Australia has made some amazing contributions to the Western genre of film over the years, dating all the way back to 1906 with The Story of the Kelly Gang, and 2013's Mystery Road is no exception. Set in Australia's outback, indigenous detective Jay Swan, played by Aaron Pedersen, must confront drug dealers and a corrupt police force to investigate the murder of a young indigenous girl, and hopefully protect other girls from meeting the same grisly fate. The story of a solitary lawman navigating a brutal landscape populated with sordid characters makes Mystery Road a must-watch for fans of Western films.
Modern Australian westerns have been tackling the violent history and ongoing consequences of colonization and oppression of the indigenous people of Australia. Mystery Road is an unapologetic portrayal of the corrupt systems that allow abuse and violence to run rampant, while also depicting nuanced characters who don't fit neatly into...
Modern Australian westerns have been tackling the violent history and ongoing consequences of colonization and oppression of the indigenous people of Australia. Mystery Road is an unapologetic portrayal of the corrupt systems that allow abuse and violence to run rampant, while also depicting nuanced characters who don't fit neatly into...
- 1/17/2025
- by Emma Cregan
- Comic Book Resources
The process of creating drawings for movies takes an incredibly long time for animators. What many people may not realize is that a 60 to 90-second clip of an animated film can actually take an animator up to six weeks to finish. Making a lengthy animated movie is a mammoth task. This is also why the earliest examples of animation were only a few minutes long, at least until Disney popularized the animated feature with Snow White & the Seven Dwarves in 1937.
Considering how time-consuming the process of animation is, it's no wonder that the vast majority of animated films released around the world are short. Since Western animated films are often marketed to children, the short runtimes can also prevent kids, and adults, from getting restless and help them stay focused. However, there are some animated movies, including some of the longest Disney movies ever, that tell stories too big...
Considering how time-consuming the process of animation is, it's no wonder that the vast majority of animated films released around the world are short. Since Western animated films are often marketed to children, the short runtimes can also prevent kids, and adults, from getting restless and help them stay focused. However, there are some animated movies, including some of the longest Disney movies ever, that tell stories too big...
- 6/24/2024
- by Cassidy Stephenson, Howard Waldstein, Jeremy Lim, Ajay Aravind
- Comic Book Resources
With Justin Kurzel’s new movie in the works, will Australia’s favourite villain finally get the film treatment he deserves?
The quest to make a great Ned Kelly movie has consumed Australian film-makers since the dawn of cinema, even playing a part in the formation of the medium itself: 1906’s The Story of the Kelly Gang was not only Australia’s first ever feature film, but the first made anywhere in the world.
Since then, the legendary bushranger’s cinematic journey has proven long and chequered, but enters an exciting new phase with South Australia-born director Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Peter Carey’s critically acclaimed novel True History of the Kelly Gang, which begins shooting in Victoria in March.
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The quest to make a great Ned Kelly movie has consumed Australian film-makers since the dawn of cinema, even playing a part in the formation of the medium itself: 1906’s The Story of the Kelly Gang was not only Australia’s first ever feature film, but the first made anywhere in the world.
Since then, the legendary bushranger’s cinematic journey has proven long and chequered, but enters an exciting new phase with South Australia-born director Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Peter Carey’s critically acclaimed novel True History of the Kelly Gang, which begins shooting in Victoria in March.
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- 11/14/2017
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Ned Kelly was the subject of The Story Of The Kelly Gang in 1906, which is regarded as the world's first full-length narrative feature film, and now, the notorious bushranger is set to return to the big-screen in True History Of The Kelly Gang, which is set to shatter the mythology of Ned Kelly with "a gothic western for our times." Gothic western, I like that.... Read More...
- 11/7/2017
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Writer/director Ivan Sen has combined two genres uncommon to Australia, to deliver one classic film no Australian should miss
Cinema itself began with the western: 1903’s The Great Train Robbery, which most scholars believe to be the first film to tell a fictitious story. But although Australia has no shortage of rugged outdoors people and harsh picturesque terrain, Australian cinema never had an equivalent style of film-making. The closest we’ve come is western-ish productions such as The Story of the Kelly Gang,
Likewise, as much as vision of an Akubra-wearing gumshoe detective might appeal, down under noir films were never a thing. In the 1940s and 50s, when guys like Humphrey Bogart wooed dames and dry-gulched cronies, Australian cinema was languishing, or just about to: it produced on average just two features a year from 1952 to 1966.
