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NFSA Lending Collection
Borrower Bulletin August 2013
Red Dog Mad Max 2 amp 3
Babe amp Babe 2
Newsfront
Burning Man Walkabout
Mental Crackerjack The Square
Welcome to the NFSA Lending Collection bulletin Greetings from the NFSA Screening Loans team to all borrowers of films from the
NFSA In this bulletin we have information and updates about the Non-Theatrical
Lending Collection ndash NTLC ndash an international collection of quality titles that are
already licensed for non-commercial screenings by organisations Here is the latest
news from the NFSA more about accessing our collections recent acquisitions and
improvements to the service including
Our Australian focus for growing the lending collection
Share your experiences with us
All the Australian feature film DVD acquisitions so far this year ndash over 90 titles
More Australian films due to be added through this year
The start of our modest Blu-Ray collection
Tips for borrowers searching and using the collection
Highlights of new titles from key German directors
Remembering 1994 ndash Australian favourites approaching a 20 year anniversary
More films from David and Margaretrsquos At the Movies Classics selection
Newest NFSA exclusive DVD titles
Screening Loans staff select four favourite films for your consideration
Screening Loans Contact Info
Links to more information
Throughout this bulletin are embedded hyperlinks to NFSA web pages that will give
you more information about certain films or go directly to a specific NTLC catalogue
search Simply click on the blue hypertext while reading this document on a
computer Also clips from many of the Australian films can be viewed on NFSArsquos
Australian Screen website resource
Australian Focus ndash a century of national cinema
Over 100 new Australian titles acquired this year span the century from 1913 to 2013
With our recent acquisitions this year we have focussed on building the Australian
film collection More than a hundred new Australian films have been licenced for
loan and screening with most of these now available for booking Over twenty of
these films are either no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD
before and so have been created on DVD from NFSA archival master material
These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan or buy these
films on DVD anywhere else ndash see film details later in the bulletin
Share your experience If your group has run a special event or successful screening with a difference using
films from NFSA Lending Collection please let us know about it Perhaps you showed
a silent film accompanied by local musicians run a kidsrsquo holiday programme or
screened a selection of shorts within a theme Or you have simply just discovered a
great film that you want to tell others about We would love to share your news
experiences and photos with other borrowers in future bulletins
New licensed Australian feature films on DVD The latest new acquisitions ndash available for booking and screening now
2010 - 2013
Goddess 2013
Bait 2012
Kath and Kimderella 2012
Mental 2012
Any Questions For Ben 2011
Burning Man 2011
Happy Feet 2 2011
Red Dog 2011
Sanctum 2011
The Cup 2011
The Way Back 2011
Wasted on the Young 2011
Beneath Hill 60 2010
I Love You Too 2010
Legend of the Guardians The Owls
of GaHoole 2010
Matching Jack 2010
Tomorrow When the War Began 2010
2000 - 2009
Beautiful Kate 2009
Bran Nue Dae 2009
Charlie and Boots 2009
Maos Last Dancer 2009
Two Fists One Heart 2009
The Square 2008
December Boys 2007
Rogue 2007
The Jammed 2007
Boy Town 2006
Happy Feet 2006
Wolf Creek 2005
Bad Eggs 2003
Danny Deckchair 2003
Master and Commander 2003
Ned Kelly 2003
Charlotte Gray 2002
Crackerjack 2002
Garage Days 2002
The Crocodile Hunter Collision
Course 2002
The Hard Word 2002
The Nugget 2002
Mr Accident 2000
Looking for Alibrandi 2000
Me Myself I 2000
1990 - 1999
The Craic 1999
Babe 2 Pig in the City 1998
Dark City 1998
Dead Letter Office 1998
Hotel de Love 1996
Babe 1995
Metal Skin 1995
Bad Boy Bubby 1994
The Heartbreak Kid 1993
FernGully The Last Rainforest 1992
Blood Oath 1990
1980 - 1989 Dead Calm 1989
The Delinquents 1989
Crocodile Dundee 1986
Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome 1985
Witness 1985
The Wild Duck 1984
Phar Lap 1983
Mad Max 2 1981
Chain Reaction 1980
1970 - 1979 The Last of the Knucklemen 1979
Newsfront 1978
The Last Wave 1977
High Rolling 1977
Eliza Fraser 1976
End Play 1975
Alvin Rides Again 1974
Stork 1971
Walkabout 1971
1950 - 1959 Summer of the 17th Doll 1959
On the Beach 1959
Kangaroo 1952
1930 - 1939 Seven Little Australians 1939
Diggers in Blighty 1933
Harmony Row 1933
A Ticket in Tatts 1932
The Sentimental Bloke 1932
Diggers 1931
1920 - 1929
The Cheaters 1929
Around the Boree Log 1925
A Girl of the Bush 1921
Silks and Saddles 1921
On Our Selection 1920
The Breaking of the Drought 1920
The Man from Kangaroo 1920
1910 - 1919
The Woman Suffers 1918
The Sick Stockrider (short) 1913
The Romantic Story of Margaret
Catchpole 1911
These titles available exclusively on DVD from NFSA See below for film descriptions
More Australian films coming soon on DVD
237 2006
Adams Woman 1970
Around the World in 80 Days 1988
Blackrock 1997
Children of the Silk Road 2008
Crocodile Dundee 2 1988
Dead Heart 1996
Diana and Me 1997
Emoh Ruo 1985
Harbour Beat 1990
Hey Hey itrsquos Esther Blueburger 2008
Horseplay 2003
Hostage The Christine Maresch
Story 1983
In a Savage Land 1999
No Worries 1994
Paperback Hero 1999
Paws 1997
Rebel 1985
Reckless Kelly 1993
Ride a Wild Pony 1976
Risk 2001
Shadows of a Peacock 1989
The Shiralee 1957
Starstruck 1982
Walk the Talk 2001
Year of Living Dangerously 1982
Young Einstein 1988
These films will be added to the Lending Collection progressively throughout the
year If you are interested in booking them for upcoming programs please contact
the Screening Loans team to confirm availability and timing
Blu-Ray collection We have started adding Blu-Ray discs to the Lending Collection We hope to grow this part
of our collection as more of the licensed films become available See our full list of licensed
Blu-Rays so far on the catalogue
Maorsquos Last Dancer
(2009)
Me Myself I (1999)
Witness (1985) Summer of the
Seventeenth Doll (1960)
Tips for borrowers
Find the Lending Collection easierhellip
Getting to the Lending Collection search page is now easier From the NFSA
website home page using the Search the collection link now gives you the
option of selecting from all the NFSA catalogues including the National
Collection the Film Australia collection Australian Screen Online and the
NFSA Shop as well as the Lending Collection
Searching the cataloguehellip
Use these Quick Search boxes on the NTLC catalogue search page to ensue
you only see film titles that are licensed for screening
16mm film borrowershellip
Donrsquot forget to tape down the end of your film so it doesnrsquot loosen during
transit Use the same packaging materials received with the film
Tell us your numbershellip
Please remember to fill in your Screening Reports and let us know how many
people attended your film screening We use these figures collectively to
show how popular our service is when reporting on NFSA programs to
government This all helps us to demonstrate the need for the Lending
Collection to continue into the future
Courtesy of NFSAhellip
Acknowledging NFSA in your programme and website as the source of the
films you screen is not only a great thing to do (as well as being a condition of
loan) it also links your organisation to the wonderful work of the NFSA in
archiving films and sharing them with the world Please make sure you are
using our current two-part logo which now includes the yellow circle
Circulate
This Bulletin is only sent to one contact person in each organisation Please
share it with film society committee members teachers lecturers or
programmers who regularly book and use the films That way all borrowers are
up to date with news and information on recent acquisitions
Goethe Institut ndash some new German titles Over 60 DVD titles have been added to the Lending Collection courtesy of the
Goethe Institut so far this year with dozens more just received Goethe Institut
provide NFSA with newly produced DVDs of films from recent releases back to early
silent German cinema Here are just some highlights
As part of a current Goethe re-issue
of many of the films by Wim Wenders
we have received the first two titles
on DVD The Scarlet Letter (1972) a
period drama set in puritan Salem
and Alice in the Cities (1974) (See
the review for Alice below)
Two more feature films by director
Tom Tykwer to add to Run Lola Run
(1999) the snowy Wintersleepers
(1997) a voyeuristic and enigmatic
study of human nature sometimes
erotic sometimes confronting
exploring the theme of chance and
coincidence and Three (2010) the
intertwining of three people in three
relationships also voyeuristic and
enigmatic As a producer Tom has
made a couple of other films in the
Lending Collection Soul Boy (2010)
a teen story filmed in the townships
