00:52:35,570 --> 00:52:42,510
When pain is truly there for a reason
because of the truth of the story and

564
00:52:42,510 --> 00:52:44,810
the truth of history and our existence.

565
00:52:45,740 --> 00:52:50,060
and Australia stands up and watches it,
that's so powerful and so beautiful.

566
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,440
One of my all -time favourite Australian
films.

567
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:01,540
Almost kind of Shakespearean on some
level, you know. The take on huge

568
00:53:01,540 --> 00:53:07,360
like truth and justice and give it to me
in a way that feels very human.

569
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:14,480
The characters started dictating to me
when I was writing what.

570
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,740
happens, well, one of them should really
die because they've been through so

571
00:53:19,740 --> 00:53:20,499
much abuse.

572
00:53:20,500 --> 00:53:24,500
And I had these two characters, Samson
and Delilah, going, we've fought this

573
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:28,120
hard, we've fought this strong, and
we've been through so much shit.

574
00:53:28,700 --> 00:53:30,560
How dare you try and kill us all?

575
00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:31,900
We're going to live.

576
00:53:48,740 --> 00:53:52,840
Warwick Thornton Sampson and Delilah was
a catalyst for Indigenous filmmaking

577
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:57,620
and absolutely opened the floodgates for
people to go, wow, look at this,

578
00:53:57,740 --> 00:53:58,960
another way of storytelling.

579
00:54:02,220 --> 00:54:05,100
Those characters resonated so
powerfully.

580
00:54:05,340 --> 00:54:10,080
But, you know, it's not depressingly
bleak. It gives you something to hang on

581
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,960
to, which is tremendously important.

582
00:54:25,390 --> 00:54:30,610
I think that our censorship people tend
to overprotect us most horribly, and I

583
00:54:30,610 --> 00:54:36,110
think they have a very poor idea of what
we in this country can take.

584
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:07,740
It was films of real stature and real
importance that were being attacked by

585
00:55:07,740 --> 00:55:12,660
Philistines at the film censorship board
at the time. They were ignorant, stupid

586
00:55:12,660 --> 00:55:16,680
people. You're seeing an abridged,
mutilated version.

587
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,860
Now, that's criminal. Just making my
hackles rise now just to think of it.

588
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:56,840
Turkey Shoot is one of the most sadistic
and pointlessly violent films that's

589
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,960
ever been made in this country. It
really is an obnoxious piece of work.

590
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:12,560
My big disappointment, I suppose, is
that David

591
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:15,100
Stratton didn't like it. He didn't
get...

592
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:22,220
My particular sense of humour, my sense
of irony, and the fact that cinema now

593
00:56:22,220 --> 00:56:27,560
and again has to be outrageous. And I
like occasionally to make outrageous

594
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:28,560
cinema.

595
00:56:30,860 --> 00:56:32,480
Almost... No.

596
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,500
No, I don't know what else to say about
Turkish shit.

597
00:56:46,150 --> 00:56:50,790
Today, some of the Osploitation films
have achieved cult status, and some of

598
00:56:50,790 --> 00:56:53,630
them are pretty good. Patrick, for
example, is one of the better ones.

599
00:56:59,110 --> 00:57:03,350
But the one Osploitation film that
stands head and shoulders above the

600
00:57:03,350 --> 00:57:04,490
course, is the first Mad Max.

601
00:57:24,439 --> 00:57:27,000
I believed it. I believed that that was
the future.

602
00:57:27,420 --> 00:57:30,200
That's what my future was going to look
like. And it was in my country.

603
00:58:10,730 --> 00:58:14,410
Well, George, I don't know whether
you've ever seen this, but back in 1979,

604
00:58:14,730 --> 00:58:20,010
there was a preview of a film called Mad
Max, and that was the first review I

605
00:58:20,010 --> 00:58:21,410
did for Variety for which I got paid.

606
00:58:24,230 --> 00:58:26,530
Something of a new departure for
Australian films.

607
00:58:26,810 --> 00:58:30,190
All stops out, fast -moving exploitation
pic. Have a look.

608
00:58:30,710 --> 00:58:32,990
Wow. And it's a good review.

609
00:58:34,070 --> 00:58:35,870
I was quite excited about it, I
remember.

610
00:58:37,850 --> 00:58:39,750
Nor does he dwell on the violence.

611
00:58:40,530 --> 00:58:45,130
Plenty of horror is implied, but very
little seen.

612
00:58:46,510 --> 00:58:51,370
The death of Max's wife and baby is shot
in a particularly distant way.

613
00:59:00,810 --> 00:59:04,310
I'm glad you picked that up because it
was one of the big, big things. I know.

614
00:59:04,610 --> 00:59:05,950
It's just so implied.

615
00:59:06,310 --> 00:59:11,320
Yeah. It diffuses the film with a
certain degree of a feeling of violence.

616
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,720
people remember things that weren't
actually on the screen.

617
00:59:16,420 --> 00:59:18,920
It looks like being a winner down under.

618
00:59:21,220 --> 00:59:22,220
And it was.

619
00:59:22,300 --> 00:59:23,300
Yeah.

620
00:59:43,020 --> 00:59:48,580
It's terrific seeing films and hearing
all about them. Because I love film.

621
00:59:48,580 --> 00:59:49,880
the highlight of my week.

622
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:56,400
We started off at the very beginnings of
cinema in the 19th century, and we're

623
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:57,400
now up to 1959.

