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Picnic with the Ex at Taco Bell - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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We were too bust talking about the insane themes of Picnic at Hanging Rock that we forgot to mention anything important like a soundbyte from it is in our intro and also Peter Weir is pretty famous.
Anyway, enjoy us getting lost in themes for 30 minutes.
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Introduction and Spoiler Warning
00:00:00
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This is your Under Southern Screens spoiler warning. We forgot to do one in the main episode, but if you haven't seen Peter Weir's 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock, we're watching it this episode and yeah, we're going to be talking about the plot. We're going to be talking about how it ends. We're going to be talking about all those ladies and how they go missing. So ah yeah, if you haven't seen the film, watch it. It's good.
00:00:22
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Anyway, enjoy this episode of Under Southern Screens.
00:00:29
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I am the night writer. You're terrible, Muriel. Talk to me. You gonna do that, Pogger Pogger? You've been talking to the cops. Today is a brand new day. No, that's it. It's the vibe.
About the Podcast: 'Under Southern Screens'
00:00:42
Speaker
G'day, fellow Aussie film lovers, and welcome to another episode of Under Southern Screens, the most rocky Australian cinema podcast. I'm Mitch. And I'm Matthew. Rocky. Well, okay, that's cool. It's like, uh, who did the Rocky theme? Who composed the Rocky theme? Danny Elfman. Danny Elfman. did. know it Bill Conti who did the selling one. Silvestri?
00:01:08
Speaker
No, surely not. Alan Silvestri? No, no, I think Rocky was a bit below Alan Silvestri's pay grade. Oh. But anyway, Mitch, I have a question for you before we start this amazing episode of On Sudden Screen. love questions. Please ask me one. What was the last picnic you went on? think the last picnic I went on was with my ex. Oh, no. No. So this part might not be usable. Yeah, cut it out. That's okay. Let me tell you my last time I had a picnic. Matthew, when was your last picnic? My last picnic was in 2021 and it was in like mid lockdown. It was like in between the lockdowns and me and my friends, we found out that a Taco Bell had opened nearby us and we wanted to go try Taco Bell.
00:01:55
Speaker
And it was COVID quarantine, like easing restrictions type vibe. So we we got Taco Bell. bell in the park and ate taco bell and that and watching our movie this week made me think of about taco bell about taco bell so thanks peter we are thanks for that i really appreciate you know yeah thanks peter we are man interesting movie that we're watching this week very uss Interesting movie. Kind of a lot going on Kind of a hallmark of like Australian cinema. Yeah, it marks like a new era. It is the new as wave of Australian cinema. Don't steal my notes. I'm sorry, bro. have an intro planned. If you could like not take from that, please. I'm so sorry. Mitch, what are we watching this week for Under
Plot Overview of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'
00:02:44
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Southern Screens? Well, today we are watching Picnic at Hanging Rock.
00:02:51
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1975's picnic and hanging rock starring rachel roberts dominic guard helen morse and jackie weaver and directed by peter weir it is based on the 1967 novel of the same name by joan lindsey which itself is based on pure fiction and did not happen in real life much to the surprise of everyone who ingests this story hey hold on No, I actually, I wrote that before I read yours. I wrote that before I read. was like, oh no. Dude literally stole my Letterboxd review. Talk about stealing stuff. Come on. Okay, it's tit for tat now. That's all right. Continue with your introduction, Mitch.
00:03:27
Speaker
Picnic tells the tale of four young women and their teacher who disappeared while on a picnic at the infamous Victorian point of interest, Hanging Rock. The film is set on 14th of February, 1900, also known as St. Valentine's Day, which means this film mirrors my own Valentine's experiences. That is, wandering off from the people who I was having a picnic with and scaring the crap out of them.
00:03:45
Speaker
Except it wasn't a picnic, it was a bush doof, and I didn't wander off, I just did too many nangs and tried to punch the DJ in a wombat. Over the course of the film, the mysterious disappearance of the schoolgirls and their teachers haunt many in the local community, especially when one of the missing girls returns, without a memory of what happened.
Influence on Australian New Wave Cinema
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Picnic at Hanging Rock was voted the best Australian film by Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee. It helped draw international attention to Australian New Wave Cinema, a movement of Australian film that ushered in the Ausploitation film that went from the to the 1980s. It has been noted that Sofia Coppola borrowed heavily from Picnic when making The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette, both movies I haven't seen. And Damon Lindelof, the dude who wrote Lost, said Picnic greatly influenced the second season of The Leftovers, a show I haven't watched. Firstly, can I just say I've not seen either of those things either. So I think it's great that we have literally no frame of reference for what this film is or represents. We've watched the original. Yeah, we've watched the OG. And look, I'm so happy that I did. thought this film was really good.
