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	Walkabout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walkabout is an Australian pidgin (or perhaps quasi-pidgin) term referring to the belief that Australian Aborigines "go walkabout" at the age of thirteen in the wilderness for six months as a rite of passage.
		The Walkabout (pub chain) is an Australia-themed pub chain.
		Walkabout (South Park) is a quarterly event in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walkabout (341 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Walkabout at Epinions.com
		WALKABOUT is one of the great films of the 70s, not just as a stylistic achievement, but as a parable of the growing gulf between civilization and nature.
		The film explains this term with a title card at the beginning stating that at the age of 16, every Aboriginal male has to go off by himself into the outback and fend for himself, as a rite of passage to manhood.
		WALKABOUT was quite celebrated upon its original release in 1971, and then for years it was almost impossible to find, until it was finally restored and rereleased in 1996.
	www.epinions.com /content_185507548804 (1767 words)

	notcoming.com \| Walkabout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The title Walkabout, stated in a clear disclaimer at the beginning of the film, refers to an aboriginal practice in which boys, at the start of their maturation, leave their tribe and are forced to live off the land.
		Walkabout’s obvious concern is the relationship between the two parties, separated by centuries of diverting societal behaviors, and thus, differentiated perceptions of sexual roles and etiquette.
		The film does regard him sympathetically, to be sure, yet his upbringing is as responsible for the cultural gap dividing the party as the siblings’.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews/walkabout.html (1192 words)

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		The story is what happens when this walkabout encounters two white children, a teenage girl and her young brother, lost in the outback.
		The film is about youth, we see pretty pictures of nature and wild animals, there are a number of cutesy scenes, and the classical score makes it sound like some old-fashioned Disney nature flick (the original theatrical trailer, included in the tape, includes a recommendation from Parent's Magazine).
		Walkabout is most definitely an experience, although in my opinion, it is not a classic film.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/davidsmovies/walkabout.html (817 words)

	DVD Times: Region 0 Reviews: Walkabout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There’s a noticeable difference in visual style between Performance and Walkabout and the films which followed, photographed by others: an occasionally self-conscious use of trick shots, most noticeably here a scene where the boy tells a story, punctuated by wipes that resemble turning pages.
		Walkabout contains a lot of sexual imagery, which seems quite natural with the three central characters, much coarser in a scene with a group of scientists.
		When Walkabout was re-released in 1998 (after having been long unavailable due to rights issues), publicity referred to five minutes being restored to the film.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /reviews/other/walkabout.html (479 words)

	Walkabout (film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Films" an award-winning selection, and "The impact of documentary film in Southern...
		Walkabout, 1971 is an Australian film directed by Nicolas Roeg based on a book by James Vance Marshall.
		A young girl and her young brother are stranded in the Australian outback and encounter a young Australian Aborigine boy who goes on a walkabout with them, an initiatory rite of passage.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/w/wa/walkabout__film_.html (120 words)

	Review: Walkabout
		Walkabout is the story of two children -- a teenage girl (Agutter) and her 7-year old brother (Roeg's real-life son, Lucien John) -- stranded in the Australian wilderness.
		He's on his "walkabout" -- a several months' journey across Australia where he must survive off the land -- but the end of his odyssey is something that neither he nor his two white charges could have anticipated.
		Walkabout is about the never-ending conflict between civilization and nature, and how the two constantly work to destroy one another.
	reelviews.net /movies/w/walkabout.html (719 words)

	R E A L T I M E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In this illuminating reflection on Walkabout, a leading Australian dramatist and screenwriter Louis Nowra discusses the iconic status of the Outback in Australia and the peculiar resonance of the lost child story in the Australian psyche.
		Walkabout was about a White man, in this case the British author, Marshall, testing White power and domination in the “fl playground of his imagination”, and here in the homeland of the Aboriginal.
		In fact, those who belong to an Aboriginal world might view the film’s portrayal of this Aboriginal character’s life as being trivialised and powerless: the premise being that even a young, white schoolgirl could cause the death of this newly initiated, Aboriginal man. This reading of the story is that Aboriginal knowledge counts for nothing.
	www.realtimearts.net /rt58/walkabout.html (1002 words)

	The struggle for independence
		David, who came to USC last December to screen his film on campus, was excited to talk about how he made the film, and the problems he had with breaking into the reality of Hollywood.
		They are participants of a church-sponsored program called "Walkabout," a program created in the hope that it would help the students build self-confidence, form bonds among one another, strengthen them spiritually and ultimately prepare them for their adult lives.
		Martin believes it was the film's genuine story that gained it favor and, out of the 300 films screened, he is sure that it had the lowest budget by far.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V130/N62/04-struggle.62d.html (1589 words)

