![]() ![]() ![]() He had found them funny but they had also helped him to learn a bit about Australia. Secondly, I didn’t learn to drive until I was in my late-twenties, and my driving instructor, who was originally from Sicily, told me about how much he liked the Nino Culotta books, the first being They’re a Weird Mob, which was published in 1957. It was Powell’s style of filmmaking that had influenced Romero when he came to make his low-budget masterpiece, Night of the Living Dead (1968). Romero, was a big fan of the British director Michael Powell. I’ve become interested in this film for a number of reasons: growing up, I had always liked horror films, and strangely enough, my favourite filmmaker, George A. ![]() One of my favourite Australian films is They’re a Weird Mob (1966) – although like that other recently restored classic, Wake in Fright (1971), it was made by a foreign director. Walter Chiari and Alida Chelli on Bondi Beach in THEY’RE A WEIRD MOB ![]()
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