40,000 Years of Dreaming: a Century of Australian Cinema
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Cast & Crew
George Miller
Bob Last
Colin Maccabe
Ian Mclaughlin
George Miller
Doug Mitchell
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George Miller's genial look at his country's filmmaking which is comprised of an assemblage of segments covering most aspects of the Australian experience: from the landscape and the pioneer spirit, through the country's unique social blend, to traditional Aussie types and more recent emergent themes.
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George Miller
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Released in United States 1996
Released in United States May 1995
Released in United States May 1996
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (special screening) May 17-28, 1995.
"The Century of Cinema" is a series of personal documentaries commissioned by the BFI to celebrate the centenary of film. For this series, some of the world's leading filmmakers were invited to provide individual interpretations of the history and development of cinema in their countries. The result is a fascinating look at highly disparate national cinemas and 100 years of film around the globe.
The participating filmmakers include: Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson (USA), George Miller (Australia), Stephen Frears & Mike Dibb (England), Shu Kei (China), Edgar Reitz (Germany), Mrinal Sen (India), Donald Taylor Black (Ireland), Bernardo Bertolucci & Enrico Ghezze (Italy), Nagisa Oshima (Japan), Jang Sun-woo (Korea), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Latin America), Sam Neill & Julie Rymer (New Zealand).
The participating filmmakers include: Mohamed Tazi (North Africa), Pavel Lozinski (Poland), Stig Bjorkman (Scandinavia), Jean Pierre Bekolo (Sub-Saharan Africa), Sergei Selyanov (USSR/CIS) and others.
no English subtitles
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Released in United States 1996
Released in United States May 1995 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (special screening) May 17-28, 1995.)
Released in United States May 1996 (Shown in New York City (MoMA) as part of series "The Century of Cinema" May 3-4, 1996.)