624
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:05,180
I would say David, among all the
international critics, had a wide

625
01:00:05,180 --> 01:00:08,880
cinema that was kind of unsurpassed, if
not unequalled.

626
01:00:10,220 --> 01:00:13,880
I do know the course is 10 years, but I
can tell you something that you may not

627
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,480
know. It's not going to finish at the
end of the 10th year if he's got

628
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:17,480
to do with it.

629
01:00:18,100 --> 01:00:19,500
He speaks with us too.

630
01:00:22,260 --> 01:00:27,440
There will be no mobile phones, no noisy
food wrapping.

631
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:30,000
And we have to hold our bladders.

632
01:00:31,530 --> 01:00:35,130
I think we're all going to be on Zimmer
frame by the time the thing finishes.

633
01:00:35,310 --> 01:00:38,010
We'll continue until we're on our
walking sticks.

634
01:00:38,250 --> 01:00:39,250
Something may be longer.

635
01:00:39,390 --> 01:00:40,388
I'm not sure.

636
01:00:40,390 --> 01:00:43,630
Time just doesn't seem to matter when
you're having so much fun.

637
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:10,300
So in June 1972, I was driving in a car
and, of course, without my knowledge, I

638
01:01:10,300 --> 01:01:12,040
was being followed by ASIO officers.

639
01:01:13,100 --> 01:01:16,960
They followed me for a while and then
lost me, which seems a bit careless,

640
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:18,040
really.

641
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:23,040
It came out not so long ago that there
was a file on him in ASIO because of his

642
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:25,980
trips to Russia. I mean, how pathetic is
that?

643
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,620
So this is me.

644
01:01:33,050 --> 01:01:39,970
in 1969, apparently a dangerous spy,
going into the Soviet embassy

645
01:01:39,970 --> 01:01:40,970
in Canberra.

646
01:01:41,550 --> 01:01:45,570
Actually, of course, what I'm doing is
I'm picking up a visa so that I can

647
01:01:45,570 --> 01:01:47,970
attend the Moscow International Film
Festival.

648
01:01:48,410 --> 01:01:51,810
I don't think you're a real Australian
if you don't have an ASIO file.

649
01:01:52,170 --> 01:01:57,830
I mean, if you've shown a passionate
interest in the world around you, you

650
01:01:58,070 --> 01:01:59,770
as they say, a person of interest.

651
01:02:12,750 --> 01:02:13,750
Bastards.

652
01:02:40,650 --> 01:02:44,590
Okay, stop it there. It gets boring
after this. I just yelled. It wasn't

653
01:02:44,590 --> 01:02:45,590
go and tell people.

654
01:02:46,350 --> 01:02:50,430
Has anybody got a torch? The dingo's got
my back. The dingo. They must think

655
01:02:50,430 --> 01:02:51,850
we've come down the last bloody shower.

656
01:03:07,930 --> 01:03:09,730
Okay, this is Evil Angels.

657
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:14,360
A film that will divide a nation.

658
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:19,740
It was like everyone in Australia had a
theory.

659
01:03:20,260 --> 01:03:25,640
It was everybody, everywhere, from every
walk of life, in every different

660
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:31,380
situation, having an opinion, expressing
it rather aggressively.

661
01:03:31,980 --> 01:03:38,020
I can't believe how the dingo can have
taken the baby.

662
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:45,800
I wanted to show all of those groups a
whole picture of

663
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:51,060
what was actually against the
Chamberlains.

664
01:03:51,300 --> 01:03:53,680
What about this stuff here about
sacrifice in the wilderness?

665
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,740
It's a pretty weird name, isn't it? No,
no, no, no. Now, I heard it means

666
01:03:58,740 --> 01:04:00,400
sacrifice in the bloody wilderness.

667
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:03,380
Evil Angels is a masterpiece.

668
01:04:04,220 --> 01:04:08,680
It's a way of telling a story by
fragmenting it into different groups,

669
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:11,020
sentence to another person, picking
another dinner party.

670
01:04:11,340 --> 01:04:16,240
That style actually was a generation
changer for storytelling.

671
01:04:36,430 --> 01:04:40,050
A lot of people found it very strange
for a mother to dress their child in

672
01:04:40,050 --> 01:04:45,170
black, and they saw it as an unnatural
colour for a baby. It added weight to

673
01:04:45,170 --> 01:04:49,770
that rumour or myth that Azaria, in
fact, had been sacrificed in the desert.

674
01:04:50,450 --> 01:04:53,550
The kid was always dressed in black. So
was the bloody mother.

675
01:04:53,930 --> 01:04:56,850
She dressed it in black all the time.
Well, I heard a rumour that the kid was

676
01:04:56,850 --> 01:04:59,530
really bloody cracked, and she couldn't
handle it, and that's what happened.

677
01:04:59,790 --> 01:05:01,150
What good is prayer?

678
01:05:02,990 --> 01:05:06,170
The only thing God's good for at the
moment is to stop me from... cutting my

679
01:05:06,170 --> 01:05:07,690
throat because that's what I feel like
doing.

680
01:05:09,610 --> 01:05:13,650
It was a tough shoot for Meryl and
myself. I mean, we were playing real

681
01:05:13,650 --> 01:05:18,490
characters. We did feel a sense of
responsibility to those real people.

682
01:05:18,750 --> 01:05:22,990
And we knew we were doing a film that
wouldn't be particularly popular with a

683
01:05:22,990 --> 01:05:26,590
lot of Australians because so many
people had made up their minds.

684
01:05:26,990 --> 01:05:28,450
It won't be much longer than we actually
had.

