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40,000 Years of Dreaming

The British Film Institute Presents The Century of Cinema: Australia and New Zealand

★ 6.2 (5 votes) | 1996 | 1h 7m
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Overview

Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date November 23, 1996
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions

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