Silt: Alan Hopgood

Alvin Purple

Australian waterbed salesman Alvin (Graeme Blundell) sees a psychiatrist (Penne Hackforth-Jones) about his irresistibility to women. Alvin is a quiet, urban Australian male who finds himself the unlikely object of female lust. The film tracks him from his schooldays through

Roadgames

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway. Pat Quid is driving a semi across Australia. On the way he encounters various other travellers, and the occasional hitchhikers repeatedly as they’re

Alvin Rides Again

Alvin Purple, the world’s most unlikely sex symbol stumbles from woman to woman and job to job in this zany, sexy Australian comedy. Alvin Purple (Graeme Blundell), the lothario hero of the Australian low-budgeter Alvin Purple (1973), “rides again” in

Knowing

In the fall of 1959, for a time capsule, students draw pictures of life as they imagine it will be in 50 years. Lucinda, an odd child who hears voices, swiftly writes a long string of numbers. In 2009, the

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