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The Island (2000)
A top-notch boating movie
Some might regard a sex scene and a car chase as essentials for absolutely any motion picture, but not the talented Kieran Darcy-Smith, director and star of this enchanting gem, who successfully saw off producer Brooke Wilson's attempts to introduce such commercial trivialities into what some might see as an old-fashioned masterpiece. But for Darcy-Smith's insistence of artistic credibility over Wilson's well-known instinct for carnality and automotive pursuit, The Island may well have achieved financial success.
Murbah Swamp Beer (2002)
A triumph of the beer lorry / river genre
Brooke Wilson and her eventual partner "Gary" Doust are to be congratulated for providing me with the most enjoyable seven minutes of my life as they peeled away the veneer of alcoholic dimwittedness to reveal the true Australian psyche in this remarkable and moving film. Exploding the surrealism of the underlying metaphor is what these two talented young film-makers are about, and how they managed it with half of the outback plastered over the plastic optics of a mini-DV camera would have defeated even Lars von Trier, from whom they surely must have taken inspiration. An absolute masterpiece and quite the best story of in-bred villagers retrieving things from a river that you're likely to see this year.