00:04:48
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this film that everyone says is great the film that was voted the greatest australian film of all time actually apparently kind of good yeah it's pretty cool and i think just how alternative it is not only obviously its aesthetics and its sound but like in terms of its performances and and yeah i i thought it was just a really fun watch overall i mean mitch in terms of like the source material and like what this film represents what was your experience going into this Picnics, obviously, it's been blind spot in my film knowledge for
Creative Range of Australian Cinema
00:05:19
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a while now. Yeah. I'd say it ranks up there with Mad Max and that's kind of it. Like with like most famous Australian films, like Mad Max is the fun, crazy thing Australians make. And then Picnic's the good, well, not that Mad Max is bad, but Picnic's like the good movie that Australians made. This is the artsy Australian fare, I guess, that shows that we're not just car crashes and Crocodile Dundee. And I think, like, it really does excel at creating a mood this film like just right out of the gate there's vibe there's serious vibe throughout this film vibe check vibe vibe check vibing it's weird and wacky uh it feels like it's edging towards horror and i read somewhere that this is kind of considered a horror romance but i think i'd have to disagree with that yeah i don't know about that whoever said that is an idiot and stupid yeah i hate them Read texts differently, bro. But no, I feel like this is more of like a thriller, I would say. That would be my bet. It's like an introspective existential thriller. Yeah, I wasn't actually expecting that
Analysis of the Film’s Unresolved Mystery
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going in. I was expecting it to be how these women got lost the fabled hanging rock. So it follows them. Yeah, so it follows them throughout the movie and how that happens. I was not expecting the whole movie to be talking about the aftermath of these disappearances and how people would actually react to it. And honestly, I kind of preferred this interpretation as weird as it is to say. It just adds for more nuance. It's interesting because watching it, think I knew what this movie was going in. I wasn't shocked to find out that it wasn't following the girls the whole time. Yeah, yeah. So I was able to prepare myself to not be satisfied with the resolution of the mystery because there is none. I don't know. I guess you could say that maybe the spirits of the rock called to these people maybe. It's like characterizing- rock. A rock. Literally. question wanted to ask you. Have you been to Hanging Rock? No, I've never actually been. Because I have been to Hanging Rock. Yeah.
00:07:28
Speaker
Oh, cool. Okay. So what was, what's, how does it compare? It was before even in high school. i I went to Hanging Rock. I was maybe 12 to 10, somewhere in that age range. I think I was double digits. Who's to say And when you went, was there like large amounts of sub bass and like ominous, like ambient noises happening? and and I did find it amusing to have in the beginning credits, there is someone credited for, I think it's pan flute in ah in French or something. Yeah.
00:07:56
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And went, oh, wonder why they called out the pan flute specifically, are only to be answered five minutes later when the rest of the movie is just underscored by flute for the rest of the whole time. And it's like, oh, right. Makes sense that he's on top billing. This guy really just kind of... might have been a girl. I can't remember who whose name it was. of No, it's...
00:08:16
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Look, it's a rock. I sometimes think about this with really sort of out there concepts. How do you actually think of this as a concept? Like maybe it's based on, you know, when you go out as a child into like unknown territory and the landscapes look ominous and- yeah And maybe that's how it stems from it. But yeah, it's such an interesting, really sort of esoteric, as you say, concept. All of the aspects here are firing on all cylinders to give that uneasy vibe, you know, in terms of the music. The performances in this movie, they're so slanted. you know what I mean? they're just They're just a little bit off. And that's like what I love about it. I was pissing myself laughing with the British guy, the the British like carriage boy or whatever he was, one who ends up sleeping at Hanging Rock. and His performance when he's first questioned by the police is the most... Like, just hang this guy already. He he did it. He did it, obviously. He did it naturally. But if anyone spoke to me in that way normally, i would think, what are you hiding from me, man? Guilty. He's like one of those characters in Noire. I don't know if played L.A. Noire, but it's like...
