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Taxi driver (2000)
Romaine Moreton recites her poem ‘Taxi Driver’ over images of her riding in the back of a taxi heading to a performance in Sydney. [read more]
‘I love to look at movie stars’ (2008)
Dominick Dunne recalls his meetings with soon-to-be famous actors while working at NBC Television in the 1950s. [read more]
‘A miracle’ (1997)
Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) delivers the glass church to Reverend Hasset (Ciaran Hinds). This clip also features narration by Geoffrey Rush. [read more]
Thirty dollars worth of talk (1981)
In Kings Cross, Sydney, Rob (Bryan Brown) asks Lou (Judy Davis) if he can talk to her about Lisa. She leads him to the hotel room where she takes her clients, requesting $30 for 15 minutes. Remembering her friend makes ... [read more]
Men’s opinion of women (2000)
Presenter Rachael Oakes-Ash asks men in the street what they look for in a woman. Media personality Amanda Keller says she has given up picking fault in other women. [read more]
New China (1997)
Young Chinese fashion designers Guo Pei and Sun Jian talk about the differences between themselves and their parents, how modern Chinese youth really just want to make money, and how they have no interest in politics. [read more]
Milk bar (c1940)
This clip shows a young girl and boy riding their bicycles to the local milk bar where they join their younger sister and drink milkshakes at the counter. [read more]
Clara (2004)
You can view the animated short film Clara here in its entirety. In her suburban home, 12-year-old Clara tries to come to terms with a life-changing event. [read more]
‘Unpleasant fact number one’ (1985)
Harry Joy (Barry Otto) wakes up in a psychiatric hospital, after his family has bribed corrupt doctors to certify him. His friend and colleague Alex Duval (Tim Robertson) is already there, masquerading as the real Harry Joy. The hospital’s chief ... [read more]
‘A game of skill, touch and patience’ (2002)
Jack Simpson (Mick Molloy) has been ordered to turn up to play bowls, or lose his membership in the club. Club president Len (Frank Wilson) thinks there’s some mistake, because he’s never seen Simpson before. Team skipper Stan (Bill Hunter) ... [read more]
Houdini visits Edinburgh (2007)
Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan) watch a silent black-and-white newsreel about Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce). They learn that he has offered USD $10,000 to anyone who can contact his dead mother in the afterlife, ... [read more]
Eureka! (2007)
Filmmaker Janet Merewether is sick of researching sperm donors and weighing up the different options for getting pregnant. To get away from it all, she goes out to a concert and ends up with a bloke in bed. Sounds of ... [read more]
‘Bloody rent increases’ (1976)
In Norma’s wine bar, Norma (Sheila Kennelly) and Weppo (Roger Ward) discuss the new barman. Edie (Wendy Blacklock) comes in with her nephews, Grant (Michael Howard) and Lee (Stephen McDonald), and has trouble understanding their teenage talk. [read more]
‘Dirty little bugger’ (2007)
Charlie (Luke Ford) draws rude self-portraits as he and his brother Thomas (Rhys Wakefield) sit at home. Their parents return from a sex and pregnancy class, where Maggie (Toni Collette) has had one of her ‘attacks’, due to high blood ... [read more]
‘Be elusive but don’t walk far’ (2005)
Eddie visits the site of a proposed major development to take soil contamination samples. He remembers his childhood sweetheart Amanda (Casey Peterson), whose father is the developer behind this new project. As he works, a crop-dusting helicopter gives him a ... [read more]
What is great writing? (2001)
Tensions in the newsroom come to the surface when Bernard Brewster (Jack Thompson) singles out David Meredith (Matt Day) for praise, citing an article that he has written in defiance of instructions from news editor Curtis Condon (Denis Moore). David’s ... [read more]
‘Who are you, Steve?’ (2003)
On the videotape, Alexandra (Helen Buday) displays the vibrator Steve (Gary Sweet) gave her on her birthday and accuses him of buying it for his pleasure only. She calls it a machine, and says that in his eyes it makes ... [read more]
Doors closed and opening (2001)
Minnie Meredith (Angie Milliken) puts an end to Jack Senior’s (William McInnes) systematic abuse of their son David (Nick Russell). The father only escapes official retribution because the family doctor (John Arnold) was an officer in Meredith’s regiment. As that ... [read more]
Mia encounters an obstacle (1996)
Mia (Frances O’Connor) visits the head of film studies (Kym Gyngell) at her university and finds it’s not going to be as easy as she thought to change courses. [read more]
‘What are you doing here?’ (1987)
Bet (Jan Adele) discovers her daughter-in-law Lilli (Judy Davis) at the caravan park. Lilli is talking to Bet’s granddaughter Ally (Claudia Karvan), who does not know that Lilli is her mother. [read more]
