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FILM№ 01
Puberty Blues and the long wait on the sand
Bruce Beresford's 1981 picture watches two girls sit on a beach for most of its running time, and the sitting is the argument.
BRONTE HAUGHEY21.10.2026
FILM№ 02
Breaker Morant and the country that adopted its scapegoat
Bruce Beresford's 1980 courtroom drama made an English-born soldier into an Australian martyr, and the picture's argument about empire has outlived its historical certainties.
BRONTE HAUGHEY13.10.2026
FILM№ 03
Walkabout is a British film about a country it never claims
Nicolas Roeg's 1971 picture is claimed as an Australian classic, though it was made by a Londoner, financed by two Americans and sold by 20th Century Fox. Its best argument is how little it pretends otherwise.
BRONTE HAUGHEY11.10.2026
FILM№ 04
The Devil's Playground split its prize between a boy and a Brother
Fred Schepisi's juniorate drama opened fifty years ago last month, and the most accurate verdict it ever received was an acting award shared between a thirteen-year-old and a Brother.
BRONTE HAUGHEY18.09.2026
MUSIC№ 05
Bruce Smeaton and the scores you were never meant to notice
He won four AFI awards for original score, and the most famous cue in his most famous film belongs to a Romanian pan flute player.
KIERAN BOUSTANY23.07.2026
FILM№ 06
My Brilliant Career and the woman who would not marry the plot
Gillian Armstrong's 1979 debut took a heroine who refuses the marriage plot and made the refusal the whole shape of the picture.
BRONTE HAUGHEY24.06.2026
FILM№ 07
Wake in Fright and the negative that almost burned
A film about a man who cannot leave a town nearly became a film that could not leave a shipping container, and the rescue is now part of what the picture means.
BRONTE HAUGHEY10.06.2026