object / envelope distort / make with warp. then use open selection tool to pull points Australian and New Zealand Film 6 Shortcuts Tina Kaufman 10 Melbourne's Shadows: The Jammed Lisette Kaleveld 14 Voyage of The Jammed: An Interview with Director Dee McLachlan Raffaele Caputo 20 Stranger than Non-Fiction: The Slippery Truth in Forbidden Lie$ Marguerite O'Hara 27 The Need for Greed: The Bet Rani Kellock 30 In Search of a Year-Round Home: December Boys Brian McFarlane 37 Lost Boys: Burke & Wills Rjurik Davidson 40 Movement Towards Innovation: Special Feature: Thursday's Fictions Dr Mark Seton What Makes Us Laugh? Part One 45 John Pilger's War on Hypocrisy: The War on Democracy Bruce Andrews 74 On With The Chaser Sue Turnbull 48 Defying the Weather: The 2007 Sydney Film 80 Funny Brown Guys: Comedy and Race in Festival Monique Hohnberg New Zealand Ray Lillis 84 Kenny: The Return of the Decent Aussie Bloke in Australian Film Comedy Felicity Collins Focus on Asia and the Middle East 92 The Rain King: Graham Kennedy and The King 56 Screening Indonesia: A New Era? Briony Kidd Rani Kellock 60 In The Market of Films: A Conversation with Garin Nugroho Novi Kurnia The Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection 64 'Everyone's Looking': Israeli Cinema at MIFF Lior Albeck-Ripka 96 Introduction The NFSA's Atlab/Kodak Cinema Collection Brian McFarlane 98 Don's Party Men Behaving Badly Brian McFarlane Scribes on Screen 110 From Ockers to the Oscars: An Interview 68 Molly Haskell Richard Armstrong with Bruce Beresford Brian McFarlane
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