Filmography: a chronological overview of all films/movies/documentaries and promo clips with music by the Australian band Dirty Three. Date format is DD-MMM-YY. -Information in grey italics is uncertain-
BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS, by Tommy O'Haver (1998)
Plot summary: Billy, a struggling young gay photographer falls in love with Gabriel, a waiter and aspiring musician who is probably straight but possibly gay or at least curious. Billy tries to get Gabriel to model for his latest project, a series of remakes of famous Hollywood screen kisses, featuring male couples, while also trying to win his affections. |
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PRAISE, by John Curran (1998)
Plot summary: Gordon (Peter Fenton) is a listless, chain-smoking asthmatic with a rather insipid libido. Cynthia (Sacha Horler) is a slightly pudgy nymphomaniac with a bad case of eczema. After quitting his job at a Brisbane liquor store, Gordon makes a decision that will mark his life forever: becoming involved in Cynthia's manic parlor games of chemical and sexual excess. As the pair combust in warmth and madness, Gordon willingly enters Cynthia's web of indulgence, progressively losing himself in a woman who's ironically lost to herself. Fueled by their rabid diet of sex, stimulants, and Scrabble, the lovers shore themselves away in Gordon's flea-bitten boarding house, temporarily staving off loneliness and imminent self-destruction. But as the months pass, Gordon's deficiencies and Cynthia's intensity begin to wear on the relationship. |
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SUE'S LAST RIDE, by Nicholas Elliot (2001)
Plot summary: A car in the nocturnal streets of Ljubljana. A young woman obsessively describes the shaky relationship with her father to the man at the wheel taking her to a concert by The Dirty Three. As the music gets louder, so do the words. |
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HAPPING ENDINGS, by Don Roos (2005)
Plot summary: The film follows a diverse group of mostly middle-class Los Angelenos through the emotional ups and downs in their flawed yet very human lives, each loosely connected to each other through a restaurant. |
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LONELINESS (GIRL), by Allison Koehler (2008)
Plot summary: A dreamy excercise in stark photography and lilting musical score that features a lonely girl (Ellie Kriseman), small and distant, against several backgrounds (theater, aquarium, beach, city museum, rural dwellngs). More existential than narrative, no dialogue. |
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MUD, by Jeff Nichols (2013)
Plot summary: Fourteen year-old Ellis (Tye Sheridan) lives on a makeshift houseboat on the banks of a river in Arkansas with his parents. He sneaks out early one morning to meet his best friend, Neckbone (Jacob Lofland). The two boys set out to an island on the Mississippi River, where they meet Mud (Matthew McConaughey). Ellis learns that Mud has killed a man in Texas, and police and bounty hunters are looking for him, but Mud is more concerned about reuniting with his longtime love, Juniper (Reese Witherspoon). The boys risk everything to reunite these seeming mythical lovers. |
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THE ROUGH SOUTH OF LARRY BROWN, by Gary Hawkins (2002)
Plot summary: The documentary weaves interviews of Larry Brown and his wife, Mary Annie, with narrative adaptations of three of his short stories, “Boy & Dog,” “Wild Thing,” and “Samaritans,” brought vividly to the screen with performances by Will Patton, Paul Schneider, and Natalie Canerday. A unique examination of the life and works of the late Oxford (Mississippi) fireman-turned-writer. Larry Brown (1951-2004) was an American novelist, often compared to other Southern writers, including Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner and Harry Crews. |
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THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN, by Taggart Siegel (2005)
Plot summary: The moving story of an eccentric farmer in the Midwestern United States, based on interviews and old family films director Taggart Siegel paints a portrait of a man who knows how to unite his artistry and love for the country with the legacy of his family. When his father dies in the sixties, the young John Peterson takes over the family business. He transforms the traditional farm into a haven for hippies and artists, but that the company nearly collapsed into bankruptcy. By necessity he sells almost all of the country, where his father worked hard for his whole life. His extravagant personality, he is the focus of gossip and slander in the farming community and his career as a farmer seems in order. The tide is turning as he makes a new start as an organic farmer and a number of families from Chicago become co-shareholder of his company. |
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DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by Amy Berg (2006)
Plot summary: Dutch documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, an Irish catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the California between 1971 and 1993 in an attempt by the catholic church to cover up his abuse of dozens of children. |
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THE DUST NEVER SETTLES, by Jess Dickenson (2009)
Info: A film composed of footage recorded in 2005/2006 during a fourteen-month, 50,000 kilometer road tour of Australia. In 2004 Jess and her boyfriend Spenny left the UK for Australia with the simple intention of seeing as much of it as they could. Beginning in Sydney, they worked for a year to save up enough money to buy a 4WD and a video camera. They took the seats out of the back, replacing them with a bed and some camping gear. While parts of the film are funny there is also this pervasive sense of nostalgia for time passing, eventually to be lost forever, which is enhanced by the beautiful soundtrack from Australia’s The Dirty Three. The little wild horse who pauses to look back while crossing a lonely desert road is very moving. A rare document of the endlessly diverse landscape and culture of a continent, and a unique vision of contemporary Australia. |
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EVERYTHING'S FUCKED
Recording info: (5:25 mins). Directed in 1995. |
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I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN ONCE YOU USED TO LOVE ME
Recording info: (6:09 mins). Directed in 1995, by Sarah King. |
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HOPE
Recording info: (4:55 mins). Directed in 1996, by Sarah King. |
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BACKWARDS VOYAGER
Recording info: (4:26 mins). Directed in 1998, by Sarah King. |
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THE RESTLESS WAVES
Recording info: (5:09 mins). Directed in 1998, by Braden King. Footage assembled from "Dutch Harbor: Where The Sea Breaks It's Back", a film by Braden King and Laura Moya. Cinematography by Mark Hopkins. Made by Truckstop Media. |
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GREAT WAVES
Recording info: (3:35 mins). Directed on September 1, 2005 by Braden King. Cinematography by Sam Levy. Additional Camera: Matt Boyd, Jem Cohen, Braden King. Edit: Braden King, Ian Williams. Art Director: Tim Grimes. Made by Truckstop Media. |
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SAD JEXY
Recording info: (3:25 mins) Directed in 2005, by Sarah King. |
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RISING BELOW
Recording info: (6:25 mins) Directed and edited by Emma Watts, Melbourne 2012. |
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