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True History of the Kelly Gang
Directed by Justin Kurzel
Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and… From TMDB
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True History of the Kelly Gang is a 2019 crime drama western film, directed by Justin Kurzel, starring George MacKay, Nicholas Hoult and Essie Davis.
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60 of 92 · most liked firstThe radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell. I never learned this, I can read all the examples easily though. They remind me a bit of Feersum Endjin by Iain M. Banks, and True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very surreal experience watching The Order, a Dec 2024 US movie about the FBI going after neo-Nazis. I found it kinda cathartic. Also has two brilliant British leads which is always entertaining for a US movie. I also loved True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) by the same director. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Peter Carey (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Spoke to Snowtown and True History of the Kelly Gang director Justin Kurzel at Berlinale about how close to home it hit taking on good friend Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North bit.ly/3XVl2ni
neutral · AI labelView post →A few faves: 40 Acres (R.T. Thorne) Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier) Nope (Jordan Peele) The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion) True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel and Ethan Coen) Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Carey (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Carey (with scenes from the film adaptation of his novel "True History of the Kelly Gang") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →As part of MovieJawn's celebration of the best films of the 2020s so far, I chose three "biopics" which actually do something boundary-pushing with the form: 🤠 True History of the Kelly Gang (Justin Kurzel) 🔪 Shirley (Josephine Decker) 🎭 Emily (Frances O'Connor)
neutral · AI labelView post →#LittleFreeLibrary alert: Cool that I came across Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel True History of the Kelly Gang, on the birthday of Sidney Nolan, who painted an outstanding series of Ned Kelly paintings.
neutral · AI labelView post →True History of the Kelly Gang By Peter Carey A fictional biography of Australia's folk hero, told from the viewpoint of Ned Kelly, as if he had left a collection of journals. Reads true to life, and a hard, but short, life it was. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #nedkelly #australia #biography #history #folkhero #booksky
positive · AI labelView post →I adored TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG when it first came out, but, my god, it grows on me with every rewatch. I believe it is Kurzel's masterwork, much thanks to George MacKay's guttural lead turn, a performance with a tight, almost mesmerising grasp on the consequences of nature versus nurture.
positive · AI labelView post →📽️ True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Dir: Justin Kurzel
neutral · AI labelView post →Wait no, absolute fastest was True History of the Kelly Gang. Realised it had no commas, decided I could bluff my way through that tutorial rather than suffer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Carey on Ned Kelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’ - Twenty-five years after his award-winning book was published, the Australian author revisits True History of the Kelly Gang www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... 💙📚 #LiteratureSky
neutral · AI labelView post →This picture immediately brought to mind a wonderful sentence from the opening of Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang: “I were a plump witchetty grub beneath the bark not knowing that the kookaburra exists, unable to imagine that fierce beak or the punishment in that wild and angry eye.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 8 - True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
neutral · AI labelView post →True History of the Kelly Gang is a great book but not “readable”, it’s written in faux-Irish settler slang! I would recommend The Secret River, which is a genuinely great book while also being an easier beach/holiday/book club sort of read
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Carey's True History Of The Kelly Gang (not entirely true, as the book acknowledges) is both very good and culturally useful, while also being very readable. Clive James's Unreliable Memoirs if you haven't already. Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu is incredibly good.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally caught up with this nasty piece of work and force of nature and humanity. Fantastic historical fiction with a fairly local-to-me resonance. Reminded me of Peter Carey's "True History of The Kelly Gang" which gets an HT in the acknowledgements.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's 25 years since Australia's favourite son, Peter Carey, wrote an award-winning novel about Australia's favourite son, Ned Kelly. Carey reflects on writing The True History of the Kelly Gang, and the influence of Australia's favourite son, Sidney Nolan. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Recommended book of the day True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2000) Find a great review here ddd.uab.cat/record/307453 For more on contemporary literature see ddd.uab.cat/record/305685 #BookSky #booksky #libros #llibres
neutral · AI labelView post →Snowtown is phenomenal, we used a lot of it for temp on Alien: Covenant and then ended up with Jed as our composer! Assassins Creed has some great sweeping tracks, The True History of the Kelly Gang is really cool, sexy and unusual.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a piece of stellar historical fiction, Peter Carey’s “True History of the Kelly Gang” is a title where prefix articles are everything. Not “The True History”. Not “A True History”. Just “True History” #booksky #books 💙📚👀
neutral · AI labelView post →Congratulations to our Fellows whose work also made the list: Richard Flanagan FAHA – The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Question 7 Kate Grenville AO FAHA – The Secret River Peter Carey FAHA – True History of the Kelly Gang Alexis Wright FAHA – Carpentaria David Malouf AO FAHA (1934-2026) – Johnno
neutral · AI labelView post →True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov Excession, Iain M. Banks
neutral · AI labelView post →True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Dir: Justin Kurzel
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, this was in regards to The True History of the Kelly Gang
neutral · AI labelView post →New S&A Episode! Lindsay, Justin & Gabe become Bush Rangers. It's a Double of Ned Kelly (2003) & The True History of the Kelly Gang. This is a Double that plays around with history. When Legend turns into myth Schlock & Awe Episodes can be found in the account profile
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve never read a Peter Carey novel I haven’t loved. I haven’t read his “The True History of the Kelly Gang” but it might qualify.
