 | The Man From Snowy River
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $5.93 My favorite movie of the past 25 years. A few corny lines, but I don't care. Fabulous scenery, music, story and action. The horse sequences are magical. Directed superbly by Aussie director George Miller.
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 | Very Best of the Bee Gees by Bee Gees
Buy used from: $11.38 Add 2 recent CDs, STILL WATERS and THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN, and the single ONE. Other treats: SHINE SHINE on Barry's solo album Now Voyager, their collab with Celine Dion on IMMORTALITY, and the album Barry wrote for Kenny Rogers EYES THAT SEE IN THE DARK.
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 | The Errol Flynn Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (Captain Blood / The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex / The Sea Hawk / They Died with Their Boots On / Dodge City / The Adventures of Errol Flynn)
Buy new: $23.39 / Used from: $21.94 One of my 3 favorite movie stars of all time is Aussie-born Flynn. Perhaps his 2 best movies, GENTLEMAN JIM and ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, are not in this box set. See my Listmania: BEST FILMS OF ERROL FLYNN
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 | The Road Warrior
Buy used from: $2.79 Probably my favorite action movie of all time, this is one of 3 Mad Max movies, starring Aussie actor Mel Gibson, directed by ANOTHER Aussie director ALSO named George Miller. Then of course, there are several other major Mel Gibson movies.
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 | Evelyn
Buy used from: $1.99 Directed by Bruce Beresford. One of the best films of the past decade. Starts as a small human interest movie, but builds to a more cosmic appeal. Makes my list of INSPIRATIONAL FILMS. More Beresford films below.
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 | Hombre
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.94 A strong female performance by Diane Cilento, Aussie actress and ex-wife of Sean Connery. Outstanding female role too (for a change).
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 | Network (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.66 / Used from: $11.67 Oscar-winning performance(posthumous) by Aussie actor
Peter Finch. Outstanding other performances by Faye Dunaway(Oscar win) and William Holden(nominated). Good movie, despite one of the stupidest endings in movie history.
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 | The Year of Living Dangerously
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.93 Early Gibson film and one of his best.
Challenges us all with the scripture of
Luke 3:10. " What then shall we do?"
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 | Forever Young (Snap Case)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.98 Makes it onto my GREAT SCREEN ROMANCES list, though I don't usually care for timetravel/ghost movies. As little Beth once said to Lou Grant about NFL football:
"I prefer real life".
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 | Braveheart
Buy used from: $2.72 Stirring but occasionally inaccurate Oscar winner for best pic. Starring and directed by Mel Gibson.
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 | The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $3.89 Over-praised by Christians since it's a rare film which doesn't bash faith. It moves many, though I was bored myself. Racism charges groundless, depicts good and bad Jews. Faithful to scripture, so you'd have to say the Bible is racist(ridic !!!)
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 | The Patriot (Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.24 Aussie actor Heath Ledger. And Mel, of course.
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 | Crocodile Dundee/Crocodile Dundee 2/Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $12.64 This 3-pack has all the fun Croc Dundee flicks. Paul Hogan was a likeable star. It's been a while but memory says the first was best, as usual.
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 | Tender Mercies
Buy used from: $10.75 Still another major film from director Beresford. Robert Duvall won an Oscar. Doesn't really give unbelievers a sense of the significance of adult baptism or the reason for all the joy, but hopefully arouses a little curiosity about that.
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 | King David
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.56 Not nearly as bad as critics said. Some scriptural errors and some distortions of the significance of David's life, but Beresford continues to do films of spiritual significance.
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 | To Die For
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.44 Nicole Kidman's best acting performance and one of the best comedy performances ever by a woman. See my Listmania:
BEST COMEDY PERFORMANCES BY WOMEN. And of course, she has had a stellar career already.
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 | Magic: The Very Best of Olivia Newton-John by Olivia Newton-John
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.50 Compilation of the biggest hits of the actor/singer.
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 | Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.75 Another Beresford opus. Won Best Picture Oscar and an acting one for Jessica Tandy.
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 | 3:10 to Yuma (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.98 Actor RUSSELL CROWE was born in New Zealand, but I guess spent much of his early career in Australia, hence his being identified as Aussie so frequently.
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 | F/X
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.85 Good action, mystery thriller starring Aussie actor Bryan Browne and Brian Dennehy
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 | Greatest Hits by Keith Urban
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $4.44 Good singer and guitarist in COUNTRY music !!! Husband of Nicole Kidman.
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 | A Cry in the Dark
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $1.19 Film treatment of the famous trial in Australia. Film sheds no light on the controversy as to whether "The dingo ate your baby"(to quote Seinfeld's Elaine), but then how could it?
One of many Oscar noms for Meryl Streep.
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| A Horse Called Phar Lap
Interesting true story of the Australian champion racehorse who came to compete in America. Stars Tom Burlinson of the Snowy River movies.
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 | Walkabout - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $14.79 A famous film about an Aborigine child and a white child
wandering in the outback of Australia.
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 | Gallipoli
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 | Breaker Morant
Buy used from: $7.62 This and the film below are two much-praised films about war. Still another major Beresford film.
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 | Elizabeth - The Golden Age (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.93 Actor Cate Blanchett.
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 | Ultimate Collection by The Seekers
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $4.79 First had hits in the 60's, then later as the New Seekers.
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 | Truly, Madly, Completely- The Best of Savage Garden by Savage Garden
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.96 Music duo.
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 | Les Miserables
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $4.25 Geoffrey Rush, who has had a couple of Oscar noms.
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 | Australia
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.37 Visually impressive scenes. Long. Moderately involving story and characters. The 'magic' of the aborigines is powerful and of course the church mission is cruel and corrupt.(Moviedumb is such a hohum 1-note samba). For balance though, there is a shot of the cross carried by
the good-hearted heroine.
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 | The Sundowners
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.77 A three hour marathon about sheepherders in Australia, starring Robert Mitchum. Nominated for Best Picture in
1960.
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 | Picnic at Hanging Rock - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $14.98 Eerie film directed by Aussie Peter Weir.
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 | Paradise Road
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.32 Veteran Aussie actress Wendy Hughes has had a good career so far. Another noteworthy film from Aussie director Bruce
Beresford.
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 | Lantana
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.72 Good and critically praised little thriller.
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 | Lonely Hearts
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.75 One of the many respected, though minor, films directed by Aussie director Paul Cox.
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 | The Aviator (2-Disc Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 CATE BLANCHETT, Oscar-winning role as Katherine Hepburn here. Other noms too.
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 | A Passage to India
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $9.49 Oscar nom for Aussie actress Judy Davis. Direct by British
legend David Lean. My favorite film in which Ms Davis appears is A Cooler Climate, starring Sally Field.
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 | Babe (Widescreen Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.94 A children's classic.
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