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Film: Australia

Barber, Lynden (1999), 'Blood on the floor', The Weekend Australian Nov 27-28. How the lack of big overseas hits is threatening the Australian film industry.

Barber, Lynden, (1998), 'Dire projections', Weekend Australian Oct 12-13. How 'corporate cinema expansion is threatening Australia's dwindling band of independent screens'.

Collie, Ian & David Williams (1997), 'A question of moral rights', Sydney Morning Herald Nov 17. Argument and counter-argument about intellectual ownership of films.

Dale, David (1997), 'From Ned to Croc', The Sydney Morning Herald Dec 2. How the SMH has covered film over 50,000 issues of the newspaper.,p. Barber, Lynden (1997), 'Disquiet on the set', The Australian Feb 19. The 1997 Gonski Report on funding film-making in Australia.

Barber, Lynden (1997), 'Stop it, quirky features', The Weekend Australian Jan 18-19. Argues for abolition of the over-used term 'quirky' in respect of Australian film.

Berryman, Ken (1996), '100 key Australian films', Cinema Papers February. An interesting ranking of important Australian films. I have real problems with Picnic At Hanging Rock in the No. 1 slot!

Herd, Juliet (1999), 'Heavenly creature', The Weekend Australian Dec 4-5. Interview with Kate Winslet, star of Jane Campion's Holy Smoke.

Jackson, Sally (1997), 'Film's harsh focus on the bottom line', The Weekend Australian May 10-11. The current fragile state of film funding in Australia.

Jackson, Sally (1998), `Our locations first among sequels', The Australian Dec 2. The resurgence of film-making in Australia, much of it by Amereican studios.

Martin, Lauren (1997), 'Coming of age - again', Sydney Morning Herald Nov 17. The resurgance of Australian cinema.,p. Nicklin, Lenore (1997), 'Hard celluloid', The Bulletin Mar 25. Shine and the funding of Australian films.

Mills, Jane (1999), 'Home groan', The Eye Nov 4-17. Jane fronts up to conventional wisdom again, urging Australian film-makers to 'stop complaing about audiences and start making decent films'.

Urban, Andrew L. (1997), 'All the right movies', The Weekend Australian July 5-6. New initiatives in indigenous film-making in Australia.

Urban, Andrew L. (1997), 'Movie-goers look for some direction', The Australian Sept 10. Worries about too many films being released on the Australian market (300 in 1997, 28 new titles in November). 





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