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    Just thought I'd tempt you with a recent Grauniad retrospect on Bazza -

    The Adventures of Barry McKenzie rewatched – crude but charming

    Not even Sacha Baron Cohen’s offensiveness can compete with the film Bruce Beresford called a ‘colossal mistake’


    ... The Adventures of Barry McKenzie has an ignominious legacy as a popular comedy more vulgar and offensive than virtually anything that came before or after it. It out-Borats Borat a hundred fold, and even makes episodes of Family Guy look as risqué as sneezes around a dinner table.
    If that sounds like an exaggeration, look no further than the first frame. Before the film begins a mock classification insert appears with the words “no poofters allowed”. What kind of comedy these days could get away with that? Which would even try?
    The jokes in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and guilty of virtually any other derogatory stereotyping you care to name. Bazza’s zingers include “When it comes to fleecing you, the Poms have got the edge on the Gypos”; “hungry Arab, would have dropped the bastard if he wasn’t qualified for the pension,” and “I’m that thirsty I could drink out of a Japanese wrestler’s jockstrap.”

    Some scenes overstay their welcome but splotches of excellence exist among the beer stains. When Dame Edna, for example, sits down to talk to a man played by woman, things get almost meta in their weirdness: a middle-aged woman pretending to be a middle-aged man talking to a middle-aged man pretending to be a middle-aged woman.

    ... Perhaps Beresford, one of the great Australian filmmakers, ought to take more pride in it. The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is low-as-they-come art, with patchy pacing and hysterical performances, but it’s also a fearless parody of parochial Australians, told with an intoxicating (and sometimes nauseating) old school charm.
    The Adventures of Barry McKenzie rewatched ? crude but charming | Film | The Guardian


    Interpreting Bazza speak

    For the uninitiated, here's a sample of some of the movie's colourful colloquialisms:

    Splash the boots, strain the potatoes, water the horses, go where the big knobs hang out, shake hands with the wife's best friend, drain the dragon, siphon the python, ring the rattlesnake, unbutton the mutton, point Percy at the porcelain, shake hands with the unemployed: take a leak
    Chunder, big spit, technicolour yawn, yodelling, laugh at the ground: vomit
    As dry as a dead dingo's donger: in desperate need of a beer
    One-eyed trouser snake, mutton dagger: penis
    Bang like a dunny door, go off like an alarm clock: promiscuous female
    Spear the bearded clam, knee-trembler, get dirty water off your chest: have sex

    Beresford reflects on his 'colossal mistake' | Movie News | SBS Movies


    Oh, and it was the first Australian movie to take more than $1 million at the domestic box office.


    Another aussie lowbrow classic, for the seriously dedicated -


    Alvin Purple rewatched – the raunchy heart of 1970s Ozploitation films

    This racy comedy doubles as a commentary on giving the public what they want and rubbing it in prudes’ faces

    Alvin Purple: a spicy commentary on the censorship debate. As Ozploitation films of the 1970s exploded with horror, action and violence, the movement also revelled in raunchiness. Relishing new-found artistic freedom, button-pushing directors soiled cinematic bed sheets time and time again during a sustained period of smuttiness unparalleled in Australian film history.
    Movies such as The Naked Bunyip, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Number 96, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Australia After Dark, Scobie Malone and Felicity presented all sorts of wobbly bits and sexual shenanigans. Average guy antihero Alvin Purple (Graeme Blundell) was at the heart of it, the floppy-haired centre round which all manner of carnal pleasures and perversities orbited.
    Directed by Tim Burstall, the 1973 film that assumes his name was a big hit – so big it became the most successful Australian feature ever released at the time, chalking up over $4m at the local box office.
    Burstall and writer Alan Hopgood exploited changes to Australian censorship laws made in 1971 by then federal minister for customs, Don Chipp, who introduced an R rating to reduce the number of films that were banned. This led to an influx of cheap imported sex movies and paved the way for Alvin Purple, a film with progressive instincts that were both informed and complicated by the emergence of feminism as a political movement.

    It begins with Alvin sitting on a tram contemplating sexual temptation. “How can you keep your mind off it when it’s being flung at you every moment of the day,” he whinges via voiceover, observing an attractive woman with a T-shirt declaring: “Women should be obscene not heard.”

    At home by himself, Alvin cracks open a beer and takes drastic measures; he declares celibacy and makes a toast to “the sexless 70s”. A moment later a pretty young neighbour appears at his front door asking for a cup of sugar. Thus begins a differently oriented decade: the sex-filled 70s, where Alvin can’t escape erotic encounters no matter how hard he tries.
    In fact the harder he tries, the more situations he finds himself part of. The film’s central joke revolves around the idea that an everyday man, hardly a pin-up model, can be irresistible to women everywhere. More than that, Burstall reconfigures stereotypical gender roles, painting Alvin as a victim and women as sexual predators.
    Sex is flung at him virtually every moment of the day, if not in actual encounters than through innuendo. “There are openings everywhere for the right man,” says Alvin’s father during his 21st birthday speech. “Find out what you want to do and then extend yourself.”
    Burstall and Hopwood string together episodic situations such as Alvin escaping girls at school (he ends up sleeping with his teacher’s wife) and Alvin taking a job as a water mattress salesman (subsequent scenes practically write themselves).
    After Alvin is recruited by a quack from a shonky psychiatrist’s office to be a kind of therapeutic sex worker, helping clients (mostly wives) conquer sexual fears and inhibitions, the practice is busted and the protagonist is put on trial to determine what – if anything – he is guilty of.
    These courtroom scenes give Alvin Purple an intellectual anchor and solidify it as something more than a series of disconnected escapades. Alvin’s sort-of pimped services can be read as an equivalent for the movie, a bizarre anthem to giving the public what they want and rubbing it in the face of prudes who stand in the way.

