Posted by sigismund on August 3, 2010, at 15:41:20
In reply to Re: Texas! It is illegal to sell one's own eye. » PartlyCloudy, posted by fayeroe on August 2, 2010, at 14:03:10
> One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.
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> When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
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> It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
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> It is illegal to idle or loiter anyplace within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of flirting or mashing. This law is for the city of Abilene. I've been to Abilene and the last thing on my mind was flirting or mashing. It was 108 degrees that day.
Mashing then is what we would have called pashing?"Wake in Fright" is a good guide to Australia. The best movie ever made here about Australia by a long shot.
This review is OK...
Probably Ted Kotchef's finest film, "Wake In Fright" (aka "Outback"), shocked shamed, and enraged a substantial chunk of the Australian population. It died at the box-office, got one TV screening in the early eighties (where I saw it), and then was forgotten -- or at least given up for dead.
Almost forty years later the negative was rediscovered only days away from final destruction (in the US of all places) and a badly needed restoration was begun.
The story: an endentured school teacher in a tiny outback town heads for Sydney and six weeks holiday. But only a day into the journey he loses his money gambling, and is left at the mercy of the local townsfolk.
Like Roeg's Walkabout, Kotchef sees the Australian landscape with the fresh eye of a foreigner. He portrays a society that no domestic film maker would've dared at that time. And he makes a brilliant film doing it. But where Roeg found a desert teeming with life and energetic beauty, Kotchef dicoves a desert surface a hard as iron -- and a population even harder.
"Wake In Fright" (along with "Walkabout") started the renaisance of the Australian film industry. It is beautifully photographed (or at least "appropriately" photographed), directed, edited, and acted. For anyone looking for an insight into the Australian landscape, temperament, or character, this is the film.
So when is someone gonna get of their *ss nd make this availiable in North America?
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