685
01:05:30,810 --> 01:05:34,470
From my point of view as an Englishman
who came to Australia, that whole...

686
01:05:34,670 --> 01:05:40,290
chamberlain case revealed a very ugly
side to the australian character and the

687
01:05:40,290 --> 01:05:46,590
film really taps into that big time you
hear people say a dingo stole my baby

688
01:05:46,590 --> 01:05:52,350
it's always a kind of gag line and i
kind of gag when i hear it because a

689
01:05:52,350 --> 01:05:58,830
did steal that baby and she did say that
and my heart goes out to them and every

690
01:05:58,830 --> 01:06:03,490
time i hear that i just have to restrain
myself

691
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:06,580
because it pisses me off, actually.

692
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:07,880
It's piss off.

693
01:06:10,220 --> 01:06:14,340
Alice Lynn Chamberlain, you have been
found guilty of murder.

694
01:06:15,620 --> 01:06:20,820
There is only one sentence I can pass on
you, which would be imprisoned with

695
01:06:20,820 --> 01:06:21,820
hard labour for life.

696
01:06:54,220 --> 01:06:58,660
I would say that film Evil Angels was
absolutely crucial in changing

697
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:03,940
I think probably before the release of
that film, I would think many, many,

698
01:07:03,940 --> 01:07:07,660
people still believed that she was
guilty.

699
01:07:21,700 --> 01:07:23,180
And the winner is...

700
01:07:48,089 --> 01:07:49,470
It's a wonderful movie. I love it.

701
01:07:53,100 --> 01:07:58,120
Shut up. I've got my lion adlib. And I
was full of enthusiasm. You cut me off

702
01:07:58,120 --> 01:07:59,120
the part.

703
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:09,880
You're never being a hairdresser, but I
can tell you that.

704
01:08:13,700 --> 01:08:17,319
Hi, it's movie show time again. I'm
Margaret Pomerant. And I'm David Strath.

705
01:08:20,620 --> 01:08:21,519
Good evening.

706
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:22,520
Hi.

707
01:08:35,210 --> 01:08:38,149
Of course, the world was divided between
people who agreed with you and people

708
01:08:38,149 --> 01:08:39,149
who agreed with me. I know.

709
01:08:39,770 --> 01:08:43,029
Everybody who came up to me said, well,
actually, I agree with Margaret always.

710
01:08:43,350 --> 01:08:45,229
They say they agree with me always, too.

711
01:08:45,770 --> 01:08:47,410
You know how to hurt a person.

712
01:08:49,750 --> 01:08:52,890
This one's for the Raincoat Brigade,
don't you think, David? I think this was

713
01:08:52,890 --> 01:08:55,870
very funny film. One half, and it's
lucky to get that.

714
01:08:56,609 --> 01:08:58,010
So many of us watched it.

715
01:08:58,410 --> 01:09:01,910
I mean, I completely understand that
these things reach an end, but it's a

716
01:09:01,910 --> 01:09:02,910
I think we all miss it.

717
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:07,560
Seems to me that everything that I
embrace in this film repels you.

718
01:09:07,779 --> 01:09:12,620
David and Margaret disagreeing was
better than David and Margaret agreeing.

719
01:09:13,100 --> 01:09:16,359
I can only give it one because I was
very bored. David, what the hell is

720
01:09:17,460 --> 01:09:20,880
That's a classic. Margaret's dirty,
smoky laugh.

721
01:09:21,580 --> 01:09:24,180
Have you laid an egg?

722
01:09:25,060 --> 01:09:28,640
I never missed that show when I was
growing up because...

723
01:09:28,890 --> 01:09:32,670
To me, it was a way of looking at cinema
that I wanted to hear. I wanted to hear

724
01:09:32,670 --> 01:09:33,870
the way they critique movies.

725
01:09:34,170 --> 01:09:38,029
It's a knockout. David, if you didn't
love this film... I loved it.

726
01:09:38,470 --> 01:09:43,830
People who would never listen to a film
critic got interested and said, I want

727
01:09:43,830 --> 01:09:44,830
to go and see that film.

728
01:09:45,090 --> 01:09:49,189
There are deeply divided opinions about
our next film tonight. It's an R -rated

729
01:09:49,189 --> 01:09:51,390
Australian film, Rompastompah.

730
01:10:16,390 --> 01:10:21,010
Most people had a strong reaction to it,
one way or another, but whether it was

731
01:10:21,010 --> 01:10:23,730
negative or positive, they were engaged.

732
01:10:24,370 --> 01:10:25,950
No one took their eyes off it.

733
01:10:26,490 --> 01:10:32,690
This is not your country. I know that
people see it as a racist film. I

734
01:10:32,690 --> 01:10:33,990
profoundly disagree.

735
01:10:53,290 --> 01:10:54,790
I can't score it at all, I'm afraid.

736
01:10:56,390 --> 01:11:01,390
David took a moral stand about it. He
wouldn't give it any stars on his TV

737
01:11:01,390 --> 01:11:03,890
program, which I thought was a step too
far.

738
01:11:04,190 --> 01:11:06,750
This is a dangerous film. Give me a
break.

739
01:11:07,230 --> 01:11:10,990
But pompous windbag that he was, he did
us a great favour.

740
01:11:18,910 --> 01:11:21,710
I remember Rumpus Dompert.

741
01:11:22,380 --> 01:11:25,820
hitting us in Melbourne like a brick
across the head.

