Australian Perspectives Archive 2009
What makes Australia's filmmakers tick?
Supporting the best new indie films submitted through our open call for entries, ACMI frames contemporary Australian filmmaking against a backdrop of archival classics and special guest presentations.
Saturdays 4pm
All tickets $8
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50th anniversary screening of Stanley Kramer's quietly devastating sci-fi drama.
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A subtle examination of the changing face of 1950s Australian society, starring Angela Landsbury.
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Ruth Cracknell and Kerry Walker star in a perverse take on middle-class life and sexual repression.
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This documentary pays tribute to Percy Savage, one of the great unknowns of Australian fashion.
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A group of escaped female convicts defend themselves with savage glee against capture.
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We celebrate the 20th anniversary of Kylie's big screen debut by revisiting her first feature film.
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Celebrate Chips Rafferty's 100th birthday with a rare screening of this rousing wartime epic.
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Celebrate 100 years since Errol Flynn's birth with a screening of this recently-restored classic.
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Vince Colosimo stars as a tough working class teenager finding his way in this 1980s classic.
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On the back of the successful TV series Bellbird, comes this cinematic slice of country life.
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Helen Mirren stars in her first major role as a young girl who inspires an ageing New York artist.
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Bold, ballsy and a little brassy...just what you'd expect from a crime caper set on the Gold Coast.
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Australian costume designer Tina Kalivas creates a magnificent world in this revenge spectacle.
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Discover the man beyond the cameras in this intimate portrait.
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A beautiful and poetic impressionist work following the life of indigenous actor Jack Charles.
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Celebrate 40 years since man first walked on the moon with this modern Aussie comedy classic.
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Long awaited and much discussed, Baz's return to the big screen is, in a word, big.
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A view of the graffiti landscape in Melbourne, home to some of the best street artists in the world.
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Romance blooms in many forms for a young Australian woman destined for Paris.
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1902...12 year-old Tom finds the lure of gold changes life on his family's isolated farm.
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Drawing on the skills of a variety of Australian talent, this phenomenon in filmmaking made stars of its two directors and created movie history.
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The perfect escape from the Great Depression in 1931, Frank Thring Senior's Diggers tells the story of two soldiers reliving their WWI escapades.
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This exciting Aussie horror flick features plenty of screams, a handsome trio of troubled teenagers and Joel Edgerton as you've never seen him before!
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Almost 35 years on, the cast and crew of this groundbreaking, controversial film about Melbourne's drug culture reunite for a special screening.
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The streets of Newcastle form the backdrop to the wanderings of our protagonist who spouts poetry triggered by the ephemera he finds along the way.
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With spectacular dance sequences staged throughout Sydney, Sajid Khan's three-men-and-a-baby comedy features Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar.
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Two powerhouse Italian stars, Alberto Sordi and Claudia Cardinale, feature in this almost forgotten Australian/Italian romantic comedy.
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Check out the latest selection of Australian short films from the 2008 WOW (World of Women) Film Festival.
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Sister Carmel furthers the work of the Good Samaritan Sisters by tending to the forgotten and the desperate of the Baxter Detention Centre.
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Set over 24 hours in a Manhattan hotel, Kerry Armstrong plays a woman who must confront some of the painful realities of her existence.
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Phillip Noyce's 2002 drama features a wealth of Australian talent including cinematography by Christopher Doyle and production design by Roger Ford.
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On the eve of the Australian release of Mary and Max, we revisit Adam Elliot's much-loved animated works.
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Director Jasmin Tarasin collaborated with local fashion house Obüs on this moving film which represents the ethos behind the label's latest range.
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Long awaited, much discussed and not without controversy, Baz's return to the big screen is, in a word, big - so come experience it on our big screen!
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Penned by Nick Cave and from the visionary eye of director John Hillcoat, this unique Australian work blurs genre and packs a mighty big punch.
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Marcus Graham plays a hapless, uncool writer on a quest for success at the expense of artistic integrity. Followed by a panel discussion.
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After a 20 year hiatus Jude returned to film in 2004, in a black comedy about an ageing actress who once appeared in a women's prison drama series...
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Regarded as a highlight of Kuring's time inside Cell Block H, this action-packed episode finds her fellow inmates even more out of control than usual.
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One of Kuring's star turns as the permanently grimacing Noeline Bourke in Prisoner. Screens with the pilot of the world's first gay sitcom Buck House.
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Tom Cowan's politically charged film reinterprets Australian history from a female point of view, with Kuring as one of a group of liberated convicts.
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Philippe Mora's haunting account of the pursuit and capture of legendary bushranger Daniel Morgan.
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The film that launched David Gulpilil's acting career kicks off our Australia Day long weekend tribute to one of Australia's most compelling actors.
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Set on the fierce deserted South Australian coastline, this highly awarded Australian classic tells the tale of a young boy and his pelican friend.
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David Gulpilil invited the cameras in to his home in Arnhem Land for this honest and revealing 2002 documentary by Darlene Johnson.
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In this follow up to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gulpilil plays one of a group of young Aboriginal men accused of murder.
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Gulpilil plays a tracker hired to find three Aboriginal girls escaped from a government camp in Philip Noyce's 2002 film about the Stolen Generation.
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Firmly planted in the era of Ozploitation, this 1986 film features Gulpilil and John Jarratt attempting to relocate a rogue 40-foot croc.
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Gulpilil again plays a tracker, leading the manhunt for an Aboriginal man accused of murder, in Rolf de Heer's dramatic 2002 film.
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Mel Gibson reprises his star-making role with equally impressive results, not least due to the presence of Tina Turner and the venerable Frank Thring.
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George Miller didn't waste time giving cinema-goers more Mad Max - two years later, plot mostly abandoned in favour of spectacular high speed chases.
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Starring the then little known Mel Gibson, this low budget box office smash is often credited for introducing Australian films to the global market.
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