What are the best Australian films and what made them so great?

Question

What are the best Australian films and what made them so great?

Answer 1

crocodile dundee. that guy mick was fantastic. I'm thinking about saving my money so i can move to australia and learn how to wrestle crocs and carry a big knife also.

Answer 2

Australian cinema went through a golden patch in the twenty years between 1975 and 1995. My favourites include:



* Picnic at Hanging Rock: an enigmatic film;



* Breaker Morant shed light on a forgotten piece of Australian history;



* Babe and Babe 2 - wonderful family movies;



* Muriel's Wedding and Priscilla Queen of the Desert - wonderful commedies from the mid 1990s;



* Shine the film that made a star of Geoffrey Rush.



My favourite Australian film of the current century is Rabbit-Proof Fence which shone a light on Australian history.

Answer 3

The three films from Baz Luhrmann are all wonderful, in very different ways. "Strictly Ballroom" is funny and sweet and anyone that has seen it was under its spell. It's the first film I ever saw that the audience actually got up and spontaneously cheered for afterward. Romeo and Juliet was daring and strange and inventive, and I am one of those who think that Shakespeare would have loved seeing his work updated to be relevant for modern times, with some low comedy and high art mixed in. And then there is "Moulin Rouge" which is pretty much pure perfection. It makes you laugh, cry, sing along...it has everything. Sorry I can't narrow it down to one of his films, I recommend all three.



Runners-up: Muriel's Wedding, Babe, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. And if New Zealand is close enough for ya...Whale Rider.



Final note...Bill Hunter, the actor, was in Strictly Ballroom, Muriel's Wedding, and Priscilla...the guy knows how to pick good projects.

Answer 4

Babe is the best Aussie movie ever...it should have won best picture.



Gallipoli...starring a very young Mel Gibson and directed by a very young Peter Weir. It's a true story about the waste of war (I am not necessarily anti-war). The characters are strong. The story moves along at a great pace. The soundtrack is awesome and the end is brutally sad. It is a terrific movie.

Answer 5

MAD MAX! As if it is a question. It's violent, it's low budget, and it’s set in the not to distant future. What more could one ask? Also, I heard in the first one that the camper they destroy actually belonged to the director I think. Point is, it definitely belonged to cast or crew, and that’s what made it great. It was terrifically low budget, but you can't tell. Very cool!

Answer 6

Muriels Wedding. I love Abba

Answer 7

Mad Max II

Because of the steel boomerang and the little kid who can't talk but then grows up to become the leader of the northern tribe.

Answer 8

OMG I'm ashamed to be admitting this, but I love Strictly Ballroom and have done for a long time!! *blushes*

Answer 9

the ine with meryl streep and the dingos on that rock in australia where her baby dissappears!

Answer 10

the Mad Max movies

Answer 11

i really liked Romper Stomper

Answer 12

Rabbit proof fence. See it for yourself to see why it is great... you won't be disappointed.

Answer 13

i think... deadly unna?... it was a brilliant movie... well cast... good lighting... alot the the book... exellent movie... woot!... also broke back mountain was pretty good... i just want to eat heath leadger... he's soooo hot

Answer 14

coc hunter

Answer 15

mad max