Crocodile Dundee

Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile' Dundee". New York drug lords are pursuing Sue for having solid evidence against them for murder, so for her safety, Mick takes her back to Australia. When the gangsters follow them, Mick demonstrates his outback skills once more.

ilm critic David Stratton tells the fascinating story of Australian cinema and how the country's film-makers have to helped to shape a nation's idea of itself. Produced by Stranger Than Fiction Films, ABC and Adelaide Film Festival 2017.

Angler Jeremy Wade heads to a remote river in the Australian outback to try and catch the rare but fearsome Freshwater Sawfish. This shadowy predator is reputed to reach eighteen feet long and attack boats - but does the fact that it could slash Jeremy to shreds make it a killer? And why is this bizarre-looking sea monster swimming hundreds of miles inland? In a quest that begins twenty years ago in the Amazon and ends on the banks of a shark-infested river, Jeremy roams into an ancient and beguiling landscape where he encounters Aborigines, scientists, and a real-life 'Crocodile Dundee', before finally confronting the disturbing truth.

The contrast between modern, urban civilization and life in the natural world lies at the heart of Nicolas Roeg's visually dazzling drama Walkabout. In broad outline, the plot might resemble a standard fish-out-of-water tale: two city children become stranded in the Australian outback, and struggle to find their way back to civilization with the help of a friendly aborigine boy. But Roeg and screenwriter Edward Bond are concerned with far more than the average wilderness drama, as a shocking act of violence near the story's beginning makes clear. This is particularly true in regards to the relationship between the white children and the aborigine boy, who ultimately develops a troubled romantic attraction towards the older sister…..

Up to now Snake Müller (Uwe Dag Berlin) has been a shark hunter in Hawaii – even though his name suggests something entirely different. Unlike – lets say: Crocodile Dundee (in a 1986 film directed by Peter Faiman), Snake Müller actually has a ’bitten off limb’ to show for the dangers of his job. Nevertheless he had no luck trying to renew his expired (if fake) ’green card’; therefore he decides to putt-putt all the way home on his houseboat. ’Home’ is Berlin – Friedrichshagen on Lake Müggelsee, where supposedly “the sun always shines and sharks never go”…..

Revered critic David Stratton tells the glorious story of Australian cinema, focusing in on the films that capture the nation’s true nature with such candour, emotion and humour that they still knock us for a six. David is superbly qualified for this task. While he adapted to a new country and turned his passion for cinema into a profession as a film festival director and film critic, a growing band of courageous Australians turned their enthusiasm for storytelling into an extraordinary body of work. “A nation found its identity through cinema and so did I; this is my journey through the movies that made our nation,” he says.