742
01:11:27,980 --> 01:11:33,560
One of the kind of films that you talked
about, have you seen Rumpa Stumpa?

743
01:11:37,100 --> 01:11:43,140
Rich people and

744
01:11:43,140 --> 01:11:47,480
powerful people brought in boatloads of
human trash.

745
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:50,080
Cheap labour.

746
01:11:51,690 --> 01:11:53,010
This book was written by Adolf Hitler.

747
01:11:56,910 --> 01:12:00,110
It's simply about the ongoing struggle
of the white race and the enemies it

748
01:12:00,110 --> 01:12:01,110
faces.

749
01:12:01,970 --> 01:12:05,990
We all got arrested as a group one
night. We'd been drinking in a pub, and

750
01:12:05,990 --> 01:12:09,750
thought, you know, I can just talk to
the sergeant, you know, I'll explain

751
01:12:09,870 --> 01:12:13,330
you know. And I said, look, sorry, sir,
but, you know, we're actually actors,

752
01:12:13,490 --> 01:12:15,670
you know. I know we've got no hair, I
know we've got the boots on and

753
01:12:15,670 --> 01:12:19,590
everything, but we're actors, we're
making a movie. And he goes, actors, eh?

754
01:12:20,620 --> 01:12:21,620
Yeah, you're just an actor.

755
01:12:21,980 --> 01:12:25,780
Well, I hope you're a method actor, son,
because you're going to fucking enjoy

756
01:12:25,780 --> 01:12:26,940
this. Put him in the cells.

757
01:12:28,620 --> 01:12:29,620
How you going?

758
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:35,540
Russell Crowe is the embodiment of the
themes that I wanted to explore. That

759
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:39,300
there is something raw about Russell, a
little bit primitive.

760
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:44,500
He's not afraid to engage his primordial
instincts.

761
01:12:45,140 --> 01:12:46,880
There was a fire inside of him.

762
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:48,200
Still is.

763
01:12:48,380 --> 01:12:53,180
What happened, mental bitch? Mental
bitch? I heard what you just said.

764
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:12,920
There's a story behind that, but I'm not
going to embarrass you by telling it.

765
01:13:12,980 --> 01:13:13,980
Tell the story.

766
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:15,199
Embarrass me.

767
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:18,220
You said in Cannes that the negatives
should be burned.

768
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,500
I don't think I ever said that.

769
01:13:26,180 --> 01:13:33,120
I saw him there, glass of wine in his

770
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:35,700
hand, pontificating to several people.

771
01:13:36,020 --> 01:13:37,420
Phil Noyce was there, I think.

772
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:39,059
Various people.

773
01:13:39,060 --> 01:13:42,840
Yeah. And he looked up. I didn't like
the way he looked at me. And Geoffrey

774
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:46,840
in and threw a glass of wine all over me
and said, keep away from my movies.

775
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:50,880
Stay away from my film, you fucker, is
what he said.

776
01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,980
It didn't matter what I said in that
moment. I had to say something.

777
01:13:55,860 --> 01:13:58,740
David, you know, a filmmaker makes a
film.

778
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:00,220
It's like a baby.

779
01:14:00,440 --> 01:14:05,060
And, you know, us critics sit there and
say, well, your baby's ugly.

780
01:14:05,580 --> 01:14:07,700
Of course, you know, that...

781
01:14:08,190 --> 01:14:09,068
That's upsetting.

782
01:14:09,070 --> 01:14:14,550
But at the same time, you could argue
that our viewers, they deserve to be

783
01:14:14,550 --> 01:14:16,330
the truth as we see it.

784
01:14:17,530 --> 01:14:21,210
And if I saw him again, I'd do it again,
except with a red.

785
01:14:24,170 --> 01:14:25,450
Holy shit, David!

786
01:14:25,950 --> 01:14:27,650
What do you do with my business, all
right? You're coming to me.

787
01:14:27,870 --> 01:14:29,170
Get your hands off me, bro.

788
01:14:29,430 --> 01:14:32,490
Let him go, bro. What do I have fucking
business with? Fucking let him go, bro.

789
01:14:41,450 --> 01:14:42,450
You ever swear to God before?

790
01:14:45,370 --> 01:14:46,370
Feel good?

791
01:14:49,010 --> 01:14:50,010
You want to say it?

792
01:14:52,530 --> 01:14:53,530
That's my boy.

793
01:14:54,110 --> 01:14:55,270
What in the skull?

794
01:14:59,750 --> 01:15:00,750
Oh, no.

795
01:15:03,710 --> 01:15:06,570
They didn't have him in a still, did
they, Britt? What do you think Jarl is,

796
01:15:06,650 --> 01:15:08,690
Mum? We're in a holiday camp. Yeah.

797
01:15:08,910 --> 01:15:10,710
Oh, she goes. You just missed him.

798
01:15:11,130 --> 01:15:12,810
That's all right. I like you better.

799
01:15:13,310 --> 01:15:14,310
You've got to go!

800
01:15:22,310 --> 01:15:25,350
One of the ways in which I thought this
movie might be a little bit different,

801
01:15:25,470 --> 01:15:30,130
it's a crime film, but really it's a
crime film about a family of armed

802
01:15:30,130 --> 01:15:34,550
in which you never see them commit an
armed robbery. What you're seeing is

803
01:15:34,610 --> 01:15:36,410
their last days.

804
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:44,600
The show reinvented the crime picture
effectively with Animal Kingdom.

805
01:15:53,480 --> 01:16:00,460
We like to observe the dark side

806
01:16:00,460 --> 01:16:01,239
of life.

