21 August 2008
Trash and Treasure: Philip Brophy on 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'
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Review
by Jason Di Rosso, Philip Brophy
Today filmmaker, video artist and scholar Philip Brophy tears into this Australian classic from 1994. In case you've lived under a rock these past 15 years it's a road movie starring Terence Stamp, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving as three drag queens traveling to the centre of Australia in an old bus. A reinvention of Australian iconography? Not according to Philip.
You can read an expanded version of Philip Brophy's critique of the film—it's published in Currrency Press's Australian Screen Classics series.
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter
Producer: Al Clark, Michael Hamlyn
Script: Stephan Elliott
Cinematographer: Brian J. Breheny
Editor: Sue Blainey
Music: Guy Gross
Running time: 100
Australian distributor: Roadshow
Language: English
Classification: MA15+