00:09:20
Speaker
obviously lying looks your left and right with like and kind of raises the eyebrows a couple times and you kind of go you're lying to me brother oh man i love lna we should ah it's a shame we're not talking about games on this pod but yeah it's one of my favorites because it was made in sydney oh is it really yeah it was made in sydney anyway could do games who's to say but yeah like i think the performances here they're off but like that's what i love about it it's a lot of it's very theatrical yeah and it's very calculated and i absolutely loved loved loved the performance of
Character Analysis: Sarah
00:09:50
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margaret nelson who plays sarah in this You feel so empathetic for this character. She's an orphan and she's gone to this boarding school and she isn't accepted. She's also lesbian. She's also a lesbian. And her lover disappeared in the book. And her lover disappeared and it's actually over. And this is how you make an audience feel for a character. Do what mean? Harry Potter school of making you like a kid character and just make their life absolutely miserable and you'll anyone will like the kid. Because no one wants to see a kid miserable. I'm sure that audiences would have picked up the homosexual allegories here back in the day, but I think here it's such a great inclusion that it just feels so ahead of its time, even though the film is set in 1900. I do think it's really funny, though, at the start when they're introducing all the young women and Sarah and Miranda ah are in their rooms hanging out. Just chilling. And Miranda goes...
00:10:47
Speaker
Oh, Sarah, you must come back with me to Queensland. You'd love to meet my parents. And then not a mere moment later, you have to learn to love someone else, Sarah. you have I'm not going to be around forever. And Sarah iss just kind of you can see Sarah reeling from the tonal whiplash of the conversation. Yeah, it's literally. the goddess of mixed messaging it's like modern romance the mixed signals are going off the chain oh dude it's like when i like someone on hinge and then they like me back but then they don't reply to any of the messages i send them it's like what is going on here did you like me on this isn't your personal venting space mitch hale you're right you're right anyway but yeah and then the other performance that i think is on the level of sarah is is the performer who plays uh miss apple yard rachel roberts Insane name, by the way. Miss Appleyard. When I said Appleyard Manor, I didn't realize that the literal headmistress would be called Miss Appleyard. That's like calling the dean of Harvard Miss Harvard. It's like, what what's happening? Or Miss RMIT.
00:11:44
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It's Mr. Melbourne High. It's Mr. Box Hill Tafe. Mr. Holmes Glenn. Yeah, Rachel Roberts' performance is absolutely fantastic. And one bit that absolutely floored me at the very end is when we see, and this is spoilers. Oh my gosh, spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. Oh yeah, we kind of forgot to say spoilers. Yeah, that's all right. wait This is like the ending part. I don't think we've seen anything quite spoilery quite yet. No, no, not yet, but it's okay. When Sarah...
00:12:10
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has been ordered to leave right and so like this is the final nail in the coffin she's at the end of her rope pretty much and the teachers they see her dead body and they come and notify ah miss apple yard yeah and she's already in the funeral attire as they open the door what a fantastic visual way of displaying this character's internal conflict And then because it also furthers kind of the conflict between Miss Appleyard and Sarah throughout the film because Sarah's broke as crap and Miss Appleyard's going, oh, it's not a... This isn't a charity. You have to pay. No more dancing lessons for you, Miss Sarah. I think the issue, though, is that it's hard it's a hard movie to talk about because in regards to plot, not a lot happens. Perhaps that ambience and that that atmospheric...
00:13:01
Speaker
aspect of the movie means that it does get a little bit difficult to follow in that sense. I hear it's like hit a wall for sure. Cause you're not really sure like what's real and what's happening. Like the moment in particular, when the the girls go missing, I know this is so pea brain to me, but it's like, it's not explained to me like why they're trekking out, why they're going up this rock road.
00:13:27
Speaker
Like, like what what is causing this conflict, I guess? Like, this inciting incident? And I guess you zone out just a little bit. My read of that was that it started off with them just wanting to do the childlike thing of explore. You know, the the young women, they want to go check and crap out. um They want to have a frolic, mate. They want to check out the rock that hangs. yeah And I think the idea is the reason why I said earlier that I think the spirits of the rock called to them is because they all kind of fall asleep on the rock. But my issue there is the teacher didn't fall asleep on the rock. Did she even fall asleep? She was just reading a book about trigonometry. And then the next we see her, she's... She's not there. She's just gone.
00:14:08
Speaker
right She just pissed out. She just left. She left the server without saying goodbye. She hard eggs her from the Discord call. I was under the impression that one of these, either the book or the movie, hinted more to supernatural crap going on than the other. Yeah, yeah there there has to be some sort of supernatural force behind it. Yeah, and if this is the one that hints the most at supernatural crap, I'm so curious with the book. Yeah, right. But also it could be the other way around that the book is actually the one that hints more at supernatural crap.
