#australian new wave

[harrybyharry]

the eerie morning before two schoolgirls from Appleyard College and their teacher disappeared, Picnic at Hanging Rock, dir. Peter Weir, 1975

#peter weir #picnic at hanging rock #hanging rock #australian new wave #joan lindsay #70s movies #70s film #70s cinema #1970s #1970s movies #1970s cinema #1970s aesthetic #dreamy aesthetic #dreamy art #victorian gothic #victorian style #victorian dress #australian film #australian cinema #australian movies #miranda st clare #film tag #nymph aesthetic #nymph core #horror films #horror movies #horror cinema #folk horror #70s horror #vintage horror

[terrordictal]

Skye Zart, Wake in Fright (2023)

#abandoned #abandonedbuildingphotography #cinematic #cinematography #desert #desert photography #wake in fright #outback #outbackaustralia #brokenhill #urbex #urban exploration #australian new wave #photography #australian history #australia #australian film

[schlock-luster-video]

On July 9, 2008, Walkabout was screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

#walkabout #nicholas roeg #jenny agutter #australian new wave #australian film #ozsploitation #tcm underground #adventure film #survival thriller #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[icollectimages]

The Last Wave (1977)

Country: Australia

Directed by: Peter Weir

Cinematography by: Russell Boyd

#The Last Wave #Australia #Peter Weir #Russell Boyd #Fantasy #Mystery #Crime Drama #Environmental Drama #Existential Drama #Apocalyptic Drama #Australian New Wave #1970s #United Artists #The Criterion Collection

[vsthepomegranate]

The Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

by Peter Weir

#Australian New Wave #Australian Cinema #1970s movies #joan lindsay #Rachel Roberts #jacki weaver

[brentusjoshea]

He may not have directed it or produced it, but all this talk about Goncharov has reminded me of a dark, disturbing and homoerotic 1971 Australian film which was feared lost for decades until it resurfaced about eleven years ago and has since found an international champion in the form of Martin Scorsese.

I am talking about Wake in Fright~

(also stars Donald Pleasance, of James Bond and Halloween fame)

#wake in fright #Goncharov #scorsese #martin scorsese #australia #australian #international film #international cinema #cinema #film history #lost film #donald pleasance #australian new wave

[sloshed-cinema]

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Some summer afternoons can seem to stretch on into eternity.  The air hangs heavy and hot, the body collapsing into a torpor.  For the girls of Appleyard College, an afternoon outing to Hanging Rock to celebrate Valentine’s Day becomes this in a literal sense.  The watches that two of the faculty possess stop at noon on the dot.  A lazy sunny day can be languorous with a book, but there appear to be other forces at work in some sense.  Hanging Rock itself seems to exert a force, drawing in some of the more susceptible.  A trio of girls, Miranda, Marion, and Irma, accompanied by the reluctant Edith, seek to explore the rock.  Later, Miss Lumley, who had earlier spoken at length about the rock’s ancient past departs for the monolith in turn.  All disappear, and only Irma returns sometime later in a state of physical distress.  It’s a shocking experience, but director Peter Weir swaths it all in the gauzy trappings of a dream.  The monolith Hanging Rock looms large, frequently presiding over scenes, and girls swaying and dancing lazily might be the stuff of a blissful reverie but for the fact that all of the overlapping images renders it quite unnerving.

Perhaps a key to this whole strange nightmare is through the dual lens of Miranda and Mrs Appleyard.  They are foils to one another, a virgin and a crone.  Miranda is an object of innocence, clad as are her classmates in a flowing white dress, her long golden locks shimmering in the sunlight.  Mlle de Poitiers identifies her as a Botticelli angel and she is Sara’s dearest friend.  Both Sara and local young noble Michael associate her with the serene and elegant swan, Michael having visions about a swan visiting his bed as he obsesses over the missing girls and Sara including a china swan in her shrine to her missing friend.  Appleyard, by contrast, is sharp and severe, pressed into her dark garments and piling her hair high to the heavens in an anticipation of the Bump-it trend.  She is the strict matron of the school, but while the vision of control and matriarchy begins strong, she soon collapses under the weight of all the fallout of these disappearances.  Haggard and drunk, her hair a mess, she slumps in front of a painting of a mother breastfeeding her children.  In the close, she is Miranda’s exact opposite, clad all in mourning black. 

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says ‘Hanging Rock’.

Someone takes a pull of beer.

Valentine’s Day is mentioned.

BIG KAREN VIBES

BIG DRINK

Queen Victoria portrait.

Overlapping images in the editing.

#drinking games #picnic at hanging rock #peter weir #australian new wave #australian cinema #drama #mystery

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Beds Are Burning • Put Down That Weapon • Dreamworld • Arctic World • Warakurna • The Dead Heart • Whoah • Bullroarer • Sell My Soul • Sometimes

Spotify ♪ YouTube

#hyltta-polls #polls #artist: midnight oil #language: english #decade: 1980s #Big Music #Alternative Rock #New Wave #Rock #Australian Rock

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Portrait of band INXS at the Miami Arena in Miami, Florida, March 1, 1988. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

#inxs #australian band #michael hutchence #1988 #getty images #monochrome #black and white photography #pub rock #new wave #tim farriss #kirk pengilly #garry gary beers #andrew farriss #jon farriss #miami #florida #miami arena #late 80s

[bitter69uk]

“The voice of Christina Amphlett … shuttles between a hiccup, a yodel and a snarl. She sings with inflections that seem entirely her own, as if she were making up a perverse language as she went along. At her most bizarre, she can sound almost demonically possessed … she’s the good-bad girl – sort of like all four Shangri-Las rolled into one – with a snatch of pre-exorcised Linda Blair tossed in.” 

