The Dry.
Director Robert Connolly’s crime drama has taken an impressive $20.4 million at the box office to become the 13th highest grossing Australian film in this country . closing in on
Red Dog and
The top earner for 35 years now is still
Crocodile Dundee, which took $47.7 million in 1986.
But these types of achievements always ignore the impact of inflation. They raise the question: what would be the most successful Australian films in today’s dollars?
This masthead took Numero’s box office statistics for more than 1100 Australian films released in the past 50 years and adjusted them for inflation.
The result is a new top 25 that reveals how remarkably successful
Australian film success dominated by movies made in a different century
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“It hit me like a ton of bricks one day. I remember having a cup of coffee and I went, ‘Well, look, there is a giant canvas in every little town everywhere around the world. And on this giant canvas there are 24 frames of image on that screen every second and it’s the most wonderful living art form.’” –Yahoo Serious,
The New York Times, 1989
Okay, so, taking
seriously may, initially, seem like taking
Plan 9 from Outer Space seriously. Roger Ebert gave this film one star, and seemed to begrudge it even this tiny reward. The movie is ridiculous: a fictive debut out of Australia from an art school reject; made on a shoestring budget; produced, starring, and directed by this same art school reject; and no script doctors or test audiences were employed in the making of this film as far as I can tell. It is, at best, a B-movie.
Mileva Marić’s complicated history with Albert Einstein
Did Marić help her husband with his famous theories? Well, it’s complicated The Tempest
A photo of Mileva Marić, with her husband, Albert Einstein.
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There are countless stories of women being pushed to the sidelines of history. I’ve heard of many instances of women giving up their dreams to support their husband or family member. Female scientists are slowly being recognized for their talents and contributions, but there is still a long way to go. The phrase, “behind every great man is a great woman” rings particularly true for this couple – Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić-Einstein, his first wife.