The ‘Australia’ film – why did some people hate it and so many people love it?

April 17th, 2009

The huge gulf between those who loved & those who hated Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ is best explained by reading the comments from the general public on some of the film forums, such as Nine MSN’s ‘Your Movies’. The comments on this blog illustrate two great things – a) most Australians think for themselves rather than […]

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Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Movie sales figures

April 7th, 2009

Baz Luhrmann’s Australia film grossed $206 million USD at theatre box offices in the first five months. In just one month, in the U.S., 2 million ‘Australia’ DVDs sold – which is 80% of what 20th Century Fox expected to sell in total. It’s good to see the public making their own minds up, rather […]

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‘Australia’ Film Travel

February 6th, 2009

Travelling to the locations where ‘Australia’ was filmed ‘Strickland House’ – heritage listed property in Vaucluse, Eastern Sydney, NSW: Built in the 1850s, Strickland House was owned by William Charles Wentworth and originally called ‘Carrara’. The extensive grounds include a two-storey coachhouse and stables. It is registered by the National Trust and publicly owned. Strickland […]

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‘Australia’ (the film)

January 28th, 2009

Baz Luhrmann was quoted as saying he didn’t make films for critics, he made them for audiences. (So if a film was good, word-of-mouth would eventually get people in to see it – regardless of what was published in the press.) More than 3 million Australians, out of a population of just 21.2 million, have […]

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Find a Farmer a Wife

August 6th, 2008

We just had to watch ‘Find a Farmer a Wife’ on tv. Curiosity got the better of me, it just sounded so appalling. I hope all the blokes who end up with a live-in arrangement as a result of this show, get a pre-nuptial/pre-defacto agreement. Because the odds are that more than one will end […]

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