of Kenya and the events of one hot
summer night in Gigantic (1999)
Tom has also directed an amusing
short story on the monotony of
business travel as part of the
uniformly excellent compilation
Deutschland 09 13 Short Films about
the State of the Nation
FW Murnau produced his vampire
film Nosferatu in 1922 featuring the
amazing Max Schreck This
restoration on DVD is remarkably
clear with new English intertitles
Then consider other Vampire films in
the Lending Collection such as
Werner Herzogrsquos Nosferatu
Phantom of the Night (1978) and the
Australian take on modern
vampires Thirst (1978)
Erich von Stroheim became known
as a director of excess making
overly-long (4-6 hour) productions
that ultimately were chopped
down for release His first film as
director Blind Husbands (1919)
shows none of this in fact his
restraint extended to a visual
subtlety different to the overacted
style of films from that era Here he
also performs as an imposing
Austrian officer who sets out to
seduce the bored wife of an
American doctor holidaying in the
Alps Merry Widow (1925) is also
available on DVD as are other von
Stroheim films on 16mm
See all the German feature film titles available from the Goethe Institut in the
Lending Collection catalogue
Remembering Australia in 1994 Itrsquos been nearly 20 years since we first met Muriel Heslophellip Isnrsquot it time for a
retrospective 1994 was a watershed year for Australian cinema and a great variety
of films were released While a few become national favourites there were also
some very good films that maybe got lost in the wave of high profile releases
Consider selecting some of these films from NTLC for next yearrsquos program
Murielrsquos Wedding (16mm amp DVD)
Director P J Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
Rachel Griffiths
Abba-loving Muriel Heslop dreams of
escaping her small-town life and becoming
a bride Now for a husbandhellip
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the
Desert (16mm DVD BR)
Director Stephen Elliott
Cast Terence Stamp
Hugo Weaving Guy
Pearce
Three drag queens adopt a bus and go on an
all-singing all-dancing outback odyssey Sydney
to Darwin with soul
Sirens (DVD)
Director John Duigan
Cast Sam Neill Hugh
Grant Elle
Macpherson Portia
de Rossi Kate Fischer
Artist Norman Lindsay is visited at his country
home by an English vicar and his wife who
are lured by the siren call of the bohemian
lifestylehellip and his three nude models
The Sum of Us (DVD)
Director G Burton amp K
Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson
Russell Crowe Jon Polson
Deborah Kennedy
Rugby-playing plumber Jeff and his best mate
widower ferry-captain father Harry are both
looking for love Harry meets Joyce and Jeff is
falling for Greg Family fun and romance ensue
Bad Boy Bubby (DVD amp Blu-ray)
Director Rolf de Heer
Cast Nicholas Hope
Bubby emerges from a life spent in a single
room to discover his place in the world A
(dark) comedy
Lucky Break (DVD)
Director Ben Lewin Cast Gia Carides Anthony
LaPaglia Rebecca Gibney
Crippled Gia Carides gets a lucky chance to
meet suave Anthony LaPaglia and be treated
like a normal person after she breaks her leg
Police Rescue ndash The Movie (DVD) Director Mick Carson
Cast Gary Sweet
Sonia Todd Steve
Bastoni Cate
Blanchett
Mickeyrsquos tightly drilled TV-series police
rescue team is thrown into movie-length
chaos when a tarnished new recruit arrives
And people still need rescuing
Exile (DVD)
Director Paul Cox
Cast Aden Young Beth
Champion Claudia
Karvan Norman Kaye
In a small settlement community Peter is exiled
to a small island for sheep stealing Without his
understanding why Mary voluntarily decides to
join him there
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
Welcome to the NFSA Lending Collection bulletin Greetings from the NFSA Screening Loans team to all borrowers of films from the
NFSA In this bulletin we have information and updates about the Non-Theatrical
Lending Collection ndash NTLC ndash an international collection of quality titles that are
already licensed for non-commercial screenings by organisations Here is the latest
news from the NFSA more about accessing our collections recent acquisitions and
improvements to the service including
Our Australian focus for growing the lending collection
Share your experiences with us
All the Australian feature film DVD acquisitions so far this year ndash over 90 titles
More Australian films due to be added through this year
The start of our modest Blu-Ray collection
Tips for borrowers searching and using the collection
Highlights of new titles from key German directors
Remembering 1994 ndash Australian favourites approaching a 20 year anniversary
More films from David and Margaretrsquos At the Movies Classics selection
Newest NFSA exclusive DVD titles
Screening Loans staff select four favourite films for your consideration
Screening Loans Contact Info
Links to more information
Throughout this bulletin are embedded hyperlinks to NFSA web pages that will give
you more information about certain films or go directly to a specific NTLC catalogue
search Simply click on the blue hypertext while reading this document on a
computer Also clips from many of the Australian films can be viewed on NFSArsquos
Australian Screen website resource
Australian Focus ndash a century of national cinema
Over 100 new Australian titles acquired this year span the century from 1913 to 2013
With our recent acquisitions this year we have focussed on building the Australian
film collection More than a hundred new Australian films have been licenced for
loan and screening with most of these now available for booking Over twenty of
these films are either no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD
before and so have been created on DVD from NFSA archival master material
These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan or buy these
films on DVD anywhere else ndash see film details later in the bulletin
Share your experience If your group has run a special event or successful screening with a difference using
films from NFSA Lending Collection please let us know about it Perhaps you showed
a silent film accompanied by local musicians run a kidsrsquo holiday programme or
screened a selection of shorts within a theme Or you have simply just discovered a
great film that you want to tell others about We would love to share your news
experiences and photos with other borrowers in future bulletins
New licensed Australian feature films on DVD The latest new acquisitions ndash available for booking and screening now
2010 - 2013
Goddess 2013
Bait 2012
Kath and Kimderella 2012
Mental 2012
Any Questions For Ben 2011
Burning Man 2011
Happy Feet 2 2011
Red Dog 2011
Sanctum 2011
The Cup 2011
The Way Back 2011
Wasted on the Young 2011
Beneath Hill 60 2010
I Love You Too 2010
Legend of the Guardians The Owls
of GaHoole 2010
Matching Jack 2010
Tomorrow When the War Began 2010
2000 - 2009
Beautiful Kate 2009
Bran Nue Dae 2009
Charlie and Boots 2009
Maos Last Dancer 2009
Two Fists One Heart 2009
The Square 2008
December Boys 2007
Rogue 2007
The Jammed 2007
Boy Town 2006
Happy Feet 2006
Wolf Creek 2005
Bad Eggs 2003
Danny Deckchair 2003
Master and Commander 2003
Ned Kelly 2003
Charlotte Gray 2002
Crackerjack 2002
Garage Days 2002
The Crocodile Hunter Collision
Course 2002
The Hard Word 2002
The Nugget 2002
Mr Accident 2000
Looking for Alibrandi 2000
Me Myself I 2000
1990 - 1999
The Craic 1999
Babe 2 Pig in the City 1998
Dark City 1998
Dead Letter Office 1998
Hotel de Love 1996
Babe 1995
Metal Skin 1995
Bad Boy Bubby 1994
The Heartbreak Kid 1993
FernGully The Last Rainforest 1992
Blood Oath 1990
1980 - 1989 Dead Calm 1989
The Delinquents 1989
Crocodile Dundee 1986
Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome 1985
Witness 1985
The Wild Duck 1984
Phar Lap 1983
Mad Max 2 1981
Chain Reaction 1980
1970 - 1979 The Last of the Knucklemen 1979
Newsfront 1978
The Last Wave 1977
High Rolling 1977
Eliza Fraser 1976
End Play 1975
Alvin Rides Again 1974
Stork 1971
Walkabout 1971
1950 - 1959 Summer of the 17th Doll 1959
On the Beach 1959
Kangaroo 1952
1930 - 1939 Seven Little Australians 1939
Diggers in Blighty 1933
Harmony Row 1933
A Ticket in Tatts 1932
The Sentimental Bloke 1932
Diggers 1931
1920 - 1929
The Cheaters 1929
Around the Boree Log 1925
A Girl of the Bush 1921
Silks and Saddles 1921
On Our Selection 1920
The Breaking of the Drought 1920
The Man from Kangaroo 1920
1910 - 1919
The Woman Suffers 1918
The Sick Stockrider (short) 1913
The Romantic Story of Margaret
Catchpole 1911
These titles available exclusively on DVD from NFSA See below for film descriptions
More Australian films coming soon on DVD
237 2006
Adams Woman 1970
Around the World in 80 Days 1988
Blackrock 1997
Children of the Silk Road 2008
Crocodile Dundee 2 1988
Dead Heart 1996
Diana and Me 1997
Emoh Ruo 1985
Harbour Beat 1990
Hey Hey itrsquos Esther Blueburger 2008
Horseplay 2003
Hostage The Christine Maresch
Story 1983
In a Savage Land 1999
No Worries 1994
Paperback Hero 1999
Paws 1997