	Walkabout
		Walkabout’s acceptance within critic circle is epitomised by the fact it was one of the films selected for Le Cinema Australien at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1991.With the director’s cut released in 1996, critics once again took to Walkabout and revisited its credibility.
		Walkabout was released in 1971, which saw the influx of ‘ocker’ films such as Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Stork.
		Neil Rattigan argues that it is not an Australian film at all, because it is an outsider’s response to the landscape.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2001/walkabout.html (3086 words)

	The DVD Journal: Walkabout: The Criterion Collection
		The film, an adaptation of the celebrated novel by John Vance Marshall, follows the struggles of a fourteen year-old girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother (Lucien John, son of director Roeg) as they find themselves stranded in the Australian outback after an excursion with their father ends in tragedy.
		There is very little dialogue in Walkabout; the majority of the tale is told via images and gestures, and this lack of communication, especially between the Aborigine and the girl (no character names are ever given in the film), only serves to enhance the drama.
		Walkabout is a magical experience, a seminal film which any movie lover should have in his or her collection, alongside Metropolis, 2001, and the other cinematic masterpieces which not only tell a great story, but inspire wonderment and awe.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/walkabout.html (704 words)

	Walkabout (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walkabout is a 1971 British film set in Australia.
		We then see a group of scientists launching a weather balloon: one of them is a beautiful woman who is perceived as a sex object by the male scientists who play cards with a deck that has pictures of nude women on it.
		The film, critical as it is of "civilization", casts an equally depressing eye towards primitive life, which quite literally, is filmed as "red in tooth and claw".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walkabout_(film) (685 words)

	Walkabout
		She has a film playing in the CineTAP final, a short film festival run by the Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst (Sydney).
		The survival of the white protagonists and the fate that awaits the Aborigine at the end of this journey is a forewarning of an encroachment upon Aboriginal culture and its wisdom of the ancient continent.
		In a way the film marks the movement from conventional 'white' urban society to Australia's outback by creating this feeling of timelessness (the meaning of 'time' in the traditional Western sense is lost), or through abstracting time and taking on an eerie, eternal feeling of time and being.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/walkabout.html (1374 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- Intriguing `Walkabout' in the Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A meditation on the corruption of civilization and the terrifying purity of wildness, ``Walkabout'' opens with a 14-year-old girl, played by a very mature Jenny Agutter, and her 6-year-old brother, played by Roeg's son Lucien John, motoring through the desert with their addled father.
		The word ``walkabout'' refers to an Aboriginal rite of passage in which an adolescent Aboriginal boy goes out alone in the bush for six months to initiate his manhood.
		When Roeg made ``Walkabout,'' the spiritual superiority of nature -- and the ecological awareness that inspired it -- were still fresh themes on screen and in literature.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/reviews/movies/WALKABOUT.DTL&type=printable (665 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		An Australian film from the early 1970s is being re-released in a brand new 35 mm print.
		Produced in 1971 "Walkabout" tells the story of a 14 year old girl (young English actress Jenny Agutter) and her six year old brother (played by Lucien John, one of Roeg' s sons) who are lost in the outback after their father attempts to kill them and then commits suicide.
		The film makes a passionate, if rather heavy-handed statement about the ways in which civilisation has impacted on this land to the detriment of all, fl and white.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~artsaliv/film_review/walkabout.htm (399 words)

	WALKABOUT \| John Barry @ Cinemusic Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As with all Barry scores, WALKABOUT has a stunning main theme which is given several readings throughout the score, mainly played on strings and winds.
		WALKABOUT is not without its share of variations on the traditional Barry scheme.
		While the score is somewhat similar in tone to a lot of Barry's body of work, it is nonetheless great music, and the inclusion of both old and new Barry themes at the end of the disc makes the CD as a whole good for any Barry fan.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2001/walkabout.html (709 words)

	Walkabout
		This chapter of the film consists entirely of the two kids, still wearing their school uniforms, walking in the untamed land, and would probably make a perfect special on the Discovery Channel.
		Walkabout is one of those movies that everyone who follows celebrity nudity knows all about.
		Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.
	www.fakes.net /walkabout.htm (1328 words)

	Review:Walkabout(1971)
		The film seems distant and vague at times during their journey, but you can begin to find the issues that the film tries to show, such as the effects of the lack of communication between the two cultures.
		Where many films between cultures like this seem to have the visitors become part of or be included in the native culture, in "Walkabout", there is a sense of seperation between the children and their guide that I found rather interesting to watch.
		Again though, "Walkabout" is a film that needs to be worked with and thought about after the viewing experience has ended.
	www.currentfilm.com /walkabout.html (712 words)

	Amazon.com: Walkabout: Video: Jenny Agutter,Luc Roeg,David Gulpilil,John Meillon,Robert McDarra,Peter Carver,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1997, the film was fully restored to its director's cut, and in its remastered video and DVD release, it's now wisely unrated (as Roeg had always intended) but still suitable for viewers of all ages.
		The film depicts the initial bleakness of the Australian desert which the two children find themselves thrust into after the father mysteriously chooses to commit suicide, but eventually shows the immense diversity of the outback as the young Aborigine leads the lost children back to civilization.
		The film may be too much to handle for small children, but it is ideal for teenagers, as it will give them a very different experience from the run-of-the-mill teen movies that proliferate in the video stores.
	www.amazon.com /Walkabout-Jenny-Agutter/dp/630427081X (2609 words)

