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 * ===**//Jindabyne// website** @http://www.april.com.au/jindabyne/===

The official website for the film //Jindabyne//.
|| @http://www.paulkelly.com.au/lyrics/everythings-turning-white.html The lyrics to Paul Kelly’s song ‘Everything’s Turning To White’. || @http://www.paulkelly.com.au/articles/PDF/nz-herald-890922.pdf This article, ‘Blindside Attacker’ is a 1989 newspaper review of the Carver short story, which inspired Kelly to write the song ‘Everything Is Turning To White’. || @http://www.smh.com.au/news/film-reviews/jindabyne/2006/07/14/1152637853840.html A //Sydney Morning Herald// review and interview with actor, Gabriel Byrne. || @http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/broadband/default.htm?program=atthemovies&pres=20060712_2200&story=2 An interview with actor, Gabriel Byrne. || @http://www.infilm.com.au/features/raylawrence.htm A question and answer session with Jindabyne director, Ray Lawrence. || [] Extensive, interesting and thoughtful analysis. Compulsory reading for advanced students. || @http://www.australianalps.deh.gov.au/parks/kosciuszko.html A site explaining the significance of the Snowy River area to Indigenous Australians. || || Scott Collura at IGN http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/783/783744p1.html || @http://www.infilm.com.au/reviews/jindabyne.htm A review of //Jindabyne//. || @http://www.messenger.net.au/Pulse/htm/jindabyne0406.htm A review of //Jindabyne//. || @http://afca.org.au/jindabyne.php A review of //Jindabyne//. || @http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/articles/Jindabyne_z68433.htm A review of //Jindabyne//. || @http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/article.php?sid=1545 A review of //Jindabyne//. || @http://www.abc.net.au/rn/movietime/stories/2006/1692270.htm A review of //Jindabyne//. || @http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1675402.htm A review of //Jindabyne//. ||  ||   ||
 * **Paul Kelly‘s website**
 * **Paul Kelly‘s website**
 * **Interview with Gabriel Byrne**
 * **At the Movies**
 * **In Film Australia**
 * ====**Andrea Grunert Jumpcut analysis of the film**====
 * **Australian Alps**
 * ==Reviews of Jindabyne==
 * //And that's one of the pleasures of Jindabyne: The filmmakers do not feel the need to fill in every single blank for viewers by the time the credits roll. Just as in reality, these characters' problems are not going to be solved with the wave of a magic wand; there are no short cuts to happiness.// ||
 * **In Film Australia**
 * **Messenger.net**
 * **Australian Film Critics Association**
 * **Lawyers Weekly**
 * **MC Reviews**
 * **Movie Time**
 * **At The Movies**

media type="custom" key="5663599" [|Jindabyne] Read the interviews with the director and with leading actors from sonyclassics.

Into Thin Air, John Krakouer

1. [|How to climb Everest]

2. Get your bearings. View this [|Brief documentary film about climbing Everest.]

3. Take a virtual climb yourself. Explore the most popular route up Everest, on the South side, including QTVRs (360-degree images) of key points along the way. [|Start climbing!]

4. Facts about [|Everest] 5. [|webquest] this allows students to take part in a hypothetical climb which involves key issues in //Into Thin Air//