Chips Rafferty

  • Michael Powell – They’re a Weird Mob (1966)

    Michael Powell1961-1970AustraliaComedyDrama
    They're a Weird Mob (1966)
    They’re a Weird Mob (1966)

    An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder’s labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend the culture, but eventually he finds mateship and romance.Read More »

  • Ted Kotcheff – Wake in Fright (1971)

    1971-1980AustraliaCultDramaQueer Cinema(s)Ted Kotcheff

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    Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left… Believed lost for many years, Wake in Fright has been painstakingly restored by Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive and AtLab Deluxe, and is presented in its original uncompromising form.Read More »

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