positive · AI labelView post →📖 A great novel... #PeterCarey on #NedKelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’ Twenty-five years after his award-winning book was published, the Australian author revisits #TrueHistoryOfTheKellyGang... www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Huh. Imagine that. 20 years ago my school gave me the book True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey as a graduation present and I pulled that knowledge from the deep depths of my memory. Cool.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Dir: Justin Kurzel
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in movie history: True History of the Kelly Gang directed by Justin Kurzel released January 9, 2020. Cast: George MacKay, Orlando Schwerdt, Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Essie Davis, Sean Keenan, Jacob Collins-Levy, Thomasin McKenzie, Charlie Hunnam, Claudia Karvan, Louis Hewison.
neutral · AI labelView post →1. The History of Warfare 2. Dracula 3. The Great Gatsby 4. True History of the Kelly Gang 5. Watership Down 6. Crime and Punishment 7. Grendel 8. Rubicon 9. The Civil War: A Narrative 10. The English Patient
neutral · AI labelView post →THE GOLDFINCH, Tartt THERE THERE, Orange MY STRUGGLE, Knausgaard (if metafiction counts) TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, Kelly ANTKIND, Kaufman THE SISTERS BROTHERS, Dewitt TREE OF SMOKE, Johnson MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS, Link SATURDAY, McEwan THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, Diaz
neutral · AI labelView post →Holding Fury Road until seeing Furiosa, but wanted to get in the Aussie spirit so I’m checking out TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think Peter Carey is similar to historical Mantel if you haven’t gotten to him yet— I loved The True History of the Kelly Gang and Oscar & Lucinda. A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbra Vine is my all time fave mystery. Happy TDay🦃
neutral · AI labelView post →True History Of The Kelly Gang is wonderful. I had a great time with The Town by Shaun Prescott too. Sadly, his next novel, Bon & Lesley hasn’t been published in the UK. It might actually be cheaper to fly to Australia to buy one than pay the shipping.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Dir: Justin Kurzel
neutral · AI labelView post →#44: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2000). #Top100Books #Top100AustralianBooks
neutral · AI labelView post →The True History of The Kelly Gang is also a good one (tho made in 2019 by Justin Kurzel). It has a great soundtrack.
neutral · AI labelView post →An interesting comparison would be with the voice of Ned Kelly that Peter Carey drew from the Jerilderie letter to narrate 'The True History of the Kelly Gang' (the very title of the work as a novel puts us in the realm of dichtung und warheit and the constructed nature of narrated history.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today is the 5th anniversary of THE GREEN KNIGHT (my 2nd favourite film of the 2020s so far, after TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG) When it came out, I watched it maybe 8 times in quick succession and write at least 3 articles about it This one is my fave: thefilmstage.com/the-dichotom...
neutral · AI labelView post →Did this for the rather difficult 'True History of the Kelly Gang' for uni. Best way to do it!
neutral · AI labelView post →Good list! Here's mine: 1. The Remains of the Day 2. True History of the Kelly Gang 3. The Blind Assassin 4. Disgrace 5. In a Free State 6. The Promise 7. Bring Up the Bodies 8. Wolf Hall 9. The Siege of Krishnapur 10. Flesh Albeit there are three I'm yet to read.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of The True History of the Kelly Gang. Good novel Lot of stories like this! Their cause is partly just
neutral · AI labelView post →I find Kurzel fascinating, and completely agree. The Order is both less ambitious and more successful than The True History of the Kelly Gang--and I was happy to see Hoult again--but the latter definitely has its moments, including a very game cast; Russell Crowe, for one, really gives it his all.
neutral · AI labelView post →I ended up doing that for the difficult-to-read 'True History of the Kelly Gang'. Only way! Best way for uni texts too. Wonder if that might work for Ulysses ...
neutral · AI labelView post →19 January 2026 The Performing Arts/Feature Film & Documentaries Essie Davis was wonderful in Jennifer Kent's «The Babadook». (As was little Noah Wiseman.) Essie Davis was also good in Justin Kurzel's «True History of the Kelly Gang» and «Nitram».
neutral · AI labelView post →True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey It can at times feel a little McCarthy-lite, but it's got a great voice all its own, a wonderful sense of language and a sprawling feel of place and time. A really good western with a lot of heart and filled with interesting characters.
neutral · AI labelView post →The book The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey is brilliant, if you haven't read it
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Carey's TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, @lailalalami.com's THE MOOR'S ACCOUNT, @alexanderchee.bsky.social's THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, and @colsonwhitehead.com's THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD each redefined my relationship with the historical novel, and are inspirations as I now write my own.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hard to choose a favourite but probably True History of the Kelly Gang
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably The True History of the Kelly Gang, the Bee Sting, Circe... Horse maybe.
neutral · AI labelView post →A ‘thoroughly white’ novel of national mythmaking: Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang at 25 theconversation.com/a-thoroughly...
neutral · AI labelView post →Without an example as a frame of reference, glancing over at my bookshelf, the following jump out: A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell INLAND by Tėa Obrecht TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG by Peter Carey THE LUMINARIES by Eleanor Catton
neutral · AI labelView post →Also: when they inevitably shelve Peter Carey’s *True History of the Kelly Gang* in history.
neutral · AI labelView post →Two films he directed were True History of the Kelly Gang and last years The Order with Jude Law.
neutral · AI labelView post →“I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we paint over it.” (True History of the Kelly Gang) ✒️ #PeterCarey, Australian author, is 82 today. #Literature
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