Sunday Australian Movies
Sunday Australian Movies was an anthology series of 6 Australian films screened by the ABC in 1984. All were shot on film with Australian directors and screenplays.[1] The films were presented by Wendy Hughes.[2] The series began on 29 July[3] and ran through to 2 September.[4]
John O'Hara writes in Cinema Papers "The films have been commissioned from different writers, directors and producers, and the results are very mixed. They differ in subject, mood and style to some extent; they tackle difficult subjects, including unemployment, racism and sexism. They range across personal fantasies about death, sex and the sea. Only one of them, Stephen Wallace's Mail-Order Bride, manages to be entirely successful within the constraints of the series."[5]
Dennis Pryor in the Age wrote "The ABC suffers from a nervous condition known to telepsychiatrists as the Wagstaff complex. The complex reveals itself in the habit of having someone introduce their major offerings if the viewers were peasants standing in line to be presented to a duchess."[2] Marie McNamara of the Age wrote of Hughes's introductions "The cautious viewer has learned to take these superlatives with a grain of the proverbial".[4] The Sydney Morning Herald's Shorts column commented "Hughes's ums and ahs and tosses of the head looked gratuitous. Why, we. wonder, would you want to pretend someone hasn't prepared intelligent for you to say?"[6]
Episodes
References
- ↑ Ferrell, Robyn (23 July 1984), "The ABC shows how — six films for the price of one", The Sydney Morning Herald
- 1 2 Pryor, Dennis (11 August 1984), "No philosophy, lots of fun", The Age
- ↑ Bolton, Matthew (26 July 1984), "ABC film series takes an up-to-date attitude", The Age
- 1 2 McNamara, Marie (30 August 1984), "Mail-order racism", The Age
- ↑ O'Hara, John (October–November 1984), "Sunday Night at the ABC", Cinema Papers
- ↑ "Shorts", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 1984