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Sunday Too Far Away rewatched – hard yakka story of shearers and scabs

Edit The Guardian 13 Mar 2015
An early milestone for Jack Thompson, Ken Hannam’s 1975 tale of salt-of-the-earth sheep shearers is a sobering portrait of life spent working for the weekend ... the first Australian feature film to play in the director’s fortnight category at Cannes, the first to be produced by the South Australian Film Commission and the first for its director, Ken Hannam....

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Edit Canberra Times 16 Jul 2014
FREE TO AIR. Who Do You Think You Are?, SBS One, 7.30pm. The format of this history-genealogy show is a given, but what it throws up each week is always a surprise and mystery, which is a key reason for its enduring success ... Art + Soul, ABC1, 8.30pm ... PAUL KALINA ... Director Ken Hannam had just come off the high of Sunday Too Far Away and the more modest success of Break of Day when he made this pleasant but undemanding seaside thriller ... ....

Underground to Oscar: 50 years of Australian film

Edit The Australian 13 Jun 2014
Film. Evan Williams on 50 years of Australian film ... Fifty years ago it was a different story ... Evan Williams’ top 10 Aussie films. TELL US ... ... As director of the Sydney Film Festival, Stratton celebrated the resurgence of the local industry with a retrospective of Australian films in 1975, including Peter Weir’s marvellously unsettling debut feature The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) and Ken Hannam’s Sunday Too Far Away (1975)....
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