The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The chant of the underdog
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 18, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1978
  • Label: Industrial Ent

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Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh100%

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Total Count: 7

Upright74%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 184
Rating: 5/5 -- One of the greatest films to come from Australia.
Film Threat
Jul 21, 2006
Schepisi directs with an immediate energy and crisp cutting that reminded me of films like The Harder They Come (1972). Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Dec 28, 2008
[T]his is one of the least-known masterpieces in the cinema canon...
Wall Street Journal
Aug 15, 2013
Rating: B+ -- A powerful unsettling film about racism in Australia in 1900. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 10, 2014
Rating: 5/5 -- The movie is gorgeous pure filmmaking even when we wince at the violence - and we do, because Schepisi doesn't present it as cathartic or exciting. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Aug 24, 2015
A powerful and confronting story: one of the most significant films of the 1970s film renaissance in Australia Full Review
Urban Cinefile
Oct 31, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- When the moment of violence arrives, abruptly, at the half-way point, it does so in flurry of handheld camerawork, striking sound design and stark symbolism. Full Review
Eye for Film
Aug 23, 2019

Description by Ryko Distribution:

The highly explosive and equally funny story of Jimmie(Tommy Lewis) a young Australian half-cast Aborigine who is torn between his true Aboriginal roots and an impulsion to integrate himself into White Colonial society. As Jimmie grows into a hard working young man, he consistently finds himself flagrantly cheated and suppressed by his white employers, forcing him to some seek relief in love, which he finds in a white woman he marries under duress. However, as the pressure builds, Jimmie explodes, resulting in one of the darkest, most violent endings in movie history. Directed by Fred Schepisi(Roxanne, Six degrees of Separation) and based the book by Thomas Keneally (author of Schindler's List) which was inspired by true events.

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  • UPC: 858334001374
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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