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May 26, 2021

My Name is Gulpilil: a candid, gentle portrait of one of Australia’s best actors

Nicholas Godfrey, Flinders University

When David Gulpilil was diagnosed with cancer in 2017, Molly Reynolds began making this affecting documentary.

In Cargo, Martin Freeman plays Andy, a man who has to kill his wife after she turns into a zombie and travels across country with baby daughter Rosie on his back. Addictive Pictures, Causeway Films, Head Gear Films

May 18, 2018

The Australian zombie horror Cargo is burdened by its own gravitas

Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia

In Cargo, zombies roam Australia and Aboriginal people living off the land are best equipped to repel them. The first half hour is brilliant but the film becomes far less satisfying.

Aaron Pedersen reprises his Mystery Road role as Jay Swan in Goldstone. Ivan Sen’s latest film draws together white, black and Chinese Australia. Transmission Films

June 7, 2016

Ivan Sen’s Goldstone: a taut, layered exploration of what echoes in the silences

Anne Rutherford, Western Sydney University

The Sydney Film Festival opens on Wednesday with the world premiere of Ivan Sen’s Goldstone. There is no filmmaker working here today who is more adept at touching the raw nerves of Australian culture.

David Gulpilil starts in Rolf de Heer’s new film Charlie’s Country, a subversive comedy shot in the Northern Territory. Image.net/Entertainment One films

July 17, 2014

Charlie’s Country: David Gulpilil confounds our romantic fantasies

Gemma Blackwood, Charles Darwin University

Rolf de Heer’s new film Charlie’s Country, which opened yesterday, examines the day-to-day experiences of an older man in Arnhem Land as he struggles for independence and respect in his home town. The…

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