00:14:38
Speaker
Because this one, it doesn't really. like It's not that supernatural. It plays the supernatural elements as commonplace. like It's just like, oh yeah, of course the the the kids would fall asleep on a rock and then decide to walk into rock and disappear. just entered the rock. Idiot. Yeah. And then there's the whole thing of like, because then they add in the thing of both the young woman who returns, the only one of the people who are missing who returns, she's missing a corset and she's undressed in a certain way, like not hornd horrifically so, but she is missing articles of clothing. And the young woman who was really unkindly called the dumpy one by one of the characters yeah in this movie...
00:15:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's not ideal. Hashtag, that was a 70s, yeah, trade of the 70s. Well, I assume it was like the 70s trying to represent the nineteen zero zero Let's finger wag at this movie right now, which you can't see. Shaking while watching Picnic Hanging Rock so that people know that I disagree with the way they described to one girl. Performative movie watcher moment. Just in my own room. It is genuinely unfortunate, it but like, i yeah.
00:15:41
Speaker
It heavily implies like a sexual nature to the whole thing. Yeah, yeah. And they even, in a scene, they even discuss whether that's a possibility. And then when the young woman returns, the doctor's like, well, everything's intact, which I assume means her hymen was still there or something. One of the things that Australian cinema hits as a stereotype is this like idea of... it's like basically sad porn like everything's just sad and depressing that's not the terminology and it'll come back up in another episode I'll actually remember the whole don't you feel bad yeah but like you feel crap watching this don't you and like a lot of that will contain naughty sexy things because that's a really easy way for an audience to feel grotty is a naughty sexy thing to occur and so this movie kind of like almost goes there but it then deliberately looks at the audience and goes we're actually not going there but we we thought we made you think you we were going to though it's like It psyched you out. You thought. And I mean, I'm glad that they didn't because i'm yeah I don't need to see that. i'm i'm glad Especially considering the subject matter and and the characters involved. I'm glad it it didn't go in that direction. um and I know I just said that the open-endedness of it makes it a bit hard to follow, but at the same time, it keeps you guessing.
00:16:51
Speaker
It really yeah keeps you on your toes and you're not sure what's going to happen next. Like when the two boys go to Hanging Rock to find the girls, I was on the edge of my seat. I was like, like are they going to disappear now too? like And then they find Irma's character and just Irma's character and no signs of the other ones. She's missing a memory and it's...
00:17:12
Speaker
what is going on? It's such a confusing watch. And I kind of love that as like, ah it plays with the audience. I do enjoy it. i think you need to be in the mood for it though. yeah If you go into this and you're not in the mood to be confused, I think you're going to have a really bad time. If we asked Peter Weir and he told us,
00:17:29
Speaker
what he thought happened in Picnic and Hanging Rock. Maybe the novel itself has more of an answer in it. And it's kind of interesting to have a mystery that no one knows the answer to. I mean, obviously someone could. i Peter Weir could maybe have an answer, but yeah, it doesn't feel like he does. It keeps the audience asking questions, and maybe that's why the film has stayed in the public consciousness for so long, and why the actual narrative of the film, like, I thought this was a real event. I thought this really happened. Yeah. I'll be honest. No, sincerely. like because like no I get it. I get it. If I'd watched this, i would have been like I would have looked up. Is this based on a real story? Yeah, is this real? In Australian history, there are events like this that have happened, like a Lunapark ghost train fire or like different parts of Australian history. What a deep cut reference. Yeah, sorry. We got really topical with this one. International audiences are confused. Look it up though. It's really interesting. It is interesting. it's like really, really niche and specific mysteries happen.
