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"Among the 19 movies screening in Film Society of Lincoln Center\u2019s excellent&amp;nbsp;\u201CThe Last New Wave: Celebrating the Australian Film Revival\u201D&amp;nbsp;(today through January 31) are several seldom revived locally: \u201CPetersen\u201D (1974), \u201CBackroads\u201D (1977), \u201CThe FJ Holden\u201D (1977), \u201CMoney Movers\u201D (1978), and \u201CThe Odd Angry Shot\u201D (1979).&amp;nbsp;Perhaps for that reason, some of the usual suspects have been omitted, including \u201CThe Cars That Ate Paris\u201D (1974), \u201CCaddie\u201D (1976), and two late entries, \u201CThe Club\u201D and \u201CBreaker Morant\u201D (both 1980).Even more familiar,&amp;nbsp;Nicolas Roeg\u2019s \u201CWalkabout\u201D (1971) and&amp;nbsp;Peter Weir\u2019s \u201CThe Last Wave\u201D (1977) have also been omitted, and that means one of the New Wave\u2019s most iconic faces is absent \u2013 that of&amp;nbsp;David Gulpilil. In the list of&amp;nbsp; 40 Best Australian Actors/Actresses &amp;nbsp;posted on IMDB a year ago today, the&amp;nbsp;foremost Aboriginal indigenous Australian actor was disgracefully ranked 40th, just below \u201CThe Hunger Games\u201D\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Liam Hemsworth. Right from the start, Gulpilil was a natural who knew how to captivate the camera by ignoring it.\u201CWalkabout\u201D opened in the US on July 1, 1971, his eighteenth birthday. He was haunting as the youth who guides the white teenage schoolgirl (Jenny Agutter) and her younger brother from the bush, where they have been stranded, to the edge of civilization. Gulpilil is a famous tribal dancer, and the mating dance he performs for the girl near the end of the film has a primal sensuality. That she can\u2019t respond leaves him no escape.It\u2019s arguable that \u201CWalkabout,\u201D financed by Americans and directed by an Englishman, wasn\u2019t a New Wave film. However, it helped to energize the emergent movement, and its themes &amp;nbsp;\u2013 the irresolvable conflict between the wilderness and civilization, the spiritual aridity of modern urban life \u2013 amounted to a trenchant cultural critique. The tragedy of British imperialism in Australia are represented in the FSLC\u2019s choice of&amp;nbsp;Phillip Noyce\u2019s \u201CBackroads\u201D and&amp;nbsp;Fred Schepisi\u2019s \u201CThe Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith\u201D (1978); the Aboriginal stars of these films are the activist&amp;nbsp;Gary Foley&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Tommy Lewis, respectively.In \u201CThe Last Wave\u201D Gulpilil played Chris Lee, one of five Aboriginal clients of&amp;nbsp;Richard Chamberlain\u2019s lawyer, who\u2019s defending them on a charge of ritualized murder. Freak weather conditions in Sydney coincide with the lawyer experiencing ominous nightmares. As he attempts to understand his clients\u2019 spiritual life, Chris becomes his guide and teaches him about the meaning of dreams. Gulpilil was never more present or beautiful, his voice never more velvety and compelling. The movie\u2019s climactic apocalypse may occur in a parallel consciousness, but it hasn\u2019t been outdated by \u201CMelancholia\u201D (2011) or \u201CThe Turin Horse\u201D (2012).Gulpilil also appeared alongside&amp;nbsp;Dennis Hopper&amp;nbsp;in the bushranger movie \u201CMad Dog Morgan\u201D (1976) \u2013 more \u201COzploitation\u201D than New Wave. His alcoholism may have limited his appearances over the years, but he has graced such movies as \u201CThe Right Stuff\u201D (1983), \u201CCrocodile Dundee\u201D (1986), \u201CUntil the End of the World\u201D (1991), \u201CRabbit-Proof Fence\u201D and \u201CThe Tracker\u201D (both 2002), \u201CThe Proposition\u201D (2005), and \u201CTen Canoes\u201D (2006). The latter starred his son&amp;nbsp;James.Now in recovery, Gulpilil, approaching 60, most recently acted in&amp;nbsp;Catriona McKenzie\u2019s \u201CSatellite Boy,\u201D which will play at the Berlinale next month. He plays a white-bearded tracker-hunter who tries to pass on his skills to the grandson with whom he lives in an abandoned Outback movie theater \u2013 and which is threatened with demolition by a mining company. It\u2019s as if the youth in \u201CWalkabout\u201D had survived and grown old, still to be bedeviled by white greed.Criterion has published the DVDs of&amp;nbsp; Walkabout &amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp; The Last Wave.  Among the extras on the \u201CWalkabout\u201D disc is the one-hour biographical documentary \u201CGulpilil&amp;nbsp;\u2013 One Red Blood.\u201DBelow: Trailer for  Satellite Boy "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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