As part of its Australia season, the British Museum has an excellent series of Australian films. Details below or at the BM website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/australian_season.aspx Ned Kelly Friday 1 July, 18:30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre Starring Mick Jagger as Kelly. Director: Tony Richardson, 1970 Followed by The Story of the Kelly Gang, the world’s first feature-length film, largely lost but now partially restored, thanks to fragments found in the British National Film Archive. Director: Charles Tait, 1906 Saturday 2 July, 13:30 and 15:45, Stevenson Lecture Theatre They’re a Weird Mob, the story of an Italian immigrant in the form of a hilarious guide to Australian manners. Director: Michael Powell, 1966 The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, knockabout comedy based on Barry Humphries’ satirical comic strip about Australians in London. Director: Bruce Beresford, 1972 Samson and Delilah Friday 15 July, 18:30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre Story of two Aboriginal teens who escape from the violence and poverty around them to live together in the Central Australian desert. It triumphed at the 2009 Australian film awards, and has been hailed around the world. Director: Warwick Thornton, 2009 Followed by Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, a sensitive short about an Aboriginal girl nursing her dying mother. Director: Tracy Moffatt, 1990 The Masks of Mer Thursday 21 July, 13:15, Stevenson Lecture Theatre A new documentary about the celebrated 1898 film made by Alfred Cort Haddon of dances in the Torres Strait Islands which helped launch visual anthropology. Acclaimed screenwriter Michael Eaton’s film looks at the evidence and questions what Haddon’s film really means. Director: Michael Eaton, 2010 Walkabout Friday 22 July, 16:30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre A classic account of two white children who are befriended by an Indigenous boy on ‘walkabout’. Filmed mainly in the Northern Territory, it became a defining vision of the Outback for a generation. Newly remastered, it remains one of cinema’s great landscape-studies. Starring Jenny Agutter. Director: Nicholas Roeg, 1971 Followed by A Girl’s Own Story, an early short by Oscar-winning Jane Campion about simmering sexual tensions surrounding three teenage girls. Director: Jane Campion, 1984, 27 minutes, Cert 15 £3, Members and concessions £2 The FJ Holden Friday 5 August, 18:30, Stevenson Lecture Theatre The yellow car of the title sums up the aspirations of Kevin and Bob as they roam Sydney’s bleak suburbs in this once controversial, now rarely seen, account of coming of age in 70s urban Australia. Director: Michael Thornhill, 1977