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 ...

I’m usually left slightly anxious by those works of western filmmakers that take as their subjects the nature and stories of indigenous peoples. The potential for exploitation – artistic, commercial, ...

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Like "The Fast Runner," the acclaimed 2002 film that told an Inuit legend using an all-Inuit cast, the Aboriginal story "Ten Canoes" features local Aborigines in all of its roles, albeit in a much ...

Sometimes all it takes to bridge the chasm of eons is a little humor. "Ten Canoes," an Aborigine fable set in three periods, spanning the present to prehistory, doesn't just address the eternal ...

Directed by the Dutch expatriate filmmaker Rolf de Heer, this sometimes bawdy (remember: “Never trust a man with a small prick”), always beguiling work of imagination begins with a group of Aboriginal ...

Inspired by the early-20th-century photographs of anthropologist Donald Thomson, this collaboration between a Western filmmaker and the native people of Ramingining is an impressive achievement of ...