Anthropology and entertainment are marvelously married in Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes." The first feature in an Australian Aboriginal language feels authentic to the core as it tells a cautionary tale ...

SYDNEY -- Indigenous-language feature "Ten Canoes" captured three of the 15 Australian Film Institute Industry Awards handed out Wednesday night in Melbourne, ahead of Thursday's main nods for film ...

Ever-venturesome Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, in his beautiful but demanding “Ten Canoes,” takes the viewer back 1,000 years to evoke the lives of Aborigines and even further, to a mythological ...

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If Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” had used more irony and less blood, it might have looked a lot like Rolf de Heer’s “Ten Canoes,” which uses an indigenous Aboriginal language (Ganalbingu) to tell an ...

SYDNEY -- Australia's film critics picked Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes" as their top film of the year Friday at the annual Film Critics Circle of Australia awards ceremony in Melbourne. By Pip Bulbeck, ...

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 ...

Starring: Crusoe Kurddal, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu. 90 minutes, not rated. Directed by Rolf de Heer. Australia, in Aboriginal and English. “Ten Canoes,” a movie that mixes entertainment ...

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 ...

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, ...