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Abe Maddison

Riding the New Wave: how Aussie movies won the world

Sunday Too Far Away was the first big hit of Australia's golden age of cinema. (HANDOUT/NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE / SA FILM CORPORATION)

When Australian New Wave movies burst on to world cinema screens in the 1970s, sceptical audiences were initially baffled by the broad accents and peculiar colloquialisms.

Sunday Too Far Away, an iconic tale about male culture and loyalty in a 1950s shearing shed, was the first big hit of Australia's golden era of cinema but Americans were especially mystified by it, producer Matt Carroll remembers.

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