807
01:16:01,240 --> 01:16:03,680
I've met a number of crims in my time at
different times.

808
01:16:04,140 --> 01:16:08,200
They've always been, you know,
characters, charming characters.

809
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:10,180
I wouldn't want to rely on them.

810
01:16:10,440 --> 01:16:12,140
Hello? Oh, hello, darling.

811
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:15,280
No, one of those days, having a bloody
crisis.

812
01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:17,640
I remember when I did Two Hands.

813
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:20,040
I'm playing origami with my kid.

814
01:16:20,500 --> 01:16:21,820
Morris, phone.

815
01:16:22,980 --> 01:16:26,400
Oh, shit. You know, at the same time I'm
on the phone, I say... Yeah, fucking

816
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:28,080
where? Make sure you kill the bastard.

817
01:16:28,420 --> 01:16:30,620
That's a lovely -looking pterodactyl.

818
01:16:31,020 --> 01:16:34,520
You always read about these killers or
whatever and they go, he's such a nice

819
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,240
bloke, I used to see him playing with
his children.

820
01:16:37,220 --> 01:16:39,340
Well, he did, you know.

821
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:45,040
You're not to play with that, all right?
Dad's got a splitting bloody headache.

822
01:16:56,620 --> 01:16:57,620
Ned Kelly.

823
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:00,580
I'm sure I've heard that name somewhere.

824
01:17:01,380 --> 01:17:02,480
I'm sure you have, Kurt.

825
01:17:23,790 --> 01:17:28,290
This looks pretty unassuming, but in
fact it's incredibly exciting and

826
01:17:28,290 --> 01:17:33,530
incredibly important because this is a
reel from the first feature film made

827
01:17:33,530 --> 01:17:34,930
anywhere in the world.

828
01:17:36,890 --> 01:17:42,930
And it was made here in Australia, the
story of the Kelly Gang, made in 1906.

829
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:05,300
Hollywood didn't even exist.

830
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:08,300
There was no film industry, really,
anywhere in the world.

831
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,960
They were just making it up as they went
along. They had to stage the scenes,

832
01:18:23,100 --> 01:18:27,400
frame them, shoot them, how the actors
would behave. It was all completely and

833
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:28,400
utterly new.

834
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:34,560
Strictly Boreham is the Australian
battler's dream, but presented in a

835
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,960
original way. I'd never seen anything
quite like it before.

836
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:40,920
It's colourful, it's flamboyant, there's
not a gum tree in sight.

837
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:47,020
It was no excuse for what Scott did.

838
01:20:11,470 --> 01:20:15,430
Baz Luhrmann is somebody who actually
sees the world differently.

839
01:20:15,750 --> 01:20:18,770
Hit the nail on the head, Merv. Let's
not start chucking the babies out with a

840
01:20:18,770 --> 01:20:24,530
bathtub. The way he photographs the
film, there is often a slightly

841
01:20:24,530 --> 01:20:25,530
dimension.

842
01:20:26,330 --> 01:20:28,850
This kind of little bit of madness.

843
01:20:29,310 --> 01:20:32,610
I've got my happy face on today, Liz.
Everything's going to be all right.

844
01:20:35,310 --> 01:20:37,770
It was so unusual. Oh, my God.

845
01:20:38,090 --> 01:20:42,700
It was like a breath of fresh air, but
not... meaning that everything before it

846
01:20:42,700 --> 01:20:45,540
was dull, but it was like, OK, let's go
this way.

847
01:20:54,620 --> 01:21:00,140
He took Shakespeare and turned it into a
gang war picture without losing what

848
01:21:00,140 --> 01:21:02,780
Shakespeare, you know, intended for it.

849
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:08,400
Everyone was just like, what is this?

850
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:10,640
I was thinking, Baz Luhrmann's the
coolest.

851
01:21:10,980 --> 01:21:12,180
I want to work with him.

852
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:21,760
Oh, my gosh, Willem Roos. It was crazy
bold at

853
01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:24,340
the time. I mean, now it sort of looks
like, oh, yeah, of course.

854
01:21:26,720 --> 01:21:31,040
Flying around in a trapeze at, like,
midnight, running my hand over all those

855
01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:32,120
men with their top hats.

856
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:34,120
Amazing.

857
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:42,360
But, you know, I always liked Strictly
Borum best because it was made with such

858
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,300
tenderness and such passion.

859
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,740
As Bant himself once said, it's a little
film that could.

860
01:22:14,350 --> 01:22:16,890
You're David Helfgott. That's right,
Vera, that's right, that's right, that's

861
01:22:16,890 --> 01:22:19,470
right. I used to watch you win all those
competitions.

862
01:22:22,910 --> 01:22:25,510
Hey, baby, what about a tune?

863
01:22:25,750 --> 01:22:27,550
A tune, baby, sure, no worries, no
worries.

864
01:22:33,470 --> 01:22:35,170
Oh, sock it to us, Liberace.

865
01:22:35,950 --> 01:22:38,990
When you talk to financiers, they'd say,
well, we love this script, who can

866
01:22:38,990 --> 01:22:42,590
possibly play this? And you go, well...
I've got this brilliant actor, you see,

867
01:22:42,670 --> 01:22:46,050
and he's named Geoffrey Rush, and he's
just before the die -in of the

868
01:22:46,050 --> 01:22:51,870
stage, and they go, oh, he's never done
any film? How old is he? I said, well, I

869
01:22:51,870 --> 01:22:55,830
think early 40s. They said, early 40s,
never done a film? What sort of a

870
01:22:55,830 --> 01:22:56,830
is this guy?

