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In 1968 my sisters took my brother and I into Melbourne for the first time to see our first film. It was Oliver! at the Odeon. Unforgettable. Later, in the Seventies, it was the midday double matinee at the Croydon Moviehouse. One rainy day my friends and I watched The Time Machine there: the rain hitting the tin roof and most of us stamping our feet and yelling up a storm as Rod Taylor battled the Morlocks. Ah movies!Then it was foreign films at the Valhalla in Richmond (re-runs of Jean Luc Godard and the French new wave), or the new SBS station on TV (Jacques Tati!). At the Rivoli in Camberwell I think I watched every Woody Allen film that came out in the Eighties and Nineties (except Crimes And Misdemeanours, which I saw in Paris!). When, disappointed by Deconstructing Harry, I realised I was finally over Woody Allen, it felt like heartbreak.
The Directors:
Woody Allen, Jean Luc Godard, John Ford, Peter Weir, Ken Loach, James Cameron, (early) John Hughes, Terrance Malick, Ridley Scott, David Lean, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian DePalma, Stanley Kubrick, The Coen Brothers, Robert Wise, Alfred Hitchcock, Wim Wenders, Oliver Stone, Roman Polanski, Rob Reiner
The Movies:
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
The Best Years of Our Lives
It's A Wonderful Life
Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
The Year My Voice Broke
Casablanca
How The West Was Won
River's Edge
The Wizard of Oz
Radio Days
Stardust Memories
Cinema Paradiso
A Band A Part
Land And Freedom
Running On Empty (Sidney Lumet)
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Manhattan
The Time Machine
Barbarella
Forbidden Planet
His Girl Friday
The Terminator
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Days Of Heaven
The Duellists
Blade Runner
Dr Zhivago
The Sure Thing
This Is Spinal Tap
The Searchers
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Dawn of the Dead
Life Force
Witness
Singin' In The Rain
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Double Life of Veronique
City Lights
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010
Citizen Kane
Aliens
Apocalypse Now
I'm Alright Jack
Ninotchka
Miller's Crossing
No Way Out
Fly Away Home
Bull Durham
Star Trek: First Contact
Dark City
Big Wednesday
Mountains of the Moon
Psycho
West Side Story
The Haunting (Robert Wise)
Two-Lane Blacktop
A Hard Day's Night
Rumblefish
Passport To Pimlico
Le Grande Chemin
Do The Right Thing
My Father's Glory
Some Like It Hot
A Day At the Races
Scarface (DePalma)
Like Water For Chocolate
Wings of Desire
The Deer Hunter
Reservoir Dogs
El Salvador
Muriel's Wedding
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
When Harry Met Sally
Chinatown
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (39)
Dazed and Confused
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