Top Ten From Down Under

I stand corrected: There’s a chorus of “hey hey heys” at the end of “Sly.” I think that counts as nonsense. So “Sly” has three of the four possible great-song elements. No wonder I like it.

I didn’t mean to start another music post, though. I wanted to write about something else I’ve always admired about Australia: their movies. You almost can’t go wrong. I saw one once (Oscar and Lucinda) that was kind of boring, but I’ve liked every other Australian film that I can remember seeing. Here are some favorites, in rough chronological order.

• Picnic at Hanging Rock
  
• My Brilliant Career
  
• Gallipoli
  
• Starstruck
  
• The Year of Living Dangerously
  
• Rikky and Pete
  
• The Sum of Us
  
• The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
  
• Moulin Rouge
  
• Rabbit-Proof Fence