Richard Brennan

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

A documentary about the making of Gillian Armstrong's 1982 film STARSTRUCK.

Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

After Dan collapses at a train station, he enlists Maxie to watch his beloved dog, Molly. Maxie develops a soft spot for her new furry companion - a dog which has a unique ability to sing in tune.

시대를 앞섰던 호주 뮤지컬 영화 은 모든 뮤지컬 명작들이 그렇듯 문화적 유행을 관통하며 여전히 유의미하고 경쾌하다. 조 케네디가 스타 가수를 열망하는 십 대를 연기하고, 로스 오도너번은 조의 경력을 위해 떠들썩한 홍보와 여러 소동을 벌이는 사촌 동생을 맡았다.​ (2021년 제23회 서울국제여성영화제) 재키 멀렌스는 망해 가는 엄마의 술집에서 웨이트리스로 일하지만 언젠가는 가수로 데뷔하겠다는 꿈을 갖고 있다. 동네 탤런트 쇼에서 멋진 공연을 펼친 재키는 같은 쇼에 너온 웜배츠라는 밴드와 만나고 기타리스트 로비와 데이트를 시작한다. 한편 매니저를 자처하는 열네 살 사촌 앵거스는 TV 프로그램인 「더 와우! 쇼!」의 진행자 테리 램버트의 시선을 끌기 위해 계략을 꾸민다. 엉겁결에 군중 앞에서 줄타기를 하게 된 재키는 과연 계획대로 슈퍼스타가 될 수 있을까? 은 질리안 암스트롱이 첫 작품 (1979) 이후 내놓은 두 번째 장편 극영화이다. 두 작품은 모두 여성 예술가를 주인공으로 내세운다는 점을 제외한다면 극단적으로 다르다. 이 작가의 꿈을 키우는 19세기 호주 여성의 경험을 담은 사실적이고 진지한 시대극이라면, 은 주디 갈랜드와 미키 루니 주연의 1930년대 할리우드 영화처럼 복잡함이나 사실성 따위는 포기해 버린 발랄하고 뻔뻔스러운 뮤지컬 코미디다. 단지 이 영화의 배경은 1980년대 동시대의 호주이고 당시의 네온빛 패션과 음악과 열기로 채워져 있다. 오로지 그 시대, 그 공간에서만 존재했던 청춘 문화의 화려한 기록이다. (2021년 제23회 서울국제여성영화제 /듀나)

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie-going public.

Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.

골드 러시 시대 호주 빅토리아 지역에서 악명 높았던 아일랜드계 무법자 댄 모건의 실화

An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.

Several people gather at the Homesdale Hunting Lodge including butcher/rock singer Mr Kevin, war veteran Mr Vaughan, an octogenarian Mr Levy. All are tormented by Homesdale's staff and forced to participate in a series of games about death and murder in which the true character of the guests starts to emerge.