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The ‘hero’ Beowulf (1980)
The hero Beowulf (voiced by Arthur Dignam) and his men arrive at the King’s mead hall. [read more]
‘You run an impressive operation’ (1985)
Becker (Eric Roberts) visits T George McDowell (Bill Kerr) at his bottling plant in Anderson Valley. He offers to help McDowell modernise his business. [read more]
The very well-stitched Miss Brawne (2009)
Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) and her mother (Kerry Fox) visit Mr and Mrs Dilke (Gerard Monaco, Claudie Blakley). Fanny is frosty toward Charles Brown (Paul Schneider), a poet who rents one half of the Dilke house. Fanny brings a cup ... [read more]
On the run (1985)
A young Yeshiva student, Jack, and the East End fishmonger Morrie Mendellsohn (Bob Hoskins) have left the camp and walked into town. They savour an illicit ice cream and discover that there’s no train until Friday. Since they have no ... [read more]
At the greengrocer (2003)
Phaedra (Susan Prior) nervously turns up to deliver a love poem to the greengrocer she fancies (Tia has told her she’d had sex with him – devastating to the sexually timid Phaedra). She finds the courage to go ahead, but ... [read more]
Violence and brutality (1980)
A radio broadcast quotes from Jean Genet’s essay ‘Violence and Brutality’ (1977) while a bomb is constructed. [read more]
Learning to read (2000)
After discovering that his cellmate and ‘protector’ Williams (Tony Martin) can’t read, Sonny (Kick Gurry) teaches him. [read more]
Getting the shots (1982)
Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt) and Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) film a communist youth demonstration in the streets of Jakarta. As the demonstration gets out of hand, the demonstrators turn on Billy, trying to stop him filming. Hamilton is fearless in ... [read more]
‘Lock the mine’ (1983)
Wattie Doig (Chris Haywood) reads a list of miners’ demands to company manager Birch (David Kendall). Birch orders the mine shut. [read more]
At the bank (1984)
Maggie wants to cash her pension cheques at the bank so that she can offer Arthur the money to buy a new car. [read more]
A lifelong ritual (1997)
Through illness, adolescence, travel, married life and old age, a woman (voiced by Arianthe Galani) recalls a lifelong ritual, started by her father when she was a baby, of taking a picture of herself every other day. [read more]
Luna Park 1974 (1974)
Constance (Noeline Brown), James (John Meillon) and Sean (Mark Shields-Brown) visit Sydney’s famous Luna Park. [read more]
Into the void (1983)
Jenny is determined to show her worth to the rest of the group, even if it means tackling abseiling when she has a terror of heights. [read more]
The Darcy family (1981)
The Darcys are an unusual family. They are extremely wealthy and yet they live the tough and hard-working life of real outback battlers. Nevertheless, the family makes light of chores and there’s a real warmth between all of them. [read more]
The job interview (2011)
Lucy (Emily Browning) arrives for an interview with Clara (Rachael Blake) in reply to the job advertisement she saw in the student newspaper. The job is involves being a lingerie waitress but there is ‘room for promotion’, according to Clara. ... [read more]
‘It’s over’ (1975)
Sarah (Katie Shiel) tells Ayhan (Sait Memis Oglu) that their relationship is over. [read more]
The singing chef (1952)
In the kitchen of a small restaurant, while watching over boiling pots of soup, a cheerful singing chef (entertainer Bobby Limb) shares the secret of his delicious evening meals – he uses Nestlé's packaged soups. As the soup impresses the ... [read more]
The ruined Saturday (1991)
Arthur (Garry McDonald) wants to spend a quiet Saturday morning at home reading the paper while he drinks a cup of tea. Suddenly there’s a knock on the door and Maggie is accused of stealing a clock from the house ... [read more]
Drowning the sorrow (1996)
A young boy lays unconscious on the sand. He is helped to his feet by his mother (Roslyn Trillot-Watson) and father (Ted Hopkins). A white woman (Jo-Anna Lawson) takes young Waxy (Jarred Wall) by the hand, and leads him towards ... [read more]
Shaking the Establishment (2002)
Max has been found guilty and sentenced to death. His appeal to the High Court has also been rejected, on the grounds that the court cannot entertain new evidence. At a city watering hole, David O’Sullivan (Robert Carlyle) and Helen ... [read more]
