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Australia Day at the National Film and Sound Archive

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THE National Film and Sound Archive is the place to be this Australia Day, so they say, with a program full of Aussie movies and TV classics on the big screen.

There’ll also be an Aussie-themed menu including a sausage sizzle, a Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown party in the sunny courtyard, a mini exhibition of costumes and props from the digitally restored film Starstruck, and a Q&A with its director Gillian Armstrong.

The screen classics include the hit films “Crocodile Dundee”, “The Castle”, and the 1966 comedy They’re a weird Mob (Tickets $5 each, available online).

The evening continues at 6pm, with a screening of “Starstruck,” the Australian musical that was ahead of its time, now digitally restored by the NFSA through the ‘NFSA Restores’ program, and join director Gillian Armstrong, for a special Q&A session.

Teenage cousins Angus (Ross O’Donovan) and Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) live in the Harbour View Hotel, beneath the Harbour Bridge in Sydney’s The Rocks. Jackie is 18 and wants to be a singer; Angus is 14 and writes songs, while avoiding school and dreaming up wacky schemes to get his cousin noticed.

There’s also an Australia Day-only mini-exhibition featuring original costumes and other items from the film, and visitors can dress up in 1980s outfit for a chance to win prizes!

Australia Day at the National Film and Sound Archive, Acton, all-day tickets $20, bookings to nfsa.gov.au

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