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The Devil's Playground
Christos Tsiolkas

$9.95 – Paperback book / Currency

Fred Schepisi's film, 'The Devil's Playground' is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers... Buy or find out more 


Walkabout
Louis Nowra

$9.95 – Paperback book / Currency

A mentally disturbed man takes his 14-year-old daughter and his six-year-old son into the desert supposedly for a picnic. He abruptly goes berserk, tries to shoot them, sets fire to the car and kills himself. A young Abo... Buy or find out more 



Wake In Fright
Tina Kaufman

$9.95 – Paperback book / Currency

Based on the celebrated novel by Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright is a sharply observed drama about a schoolteacher stranded in a hostile country town. John Grant, a ‘naive city-type’, is stuck teaching in Tiboonda, a desola... Buy or find out more 


The Boys
Andrew Frost

$9.95 – Paperback book / Currency

The Boys offers perhaps the most chilling depiction in Australian film of the violence within a family, and where it may eventually lead. Based on the controversial stage play by Gordon Graham, The Boys, is a terrifying ... Buy or find out more 



The Barry McKenzie Movies
Tony Moore

$16.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr

Based on Barry Humphries' comic-strip character, which appeared in the British satirical magazine Private Eye in the 1960s, the screenplay for ‘The Adventures of Barry McKenzie’ was written by Humphries and Beresford, th... Buy or find out more 


Puberty Blues
Nell Schofield

$9.95 – Paperback book / Currency

Directed by one of Australia’s major film directors, Bruce Beresford, Puberty Blues is a funny and poignant film that still speaks to the teenage audience as it honestly and sensitively deals with some of the central tri... Buy or find out more 



The Piano
Gail Jones

$16.95 – Paperback book / Currency

The Piano written and directed by Jane Campion, is one of the most honoured films of the new Australian cinema, and is considered, by many critics, a modern masterpiece. Campion won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1993 for t... Buy or find out more 


The Mad Max Movies
Adrian Martin

$9.95 – Paperback book / Currency

Adrian Martin believes that Mad Max is an exploitation movie, Mad Max 2 is an attempt at classicism, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is unquestionably George Miller’s one and only art film. This lively new appreciation o... Buy or find out more 



The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Philip Brophy

$16.95 – Paperback book / Currency

‘A road movie in a frock’ is one way this much acclaimed, award-winning movie has been described. Three showgirls with a difference set off in a bus across the Australian desert to play a cabaret engagement in Alice Spri... Buy or find out more 


Alvin Purple
Catharine Lumby

$0.00 – Paperback book / Currency

One of the seminal films of the 1970s, Alvin Purple depicts Alvin’s struggles with his irresistibility to women: from his school days and time as a waterbed salesman to his short-lived career as a sex therapist. The ‘def... Buy or find out more 



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