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Cinema itself began with the western: 1903’s The Great Train Robbery, which most scholars believe to be the first film to tell a fictitious story. But although Australia has no shortage of rugged outdoors people and harsh picturesque terrain, Australian cinema never had an equivalent style of film-making. The closest we’ve come is western-ish productions such as The Story of the Kelly Gang,
Likewise, as much as vision of an Akubra-wearing gumshoe detective might appeal, down under noir films were never a thing. In the 1940s and 50s, when guys like Humphrey Bogart wooed dames and dry-gulched cronies, Australian cinema was languishing, or just about to: it produced on average just two features a year from 1952 to 1966.
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- 6/9/2016
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
From ‘rats’ in politics to cane toads in Queensland via ice-bitten tragedies in Everest and Antarctica, we round up the best documentaries from Australia
Documentaries have been a part of Australian film history from the beginning. A whole 10 years before The Story of the Kelly Gang claimed the title as the world’s first feature-length movie, Marius Sestier was making nonfiction short films that detailed the extravagance of the annual Melbourne Cup and the mundanity of passengers disembarking from a paddle steamer at Manly. Not too long later, photographer Frank Hurley was documenting his travels to Antarctica in South and Home of the Blizzard.
Sestier, an employee at the time of film pioneers the Lumière brothers in France, is just one of many documentarians whose importance to Australian cinema culture has long been ignored. It’s disappointing considering documentaries are frequently among the world-class cinema this country produces; even our...
Documentaries have been a part of Australian film history from the beginning. A whole 10 years before The Story of the Kelly Gang claimed the title as the world’s first feature-length movie, Marius Sestier was making nonfiction short films that detailed the extravagance of the annual Melbourne Cup and the mundanity of passengers disembarking from a paddle steamer at Manly. Not too long later, photographer Frank Hurley was documenting his travels to Antarctica in South and Home of the Blizzard.
Sestier, an employee at the time of film pioneers the Lumière brothers in France, is just one of many documentarians whose importance to Australian cinema culture has long been ignored. It’s disappointing considering documentaries are frequently among the world-class cinema this country produces; even our...
- 4/28/2016
- by Glenn Dunks
- The Guardian - Film News
From ‘rats’ in politics to cane toads in Queensland via ice-bitten tragedies in Everest and Antarctica, we round up the best documentaries from Australia
Documentaries have been a part of Australian film history from the beginning. A whole 10 years before The Story of the Kelly Gang claimed the title as the world’s first feature-length movie, Marius Sestier was making nonfiction short films that detailed the extravagance of the annual Melbourne Cup and the mundanity of passengers disembarking from a paddle steamer at Manly. Not too long later, photographer Frank Hurley was documenting his travels to Antarctica in South and Home of the Blizzard.
Sestier, an employee at the time of film pioneers the Lumière brothers in France, is just one of many documentarians whose importance to Australian cinema culture has long been ignored. It’s disappointing considering documentaries are frequently among the world-class cinema this country produces; even our...
Documentaries have been a part of Australian film history from the beginning. A whole 10 years before The Story of the Kelly Gang claimed the title as the world’s first feature-length movie, Marius Sestier was making nonfiction short films that detailed the extravagance of the annual Melbourne Cup and the mundanity of passengers disembarking from a paddle steamer at Manly. Not too long later, photographer Frank Hurley was documenting his travels to Antarctica in South and Home of the Blizzard.
Sestier, an employee at the time of film pioneers the Lumière brothers in France, is just one of many documentarians whose importance to Australian cinema culture has long been ignored. It’s disappointing considering documentaries are frequently among the world-class cinema this country produces; even our...
- 4/28/2016
- by Glenn Dunks
- The Guardian - Film News
Warner Bros. Pictures
Think of Australian films and there are certain images which automatically spring to mind. Comparing what is and isn’t a knife for example, or P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. But whether it’s Australia’s own or a good humoured stereotype (or both), what you see of films made down under is only the tip of the iceberg.
Not only does Australia have its very own feature film industry, it had the very first feature film film industry, ever. On December 26th 1906, when pioneers in Europe and America were creating short pieces as gimmicks to impress and show off the new medium of film, Australian Charles Tait’s 70 minute epic The Story Of The Kelly Gang, was busy having its premiere at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Hall. (The only reason this film isn’t on the list itself is that only 20 minutes of footage are known to...
Think of Australian films and there are certain images which automatically spring to mind. Comparing what is and isn’t a knife for example, or P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. But whether it’s Australia’s own or a good humoured stereotype (or both), what you see of films made down under is only the tip of the iceberg.
Not only does Australia have its very own feature film industry, it had the very first feature film film industry, ever. On December 26th 1906, when pioneers in Europe and America were creating short pieces as gimmicks to impress and show off the new medium of film, Australian Charles Tait’s 70 minute epic The Story Of The Kelly Gang, was busy having its premiere at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Hall. (The only reason this film isn’t on the list itself is that only 20 minutes of footage are known to...
- 1/26/2015
- by Ian Coomber
- Obsessed with Film
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