00:18:28
Speaker
The idea that three schoolgirls in 1900 pre-Federation Australia go missing at a rock and are never seen again. And one of them rocking back up and and not remembering anything. I believe that. I would go, that sounds pretty Aussie to me. Mate, that's just me on a Saturday night, if you don't know what mean. Yeah, but too many nangs, too many nangs. But the other thing that I think is really interesting about this is its time period being set in 1900. Yeah. What day was Federation? do we Do we remember? I think it was New Year's Day 1901. So it's like less than a year before the federation of the country. Australia is currently not Australia. It's a mixture of the states and the territories all kind of work independent of each other, which in a way we still kind of do, but there's a federal government that now overrules everything. But yeah, everything's so prim and proper. And so having this supernatural inciting incident, none of these people know what to do. No, because they're so cut off from the rest of civilization. And it's so interesting because one of the things I noticed was just kind of this mixture of prim and proper British person with just the outback is such a juxtaposition of style and vibe. It's like an inspiration for future films. like I'm not a massive fan of the film, but I mean Baz Luhrmann's Australia takes a note out of that book. 100%. Which we will be watching. That is on our list. definitely will be. But it is such an interesting subsect of
00:19:57
Speaker
australian history that pre-federation period it's the wild west essentially it's like the fear of the unknown not to use a term that's a bit loaded but it's like it's really pushing the terra nullis of the whole thing like yeah which which is a loaded term because of what it means but i think it's still a theme that runs throughout history that this is a land that no one owns and you get lost in it This has been a very thematic episode.
Cinematography and Landscape
00:20:24
Speaker
We're talking a lot about the themes and what it all means, but I think another really strong aspect of this movie for me um is like that cinematography. The way that Peter Weeand is cinematographer, whom I do not know, unfortunately. Russell Boyd. Russell Boyd, thank you. That's why we get someone to do research each week. How they're able to frame it through low angle shots. It's just fantastic. Like they keep returning to this symmetrical shot. I think it's of like three rocky. Like makes a canyon type. Yeah, it makes like canyon. And it's looking up at it. And that static shot says everything you need to show about how imposing this landmark is. you know It's like a beacon to an alien world this reads kind of like the start of 2001 oh yeah absolutely like the the obelisk it's carving alien through human landscape and i think that it says everything that dialogue would be able to but in a much shorter period of time and a more creative way which is what the filming medium is all about so i really appreciated that from the cinematography perspective is good
00:21:24
Speaker
is good it's good it's a good movie i do think and i'm sorry for being a hater of a of a timeless australian classic it is a bit too open-ended for me yeah i like a little bit of closure right little bit just little bit of closure just getting an answer for something i don't need to know what happened to the girls i don't need to know just love to know what what that rock do what that rock do what that rock do i do think it's very funny because you mentioned how how imposing it is made through some very brilliant cinematography and i've i've been there i don't remember it being that big um i think this is a medium-sized like it's not a small rock all right it's it's decent size but it ain't no uluru is all i'm saying no uluru mate we gotta go for the man from hong kong for that
00:22:13
Speaker
That's a reference. They fight out on Uluru, like the final Hong Kong fighters on Uluru. I haven't seen it. It's cool. We'll get there. Cinematography and sound design are king in this movie. Dialogue?
00:22:24
Speaker
I don't know. like it's It's serviceable, but I think the visual is where this film is The dialogue I felt was designed to be dreamlike. And if it's working, it pisses me off. And if it's not working, it pisses me It reminds me a lot of some of the worst parts of the prequel trilogy of Star Wars films. always goes back to Star Wars, doesn't It's just like, yeah. I just hate Star Wars. Yeah, like dialogue at its core is about explaining something yeah and getting a point across. And so if dialogue isn't doing that, it can work. But most of the time it's like, well, what was the purpose of that when a visual could take its place? and it's It's not like I was listening to the dialogue in Pink Nick and Hanging Rock and being like, Cringe ratio. And red-pilled and you suck and I hate you. Question mark? Franchise ruined? No, it's all like I hated I being a bit of a hyperbolic young lad before, but it is a bit just, I don't like dreamlike dialogue. It's something that I had to realise after a long while of trying to figure out why certain movies frustrated me and I think I just, I like it when dialogue is more grounded. it I think that's just something that held it back for me from being great in my view. But like, again, like, I see why this is a timeless classic. The iconography is there. The Australian-ness is there. That's for sure. Which is mind-blowing considering the time period of this film set in and how it's, you know, pre-Federation, inherently British.
Australia's Identity in Cinema
00:23:45
Speaker
It is Australian at its core. um And yeah, I think it's rightfully propped up as such. Mitch, what is the most Australian thing about Picnic and Hanging Rocks? I do have two again, very short. So one of them is being attacked by a swarm of budgies as you open the gate to let someone in.