Rebel 1985
Reckless Kelly 1993
Ride a Wild Pony 1976
Risk 2001
Shadows of a Peacock 1989
The Shiralee 1957
Starstruck 1982
Walk the Talk 2001
Year of Living Dangerously 1982
Young Einstein 1988
These films will be added to the Lending Collection progressively throughout the
year If you are interested in booking them for upcoming programs please contact
the Screening Loans team to confirm availability and timing
Blu-Ray collection We have started adding Blu-Ray discs to the Lending Collection We hope to grow this part
of our collection as more of the licensed films become available See our full list of licensed
Blu-Rays so far on the catalogue
Maorsquos Last Dancer
(2009)
Me Myself I (1999)
Witness (1985) Summer of the
Seventeenth Doll (1960)
Tips for borrowers
Find the Lending Collection easierhellip
Getting to the Lending Collection search page is now easier From the NFSA
website home page using the Search the collection link now gives you the
option of selecting from all the NFSA catalogues including the National
Collection the Film Australia collection Australian Screen Online and the
NFSA Shop as well as the Lending Collection
Searching the cataloguehellip
Use these Quick Search boxes on the NTLC catalogue search page to ensue
you only see film titles that are licensed for screening
16mm film borrowershellip
Donrsquot forget to tape down the end of your film so it doesnrsquot loosen during
transit Use the same packaging materials received with the film
Tell us your numbershellip
Please remember to fill in your Screening Reports and let us know how many
people attended your film screening We use these figures collectively to
show how popular our service is when reporting on NFSA programs to
government This all helps us to demonstrate the need for the Lending
Collection to continue into the future
Courtesy of NFSAhellip
Acknowledging NFSA in your programme and website as the source of the
films you screen is not only a great thing to do (as well as being a condition of
loan) it also links your organisation to the wonderful work of the NFSA in
archiving films and sharing them with the world Please make sure you are
using our current two-part logo which now includes the yellow circle
Circulate
This Bulletin is only sent to one contact person in each organisation Please
share it with film society committee members teachers lecturers or
programmers who regularly book and use the films That way all borrowers are
up to date with news and information on recent acquisitions
Goethe Institut ndash some new German titles Over 60 DVD titles have been added to the Lending Collection courtesy of the
Goethe Institut so far this year with dozens more just received Goethe Institut
provide NFSA with newly produced DVDs of films from recent releases back to early
silent German cinema Here are just some highlights
As part of a current Goethe re-issue
of many of the films by Wim Wenders
we have received the first two titles
on DVD The Scarlet Letter (1972) a
period drama set in puritan Salem
and Alice in the Cities (1974) (See
the review for Alice below)
Two more feature films by director
Tom Tykwer to add to Run Lola Run
(1999) the snowy Wintersleepers
(1997) a voyeuristic and enigmatic
study of human nature sometimes
erotic sometimes confronting
exploring the theme of chance and
coincidence and Three (2010) the
intertwining of three people in three
relationships also voyeuristic and
enigmatic As a producer Tom has
made a couple of other films in the
Lending Collection Soul Boy (2010)
a teen story filmed in the townships
of Kenya and the events of one hot
summer night in Gigantic (1999)
Tom has also directed an amusing
short story on the monotony of
business travel as part of the
uniformly excellent compilation
Deutschland 09 13 Short Films about
the State of the Nation
FW Murnau produced his vampire
film Nosferatu in 1922 featuring the
amazing Max Schreck This
restoration on DVD is remarkably
clear with new English intertitles
Then consider other Vampire films in
the Lending Collection such as
Werner Herzogrsquos Nosferatu
Phantom of the Night (1978) and the
Australian take on modern
vampires Thirst (1978)
Erich von Stroheim became known
as a director of excess making
overly-long (4-6 hour) productions
that ultimately were chopped
down for release His first film as
director Blind Husbands (1919)
shows none of this in fact his
restraint extended to a visual
subtlety different to the overacted
style of films from that era Here he
also performs as an imposing
Austrian officer who sets out to
seduce the bored wife of an
American doctor holidaying in the
Alps Merry Widow (1925) is also
available on DVD as are other von
Stroheim films on 16mm
See all the German feature film titles available from the Goethe Institut in the
Lending Collection catalogue
Remembering Australia in 1994 Itrsquos been nearly 20 years since we first met Muriel Heslophellip Isnrsquot it time for a
retrospective 1994 was a watershed year for Australian cinema and a great variety
of films were released While a few become national favourites there were also
some very good films that maybe got lost in the wave of high profile releases
Consider selecting some of these films from NTLC for next yearrsquos program
Murielrsquos Wedding (16mm amp DVD)
Director P J Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
Rachel Griffiths
Abba-loving Muriel Heslop dreams of
escaping her small-town life and becoming
a bride Now for a husbandhellip
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the
Desert (16mm DVD BR)
Director Stephen Elliott
Cast Terence Stamp
Hugo Weaving Guy
Pearce
Three drag queens adopt a bus and go on an
all-singing all-dancing outback odyssey Sydney
to Darwin with soul
Sirens (DVD)
Director John Duigan
Cast Sam Neill Hugh
Grant Elle
Macpherson Portia
de Rossi Kate Fischer
Artist Norman Lindsay is visited at his country
home by an English vicar and his wife who
are lured by the siren call of the bohemian
lifestylehellip and his three nude models
The Sum of Us (DVD)
Director G Burton amp K
Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson
Russell Crowe Jon Polson
Deborah Kennedy
Rugby-playing plumber Jeff and his best mate
widower ferry-captain father Harry are both
looking for love Harry meets Joyce and Jeff is
falling for Greg Family fun and romance ensue
Bad Boy Bubby (DVD amp Blu-ray)
Director Rolf de Heer
Cast Nicholas Hope
Bubby emerges from a life spent in a single
room to discover his place in the world A
(dark) comedy
Lucky Break (DVD)
Director Ben Lewin Cast Gia Carides Anthony
LaPaglia Rebecca Gibney
Crippled Gia Carides gets a lucky chance to
meet suave Anthony LaPaglia and be treated
like a normal person after she breaks her leg
Police Rescue ndash The Movie (DVD) Director Mick Carson
Cast Gary Sweet
Sonia Todd Steve
Bastoni Cate
Blanchett
Mickeyrsquos tightly drilled TV-series police
rescue team is thrown into movie-length
chaos when a tarnished new recruit arrives
And people still need rescuing
Exile (DVD)
Director Paul Cox
Cast Aden Young Beth
Champion Claudia
Karvan Norman Kaye
In a small settlement community Peter is exiled
to a small island for sheep stealing Without his
understanding why Mary voluntarily decides to
join him there
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
New licensed Australian feature films on DVD The latest new acquisitions ndash available for booking and screening now
2010 - 2013
Goddess 2013
Bait 2012
Kath and Kimderella 2012
Mental 2012
Any Questions For Ben 2011
Burning Man 2011
Happy Feet 2 2011
Red Dog 2011
Sanctum 2011
The Cup 2011
The Way Back 2011
Wasted on the Young 2011
Beneath Hill 60 2010
I Love You Too 2010
Legend of the Guardians The Owls
of GaHoole 2010
Matching Jack 2010
Tomorrow When the War Began 2010
2000 - 2009
Beautiful Kate 2009
Bran Nue Dae 2009
Charlie and Boots 2009
Maos Last Dancer 2009
Two Fists One Heart 2009
The Square 2008
December Boys 2007
Rogue 2007
The Jammed 2007
Boy Town 2006
Happy Feet 2006
Wolf Creek 2005
Bad Eggs 2003
Danny Deckchair 2003
Master and Commander 2003
Ned Kelly 2003
Charlotte Gray 2002
Crackerjack 2002
Garage Days 2002
The Crocodile Hunter Collision
Course 2002
The Hard Word 2002
The Nugget 2002
Mr Accident 2000
Looking for Alibrandi 2000
Me Myself I 2000
1990 - 1999
The Craic 1999
Babe 2 Pig in the City 1998
Dark City 1998
Dead Letter Office 1998
Hotel de Love 1996
Babe 1995
Metal Skin 1995
Bad Boy Bubby 1994
The Heartbreak Kid 1993
FernGully The Last Rainforest 1992
Blood Oath 1990
1980 - 1989 Dead Calm 1989
The Delinquents 1989
Crocodile Dundee 1986
Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome 1985
Witness 1985
The Wild Duck 1984
Phar Lap 1983
Mad Max 2 1981
Chain Reaction 1980
1970 - 1979 The Last of the Knucklemen 1979
Newsfront 1978
The Last Wave 1977
High Rolling 1977
Eliza Fraser 1976
End Play 1975
Alvin Rides Again 1974
Stork 1971
Walkabout 1971
1950 - 1959 Summer of the 17th Doll 1959
On the Beach 1959
Kangaroo 1952
1930 - 1939 Seven Little Australians 1939
Diggers in Blighty 1933
Harmony Row 1933
A Ticket in Tatts 1932