871
01:23:05,170 --> 01:23:07,230
Scott and I visited David Helfgott.

872
01:23:07,750 --> 01:23:09,930
We played around with...

873
01:23:10,250 --> 01:23:16,670
Could David's hands in a form of
puppetry in the right shots be my hands?

874
01:23:16,950 --> 01:23:20,510
It was David's hands and Geoffrey's face
acting away.

875
01:23:22,450 --> 01:23:27,870
So we get a little closer to production
and Geoffrey says to me, you know, I

876
01:23:27,870 --> 01:23:31,930
don't know that I can be David if he's
in the room with me.

877
01:23:33,370 --> 01:23:35,710
I said, well, that's a bit of a problem,
isn't it?

878
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:44,480
I knew enough about filmmaking by then
to say, as long as the keyboard, my

879
01:23:44,480 --> 01:23:51,480
and my head are all in shot at the same
time, I can give you bars 1 to 40

880
01:23:51,480 --> 01:23:57,700
on the Hungarian, List Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 2, but on these bars, it's

881
01:23:57,700 --> 01:24:01,120
out of my league, and that's when you've
got to cut away to the people at the

882
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:03,180
bar going, he's very good, isn't he?

883
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:16,340
David, when I met him, a huge amount of
his conversation was about his father,

884
01:24:16,440 --> 01:24:20,960
who just seemed to be ever -present in
his mind. The shadow of his father was

885
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:27,960
there. You can't... I am your father,
who has done everything for you!

886
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:35,220
Everything! When I first showed the film
to David, which is a scary

887
01:24:35,220 --> 01:24:36,620
experience... Hello, David.

888
01:24:38,220 --> 01:24:43,060
And he sat there on the floor, actually
clinging to my leg, sitting on a couch.

889
01:24:47,100 --> 01:24:51,000
No one will love you like me. No one
like me.

890
01:24:52,740 --> 01:24:58,220
At the end of the screening, he said, I
wish my daddy had been as nice as that.

891
01:25:00,740 --> 01:25:05,420
I mean, really, that was something.

892
01:25:09,770 --> 01:25:15,410
It's almost as if the film helped to
sort of exorcise a demon in a way.

893
01:25:15,770 --> 01:25:17,170
The thing is, I feel nothing.

894
01:25:28,910 --> 01:25:32,730
And finally, to all those people who
were happy to bankroll the film as long

895
01:25:32,730 --> 01:25:33,730
I wasn't in it.

896
01:25:49,350 --> 01:25:52,590
If there was only going to be one win,
it had to be Geoffrey.

897
01:26:06,250 --> 01:26:12,470
It represented everything about the
struggle to make the film, about a bunch

898
01:26:12,470 --> 01:26:17,810
unknown people who got together and got
international attention, about a

899
01:26:17,810 --> 01:26:22,830
pianist... that the world had not heard
about, it was life -changing.

900
01:26:40,710 --> 01:26:43,750
It doesn't seem like 50 years ago, but
it was.

901
01:26:44,150 --> 01:26:45,150
1966.

902
01:26:56,170 --> 01:26:59,950
How are you? Yeah, very lovely. Nice to
see you. Oh, no, you can't take my

903
01:26:59,950 --> 01:27:03,770
photograph. They always talk good way
about us, yeah? We love you, David.

904
01:27:04,750 --> 01:27:06,050
Can you give me a reference?

905
01:27:07,490 --> 01:27:09,610
How are you?

906
01:27:09,830 --> 01:27:11,390
Good, how are you? Oh, very well.

907
01:27:12,090 --> 01:27:18,530
That feeling that David has brought to
us all as Australian

908
01:27:18,530 --> 01:27:22,990
filmmakers, that we're doing something
that's worth recording.

909
01:27:23,290 --> 01:27:24,390
I'd like to track him.

910
01:27:24,610 --> 01:27:25,610
Out here.

911
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:27,600
We run a very tight ship.

912
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:32,520
These days of the internet, too many
bozos give their opinions and they're so

913
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:36,000
unqualified and they wouldn't have a
clue and they should just pull their

914
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:37,760
in. I really like you.

915
01:27:38,480 --> 01:27:42,420
But someone like David Stratton, who's
seen thousands and thousands and

916
01:27:42,420 --> 01:27:47,220
thousands of films, is entitled and in
fact it's incumbent on him to tell us

917
01:27:47,220 --> 01:27:50,920
what he thinks about them because it
comes from an educated place.

918
01:27:52,180 --> 01:27:55,160
Tonight on this Australia Day,
something...

919
01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:59,320
Very, very exciting for David Stratton.
He has been honoured in the Australia

920
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:01,720
Day Honours List. David Stratton, Ayo.

921
01:28:32,330 --> 01:28:37,290
They came down to meet me at the end of
the Cannes Festival and I noticed there

922
01:28:37,290 --> 01:28:41,390
was a couple at another table that were
looking at me and they said to me, oh,

923
01:28:41,450 --> 01:28:46,450
David, we're from Melbourne and we watch
you on television and the movies you

924
01:28:46,450 --> 01:28:48,210
host and so on and they're wonderful.

925
01:28:50,010 --> 01:28:54,230
And my mother said, he's my son.

926
01:28:57,050 --> 01:28:58,550
That still chokes me up.

927
01:29:01,990 --> 01:29:02,990
Sorry to interrupt.