    “This trial has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in all of my 30 years on the bench,” the judge – having been treated to a range of racy films starring Alvin – declares prior to ruling. “Speaking as a judge, I found it a welcomed relief to the usual parade of wife beaters, drunks and tax evaders, whose antics I find of no entertainment value whatsoever.”
    Those lines are key to the film’s legacy not as a raunchy comedy but as a spicy commentary on the censorship debate. Given the attitudes of today’s censors, who generally regard sexual representations with more suspicion and harsher classifications than violence, Alvin Purple won’t be going out of date any time soon.
    Alvin Purple rewatched ? the raunchy centre of the 70s Ozploitation craze | Luke Buckmaster | Film | The Guardian

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    ^I watched it for the first time just a few years ago. Couldn't believe how fresh it was.

    Very funny!

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    yeh mate, it's a riot.

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    The Lighthorsemen. 1987. WW1. Great movie. Cheers to Necron99 who recommended it to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    ^I watched it for the first time just a few years ago. Couldn't believe how fresh it was.

    Very funny!
    Sounds like an Aussie version of "Confessions of a Window Cleaner".

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    Also a young Anna Paquin, in her first acting role- better known now as Sookie, from True Blood.
    Yeah, she really played a brilliant part there cartwheeling along the beach and caring for 'her mute mom' for such a young actress was outstanding and deserved her Oscar.
    Sort of surprised me when she announced she was gay sometime later but...WTF ?.

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    Bought up on another thread. Roman Polanski directed this version of Macbeth:




    faithful interpretation, bloody bold and grim. Sorry, the quality on this is not good.

    (and to be clear, it is accurate to the play dialog).

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    "Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer" (1986).

    Disturbing and brilliant performance by Michael Rooker, playing a role based loosely on the life and crimes of sociopath killer Henry Lee Lucas. Film was shot on 16mm for a low budget, and took a few years to get released due to the violent content of the film.

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    If you like that, try "Freeway Killer" and "Ted Bundy".

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    ^ Or American psycho.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
    Sounds like an Aussie version of "Confessions of a Window Cleaner".
    Nope, that is just a prurient schoolboy, slightly naughty extension of the 'Carry On' series. Really, if you think that's something do check out Alvin Purple. Hope you like shag-pile carpet.

    Ain't much sexual smut in Bazza really, just bad taste, offensive stereotyping, and raucous humor. It's a movie that could neither have been made in the 60's, or 90's onwards. It's a Classic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    Never even heard of The Hill.....will look it up, with that strong recommendation..
    Can be found on KickAss.

    Having said ^, now I can't find it. I might have gotten it off the old Pirate Bay. Worth looking for....

    Found it on PB
    Can't find it on Pirate Bay or Kickass. SOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Humbert View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    Never even heard of The Hill.....will look it up, with that strong recommendation..
    Can be found on KickAss.

    Having said ^, now I can't find it. I might have gotten it off the old Pirate Bay. Worth looking for....

    Found it on PB
    Can't find it on Pirate Bay or Kickass. SOL.
    Go to PB. Search "The Hill". halfway down page 1. Just checked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton
    Go to PB. Search "The Hill". halfway down page 1. Just checked.
    Found it. Buried between Benny Hill and Lauryn Hill. Cheers.

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    Cool. Hope you like it.

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    ^ In blue is how to copy a link Davis, if you are bothered


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    ^Thanks. I usually don't add links when I recommend movies, as I don't know what system folks prefer to use to download, 720 vice 1080, etc. In this case, I probably should have......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    "The Hill". 1965. B&W. Sean Connery as a British Army Sergeant Major sent to an army detention center in the Libyan desert during WW2 after being charged with cowardice. One of my favorite WW2 movies of all time.
    That was a real gem. Directed by Sidney Lumet who did 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'Network' and 'Serpico' among many other great films.
    Militarism, obedience, intimidation, homosexuality, racism but not much about war. A very different visual style than his later films.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit
    Boogie Nights 1997
    MissKit on the money again. High octane entertainment and hard to pick that this is not as fresh as a daisy at nearly 20 years old.

    Great cast including the inimitable PS Hoffman! I did not expect there to be so many quality folk in it.

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    Shallow Grave (1994)

    Danny Boyle's first big screen movie.
    Ewan McGregor is one of three flatmates who find a suitcase full of cash when new flatmate, Keith Allen, suddenly dies.
    Dilemma ensues.

    Boyle won a BAFTA for it.

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    Priscilla Queen of the Desert 1994

    I'm not a fan of musicals but I watched this yesterday because my old Ma loved it so much. A comedy musical about three Aussie trannies/fags crossing the desert in a beat up old bus they named Priscilla and the trials and prejudges they encounter along the way.
    It surprised me I really enjoyed it.



    1994

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    watched this one again recently after a very long time
    loved it
    nice and different, super slow and a bit trippy

    Aguirre the wrath of god (1972)



    ''Klaus Kinski stars in this stunning, grueling adventure about a Conquistador's descent into the heart of darkness while exploring the Amazon in search of El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. As the expedition moves further into the jungle, they leave reality behind and enter a dreamlike, otherworldly land of delusion and madness''

    German film subtitled

    Aguirre The Wrath Of God 1972 720p BRRip ENG SUBS[Zeberzee] (download torrent) - TPB

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    ^^ Priscilla is a great movie. Saw it when it came out new. Time to watch it again. Thanks!

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    If you're into Australiana, have a look at this. It's rather odd, but worth watching, depending on your taste, of course.



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    If you like WWII movies. Sea Of Sand and Ice Cold In Alex. Both B&W both 1958 both have Richard Attenborough.

    I enjoyed them both.

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