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Wake in Fright

Cinema

Scanned from the original camera negative, and then colour-corrected and stabilised one shot at a time, this new restoration has undergone months of work to clean all imperfections and distortion. Umbrella’s brand-new restoration of Wake In Fright marks the most recent entry into the muddied and strange history of the fi lm which saw it almost lost forever.

Regarded as one of Australia’s fi nest and most culturally significant films, Wake In Fright first opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 and chronicles one man’s hellish experience in a fictional town in the Australian Outback. After a menial theatrical release, the films camera negatives vanished from the face of the earth for over three decades, until editor of the film Anthony Buckley AO finally tracked them down after many false starts. In 2004, all 263 film cans containing the original O- Negative finally arrived on home turf. Fast forward almost two decades and Umbrella Entertainment has cracked open the vault one more time to dust of the prints and ensure this masterpiece of Australian cinema is preserved

Restoration Details:
The original camera negative was scanned in 4K by the National Film and Sound Archive before being sent to our restoration facility to be colour corrected and stabilised one shot at a time. The team then cleaned each shot frame-by-frame removing any imperfections and correcting any distortion. With over 300 shots per reel, this resulted in months of intense restoration work before a feature-length preview was ready. 

 
 

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Producer: George Willoughby
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
 

Dates 

07 April 2025

Times 

7:00PM

Duration
2 hours1 hour 54 Mins

Prices 

Adult
$17.00

Concession
$14.00

Araluen Member
$14.00

Araluen Concession Member 
$11.00

Genre 

Cinema

Location 

Extra information 

Ticketing Policy

Online ticketing is available up until one hour prior to the performance.  
For ticket purchases after this time, please visit the Araluen Box Office or call us on (08) 8951 1122.

Accessibility

wheelchair  CC

Rating

M

Booking Fee

For this event, a one-off service fee of $2.50 per transaction applies on all purchases online. All ticket prices include GST.

 

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