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![]() | [...]AL ASSISTANCE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION AND FILM VICTORIA COPYRIGHT 1990 MTV PUBLISHING LIMITED. not necessarily that of the adilav and publishil. win. every 3 BRIEFLY Berlin Film Festival; News and Views 6 TILL THERE WAS YOU Location report by Andrew L. Urban I2 HAL AND JIM McELROY Interview by Scott Murray I 8 NIGHT CRIES and TRACEY MOFFATT Scott Murray 24 STRUCK BY LIGHTN[...]ve Adrian Martin Beyond El Rocco Ratfaele Capuio and Peter Lawrance Bloodmoon Jim Schembri 72 PRODUC[...]lance writer on film; HUNTER CORDAIY is a writer, and a lecturer in Mass Media at NSW University; PAT GILLESPIE is a freelance writer and publicist; FRED HARDEN is a |
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![]() | [...]his along with several other interna- tional arts and music festivals were created in West Berlin at th[...]Berlinale managed to reflect the broader social and political circumstances of Europe past and present — right down to the two Retrospectives.[...]enzel’s Skrivanci Na Nitich (Lark: On A String) and Frank Beyer’s Spur Der Steine (Traces Of The St[...]r respective regimes. Beyer’s film was unseen (and miracu- lously preserved intact) since 1966, afte[...]former ‘bourgeois elements’ are re- educated, and scores points for its portrayal of authorities wh[...]oy depiction of the romance between ayoung worker and a gypsy. If both films were more of interest to[...]in’s third film, having previously |
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![]() | [...]ira Kurosawa with the Life-time Achievement Award and the accompanying film tribute by American critic[...]in the U.S. by Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, among others. (In fact, Lucas and Ste- ven Spielberg presented the Award.) But, no,[...]acceptance speeches of American sound technicians and elfects editors were judged to be more rivetting and important. The morning of the Awards, NBC’s To[...]on this. The/lge’s film critic made PEGGY GLANVI|.I.E-HICKS (60 mi[...]ms. Producer: John Trisu-am. The uncon- Danger Lives‘. it is absorbing and timeless P[...]of Uni- Zealous, determined and good humoured, At Southern Internat[...]ine- Legendary writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, Stalwart, enthusiastic and never bowing to pres- With Southern’s demise and the sale of the series. The com[...]oronto, Can- During the late 19[...]a as associate producer, concen- PA[...]industry, with documentaries N[...]reputa- |
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![]() | [...]his adventure-romance set in the Vanuatu jungle, and not just for Seale. Apart from the $13 million bu[...]particular), for established stars, Mark Harmon and jeroen Krabbe, and for relative newcomer Deborah Unger. Ii _[...] |
![]() | [...]Viv (jeroen Krabbe), who was Charlie’s partner, and Viv’s beautiful but unhappy wife, Anna (Deborah[...]e intense by the growing attraction between Frank and Anna, the presence of the Vanuatu tribespeople and a couple of choice baddies. Seale took a great i[...]lict now doesn’t lie as much between the blacks and whites as dignified — andand the For Seale, the biggest chall[...]shooting is not the movie: Seale and his director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson, ha[...]ants almost a The shots are larg[...]inside the frame, but The tribe agre[...]pate in |
![]() | [...]AN AIR CRASH. BELOW: BIG MAN (CHIEF TELKON WATAS) AND FLYNN. TILL THERE WAS YOU. JOHN SEAI.E ON DIR[...]per cent GOEFFREY SIMPS[...]simple. We want to let The village is one of th[...], who.comes to a place he can only JEROEN KRAB[...]bluest blue, I start with DE[...]with john Seale; I have so much respect for him. a person, how he interprets his environment. I watch him to see to feel playful and, as I am expanding, able to give more, to be there 100 per cent with all the crew and other actors, all going for |
