Cosi 1996  R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Pamela Rabe, Jacki Weaver, Paul Chubb, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young, Colin Friels, Colin Hay, David Wenham, Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Lewis (Ben Mendelsohn) takes a position as play director at a mental institution with the job of helping in the rehabilitation process. Inmate Roy (Barry Otto) talks Lewis into producing Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutti." A cast of wild characters from the patients is assembled, though none can sing nor speak Italian, which is the language of the play. But Lewis soon learns a lesson or two about imagination from the unlikely cast in this Australian production.
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My First Wife 1984  PG, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Cox
Cast: John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Lucy Angwin, David Cameron, Julia Blake, Anna Maria Monticelli, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Robin Lovejoy, Lucy Uralov, Tony Llewellyn-Jones
John (John Hargreaves), a self-centered musician, suffers extreme emotional problems when his wife, Helen (Wendy Hughes), leaves him after ten years of marriage. Family, friends, and lovers expose the pain and confusion suffered by this man for whom work, work, and more work was the be-all and end-all of life.
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 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver, Dominic Guard, Frank Gunnell, Anne-Louise Lambert, Karen Robson, Jane Vallis, Christine Schuler, Margaret Nelson, Ingrid Mason, Jenny Lovell
Set in 1900 during an outing to Hanging Rock, Victoria, three Austrailian college students–Miranda, Marion, and Irma (Anne-Louise Lambert, Jane Vallis, and Karen Robson)–and their head mistress Mrs. Appleyard (Rachel Roberts) run into problems. Irma is the only one who returns, and she cannot remember what happened to her cohorts.
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Where the Green Ants Dream 1984 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye, Ralph Cotterill, Nick Lathouris, Basil Clarke, Ray Marshall, Gary Williams, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Bob Ellis
In this story about clashing cultures, geologist Lance Hackett (Bruce Spence) is mapping the subsoil for an Australian mining company that is planning to extract uranium when he meets resistance from aborigines. They believe that destroying that hill where ants dream will destroy humanity, and the company takes its case to the Australian Supreme Court.
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| 1. Cosi (1996)
2. My First Wife (1984)
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
4. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
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