/ Jim Farber reviewing the 1988 Divinyls album Temperamental in Rolling Stone / 

Died on this day ten years ago: feral, perverse and raspy-voiced frontwoman of criminally underrated post-punk Australian band Divinyls, Christina Amphlett (25 October 1959 - 21 April 2013). I was privileged to see Divinyls perform and interview bad girl Amphlett for my university newspaper in 1991 in Montréal (when Divinyls had their fluke international hit with “I Touch Myself”). She was great! (I had no inkling that at the time Amphlett was battling alcoholism, as she’d later recount in her 2005 autobiography Pleasure and Pain). The Montréal audience was totally nonplussed by the volatile Amphlett’s abrasive sex kitten-gone-berserk stage antics (there was lots of deep stripper squats, breast-cupping and crotch-grabbing delivered with a contemptuous scowl).  Amphlett died far too young from a combination of Multiple Sclerosis and breast cancer. In this shot you can clearly see the macabre “dead mouse” brooches Amphlett used to wear pinned to her little girl dresses in Divinyls’ early days. When I asked her about them, she just shrugged, “When I first started the band, I lived in this place that had lots of rats and mice and I became obsessed with them and used to stick them on my dress, because they were everywhere …” If you’re not au fait with Divinyls’ music, the picks to click are: their entire 1983 debut album Desperate followed by “Casual Encounter”, “Pleasure and Pain”, “Sleeping Beauty” and “Back to the Wall.”

#christina amphlett #chrissy amphlett #divinyls #wild woman #bad girl #post punk #lobotomy room #australian band #fierce #feral #new wave

[sillycathorrors]

What goth & punk subcultures are you a part of?

im really into aussie garage punk, as well as other local punk rock/hardcore bands. in terms of goth, im more a fan of the og 80s/90s gothic bands, as well as some new wave, dark wave and gothic metal. some bands i like are Depeche Mode, Cheap Perfume, Sisters of Mercy, Mini Skirt, Voiid, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Bugs, Glitoris, and The Muslims ! :) i could probably name more but those are just the ones i can think of off the top of my head

#punk #goth #australian garage punk #aussie garage punk #punk rock #new wave #dark wave #gothic metal #sorrens rambles #asks

[harrybyharry]

"The standard European concept of a linear timeline upon which one only incessantly moves forward is foreign to the Indigenous Australian conception of time that is bound up with the ever-present 'Dreaming' in which the past is ever ongoing. Whereas Miranda is the voice of love (...) Miss McCraw and Marion use math as a universal language, allowing them to enter into a dialogue with the possibilities of 'The Dreaming' rock." - Juli Kearns

Picnic at Hanging Rock, dir. Peter Weir, 1975

#picnic at hanging rock #hanging rock #peter weir #joan lindsay #australian movies #australian cinema #australian film #australian new wave #70s cinema #70s film #70s movies #70's #1970s aesthetic #1970s #1970s cinema #1970s movies #1970s films #victorian fashion #vintage fashion #70s horror #1970s horror #horror films #vintage horror #horror cinema #horror movies #folk horror #film tag #aboriginal australia #dreamtime #the dreaming

[lapsedmathematician]

okayyy two weeks off work. this is the time that I figure out wtf to do for fun in new york THIS I SWEAR. nyc knowers in the chat please advise

#thrifting I think is step one but all the places I know for it are all the way in manhattan #oh I haven’t gone to a movie in a minute. I think I just missed this month’s australian new wave movie in battery park tho #could use google ofc but in my day we googled things by asking questions of our buddies like god intended

[schlock-luster-video]

On January 30, 1991 Walkabout debuted on Italian television.

#walkabout #walkabout 1971 #nicolas roeg #jenny agutter #australian cinema #australian new wave #new wave cinema #new wave #survival thriller #tcm underground #adventure thriller #adventure film #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film #arthouse movies #experimental film #avant garde film #survival film

[pynkhues]

Okay so apologies that this may be the most unhinged thing I've ever asked anyone, but there is no one IRL who would even know what I was talking about, and I'm basically running down the clock in the office until Friday. So -

If there was a Muppet version of Wake In Fright, who plays who?

Ahaha, I mean, it's definitely up there for unhinged asks, and you'll of course be on holidays now, but I really had to think about it! Wake in Fright feels like such a hard one to emulate what with the psychosexual horrors and outback violence, which isn't really the language of the Muppets (or at least, not all the time, haha) but if I had to - - okay:

Kermit as John Grant. John's more of a dick than Kermit is, but he's the one with the narrative arc, right? And they both tend to get caught up in the antics of people with a lot more, ahem, personality than them, so to speak.

Gonzo as Doc. I went back and forth on this one a bit, but settled on Gonzo. He's eccentric! And I believe he'd go a little mad.

Sam Eagle as Jock. Probably self-explanatory, but y'know overly patriotic characters who like throwing their weight around a bit!

Miss Piggy a Janette. Comes on too strong to Kermit / John, deeply dissatisfied with her life / aspires for more, plus her having a harrowing open relationship with Gonzo would be deeelightful.

Fozzie as Tim. Yes, the hat has a lot to do with it, haha.

Pepe and Rizzo as Joe and Dick. Agents of chaos!

#this has made me want to rewatch wake in fright haha #australian new wave my beloved #welcome to my ama #recastings #thank you this was genuinely very fun/ny to think about #the remake we deserve

[dec0mposing]

#music #Icehouse #Great Southern Land #Primitive Man #Australia #Australian #1980s #1982 #New Wave #synth pop #rock