The Sentimental Bloke 1932
Diggers 1931
1920 - 1929
The Cheaters 1929
Around the Boree Log 1925
A Girl of the Bush 1921
Silks and Saddles 1921
On Our Selection 1920
The Breaking of the Drought 1920
The Man from Kangaroo 1920
1910 - 1919
The Woman Suffers 1918
The Sick Stockrider (short) 1913
The Romantic Story of Margaret
Catchpole 1911
These titles available exclusively on DVD from NFSA See below for film descriptions
More Australian films coming soon on DVD
237 2006
Adams Woman 1970
Around the World in 80 Days 1988
Blackrock 1997
Children of the Silk Road 2008
Crocodile Dundee 2 1988
Dead Heart 1996
Diana and Me 1997
Emoh Ruo 1985
Harbour Beat 1990
Hey Hey itrsquos Esther Blueburger 2008
Horseplay 2003
Hostage The Christine Maresch
Story 1983
In a Savage Land 1999
No Worries 1994
Paperback Hero 1999
Paws 1997
Rebel 1985
Reckless Kelly 1993
Ride a Wild Pony 1976
Risk 2001
Shadows of a Peacock 1989
The Shiralee 1957
Starstruck 1982
Walk the Talk 2001
Year of Living Dangerously 1982
Young Einstein 1988
These films will be added to the Lending Collection progressively throughout the
year If you are interested in booking them for upcoming programs please contact
the Screening Loans team to confirm availability and timing
Blu-Ray collection We have started adding Blu-Ray discs to the Lending Collection We hope to grow this part
of our collection as more of the licensed films become available See our full list of licensed
Blu-Rays so far on the catalogue
Maorsquos Last Dancer
(2009)
Me Myself I (1999)
Witness (1985) Summer of the
Seventeenth Doll (1960)
Tips for borrowers
Find the Lending Collection easierhellip
Getting to the Lending Collection search page is now easier From the NFSA
website home page using the Search the collection link now gives you the
option of selecting from all the NFSA catalogues including the National
Collection the Film Australia collection Australian Screen Online and the
NFSA Shop as well as the Lending Collection
Searching the cataloguehellip
Use these Quick Search boxes on the NTLC catalogue search page to ensue
you only see film titles that are licensed for screening
16mm film borrowershellip
Donrsquot forget to tape down the end of your film so it doesnrsquot loosen during
transit Use the same packaging materials received with the film
Tell us your numbershellip
Please remember to fill in your Screening Reports and let us know how many
people attended your film screening We use these figures collectively to
show how popular our service is when reporting on NFSA programs to
government This all helps us to demonstrate the need for the Lending
Collection to continue into the future
Courtesy of NFSAhellip
Acknowledging NFSA in your programme and website as the source of the
films you screen is not only a great thing to do (as well as being a condition of
loan) it also links your organisation to the wonderful work of the NFSA in
archiving films and sharing them with the world Please make sure you are
using our current two-part logo which now includes the yellow circle
Circulate
This Bulletin is only sent to one contact person in each organisation Please
share it with film society committee members teachers lecturers or
programmers who regularly book and use the films That way all borrowers are
up to date with news and information on recent acquisitions
Goethe Institut ndash some new German titles Over 60 DVD titles have been added to the Lending Collection courtesy of the
Goethe Institut so far this year with dozens more just received Goethe Institut
provide NFSA with newly produced DVDs of films from recent releases back to early
silent German cinema Here are just some highlights
As part of a current Goethe re-issue
of many of the films by Wim Wenders
we have received the first two titles
on DVD The Scarlet Letter (1972) a
period drama set in puritan Salem
and Alice in the Cities (1974) (See
the review for Alice below)
Two more feature films by director
Tom Tykwer to add to Run Lola Run
(1999) the snowy Wintersleepers
(1997) a voyeuristic and enigmatic
study of human nature sometimes
erotic sometimes confronting
exploring the theme of chance and
coincidence and Three (2010) the
intertwining of three people in three
relationships also voyeuristic and
enigmatic As a producer Tom has
made a couple of other films in the
Lending Collection Soul Boy (2010)
a teen story filmed in the townships
of Kenya and the events of one hot
summer night in Gigantic (1999)
Tom has also directed an amusing
short story on the monotony of
business travel as part of the
uniformly excellent compilation
Deutschland 09 13 Short Films about
the State of the Nation
FW Murnau produced his vampire
film Nosferatu in 1922 featuring the
amazing Max Schreck This
restoration on DVD is remarkably
clear with new English intertitles
Then consider other Vampire films in
the Lending Collection such as
Werner Herzogrsquos Nosferatu
Phantom of the Night (1978) and the
Australian take on modern
vampires Thirst (1978)
Erich von Stroheim became known
as a director of excess making
overly-long (4-6 hour) productions
that ultimately were chopped
down for release His first film as
director Blind Husbands (1919)
shows none of this in fact his
restraint extended to a visual
subtlety different to the overacted
style of films from that era Here he
also performs as an imposing
Austrian officer who sets out to
seduce the bored wife of an
American doctor holidaying in the
Alps Merry Widow (1925) is also
available on DVD as are other von
Stroheim films on 16mm
See all the German feature film titles available from the Goethe Institut in the
Lending Collection catalogue
Remembering Australia in 1994 Itrsquos been nearly 20 years since we first met Muriel Heslophellip Isnrsquot it time for a
retrospective 1994 was a watershed year for Australian cinema and a great variety
of films were released While a few become national favourites there were also
some very good films that maybe got lost in the wave of high profile releases
Consider selecting some of these films from NTLC for next yearrsquos program
Murielrsquos Wedding (16mm amp DVD)
Director P J Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
Rachel Griffiths
Abba-loving Muriel Heslop dreams of
escaping her small-town life and becoming
a bride Now for a husbandhellip
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the
Desert (16mm DVD BR)
Director Stephen Elliott
Cast Terence Stamp
Hugo Weaving Guy
Pearce
Three drag queens adopt a bus and go on an
all-singing all-dancing outback odyssey Sydney
to Darwin with soul
Sirens (DVD)
Director John Duigan
Cast Sam Neill Hugh
Grant Elle
Macpherson Portia
de Rossi Kate Fischer
Artist Norman Lindsay is visited at his country
home by an English vicar and his wife who
are lured by the siren call of the bohemian
lifestylehellip and his three nude models
The Sum of Us (DVD)
Director G Burton amp K
Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson
Russell Crowe Jon Polson
Deborah Kennedy
Rugby-playing plumber Jeff and his best mate
widower ferry-captain father Harry are both
looking for love Harry meets Joyce and Jeff is
falling for Greg Family fun and romance ensue
Bad Boy Bubby (DVD amp Blu-ray)
Director Rolf de Heer
Cast Nicholas Hope
Bubby emerges from a life spent in a single
room to discover his place in the world A
(dark) comedy
Lucky Break (DVD)
Director Ben Lewin Cast Gia Carides Anthony
LaPaglia Rebecca Gibney
Crippled Gia Carides gets a lucky chance to
meet suave Anthony LaPaglia and be treated
like a normal person after she breaks her leg
Police Rescue ndash The Movie (DVD) Director Mick Carson
Cast Gary Sweet
Sonia Todd Steve
Bastoni Cate
Blanchett
Mickeyrsquos tightly drilled TV-series police
rescue team is thrown into movie-length
chaos when a tarnished new recruit arrives
And people still need rescuing
Exile (DVD)
Director Paul Cox
Cast Aden Young Beth
Champion Claudia
Karvan Norman Kaye
In a small settlement community Peter is exiled
to a small island for sheep stealing Without his
understanding why Mary voluntarily decides to
join him there
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
1920 - 1929
The Cheaters 1929
Around the Boree Log 1925
A Girl of the Bush 1921
Silks and Saddles 1921
On Our Selection 1920
The Breaking of the Drought 1920
The Man from Kangaroo 1920
1910 - 1919
The Woman Suffers 1918
The Sick Stockrider (short) 1913
The Romantic Story of Margaret
Catchpole 1911
These titles available exclusively on DVD from NFSA See below for film descriptions
More Australian films coming soon on DVD
237 2006
Adams Woman 1970
Around the World in 80 Days 1988
Blackrock 1997
Children of the Silk Road 2008
Crocodile Dundee 2 1988
Dead Heart 1996
Diana and Me 1997
Emoh Ruo 1985
Harbour Beat 1990
Hey Hey itrsquos Esther Blueburger 2008
Horseplay 2003
Hostage The Christine Maresch
Story 1983
In a Savage Land 1999
No Worries 1994
Paperback Hero 1999
Paws 1997
Rebel 1985
Reckless Kelly 1993
Ride a Wild Pony 1976
Risk 2001
Shadows of a Peacock 1989
The Shiralee 1957
Starstruck 1982
Walk the Talk 2001
Year of Living Dangerously 1982