928
01:29:03,030 --> 01:29:04,030
No, that's all right.

929
01:29:04,130 --> 01:29:05,130
Yeah, of course.

930
01:29:05,310 --> 01:29:08,110
Could you put it to my brother? But he's
a real man. That's all right.

931
01:29:08,330 --> 01:29:11,190
He's been in movies for years and years.
Oh, right. Nice to meet you.

932
01:29:12,150 --> 01:29:13,049
Thank you.

933
01:29:13,050 --> 01:29:17,410
I've always respected the fact that
David had his opinion and he held his

934
01:29:17,410 --> 01:29:23,290
ground. And I think that is ultimately,
you know, why he has the revered

935
01:29:23,290 --> 01:29:27,290
position that he has, because, you know,
he speaks his own truth.

936
01:29:27,510 --> 01:29:30,570
If he likes it, he likes it. If he
doesn't like it, he doesn't like it.

937
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:35,020
Very cool, though, is I have known him
to change his mind.

938
01:29:36,900 --> 01:29:40,080
As a real estate agent said, location,
location, location.

939
01:29:40,480 --> 01:29:41,880
And we're right next door to the
airport.

940
01:29:43,200 --> 01:29:46,160
It will be very convenient if we ever
have to fly one day.

941
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:52,820
I want to see a written report from
David Stratton as to how he's changed

942
01:29:52,820 --> 01:29:54,440
opinion of the castle.

943
01:29:56,440 --> 01:30:01,550
For... Australian filmgoers, the
building behind me is one of the most

944
01:30:01,550 --> 01:30:05,790
houses in Australia, except that it's
not a house. It's a home.

945
01:30:06,110 --> 01:30:07,110
It's the castle.

946
01:30:07,670 --> 01:30:09,670
Ergonomic chairs, four of them.

947
01:30:10,070 --> 01:30:11,049
What's he want?

948
01:30:11,050 --> 01:30:12,050
180.

949
01:30:12,430 --> 01:30:13,430
He's dreaming.

950
01:30:13,950 --> 01:30:18,450
When I first saw the castle, I found it
a film of caricature. It was a

951
01:30:18,450 --> 01:30:20,090
caricature that I was uncomfortable
with.

952
01:30:20,620 --> 01:30:24,460
Well, I'm afraid it wasn't for me,
Margaret. I really didn't get onto the

953
01:30:24,460 --> 01:30:27,480
wavelengths of this film. I think it's a
very Australian sort of humour. Well,

954
01:30:27,500 --> 01:30:28,580
I'll give it one and a half.

955
01:30:28,840 --> 01:30:29,840
Oh, David.

956
01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:32,300
As you can see, I've put a fair bit of
work into it.

957
01:30:32,620 --> 01:30:34,100
Yeah? Fake.

958
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:37,760
Plastic. Gives a place of Victoriana
feel.

959
01:30:38,140 --> 01:30:40,140
What do you mean, the aesthetics of it?

960
01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:43,100
They were my own outfits.

961
01:30:43,740 --> 01:30:44,740
My own jeans.

962
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:46,740
Like to do pottery.

963
01:30:47,380 --> 01:30:49,540
And as for my wife...

964
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:53,180
credible pottery work, I will hear
nothing against it.

965
01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:56,840
I actually thought someone was taking
the piss out of me when I read the

966
01:30:56,840 --> 01:31:00,380
because my dad trained greyhounds and we
lived in Calamarine.

967
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:04,180
So when I started reading the script, I
thought this is a bit of a piss take. I

968
01:31:04,180 --> 01:31:06,260
find this a bit close to the bone.

969
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:09,740
They had these masks which you put over
your eyes when you're sleeping so you

970
01:31:09,740 --> 01:31:11,540
can't see anything. Yeah, and they were
complimentary.

971
01:31:12,020 --> 01:31:13,020
Yeah, they were for free.

972
01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:17,270
That just... tore it to pieces in my
family. We were just in stitches all the

973
01:31:17,270 --> 01:31:20,770
time because it was strange and real and
heartwarming.

974
01:31:21,210 --> 01:31:23,210
How's this, boys? Woo -hoo!

975
01:31:23,550 --> 01:31:24,830
What do you call this?

976
01:31:25,070 --> 01:31:26,070
Chicken.

977
01:31:26,410 --> 01:31:28,150
It's got something sprinkled on it.

978
01:31:28,710 --> 01:31:29,710
Seasoning.

979
01:31:30,130 --> 01:31:36,710
Seasoning. It's so sincere and honest
and it's terribly funny but it's not

980
01:31:36,710 --> 01:31:40,050
sneer, sneer, nudge, nudge. It's full of
love.

981
01:31:40,870 --> 01:31:43,590
Love. I mean, the filmmakers love them.

982
01:31:43,850 --> 01:31:45,010
They love those people.

983
01:31:45,450 --> 01:31:46,730
And look at these models.

984
01:31:47,010 --> 01:31:48,370
Well, look at them and look at you.

985
01:31:48,810 --> 01:31:50,690
I mean, now that is a head of hair.

986
01:31:50,930 --> 01:31:57,130
I do go back and revisit films,
especially if I get the impression that

987
01:31:57,130 --> 01:31:58,130
missed out on something.

988
01:31:58,490 --> 01:32:00,250
Who ordered medium rare, mate?

989
01:32:00,530 --> 01:32:01,530
Good stuff.

990
01:32:01,870 --> 01:32:03,690
And that's what I did with the cut.

