whats wrong with the aus film industry

Whats happened? Directors honing their skill in advertising, Technicians honing their skills in advertising, America, Sydney, Sydney Film Festival, Trop fest and John Polson, Bougie, Solariums, Steadicam, Mac cosmetics, Monotone Bureaucratic Passionless Project Managers, Mortgage Belt, Cafe Lattes, Hair product, Muscles, Library fines, Paul Kelly and Warm Electo "ecstacy comedown" soundtracks, John Howard, New get cultural quick schemes such as INDIE VISION where we look to American and Danish cinema for the answers, Lazy cinema goers, Passionless Distributors and Sales Agents, Too many bars..not enough time.

What will fix it? Comraderie, MIFF AND BIFF (Melbourne and Brisbane), A look back in time (The seventies had the answers), New wave short filmmakers, Literature, Passion and Digital technology. And...Passion?

GREAT AUSSIE FILMS

1. Picnic at Hanging Rock
2. Devils Playground
3. The Night The Prowler
4. Mad Max
5. Newsfront
6. Puberty blues
7. Love Serenade
8. The Boys
9. Bedevil
10.The Well

Honourable Mentions: Bliss, Breaker Morant, Death in Brunswick, Japanese Story, The Cars that Ate Paris, La Spagnola, Muriels Wedding, Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Sweetie, Life, Eternity, Feeling Sexy, High Tide, Starstruck, My Brilliant Career, A cold Summer, Bad Boy Bubby, Cactus, Man of Flowers, Holy Smoke, Dallas Doll, Celia, Dance me to my Song, The Quiet Room, Beneath Clouds, The Coca Cola film, Lawn Dogs, The Year My Voice Broke, Holidays of the Yarra River, Malcolm, Milk, Peel, Crackerbag, Boy Serpentine, The Other Son, Martin Four, Pallisades, Proof, Two Hands, Swinger, Mona Lisa, John Saffran vs God, Chasing Buddha, Flirting....

TEN EMBARASSING AUSSIE FILMS (or extended ad breaks for visa and life insurance)

1. Honourable Wally Norman
2. Gettin Squared
3. Crackers
4. The Dish
5. One Perfect Day
6. Sommersault
7. Crackerjack
8. You cant stop the murders
9. The Nugget
10.Lantana

Honourable Mentions: Head on, Tom White, Soft Fruit, Better than Sex, Strange Planet, True Love and Chaos, Doing time for Patsy Cline, Alexandras Project, Amy, The Delinquents, River Street, Floodhouse, Serenades, Angst, Under the Radar, Strange Bedfellows, The Tracker, Black and White, Siam Sunset, Brilliant Lies, Hotel Sorrento, Nirvana Street Murder, Wog Boy, He died with a felafel in his hand, J What I have Written and that awful schoolies movie....