Young Einstein 1988
These films will be added to the Lending Collection progressively throughout the
year If you are interested in booking them for upcoming programs please contact
the Screening Loans team to confirm availability and timing
Blu-Ray collection We have started adding Blu-Ray discs to the Lending Collection We hope to grow this part
of our collection as more of the licensed films become available See our full list of licensed
Blu-Rays so far on the catalogue
Maorsquos Last Dancer
(2009)
Me Myself I (1999)
Witness (1985) Summer of the
Seventeenth Doll (1960)
Tips for borrowers
Find the Lending Collection easierhellip
Getting to the Lending Collection search page is now easier From the NFSA
website home page using the Search the collection link now gives you the
option of selecting from all the NFSA catalogues including the National
Collection the Film Australia collection Australian Screen Online and the
NFSA Shop as well as the Lending Collection
Searching the cataloguehellip
Use these Quick Search boxes on the NTLC catalogue search page to ensue
you only see film titles that are licensed for screening
16mm film borrowershellip
Donrsquot forget to tape down the end of your film so it doesnrsquot loosen during
transit Use the same packaging materials received with the film
Tell us your numbershellip
Please remember to fill in your Screening Reports and let us know how many
people attended your film screening We use these figures collectively to
show how popular our service is when reporting on NFSA programs to
government This all helps us to demonstrate the need for the Lending
Collection to continue into the future
Courtesy of NFSAhellip
Acknowledging NFSA in your programme and website as the source of the
films you screen is not only a great thing to do (as well as being a condition of
loan) it also links your organisation to the wonderful work of the NFSA in
archiving films and sharing them with the world Please make sure you are
using our current two-part logo which now includes the yellow circle
Circulate
This Bulletin is only sent to one contact person in each organisation Please
share it with film society committee members teachers lecturers or
programmers who regularly book and use the films That way all borrowers are
up to date with news and information on recent acquisitions
Goethe Institut ndash some new German titles Over 60 DVD titles have been added to the Lending Collection courtesy of the
Goethe Institut so far this year with dozens more just received Goethe Institut
provide NFSA with newly produced DVDs of films from recent releases back to early
silent German cinema Here are just some highlights
As part of a current Goethe re-issue
of many of the films by Wim Wenders
we have received the first two titles
on DVD The Scarlet Letter (1972) a
period drama set in puritan Salem
and Alice in the Cities (1974) (See
the review for Alice below)
Two more feature films by director
Tom Tykwer to add to Run Lola Run
(1999) the snowy Wintersleepers
(1997) a voyeuristic and enigmatic
study of human nature sometimes
erotic sometimes confronting
exploring the theme of chance and
coincidence and Three (2010) the
intertwining of three people in three
relationships also voyeuristic and
enigmatic As a producer Tom has
made a couple of other films in the
Lending Collection Soul Boy (2010)
a teen story filmed in the townships
of Kenya and the events of one hot
summer night in Gigantic (1999)
Tom has also directed an amusing
short story on the monotony of
business travel as part of the
uniformly excellent compilation
Deutschland 09 13 Short Films about
the State of the Nation
FW Murnau produced his vampire
film Nosferatu in 1922 featuring the
amazing Max Schreck This
restoration on DVD is remarkably
clear with new English intertitles
Then consider other Vampire films in
the Lending Collection such as
Werner Herzogrsquos Nosferatu
Phantom of the Night (1978) and the
Australian take on modern
vampires Thirst (1978)
Erich von Stroheim became known
as a director of excess making
overly-long (4-6 hour) productions
that ultimately were chopped
down for release His first film as
director Blind Husbands (1919)
shows none of this in fact his
restraint extended to a visual
subtlety different to the overacted
style of films from that era Here he
also performs as an imposing
Austrian officer who sets out to
seduce the bored wife of an
American doctor holidaying in the
Alps Merry Widow (1925) is also
available on DVD as are other von
Stroheim films on 16mm
See all the German feature film titles available from the Goethe Institut in the
Lending Collection catalogue
Remembering Australia in 1994 Itrsquos been nearly 20 years since we first met Muriel Heslophellip Isnrsquot it time for a
retrospective 1994 was a watershed year for Australian cinema and a great variety
of films were released While a few become national favourites there were also
some very good films that maybe got lost in the wave of high profile releases
Consider selecting some of these films from NTLC for next yearrsquos program
Murielrsquos Wedding (16mm amp DVD)
Director P J Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
Rachel Griffiths
Abba-loving Muriel Heslop dreams of
escaping her small-town life and becoming
a bride Now for a husbandhellip
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the
Desert (16mm DVD BR)
Director Stephen Elliott
Cast Terence Stamp
Hugo Weaving Guy
Pearce
Three drag queens adopt a bus and go on an
all-singing all-dancing outback odyssey Sydney
to Darwin with soul
Sirens (DVD)
Director John Duigan
Cast Sam Neill Hugh
Grant Elle
Macpherson Portia
de Rossi Kate Fischer
Artist Norman Lindsay is visited at his country
home by an English vicar and his wife who
are lured by the siren call of the bohemian
lifestylehellip and his three nude models
The Sum of Us (DVD)
Director G Burton amp K
Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson
Russell Crowe Jon Polson
Deborah Kennedy
Rugby-playing plumber Jeff and his best mate
widower ferry-captain father Harry are both
looking for love Harry meets Joyce and Jeff is
falling for Greg Family fun and romance ensue
Bad Boy Bubby (DVD amp Blu-ray)
Director Rolf de Heer
Cast Nicholas Hope
Bubby emerges from a life spent in a single
room to discover his place in the world A
(dark) comedy
Lucky Break (DVD)
Director Ben Lewin Cast Gia Carides Anthony
LaPaglia Rebecca Gibney
Crippled Gia Carides gets a lucky chance to
meet suave Anthony LaPaglia and be treated
like a normal person after she breaks her leg
Police Rescue ndash The Movie (DVD) Director Mick Carson
Cast Gary Sweet
Sonia Todd Steve
Bastoni Cate
Blanchett
Mickeyrsquos tightly drilled TV-series police
rescue team is thrown into movie-length
chaos when a tarnished new recruit arrives
And people still need rescuing
Exile (DVD)
Director Paul Cox
Cast Aden Young Beth
Champion Claudia
Karvan Norman Kaye
In a small settlement community Peter is exiled
to a small island for sheep stealing Without his
understanding why Mary voluntarily decides to
join him there
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
Tips for borrowers
Find the Lending Collection easierhellip
Getting to the Lending Collection search page is now easier From the NFSA
website home page using the Search the collection link now gives you the
option of selecting from all the NFSA catalogues including the National
Collection the Film Australia collection Australian Screen Online and the
NFSA Shop as well as the Lending Collection
Searching the cataloguehellip
Use these Quick Search boxes on the NTLC catalogue search page to ensue
you only see film titles that are licensed for screening
16mm film borrowershellip
Donrsquot forget to tape down the end of your film so it doesnrsquot loosen during
transit Use the same packaging materials received with the film
Tell us your numbershellip
Please remember to fill in your Screening Reports and let us know how many
people attended your film screening We use these figures collectively to
show how popular our service is when reporting on NFSA programs to
government This all helps us to demonstrate the need for the Lending
Collection to continue into the future
Courtesy of NFSAhellip
Acknowledging NFSA in your programme and website as the source of the
films you screen is not only a great thing to do (as well as being a condition of
loan) it also links your organisation to the wonderful work of the NFSA in
archiving films and sharing them with the world Please make sure you are
using our current two-part logo which now includes the yellow circle
Circulate
This Bulletin is only sent to one contact person in each organisation Please
share it with film society committee members teachers lecturers or
programmers who regularly book and use the films That way all borrowers are
up to date with news and information on recent acquisitions
Goethe Institut ndash some new German titles Over 60 DVD titles have been added to the Lending Collection courtesy of the
Goethe Institut so far this year with dozens more just received Goethe Institut
