My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin was born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin in 1879 in Talbingo, NSW and died in 1954. Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career whilst she was still a teenager and the book was first published in 1901 with the support of Henry Lawson. In her will she made a bequest for her estate to establish an annual literary award known as The Miles Franklin Award. The first winner was Patrick White with Voss. In 1979 the novel was adapted to film. The film was produced by Margaret Fink, directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Judy Davis and Sam Neill. The film won 6 AFI awards
We of the Never, Never
We of the Never Never is a 1982 Australian drama film, directed by Igor Auzins, based on the 1902 autobiographical novel We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn. The film was shot on location in the Northern Territory at Elsey Station and Mataranka - the same setting as the novel. It was produced with the assistance of the Northern Territory Government, the Film Corporation of Western Australia, and the Victorian Film Corporation. The film starred Angela Punch McGregor, John Jarratt & Tony Barry. It was nominated for five AFI awards and won the AFI award for best cinematography.
The Getting of Wisdom
The Getting of Wisdom is a 1977 Australian film directed by Bruce Beresford and based on the 1910 novel by the same name by Henry Handel Richardson. It starred Susannah Fowle, Barry Humphries, John Waters and Terence Donovan, and featured early career appearances by Kerry Armstrong, Sigrid Thornton, Noni Hazlehurst, Maggie Kirkpatrick and Julia Blake. The Getting of Wisdom was nominated for 5 AFI Awards in 1978 and won in the Best Adapted Screenplay (Eleanor Witcombe) category.
A Town like Alice
A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film, based on the novel by Nevil Shute and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch in the leading roles. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of Part Two of the book and many plot details are truncated or omitted. It was partially filmed in Malaya and Australia. The film was withdrawn from the Cannes Film Festival out of fear it would offend the Japanese.
Come in Spinner
In 1989-90, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation made a television mini-series based on the 1951 novel, Come in Spinner, by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James. The television mini-series starred Lisa Harrow, Kerry Armstrong and Rebecca Gibney. It was well received by critics and audiences, and was released on DVD in 2005. In the 1950s, film director Jack Lee expressed interest in making a movie out of the novel.
The Sundowners
The 1952 novel was adapted for Australian radio in 1953 and film rights were purchased by the American producer Joseph Kaufman. Kaufman commissioned a script from Australian author Kay Keavney. No movie resulted, but the rights then transferred to Fred Zinneman who directed a film version in 1960. The movie starred Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson, Jr., and Chips Rafferty.The Sundowners was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Deborah Kerr), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Glynis Johns), Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
Caddie
Caddie is an Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie, released in 1976, and belonging to the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade. The film is based on the 1953 book of the same name. The film starred Helen Morse (Caddie), Takis Emmanuel, Drew Forsythe, Jack Thompson Melissa Jaffer and Jacki Weaver. Helen Morse's performance was awarded with the Australian Film Institute's Best Actress award in 1976. Other AFI wins went for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Drew Forsythe) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Melissa Jaffer and Jacki Weaver). Australian Cinematographers Society awarded Peter James the Cinematographer of the Year award in 1977.
The Shiralee
The Shiralee is a 1957 film made by the British Ealing Studios, directed by Leslie Norman and based on the novel by D'Arcy Niland. All exterior scenes were filmed in Australia and Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux played in supporting roles. Peter Finch play the role of Jim Macauley, Elizabeth Sellers the role of Marge Macauley and Dana Wilson the role of Buster. The song "Shiralee" used as soundtrack was sung by Tommy Steele and reached #11 on the United Kingdom Singles Chart in 1957.
Walkabout
Walkabout is a 1971 film set in Australia, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the novel Walkabout by James Vance Marshall. Walkabout premiered in competition at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Walkabout fared poorly at the box office in Australia. Critics debated whether it could be considered an Australian film, and whether it was an embrace or a reaction to the country's cultural and natural context. The film is noted for its cinematography and is interspersed with numerous images of Australian plant and animal life, along with its varied landscapes. Though many of the events are impossible in a natural setting—in one scene a wombat wanders past the sleeping children in the middle of a desert—they create a backdrop of a populous, varied environment
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright (also known as Outback) is a 1971 Australian film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence and Chips Rafferty. The screenplay was written by Evan Jones, based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel of the same name. The world premiere of Wake in Fright (as Outback) occurred at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, held in May. Ted Kotcheff was nominated for a Golden Palm Award. Wake In Fright received generally excellent reviews throughout the world, however, despite receiving such critical support at Cannes and in Australia, Wake in Fright suffered poor domestic box-office returns. It was also thought that the film was perhaps too uncomfortably direct and uncompromising to draw large Australian audiences.
