Australian Screen Classics
The Devil's Playground
$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
$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
$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
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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
$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
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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
$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
$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
$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
$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 →