Cinema Papers' 100 Key Australian Films
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In 1995, the Australian film magazine "Cinema Papers" polled over 6,000 members of the Australian film community to determine the "100 key films" of the Australian cinema. Those polled included "accredited members of the Australian Film Institute; industry guilds and unions; film critics and reviewers; academics and media teachers; and the NFSA's Kookaburra Card members.
"'Key' films were designated as those that have made a notable aesthetic, technical or historically important contribution to Australian cinema. Similarly, the criteria for 'Australia-ness' was defined broadly rather than narrowly."
The list excludes any films "made specifically for television or non-film formats."
SOURCE: Cinema Papers, "100 Key Australian Films." February 1996: p24-27
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975, in 15 top lists Check -
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Mad Max
1979, in 13 top lists Check -
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My Brilliant Career
1979, in 7 top lists Check -
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Strictly Ballroom
1992, in 7 top lists Check -
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'Breaker' Morant
1980 — a.k.a. Breaker Morant, in 5 top lists Check -
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Gallipoli
1981, in 6 top lists Check -
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Sunday Too Far Away
1975, in 1 top list Check -
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Jedda
1955 — a.k.a. Jedda the Uncivilized, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Year My Voice Broke
1987, in 2 top lists Check -
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Newsfront
1978, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
1978, in 5 top lists Check -
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Muriel's Wedding
1994, in 3 top lists Check -
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Proof
1991, in 1 top list Check -
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Crocodile Dundee
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Devil's Playground
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Malcolm
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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Wake in Fright
1971, in 7 top lists Check -
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Don's Party
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Caddie
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Cars That Ate Paris
1974, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Sentimental Bloke
1919, in 2 top lists Check -
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Mad Max 2
1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Piano
1993, in 14 top lists Check -
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Man of Flowers
1983, in 1 top list Check -
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40,000 Horsemen
1940, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Man from Snowy River
1982, in 2 top lists Check -
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Romper Stomper
1992, in 3 top lists Check -
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Careful, He Might Hear You
1983, in 1 top list Check -
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Bliss
1985, in 1 top list Check -
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Death in Brunswick
1990, in 1 top list Check -
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Storm Boy
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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The Sum of Us
1994, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Getting of Wisdom
1977, in 1 top list Check -
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Sweetie
1989, in 5 top lists Check -
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Monkey Grip
1982, in 1 top list Check -
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The Overlanders
1946, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Shame
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dead Calm
1989, in 4 top lists Check -
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They're a Weird Mob
1966, in 1 top list Check -
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Flirting
1991, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sons of Matthew
1949 — a.k.a. The Rugged O'Riordans, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Picture Show Man
1977, in 0 top lists Check -
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For the Term of His Natural Life
1927, in 2 top lists Check -
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Travelling North
1987, in 1 top list Check -
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Bad Boy Bubby
1993, in 5 top lists Check -
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On Our Selection
1932, in 1 top list Check -
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Winter of Our Dreams
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Shiralee
1957, in 1 top list Check
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