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Baz Luhrmann dreamed of making the Australian "Gone With the Wind," and so he has, with much of that film's lush epic beauty and some of the same awkwardness with a national legacy of racism. This is the sort of film described as a "sweeping romantic melodrama," a broad family entertainment that would never have been made without the burning obsession of its producers (Luhrmann for "Australia ...
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Rated: 2.5/5 Nov 6, 2018 Full Review David Ansen Newsweek "Australia" is a shameless-and shamelessly entertaining-pastiche. It works because Luhrmann, a true believer in movie-movie magic, stamps ...
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Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan.The film is a character story, set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised backdrop of events across northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin ...
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Our review: Parents say ( 7 ): Kids say ( 17 ): Baz Luhrmann isn't subtle, so it's no surprise that this compelling movie -- the most expensive one ever made Down Under -- has been criticized as a self-indulgent, grandiose, and bumpy ride. It is all of those things, not to mention overlong and campy.
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Positive Elements. Set primarily in the years before World War II came to Australia's shores, Australia relays the ugly history of half-white, half-Aboriginal children being kidnapped and raised in Christian mission camps, with the hopes of "breeding the black out of them" and fitting them for service in white families. According to the film's postscript, assimilation remained official ...
Australia (2008)
An entertaining romantic drama by Buz Luhrmann, old-Hollywood style. The movie is set in the Northern Territory of Australia in the years previous to the involvement of Japan in the WW II, and tells the story of Sarah Ashley -an English lady who goes to Australia to try to get her husband back to England and ends becoming the head of their Australian cattle farm-, Drover -an independent free ...
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In Luhrmann's film, Nicole Kidman plays Lady Sarah Ashley, a parodic British aristocrat who flies in September 1939 to Australia, where her errant husband runs a cattle station in the Northern ...
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Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful ...
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Australia Reviews. Lurhmann is noted for his post-modern speed and lighthearted spin. But such impatience doesn't suit this story or its epic movie intent. Australia loses us from time to time ...
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Baz Luhrmann dreamed of making the Australian "Gone With the Wind," and so he has, with much of that film's lush epic beauty and some of the same awkwardness with a national legacy of racism. This is the sort of film described as a "sweeping romantic melodrama," a broad family entertainment that would never have been made without the burning obsession of its producers (Luhrmann for "Australia ...
Check out the latest releases in Australian cinemas, all reviewed by Time Out critics. ... Latest movie reviews. Photograph: Dogwoof. 76 Days. 4 out of 5 stars. Film; Documentary;
Rated: 2.5/5 Nov 6, 2018 Full Review David Ansen Newsweek "Australia" is a shameless-and shamelessly entertaining-pastiche. It works because Luhrmann, a true believer in movie-movie magic, stamps ...
Australia. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. Adventure, Drama, Romance, War. PG-13. 2h 45m. By Manohla Dargis. Nov. 25, 2008. Baz Luhrmann's continent-size epic, "Australia," isn't the greatest ...
Strong Female Lead, which belongs to SBS's Australian Uncovered suite of feature-length documentaries, is shudder and wince-inducing - a catalogue of national shame. It's important, visceral ...
Movie reviews, brought to you by The Sydney Morning Herald. ... Inspired by Don Lane, the American who dominated the Australian chat show in the mid-'70s and early '80s, Late Night with the ...
Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan.The film is a character story, set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised backdrop of events across northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin ...
Hopefully, with a bit of erudition thrown in. Since 1999 and with a variety of reviewers Cinephilia has provided film reviews of the latest theatrical release movies as well as an extensive archive of classic, art-house, and Australian films in a browseable and searchable movie database called Cinefiles. Films are listed there alphabetically ...
Our review: Parents say ( 7 ): Kids say ( 17 ): Baz Luhrmann isn't subtle, so it's no surprise that this compelling movie -- the most expensive one ever made Down Under -- has been criticized as a self-indulgent, grandiose, and bumpy ride. It is all of those things, not to mention overlong and campy.
Jason Di Rosso. The Screen Show brings you reviews and in-depth conversations with leading film and TV directors, actors and screenwriters from Australia and around the world. Airs Thursday 10am ...
Positive Elements. Set primarily in the years before World War II came to Australia's shores, Australia relays the ugly history of half-white, half-Aboriginal children being kidnapped and raised in Christian mission camps, with the hopes of "breeding the black out of them" and fitting them for service in white families. According to the film's postscript, assimilation remained official ...
An entertaining romantic drama by Buz Luhrmann, old-Hollywood style. The movie is set in the Northern Territory of Australia in the years previous to the involvement of Japan in the WW II, and tells the story of Sarah Ashley -an English lady who goes to Australia to try to get her husband back to England and ends becoming the head of their Australian cattle farm-, Drover -an independent free ...
Best-Reviewed Movies 2020: Australia. The Invisible Man may not seem like an Aussie film at first glance - it takes place in the U.S., is headlined by Americans Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, and Storm Reid, and was produced by Jason Blum.But look a bit closer and you'll see the movie is a decidedly Down Under production: Written and directed by Aussie Leigh Whannell, co-produced by ...
David Stratton retires as film critic. Eminent film reviewer David Stratton hangs up his hat after 33 years of writing for The Australian. Stratton has reviewed for The Weekend Australian for more ...
In Luhrmann's film, Nicole Kidman plays Lady Sarah Ashley, a parodic British aristocrat who flies in September 1939 to Australia, where her errant husband runs a cattle station in the Northern ...
Australia is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world's most beautiful ...
Posted in: Movie Reviews By David Fear Part superhero blockbuster, part 1970s-antihero homage, and part 'Seven' remake, the latest take on the Caped Crusader returns him to pulp-fiction roots —with a few psychological twists
Australia Reviews. Lurhmann is noted for his post-modern speed and lighthearted spin. But such impatience doesn't suit this story or its epic movie intent. Australia loses us from time to time ...
H. Sandra Hall (writer) Giles Hardie. Paul Harris (film critic) John Hinde (broadcaster) John-Michael Howson. Ivan Hutchinson.
Jul 2, 2021. Apr 6, 2020. In this gritty Australian crime drama, young Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. This branch of ...
November 17, 2008 8:00pm. Photofest. SYDNEY — With his audaciously titled epic Australia, Baz Luhrmann has delivered a shamelessly melodramatic, often eccentric spectacle with true-blue ...
November 20, 2008 1:35pm. SYDNEY — With his audaciously titled epic "Australia," Baz Luhrmann has delivered a shamelessly melodramatic, often eccentric spectacle with true-blue blockbuster ...
Review Movie Reviews 'Very unlikeable': Blunt, Evans star in Netflix flop Pain Hustlers - starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans - gets very unlikeable, very quickly, writes Leigh Paatsch.
Catch up on all the latest movie news. From film reviews to the newest movie trailers, news.com.au has all the updates for film buffs.
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