provide NFSA with newly produced DVDs of films from recent releases back to early
silent German cinema Here are just some highlights
As part of a current Goethe re-issue
of many of the films by Wim Wenders
we have received the first two titles
on DVD The Scarlet Letter (1972) a
period drama set in puritan Salem
and Alice in the Cities (1974) (See
the review for Alice below)
Two more feature films by director
Tom Tykwer to add to Run Lola Run
(1999) the snowy Wintersleepers
(1997) a voyeuristic and enigmatic
study of human nature sometimes
erotic sometimes confronting
exploring the theme of chance and
coincidence and Three (2010) the
intertwining of three people in three
relationships also voyeuristic and
enigmatic As a producer Tom has
made a couple of other films in the
Lending Collection Soul Boy (2010)
a teen story filmed in the townships
of Kenya and the events of one hot
summer night in Gigantic (1999)
Tom has also directed an amusing
short story on the monotony of
business travel as part of the
uniformly excellent compilation
Deutschland 09 13 Short Films about
the State of the Nation
FW Murnau produced his vampire
film Nosferatu in 1922 featuring the
amazing Max Schreck This
restoration on DVD is remarkably
clear with new English intertitles
Then consider other Vampire films in
the Lending Collection such as
Werner Herzogrsquos Nosferatu
Phantom of the Night (1978) and the
Australian take on modern
vampires Thirst (1978)
Erich von Stroheim became known
as a director of excess making
overly-long (4-6 hour) productions
that ultimately were chopped
down for release His first film as
director Blind Husbands (1919)
shows none of this in fact his
restraint extended to a visual
subtlety different to the overacted
style of films from that era Here he
also performs as an imposing
Austrian officer who sets out to
seduce the bored wife of an
American doctor holidaying in the
Alps Merry Widow (1925) is also
available on DVD as are other von
Stroheim films on 16mm
See all the German feature film titles available from the Goethe Institut in the
Lending Collection catalogue
Remembering Australia in 1994 Itrsquos been nearly 20 years since we first met Muriel Heslophellip Isnrsquot it time for a
retrospective 1994 was a watershed year for Australian cinema and a great variety
of films were released While a few become national favourites there were also
some very good films that maybe got lost in the wave of high profile releases
Consider selecting some of these films from NTLC for next yearrsquos program
Murielrsquos Wedding (16mm amp DVD)
Director P J Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
Rachel Griffiths
Abba-loving Muriel Heslop dreams of
escaping her small-town life and becoming
a bride Now for a husbandhellip
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the
Desert (16mm DVD BR)
Director Stephen Elliott
Cast Terence Stamp
Hugo Weaving Guy
Pearce
Three drag queens adopt a bus and go on an
all-singing all-dancing outback odyssey Sydney
to Darwin with soul
Sirens (DVD)
Director John Duigan
Cast Sam Neill Hugh
Grant Elle
Macpherson Portia
de Rossi Kate Fischer
Artist Norman Lindsay is visited at his country
home by an English vicar and his wife who
are lured by the siren call of the bohemian
lifestylehellip and his three nude models
The Sum of Us (DVD)
Director G Burton amp K
Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson
Russell Crowe Jon Polson
Deborah Kennedy
Rugby-playing plumber Jeff and his best mate
widower ferry-captain father Harry are both
looking for love Harry meets Joyce and Jeff is
falling for Greg Family fun and romance ensue
Bad Boy Bubby (DVD amp Blu-ray)
Director Rolf de Heer
Cast Nicholas Hope
Bubby emerges from a life spent in a single
room to discover his place in the world A
(dark) comedy
Lucky Break (DVD)
Director Ben Lewin Cast Gia Carides Anthony
LaPaglia Rebecca Gibney
Crippled Gia Carides gets a lucky chance to
meet suave Anthony LaPaglia and be treated
like a normal person after she breaks her leg
Police Rescue ndash The Movie (DVD) Director Mick Carson
Cast Gary Sweet
Sonia Todd Steve
Bastoni Cate
Blanchett
Mickeyrsquos tightly drilled TV-series police
rescue team is thrown into movie-length
chaos when a tarnished new recruit arrives
And people still need rescuing
Exile (DVD)
Director Paul Cox
Cast Aden Young Beth
Champion Claudia
Karvan Norman Kaye
In a small settlement community Peter is exiled
to a small island for sheep stealing Without his
understanding why Mary voluntarily decides to
join him there
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
Goethe Institut ndash some new German titles Over 60 DVD titles have been added to the Lending Collection courtesy of the
Goethe Institut so far this year with dozens more just received Goethe Institut
provide NFSA with newly produced DVDs of films from recent releases back to early
silent German cinema Here are just some highlights
As part of a current Goethe re-issue
of many of the films by Wim Wenders
we have received the first two titles
on DVD The Scarlet Letter (1972) a
period drama set in puritan Salem
and Alice in the Cities (1974) (See
the review for Alice below)
Two more feature films by director
Tom Tykwer to add to Run Lola Run
(1999) the snowy Wintersleepers
(1997) a voyeuristic and enigmatic
study of human nature sometimes
erotic sometimes confronting
exploring the theme of chance and
coincidence and Three (2010) the
intertwining of three people in three
relationships also voyeuristic and
enigmatic As a producer Tom has
made a couple of other films in the
Lending Collection Soul Boy (2010)
a teen story filmed in the townships
of Kenya and the events of one hot
summer night in Gigantic (1999)
Tom has also directed an amusing
short story on the monotony of
business travel as part of the
uniformly excellent compilation
Deutschland 09 13 Short Films about
the State of the Nation
FW Murnau produced his vampire
film Nosferatu in 1922 featuring the
amazing Max Schreck This
restoration on DVD is remarkably
clear with new English intertitles
Then consider other Vampire films in
the Lending Collection such as
Werner Herzogrsquos Nosferatu
Phantom of the Night (1978) and the
Australian take on modern
vampires Thirst (1978)
Erich von Stroheim became known
as a director of excess making
overly-long (4-6 hour) productions
that ultimately were chopped
down for release His first film as
director Blind Husbands (1919)
shows none of this in fact his
restraint extended to a visual
subtlety different to the overacted
style of films from that era Here he
also performs as an imposing
Austrian officer who sets out to
seduce the bored wife of an
American doctor holidaying in the
Alps Merry Widow (1925) is also
available on DVD as are other von
Stroheim films on 16mm
See all the German feature film titles available from the Goethe Institut in the
Lending Collection catalogue
Remembering Australia in 1994 Itrsquos been nearly 20 years since we first met Muriel Heslophellip Isnrsquot it time for a
retrospective 1994 was a watershed year for Australian cinema and a great variety
of films were released While a few become national favourites there were also
some very good films that maybe got lost in the wave of high profile releases
Consider selecting some of these films from NTLC for next yearrsquos program
Murielrsquos Wedding (16mm amp DVD)
Director P J Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
Rachel Griffiths
Abba-loving Muriel Heslop dreams of
escaping her small-town life and becoming
a bride Now for a husbandhellip
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the
Desert (16mm DVD BR)
Director Stephen Elliott
Cast Terence Stamp
Hugo Weaving Guy
Pearce
Three drag queens adopt a bus and go on an
all-singing all-dancing outback odyssey Sydney
to Darwin with soul
Sirens (DVD)
Director John Duigan
Cast Sam Neill Hugh
Grant Elle
Macpherson Portia
de Rossi Kate Fischer
Artist Norman Lindsay is visited at his country
home by an English vicar and his wife who
are lured by the siren call of the bohemian
lifestylehellip and his three nude models
The Sum of Us (DVD)
Director G Burton amp K
Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson
Russell Crowe Jon Polson
Deborah Kennedy
Rugby-playing plumber Jeff and his best mate
widower ferry-captain father Harry are both
looking for love Harry meets Joyce and Jeff is
falling for Greg Family fun and romance ensue
Bad Boy Bubby (DVD amp Blu-ray)
Director Rolf de Heer
Cast Nicholas Hope
Bubby emerges from a life spent in a single
room to discover his place in the world A
(dark) comedy
Lucky Break (DVD)
Director Ben Lewin Cast Gia Carides Anthony
LaPaglia Rebecca Gibney
Crippled Gia Carides gets a lucky chance to
meet suave Anthony LaPaglia and be treated
like a normal person after she breaks her leg
Police Rescue ndash The Movie (DVD) Director Mick Carson
Cast Gary Sweet
Sonia Todd Steve
Bastoni Cate
Blanchett
Mickeyrsquos tightly drilled TV-series police
rescue team is thrown into movie-length
chaos when a tarnished new recruit arrives
