Double Feature
Walkabout
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg. Along the way, they meet a young aborigine on his “walkabout,” a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone. Walkabout is a thrilling adventure as well as a provocative rumination on time and civilization. (Janus Films)
- Director
- Nicolas Roeg
- Writer
- Screenplay by Edward Bond from the novel by James Vance Marshall
- Starring
- Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil
- Year
- 1971
- Country
- UK/Australia/USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 100 minutes
Wake in Fright
Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake in Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) and starring Donald Pleasence (Halloween), Wake in Fright tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in the Australian Outback. Believed to be lost for decades and virtually unseen in America until now, Wake in Fright returns fully-restored in what the New York Observer says “may be the greatest Australian film ever made.” (American Genre Film Archive)
- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
- Writer
- Screenplay by Evan Jones based on the novel "Wake in Fright" by Kenneth Cook
- Starring
- Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
- Year
- 1971
- Rated
- R
- Country
- Australia
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 109 minutes