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The Last Wave Information
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 The Last Wave is a 1977 Australian film directed by Peter Weir about a man who experiences premonitions of...




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 Arena Magazine
The Last Wave.
10/01/1998: 3,069 words, approx. 10 pages A doctor's experiences throughout forty years are presented. The changes in the field of medicine are described. Teconic forces of an emerging postmodern world underlied the confusion and controversy in the field from 1978 to 1997. MEDICAL PRACTICE MUST RESPOND TO CULTURAL CHANGE....
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 Combat Edge
The last wave.(motorcycle safety)
10/01/2005: 1,006 words, approx. 3 pages July 25, 2005, was going to be a good day. I was scheduled to roll out this morning and meet up with some friends for a day of motorcycle riding in Northern Virginia. The plan was to meet up with Steve in Ashland...
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Big wave contest goes to Californian
1/13/2008: 681 words, approx. 2 pages A 24-year-old California surfer topped a daredevil contest Saturday that had competitors riding waves more than four stories tall.Greg Long of San Clemente was among two dozen elite surfers who took part in the Mavericks Surf Contest — considered the Super Bowl of big-wave competitions...




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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
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 [Weir's] films—lush, beckoning fantasies, promising exotic vistas from strange new lands—have a seductiveness befitting an emergent cinema. Unfortunately, Weir's deftness with 'atmosphere' seems to have been developing at the expense of any narrative or thematic sense. The tantalising promise of Picnic at Hanging Rock was that the lush, repressed romanticism of its Victorian girls' school setting might have become its subject—implying that it was the s...
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
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 Weir's occultism isn't even faintly erotic, and except for the first sequence The Last Wave is over-deliberate; the camera movements are ominous as if by habit. Visually, the film is active until the first shot of [David Burton], a Sydney corporation lawyer. Every time he appears, the camera seems to hold on him—and the film croaks out. (p. 533)
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Critical Essay by Dan Yakir
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 Peter Weir's The Last Wave is an ambitiously conceived and dramatically executed film that combines a variety of genres—the psychological thriller, the courtroom drama, the disaster film, and the supernatural mystery—into a unique cinematic achievement. Its profound social and political implications are as unsettling as its buildup of suspense is subtle. With its linear narrative and direct, matter-of-fact tone, The Last Wave is a striking portrayal of the inner hysteria of a man and hi...


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