And people still need rescuing
Exile (DVD)
Director Paul Cox
Cast Aden Young Beth
Champion Claudia
Karvan Norman Kaye
In a small settlement community Peter is exiled
to a small island for sheep stealing Without his
understanding why Mary voluntarily decides to
join him there
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
Remembering Australia in 1994 Itrsquos been nearly 20 years since we first met Muriel Heslophellip Isnrsquot it time for a
retrospective 1994 was a watershed year for Australian cinema and a great variety
of films were released While a few become national favourites there were also
some very good films that maybe got lost in the wave of high profile releases
Consider selecting some of these films from NTLC for next yearrsquos program
Murielrsquos Wedding (16mm amp DVD)
Director P J Hogan
Cast Toni Collette
Rachel Griffiths
Abba-loving Muriel Heslop dreams of
escaping her small-town life and becoming
a bride Now for a husbandhellip
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the
Desert (16mm DVD BR)
Director Stephen Elliott
Cast Terence Stamp
Hugo Weaving Guy
Pearce
Three drag queens adopt a bus and go on an
all-singing all-dancing outback odyssey Sydney
to Darwin with soul
Sirens (DVD)
Director John Duigan
Cast Sam Neill Hugh
Grant Elle
Macpherson Portia
de Rossi Kate Fischer
Artist Norman Lindsay is visited at his country
home by an English vicar and his wife who
are lured by the siren call of the bohemian
lifestylehellip and his three nude models
The Sum of Us (DVD)
Director G Burton amp K
Dowling
Cast Jack Thompson
Russell Crowe Jon Polson
Deborah Kennedy
Rugby-playing plumber Jeff and his best mate
widower ferry-captain father Harry are both
looking for love Harry meets Joyce and Jeff is
falling for Greg Family fun and romance ensue
Bad Boy Bubby (DVD amp Blu-ray)
Director Rolf de Heer
Cast Nicholas Hope
Bubby emerges from a life spent in a single
room to discover his place in the world A
(dark) comedy
Lucky Break (DVD)
Director Ben Lewin Cast Gia Carides Anthony
LaPaglia Rebecca Gibney
Crippled Gia Carides gets a lucky chance to
meet suave Anthony LaPaglia and be treated
like a normal person after she breaks her leg
Police Rescue ndash The Movie (DVD) Director Mick Carson
Cast Gary Sweet
Sonia Todd Steve
Bastoni Cate
Blanchett
Mickeyrsquos tightly drilled TV-series police
rescue team is thrown into movie-length
chaos when a tarnished new recruit arrives
And people still need rescuing
Exile (DVD)
Director Paul Cox
Cast Aden Young Beth
Champion Claudia
Karvan Norman Kaye
In a small settlement community Peter is exiled
to a small island for sheep stealing Without his
understanding why Mary voluntarily decides to
join him there
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
lsquoAt the Moviesrsquo Classic Catch-up
This year Margaret and David at the Movies have reviewed a classic film every week
as part of their movie review programme We have seven of these titles available for
loan See the full list of over fifty of Margaret and Davidrsquos classic picks over the last
couple of years that are available from the NTLC on the catalogue
Annie Hall 16mm Director Woody Allen USA 1977
Cast Woody Allen Diane Keaton Tony Roberts Paul Simon Shelley Duvall
Alvy Singer a successful New York Jewish comedian and all-in masochist 16 years in psychoanalysis meets Annie a mixed-up Midwestern WASP and tries Pygmalion-like to
reshape her
LrsquoAvventura VHS amp 16mm Director Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1959
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti Monica Vitti Lea Massar
A young woman Anna mysteriously disappears on an almost deserted volcanic island After
setting out to find her her lover and her friend Claudia form a tenuous relationship Anna is
seemingly forgotten
Make Way for Tomorrow 16mm Director Leo McCarey USA 1937
Cast Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell
An affecting yet uncompromising look at the problem of what to do with ageing parents
who can no longer support themselves
Platoon DVD Director Oliver Stone USA 1986
Cast Charlie Sheen Willem Dafoe Tom Berenger Forest Whitaker John McGinley Johnny Depp
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol fight
and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit
Raging Bull DVD amp 16mm Director Martin Scorsese USA 1980
Cast Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent
Traces the life of Jake La Motta through his years of success as a boxer in the forties to
humiliation in the fifties and ending with La Motta as a nightclub entertainer in 1964
The Right Stuff 16mm Director Philip Kaufman USA 1983
Cast Scott Glenn Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Dennis Quaid Pamela Reed Sam Shepard Kim Stanley Fred Ward
Covers the Mercury astronauts the first Americans in space and the unsung test pilots who
preceded them
Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) DVD amp 16mm Director Jean Renoir France 1939
Cast Marcel Dalio Roland Toutain Nora Gregor Jean Renoir
Renoirs portrayal of a weekend house party in the country is in effect the portrayal of a
society in crisis a social world in which there are rules but no values
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
New NFSA-exclusive Australian feature films Twenty of the films added to the Lending Collection in the last 6 months are either
no longer available to buy or were never released on DVD before To make them
available to our borrowers NFSA have created screening DVDs from our archival
master material These are exclusive to the NFSA Lending Collection - you canrsquot loan
or buy these films on DVD anywhere else
Here are the films added in the last 6 months See a full list of all NFSA exclusive titles
Mr Accident Director Screenplay Yahoo Serious Australia 2000
A fun Yahoo Serious comedy involving a
clumsy man in an egg factory and his
UFO-obsessed girlfriend who stumble
upon a plan by his boss to market eggs
laced with nicotine Kids will love the
innocent humour
The Wild Duck Director Henri Safran Australia 1984 Based on the
play Villanden by Henrik Ibsen
Gregory returns home after 16 years away
He stays with old school friend Harold his
wife daughter and father Gregory
witnesses the unhappiness deceit and
secrets that exist in the family home and
decides its up to him to set things right
The Last Wave Director Peter Weir Australia 1977
In this atmospheric mystery thriller a young
Sydney lawyer while defending Aborigines
against a murder charge is troubled by
dreams and drawn into the underground
world of an ancient civilisation Step by
step a series of apparently random
occurrences assume a disturbing pattern
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Director Leslie Norman Australia 1959 BampW
Queensland canecutters Roo and Barney
have for sixteen years spent the off-
season in Sydney with their girlfriends Each
summer Barney ritualistically presents his
girl Olive a barmaid with a kewpie doll
But the seventeenth summer is different
time has begun to take its toll
Kangaroo Director Lewis Milestone Australia 1952 BampW
An English adventurer Richard Connor
poses as the long lost son of an old
cattleman Maguire Connors ruthless
companion plans to murder the old man
so that Connor will inherit but the plan is
complicated by Connors attraction to
Maguires daughter Dell
Seven Little Australians Director Arthur G Collins Australia 1939 BampW
Follow the delightful escapades of the
Woolcot children as they struggle to win
the affections of their strict father This 1939
cinematic version of Ethel Turners novel
and the spirited young cast bring to life
some of Australias classic characters
Harmony Row Director Frank Thring Australia 1933 BampW
Slapstick comedian George Wallace joins
the police force and is assigned to the
notorious Harmony Row a haunt of thugs
and criminals
Diggers in Blighty Director Pat Hanna Australia 1933 BampW
Three diggers serving in France in 1918 are
rewarded with leave in England when
they unwittingly assist British intelligence in
passing false battle plans to the Germans
An early lsquotalkiersquo
The Sentimental Bloke Director Frank Thring Australia 1932 BampW
Based on the poem about Bill and
Doreens courtship this lsquotalkiesrsquo version of
CJ Dennis verse narrative adds a subplot
in which Bill saves Doreens Uncle Jim from
an attempted swindle
Diggers Director Frank Thring Australia 1931 BampW
Comedy with two Australian `cobbers
who served together in France during
WW1 Attending a reunion they tell tales
of their exploits One of the first Australian
lsquotalkiesrsquo
The Cheaters Directorwriter Paulette McDonagh Australia 1929
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A society melodrama with an embezzler
released from jail after 20 years who uses
his daughter as bait in revenge But the
next generation has a mind of its own
Also available on 16mm film
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
Around the Boree Log Producerdirectorwriter Phil K Walsh Australia 1925
BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A sentimental journey through bush society
