Anthropology and entertainment are marvelously married in Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes." The first feature in an Australian Aboriginal language feels authentic to the core as it tells a cautionary tale ...

Ever-venturesome Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, in his beautiful but demanding “Ten Canoes,” takes the viewer back 1,000 years to evoke the lives of Aborigines and even further, to a mythological ...

If Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” had used more irony and less blood, it might have looked a lot like Rolf de Heer’s “Ten Canoes,” which uses an indigenous Aboriginal language (Ganalbingu) to tell an ...

One of the beautiful aspects of film is its ability to transport us to strange and unusual worlds. Compared to our gridlocked streets of LA and million dollar homes, nothing could be more strange or ...

Okay, I know you’re all going to see “Knocked Up” this weekend, but let me heartily recommend Rolf de Heer’s “Ten Canoes,” a far more original and visually stunning cinematic experience that is ...

Ten Canoes, directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, is the first-ever film made using indigenous Australian languages, and winner of the jury prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. This event is ...

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I drifted into it. I happen to get a job at the Australian Broadcasting Commission, but it was a job as a storeman. [It had] nothing to do with making films [and I] had no intention of making a career ...

Anthropology and entertainment are marvelously married in Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes." The first feature in an Australian Aboriginal language feels authentic to the core as it tells a cautionary tale ...