New (& fairly recent) Oz films

barrythemod wrote:

Anything at all that has "floated your boat" will be welcome,and thanks for offering to do this .

OK, so tell me if I'm on the right track here, Barry, or whether you've seen the lot & are looking for something a bit more obscure.

Anyone have any opinions about 'The MAn who Sued God"?. I love Billy Connoly as that guy whose always slightly on the edge of losing it wherever he is in polite company.
I think this movie came out about 2002 and was a back to back (sorta) with his role in "Mrs Brown"

Anyone have any opinions about 'The MAn who Sued God"?. I love Billy Connoly as that guy whose always slightly on the edge of losing it wherever he is in polite company.
I think this movie came out about 2002 and was a back to back (sorta) with his role in "Mrs Brown"

Speaking of Phil Noyce, this one's terrific! Newsfront. Loved it! :

Yeah,me to .It combines social history,political snapshots and cinema industry news cleverly inter-cut with actual news events.Coming in at a little under 2 hours,this is a great story,well told.I even learned a bit of history along the way :wink: .
Still trying to track down a copy of Bliss.

A guy at work has just come back from a 3 week home visit to Melbourne,his first for 3 years.He can't stop talking about Underbelly.To me it sounds like an Oz version of The Sopranos,which I loved.Any of you guys and gals seen or heard of it,and waddya think of it?

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Thanks for that.Downloading via Bigpond only works within Australia.It was worth a try .As soon as Ezy or DVDcrave gets Underbelly,I'll slap in an order.Still can't understand why I can't get a copy of Bliss on DVD .

I'm on holiday right now & catching up with lots of films! At theatres & also on DVD. This is just great!

Anyway, today I saw an Australian film that I really, really, really (!) loved!: Look Both Ways.

It's a wonderful film, about attitudes to life, death & just carrying on.... One sad event triggers a number of different folk to examine their own lives: like how death (or the very real possibility impending death, in one case) affects them. This may sound morbid or ponderous, but surprise! ... It's quite the opposite! I loved how animation was used to convey the thoughts of the characters. Very clever & it worked so well.
I'm a rather picky film viewer & normally find a flaw or two to detract from the film, but in this case everything seemed to work & mesh beautifully: the cast, the animations, the script, the music ... Just very good!

If it comes your way, check it out I doubt you'll be disappointed.

http://www.lookbothways.com.au/main.html

Barry, Underbelly is banned from being shown in Victoria due to court action involving some of the real life characters portrayed in the film, so I havnt seen it.

There are a number of (some are possibly illegal) download sites. None of which I am familiar with of course.

This is a legal download site associated with Cannel 9 but I think you can only get the last 4 episodes.

http://www.underbellytv.com/

dadpad wrote:

Barry, Underbelly is banned from being shown in Victoria due to court action involving some of the real life characters portrayed in the film, so I havnt seen it.

There are a number of (some are possibly illegal) download sites. None of which I am familiar with of course.

This is a legal download site associated with Cannel 9 but I think you can only get the last 4 episodes.

http://www.underbellytv.com/

Saw the first 8 episodes over the weekend.I can definatly see The Soprano's "family" theme running through the stories but the violence in Underbelly is much more graphic.And talking about graphic,strewth,what about those sex scenes (at least 2 in each episode).I'm no prude,but some of them are a little "over the top".Question............what time of day is this shown? .