Careful, He Might Hear You
Careful, He Might Hear You is a 1983 Australian drama film. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Australian-American author Sumner Locke Elliott. The film was directed by Varl Schults and starred Wendy Hughes and Robyn Nevin as two sisters who are locked in a custody battle over their young nephew, P.S., played by Nicholas Gledhill. PS has been raised by his aunt Lila (Nevin) and her husband George since his mother died soon after his birth. When Lila's richer sister Vanessa returns from overseas, she seeks custody of P.S., citing the opportunities she can give him.
My Brother Jack
My Brother Jack is a 2001 Australian film directed by Ken Cameron It is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by George Johnson. It starred William McInnes, Matt Day, Simon Lyndon and Claudia Karvan. A boy looks up to his big brother, Jack, who is his hero and is someone that he is not - brave, noble and has the courage to stand up to their father. When their father returns from the battlefields of France to his family, he sends his younger son to an apprenticeship in a jam factory designing the labels. There, his boss sends him off to art school, but his real passion is writing. The film won two AFI Awards, one for Best Actress and the other for Best Telefeature or Mini Series.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian feature film directed by Peter Weir. It starred Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, Rachel Roberts and Vivean Gray. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name, by author Joan Lindsay. Weir recalled that when the film was first screened in the United States, American audiences were disturbed by the fact that the mystery remained unsolved. According to Weir, "One distributor threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of it, because he'd wasted two hours of his life—a mystery without a goddamn solution!". The film won the BAFTA for Best Cinematography.
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a 1978 Australian film directed by Fred Schepisi, and starred Tom E. Lewis Freddy Reynolds and Ray Barrett. It was an adaptation of the 1972 novel The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally.The film won the Best Original Music Score (Bruce Smeaton), Best Actress in a Lead Role (Angela Punch McGregor) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ray Barrett) and was nominated for 9 more awards at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) for 1978. It was also nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.
The Eye of the Storm
Patrick Victor Martindale White was born in 1912 and died in 1990. He was an Australian author and widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. In 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature—and was the only Australian citizen to have been awarded the Literature prize until the South African-born J. M. Coetzee became an Australian citizen in 2006. The Eye of the Storm is an Australian drama film directed by Fred Schepisi. It is an adaptation of Patrick White's (1973) novel of the same name. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis. It won the critics award for best Australian feature at the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival and had a September 2011 theatrical release
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Monkey Grip
Monkey Grip is a 1982 Australian drama film directed by Ken Cameron. It is based on the 1977 novel, also titled Monkey Grip, by Helen Garner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The film starred Noni Hazelhurst, Colin Friels, Harold Hopkins. The film is about Nora who is single with a young child and still wants to live the life of a young artist. She is drawn into an affair with Javo, a heroin addict, and struggles to overcome the complications of love in order to regain control of her life.
Bliss
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Bliss is a 1985 Australian film directed by Ray Lawrence, co-adapted by Lawrence and Peter Carey, author of the original novel Bliss from which it is adapted. It starred Barry Otto and Lynette Curran. Notable among the supporting roles is an early film appearance by Gia Carides and an early cameo role by John Doyle. It is the story of a man who so misunderstood the world he almost got it right! From the moment Harry Joy dropped dead his life would never be the same. After a rocky start, 400 of the 2000-strong audience walked out during its first screening at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, the film went on to receive multiple awards at the AFI awards.
The Well
The Well is a 1997 Australian film, based on the novel by Elizabeth Jolley. The film is about a young girl named Katherine and her older friend Hester who live on an isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave because there's too much work. The film was directed by Samantha Lang and starred Pamela Rabe as Hester and Miranda Otto as Katherine. It won three AFI Awards presented by the Australian Film Institute: Best Achievement in Production Design - Michael Philips, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Pamela Rabe and Best Screenplay Adapted from Another Source - Laura Jones.
Oscar & Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. Oscar and Lucinda is a lyrical story about chance, fate and love. Set in the 19th century it tells the story of how two eccentric characters are brought together by fate and an obsession with gambling.
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is based on a true story concerning the author's mother, as well as two other mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, to return to their Aboriginal families, after having been placed there in 1931. The film stirred debate over the historical accuracy of the claims of the Stolen Generation. The film won many awards including the 2002 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film .
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