991
01:32:03,970 --> 01:32:09,450
I began to really be drawn to Michael
Caton's wonderfully dry, laconic and

992
01:32:09,530 --> 01:32:10,690
very Australian humour.

993
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:15,280
Now I know that sometimes what is right
and fair is not clear cut.

994
01:32:15,500 --> 01:32:16,600
It's a bit iffy.

995
01:32:17,060 --> 01:32:18,980
I've got my house and I don't want to
move.

996
01:32:19,620 --> 01:32:22,980
I think that's the highlight of the
great Australian dream.

997
01:32:23,560 --> 01:32:25,120
Give me one moment.

998
01:32:25,620 --> 01:32:30,360
It doesn't matter if it's next to an
airport. You know, I just think that's

999
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:34,440
amazing. What section of the
constitution has been breached?

1000
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:36,220
It's the...

1001
01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:42,820
Constitution, it's Mabo, it's justice,
it's law, it's the vibe, and,

1002
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:46,220
no, that's it, it's the vibe.

1003
01:32:47,540 --> 01:32:48,680
Let's dig it up.

1004
01:32:50,060 --> 01:32:54,000
Bud Tingle's speech at the High Court, I
think it's one of the most beautiful

1005
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:55,760
scenes in Australian cinema.

1006
01:32:56,020 --> 01:33:01,800
You can buy a house, but you can't
acquire a home.

1007
01:33:02,680 --> 01:33:05,240
I can't speak for those who wrote this
document.

1008
01:33:06,540 --> 01:33:12,440
But I'll bet when they put in the phrase
on just terms, they hoped it would stop

1009
01:33:12,440 --> 01:33:16,480
anyone shortchanging someone like Daryl
Kerrigan.

1010
01:33:18,140 --> 01:33:21,860
It doesn't matter how many times I've
seen the film, I've always found that

1011
01:33:21,860 --> 01:33:24,280
speech to be incredibly moving.

1012
01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:32,840
It taps into that national theme of the
underdog overcoming adversity.

1013
01:33:33,850 --> 01:33:38,230
to restore justice in the world. In
favour of the appellant.

1014
01:33:38,710 --> 01:33:39,710
Shit.

1015
01:33:41,870 --> 01:33:42,870
That's us.

1016
01:33:44,910 --> 01:33:46,070
We won.

1017
01:33:46,450 --> 01:33:47,450
We won.

1018
01:33:49,610 --> 01:33:54,690
It's a beautiful portrait of a family.
It's very satisfying, and you completely

1019
01:33:54,690 --> 01:33:57,150
understand why it struck a nerve.

1020
01:33:58,830 --> 01:34:02,770
I'm not a user of social media myself,
but it is interesting when you look

1021
01:34:02,860 --> 01:34:07,080
the twitter zone is that the right word
when the castle was on television not so

1022
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:09,980
long ago people were twittering lines
from the film like tell me they're

1023
01:34:09,980 --> 01:34:14,540
dreaming and lovely things like this a
perfect film all these years later not a

1024
01:34:14,540 --> 01:34:20,160
word or seen out of place genuinely
consistently funny warm lovable and

1025
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:24,200
an interesting one has any australian
film ever entered into our consciousness

1026
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:29,220
quite like the castle the country has
taken the castle to its heart i mean in

1027
01:34:29,220 --> 01:34:32,000
funny way it's your own little bit of
immortality

1028
01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:59,640
In some sort of weird way, David is
representative of what film can do for a

1029
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:06,320
population because he's come to
understand his adopted culture through

1030
01:35:06,460 --> 01:35:07,460
It's a beautiful thing.

1031
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:11,380
I actually think that you're a really
nice person.

1032
01:35:12,380 --> 01:35:14,720
You are. You're a really decent person.

1033
01:35:14,960 --> 01:35:16,900
And a national treasure.

1034
01:35:17,260 --> 01:35:19,200
But you're still very British.

1035
01:35:22,510 --> 01:35:27,730
I can't help it. I've got to tell you,
David, those shoes that you wear, they

1036
01:35:27,730 --> 01:35:33,510
are, I mean, that has got to be the most
British English thing about you. The

1037
01:35:33,510 --> 01:35:37,770
same goddamn shoes of 50 decades.

1038
01:35:38,610 --> 01:35:41,130
I buy them in wholesale lots. I know.

1039
01:35:42,350 --> 01:35:47,050
I'd like to point out that you were the
one that was dressed at the ABC by

1040
01:35:47,050 --> 01:35:48,050
someone else.

1041
01:35:48,070 --> 01:35:50,650
I dress myself. I've dressed myself
today.

1042
01:35:50,910 --> 01:35:51,910
Yes.

1043
01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:53,240
I can tell.

1044
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:54,320
Shut up.

1045
01:36:00,260 --> 01:36:03,480
Never thought of him as an Englishman.

1046
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:06,260
Just thought of him as a well -spoken
Aussie.

1047
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:08,620
He just got born in the wrong country.

1048
01:36:14,960 --> 01:36:16,600
He's very proud of being an Australian.

1049
01:36:19,660 --> 01:36:24,820
Oh, I'm very grateful to Australia. I
mean, Australia has given me a home and

1050
01:36:24,820 --> 01:36:27,080
profession and a world, really.

1051
01:36:28,720 --> 01:36:30,820
I hope I've contributed something back.

1052
01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:40,880
I've brought my passion to an
appreciative audience.

1053
01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:50,420
So I've been incredibly lucky to do that
Incredibly much.