00:24:02
Speaker
yeah and the other one is being warned about snakes every 20 minutes when going out into the bush. And being swarmed by birds. It's just always the cheese board, mate. You a cheese board, they swarm for it, mate. It is. Oh, freaking... You've got that charcuterie board, brother. You are not alone. You have 17 million magpies cockatoos. Like hawk, literally, you know? Yeah, well, I mean, we don't have hawks. No, we do have hawks. We have the Hawthorne hawks, the football team. we have actual hawks in Australia, though? don't know. Because we have that massive frick-off eagle. We have the West Coast eagles as well. I'm talking about that. Stop it. Stop it. I'm not talking about those eagles. I'm talking about real eagles. It's like a really mean eagle. It's really funny because the eagle in America is like a glorified pigeon in comparison to our eagle. Yeah, we have the real eagles. Australian eagle. Ornithology, this is what you signed up for for our podcast. The wedge-tailed. The wedge-tailed is a screwed up bird, apparently. It's actually a very... No, no, It's just a very violent bird. And it's Australian? And it's Australian. We have them here, yeah. Mate, it fits right in. We're very violent people. I mean, according to three of the films we've watched. Yeah, true. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, that's true. Or at least two of them. This is a classic. How can we say otherwise? Look, it's good. It's not my favorite.
00:25:19
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I think it's come across that we both really appreciate what it does as ah as a piece of cinema. like we yeah We appreciate its space, and I don't think either of us begrudge its place in the Australian canon. Exactly, yeah. Is it the best Australian film?
00:25:32
Speaker
i don't even think it's the best one we've watched so far. like Well, was about to say we're only up to episode four, man. We've got a while to go. I reckon my favorite so far has still been True History. Yeah, yeah. I'd say the same. Although I liked We Bury the Dead. but you know well You liked We Bury the Dead.
00:25:46
Speaker
There's many, many more that will go down the line. And yeah, but you know what, man? All I'm going say is that Peter we are. I think he's got something in him. And we'll definitely be revisiting him. Yes, he is Aussie director, top five. Extraordinaire. Yeah, he is the Michael Jordan of movie. Well, that's crazy because we have George Miller.
00:26:04
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like mike George Miller is the Michael Jordan. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, fair enough. and Not to like besmirch any Australian, but I've never really seen a Basement Lemon movie that I fully enjoyed. Well, mate, wait till you see Strictly Ballroom. Anyway. Actually, my dad said that was a good one. Yeah. It's a really, really good one. Maybe we should watch that next week. Do you want to Strictly Ballroom That's what we're doing. We're watching Strictly Ballroom next week. Live on air. We've decided it. Strictly Ballroom next week Strictly Ballroom. Making it happen. Locking it in. Man, I've had fun today, Mitch. I've had a great time too. I hope you guys have had fun too listening to us. We will see you next week for Strictly Ballroom. Exactly.
Engagement and Social Media
00:26:38
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00:26:48
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um cover just like join in the conversation because yeah we love to hear what other people think of films like Picnic and Hanging Rock because they are so sort of open-ended and exploratory exactly and it starts a conversation as it were so yeah shoot us an email follow us on all the socials if you like we are on x TikTok, Insta and threads at UndersouthernScreensPod links will be in bio so don't stress and also we'll put our letterbox You can track what we're going to do by what I'm watching because I refuse to stagger entries. Yeah, it's right, mate. We're dedicated on the letterbox logging. it's it's yeah I can't not be truthful in letterbox. I watched Superman like five times last year and I wanted to lie because i didn't want people to see how many times I'd seen it. and i just I couldn't lie. It's a letterbox. Loud and proud. It's a great movie. It's a good movie. Look, there's worse movies to watch five times in one year. Anyway, we'll see you guys next week for another episode of Under Southern Screens. We hope you have a great week. And stay under those southern screens.
00:27:52
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that what we say? can't remember. Stay under? Stay under those southern screens? Yeah, that works. Keep under those... Keep watching. Keep watching. It's keep watching those southern screens. Under southern screens. Crash it, guys. See you next week.
00:28:04
Speaker
Thanks for listening to another episode of Under Southern Screens. We'll be back next week to talk more films down under. We just want to attribute that our opening title is Heavy Duty by Zoo and our closing title is Heavy Weight by Fell Creek. Thanks so much for listening and Mitch and I will see you in the next episode. See you next time.
00:28:25
Speaker
Under Southern Screens would like to acknowledge the stolen lands on which this podcast is recorded and produced and pay tribute to the Wurundjeri and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation and Kamaragal people of the Eora Nation.
00:28:37
Speaker
Sovereignty was never ceded and we pay respect to all Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.