	Chamber Made - Walkabout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Walkabout is a parable of fl and white relations, a work of beauty and misunderstanding, a Romeo and Juliet story of innocence lost, an ode to our sense of identity and place within the Australian landscape.
		Nicholas Roeg's film Walkabout of the 1970's holds an iconic position in Australia's culture and was one of the first Australian films to deal explicitly with intimacy between Black and White.
		The stage is set as an abstracted film studio where film cameras operate on stage in real time, with live video mixing in performance.
	www.chambermade.org.au /prod_walkabout_2005.htm (499 words)

	EUFS: Walkabout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nic Roeg's first film as a solo director is set in the Australian outback where upper crust English children Jenny Agutter and Lucien John are abandoned by their father.
		Walkabout has many themes which intermingle in a rich and mysterious tapestry: the confrontation of conflicting cultures; the desert as a place of mystical power; sexual awakening, and death.
		Central in all this is the relationship between Agutter and the aboriginal boy, touchingly detailed, but always underlined by a sometimes uncomfortable psychological tension (and sense of distrust on the behalf of the girl).
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/walkabout.html (181 words)

	Movie Review - Walkabout
		Language is the least important element in the film; words are used sparingly, and mostly as ironic commentary on the story un-folding before our eyes -- of two British children lost in the Australian de-sert where they meet a young Aborigine who becomes their link to survival.
		In the desert, the 14-year-old girl, played by Jenny Agutter, and her 6-year-old brother, played by the director's son Lucien John, are like alien visitors utterly dependent on the boy (David Gumpilil), who is on ''walkabout,'' his rite of passage to manhood.
		Far more intriguing is the film's exploration of the ways the three characters -- each under the influence of a beautiful, brutal environment -- communicate and fail to communicate, need and reject one another, become more human or less human or both.
	www.enquirer.com /columns/mcgurk/030797d_mm.html (373 words)

	Images - Walkabout
		irector Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout is an elusive film.
		The story is deceptively simple: A girl (Jenny Agutter) and her brother (Lucien John) become stranded in the outback after their father drives them to a secluded rarely-traveled part of the country and then kills himself (not before firing a few gun shots at the children).
		He is in the midst of a "walkabout," as the pre-credits introduction tells us, which is a rite of passage for young Aborigine men where they must wander the countryside for months at a time, existing on whatever they can kill or forage.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue06/reviews/walkabout.htm (820 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Walkabout (1971)
		It is interesting to note that the film was rated R when first released, due to the extended nude scenes.
		The film does contain scenes of animals being hunted and killed which are real, and despite being disturbing, they are contrasted against civilized society's use of animals for sport and food, and also are used as another point of difference between western and aboriginal culture.
		It is clear to hear Roeg's investment in the film on all levels, and Jenny Agutter's thoughts on what it meant to her, and on working with her aboriginal co-star are very interesting.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1860 (1372 words)

	Walkabout (1971) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Therefore what most vividly stuck in my mind was the lead character played by a beautiful blonde English girl, Jenny Agutter, Specifically the nude scenes of her swimming and washing.
		On a less superficial level it is a film with a point-something along the lines of the graciousness of Aborigines and their ability to live in harsh surrounds, and the destructive nature of suburban life in a flat in a major city.
		I think it would be a film, like Jedda, that will always be on reference for the Australian Outback, Aboriginals and the modern society which brought a European civilisation to their land.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0067959 (410 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Walkabout [1971]: DVD: Jenny Agutter,Luc Roeg,David Gulpilil,John Meillon,Robert McDarra,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I could understand how the film was considered a masterpiece as all i could see was how sexy jenny agutter character was, but having seen it again it is a very good film, and its a shame there are not more films like this around.
		The "best films ever" lists often compiled nearly always contain the usual Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and so on, and while they are all undoubtedly excellent films, Walkabout is an easy challenge to them.
		In "Walkabout", a 19-year old Jenny Agutter and her kid brother are left stranded in the Australian outback when their father commits suicide on a family picnic.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Walkabout-Jenny-Agutter/dp/B00004YA8Z (1395 words)

	Pagosa Springs News: Walkabout: Film Society to screen classic Australian film (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In this 1971 classic, two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own until they meet an Aborigine on "walkabout," a ritualistic banishment from his tribe.
		“Walkabout” is also about the never-ending conflict between civilization and nature, and how the two constantly work to destroy one another.
		The Film Society meets in the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, Unit 15 in Greebriar Plaza at 7:00 p.m.
	pagosadailypost.com.cob-web.org:8888 /0305/arts/22filmsociety.htm (226 words)

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