Are These The Top Five Aussie Films Of All Time?
The Australian Film Institute recently conducted an online survey to discover what the folks of this fine country consider to be the best examples of local cinema ever produced. Naturally, the top five contains flicks featuring men in dresses, lovable bogans, and death.
Films about drag queens, World War I Diggers, an ABBA-loving wannabe bride, and a man whose home is his castle have been voted some of Australia’s favourite homegrown movies.
An online poll by the Australian Film Institute (AFI) to celebrate 50 years of the AFI Awards has found the country’s top five films of all time are, in no particular order, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Castle, Muriel’s Wedding, Lantana and Gallipoli.
What, no Coolangatta Gold?
Your thoughts? What’s conspicuously missing from the list, and which of the five films do you think will come out at number one by the time the AFI Awards are held in December?
Comments
I would definitely agree with Lantana, Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla. Sure the latter two are quite bizarre and camp, but so what, Australia did it perfectly! I would change the other two. I think Rabbit Proof Fence should be there (especially in regards to it’s historical importance to this country). And I saw the Jammed recently. I walked out of that thinking it was the best Aussie movie I have ever seen. An absolute masterpiece, and far more important (both cinematically and socially) than a comedy about a dude trying to save his house. The Castle is a tad overhyped. This will no doubt bring about a backlash!