in the 1870s with a Catholic priest
recollecting his past life in the country The
film ends with scenes of the priests life in
the modern world of 1925 Shot entirely on
location near Goulburn using local people
in the cast Also available on 16mm film
Silks and Saddles Producerdirector John K Wells Australia 1921 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A racecourse melodrama with a strong
willed heroine Bobbie Morton who in the
tradition of The Girl of the Bush and The
Squatters Daughter is horsewoman
larrikin and dainty romantic interest With a
plot of race-rigging at its centre the film
introduced some delightful moments with
a portly besotted squatter who vies for
Bobbies hand
Also available on 16mm film
A Girl of the Bush Producer director writer photography Franklyn
Barrett Australia 1921 BampW (Silent - Musical
Soundtrack)
Lorna (the girl of the bush) manages then
inherits the property of her stepfather Jim
Keane The drama oscillates between the
romance of the settlement on the edge of
the wilderness celebrated in quasi-
documentary scenes of rural life and the
melodrama based on opposing notions of
civilisation Crisis and resolution centres on
the figure of the hero and a murder trial
Also available on 16mm film
The Breaking of the Drought Producer director photography Franklyn Barrett
Australia 1920 BampW (Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
A veteran farmers livelihood is threatened
by drought but the city constitutes at
least an equal threat The son studying in
the city is corrupted affecting his family
further The independent bush woman
Molly represents the right balance
between nature and culture
Also available on 16mm film
The Man from Kangaroo Director Wilfred Lucas Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
John Harland (played by Reg Snowy
Baker Australias 1908 Olympic all-rounder)
is a former boxer turned Reverend in the
town of Kangaroo His affections for a
local heiress and his unconventional
methods cause disapproval amongst the
locals Feeling unwelcome he takes a
posting to the neighbouring town of
Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has
driven the church out of the area
Also available on 16mm film
On Our Selection Director Raymond Longford Australia 1920 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
In reflecting the melodrama and broad
caricature of Steele Rudds stories
Longford retained the humour and
episode structure while bringing naturalism
and authenticity to this affectionate
portrait of life on the selection the
clearing of the land the first crop drought
and bushfire Also available on 16mm film
The Woman Suffers Director Raymond Longford Australia 1918 BampW
(Silent - Musical Soundtrack)
One of the surviving treasures of Australiarsquos
silent film heritage the story takes the
concept of ldquoan eye for an eyerdquo and
extends it to ldquoa sister for a sisterrdquo Ralph
Manton discovers that his sister Marjory has
been seduced Ralph discovers his identity
and confronts him ndash using the manrsquos sister
to extract revenge The tables are turned
The Sick Stockrider Director WJ Lincoln Australia 1913 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music) Short film
This short film of Adam Lindsay Gordons
poem comprises a series of stagey
tableaux between inter-titles of the poems
verses The recurring image is that of the
dying stockman interspersed with images
of grim memories of his mates and their
deaths Also available on 16mm film
The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole Director Raymond Longford Australia 1911 BampW
(Silent ndash Mute no music)
Only the first half of this film survives with
the English setting of Margaret Catchpole
a Suffolk lass courted by two rivals one a
smuggler the other a guard The missing
second half of the film deals with
Margarets transportation to New South
Wales for horse stealing and her
subsequent good works in Australia (told
through intertitles) The earliest surviving
feature footage of pioneering filmmakers
Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell
Also available on 16mm film
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
Staff Selections The Screening Loans staff canrsquot stop themselves watching the wonderful variety of
new films as they come into the collection - all to assist with your programming
Here are four of the best
Stephrsquos Picks
Careless Love Director John Duigan Australia 2012
Cast Nammi Le Peter OBrien Andrew Hazzard David Field
Available on DVD
If you missed this film at the cinema last year I strongly suggest you give it a go at your film
society We follow Linh a confident well-adjusted Vietnamese-Australian studying at
Sydney University During the day she is a happy energetic student At night she works as an
escort visiting her clients at their homes Her clients are varied and have different needs and
expectations Things get complicated when she starts dating a fellow student and bit by bit
her world crumbles as her double life is exposed
The Endless Night Director Will Tremper West Germany 1963
Cast Hannelore Elsner Karin Huumlbner Louise
Martini Harald Leipnitz
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
The Tempelhof Airport in Berlin is
experiencing a spell of fog The planes
are grounded and the passengers are
fraught all they can do is wait for the fog
to clear but overnight their lives are
thrown off course
The film follows a number of people as they deal with the fallout from the fog Some
characters see opportunity others see their lives or careers fall apart In one story a man
lends his wifersquos fur coat to his mistress and asks her to cosy-up to a potential business partner
who is expected to arrive at the airport that evening In another story a woman desperate
to run away from her husband waits in fear that he will come looking for her
This is a very stylishly made film - the cinemascope ratio matches beautifully with the
enormous interior of the Tempelhof airport The DVD is sharp coming from an excellent print
Johnrsquos Picks
Crackerjack Director Paul Moloney Australia 2002
Cast Mick Molloy Bill Hunter Frank Wilson Monica Maughan Judith Lucy John Clarke
Available on DVD
Cuddly likeable slob Jack (radio and D-Generation comic Mick Molloy) who has joined the
Cityside Lawn Bowling club just to use the Members car park finds himself drafted into the
Mens Fours to save the ailing and aging club from going under The reluctant Jack discovers
he can smoke and drink beer at 1972 prices in a world where a bloke is your mate and the
ladies bring a plate A good laid-back Aussie chuckler where the laconic meets the colonic
this affectionate film also stars oldies like Bill Hunter teaming up with youngsters including
Judith Lucy to outwit the takeover plans of Pokies-King Bernie Fowler played with wry relish
by the brilliant John Clarke Watch out for lsquoThe Flipperrsquo
Mick Molloyrsquos next comedy Bad Eggs is also a new acquisition for the NTLC
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)
Alice in the Cities Director Wim Wenders Germany 1974
Cast Rudiger Vogler Yella Rottlander Lisa Kreuzer
DVD courtesy of the Goethe Institute
Aimlessly drifting across America seeking inspiration
German journalist Phil unable to either write or
empathise is recalled home Meeting a fellow
German woman and her daughter at the airport he
incrementally agrees to look after the girl Alice for
the return flight Seemingly abandoned by Alicersquos
mother the two of them set off again - now across
Germany - to find her grandmotherrsquos house
Wim Wendersrsquo films often feature tales of disillusioned characters on journeys through mind
and place across landscapes alien and familiar on a search for meaning This constant
theme together with Wendersrsquo take on the familiar Little Miss Marker and The Shiralee stories
still engages Both Phil and Alice are distant with each other - dialogue is sparse and their
attachment is reluctant - before developing a reluctance to part Visually the long
observational shots the black and white contrasting imagery and the 1970s-style camera
work mirror the story Alice in the Cities travels from bleak to beautiful Take this journey
Look for more Wim Wenders films from the Goethe Institut coming to the NTLC soon
Contact Screening Loans You have been sent this bulletin because you are a registered borrower of the NFSA
Non-Theatrical Lending Collection and have joined recently or booked films in the
last two years If you are no longer intending to borrow from NFSA please reply with
your organisation name and we will close your registration Alternatively if you know
another organisation that may enjoy our service please forward our details to them
Please contact NFSA Screening Loans if you have any questions or comments about
our service
Email screeningloansnfsagovau
Telephone 1800 012 175
Home Page httpwwwnfsagovaucollectionscreening-loans
Catalogue httploansnfsagovau
Kind regards
Stephanie John and Charles ndash The NFSA Screening Loans Team
The Way Back (2011)