![]() | [...]is the other main structure, the house where Viv and Anna live, a striking building beneath a giant ba[...]in trunk. The house is framed by ‘Mount Hope’ and is aged to give it a suitably decayed facade. It is production designer George Liddle‘s pride and joy: ‘The hill and the banyan tree dictated what we should build”,[...]oundation piles are made of coconut trunks—free and available, but subject to rotting. “It’s grea[...]ther, was his ‘I0 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 partner, and lived in a smaller adjacent All this happens before the story of Till There Was You is expensive and yet it ABOVE: SINGER KATE CEBERANO AND FLYNN ABOUT TO PERFORM AT THE BLUE NILE CLUB. |
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![]() | [...]avuoonona A0lll*W Ivu auv Nu Hal lVIcEIroy Hal and jim McElroy are two of Australia ’s most prominent and successful ’* Produced in association with Patricia Lovell. and Jim CINEMA PAPERS 79 - I3 |
![]() | I-Ial and Jirrl l\IIcEIroy I. INDUSTRY AFFAIRS I03! Sinc[...]0BA. What is your JIM: We have built the film industry up and made it adult, turning it JIM: We consciously adopted a low profile and didn’t speak about HAL: It did give people lots ofopportunities and we hoped, along with Some would disagree, ar[...]look, it is real easy to criticize what happened and there is the consequence of it, and there really is no point in regretting it. 10BAwas not as beneficial as everybody hoped, and certainly not |
![]() | [...]tly, Australian television has also gone sideways and we really have given ourselves a whole bunch of p[...]our feet. One of the things is to get costs down and productivity up. We need to get back a little more to reality and re-kindle the pioneering spirit and energy and commitment we had in the 1970s. Even ifwe do make films that don’t work, and inevitably we will, the cost won’t be as great[...]y the budgets will be lower, relatively speaking, and we will be able to survive it. But where you are[...]llion dollar disasters, it is a much more painful and public problem. ‘WHAT I AM HOPIHG IS THAT THE[...]$15 JIM: Yes. And if Sweetie had been made for $10 RIGHT: GUY HAMILTON (MEL GIBSON) AND JILL BRYANT (SIGOURNEY WEAVER) IN THE YEAR OF LI[...]g 10BA, which was due to heed, as jim said, to[...]ion to $1.5 million. You must encourage the young CINEMA PA[...] |
![]() | I-Ial and JirI1 l\IIcEIroy the paradox is that all those y[...]ddle How do you get costs down? Do you re-negotiate awards and return HAL: T[...]e way. To Now, if you were to ask some[...]. The American style is to have high-paid people and have them go JIM: And how many days did they shoot the pilot in? HAL:[...]nute movie. Now, that’s very efficient |
![]() | [...]have those elements are, Q.E.D., more Australian and therefore more valid. Without men- tioning the na[...]an all—Australian movie, but it was a bad one. And please don’t tell me itwas more valid than some[...], there is an inverse relationship between budget and freedom. The higher the budget, the less freedom[...]g to be $3-4 million, then we all have to export, and to do that you are probably going to need imported elements involved. Get your price down to a million and you get all the freedom in the world. JIM: There[...]alse,just to serve an argument. ACTORS EQUITY FACING PAGE: TOP: HAL AND JIM MCELROY POST THE LAST WAVE, I977; BELOW: PET[...]ISION SUCCESS. STEPHANIE HARPER (REBECCA GILLING) AND (a) with an American film made here, crew and (c) this has the effect of ensuring less films[...]ential. Is that really Hal and I have a conflict here in that we don’t object[...]industry but we aren’t going to |
![]() | [...]reshing to find filmmakers concerned with image and sound, who realize that MISE EN SCENE can carry m[...]nce the white settlement began political advocacy and touches emotionally has been, among many things, a battle to retain cultural and spiritual independence in in its gentler moments[...]where black Austra- _ _ _ lians were re-educated andand sound. It attacks and disturbs with its blunt relationships. It[...] |
![]() | [...]WISE FROM TOP LEFT: WHITE MOTHER (AGNES HARDWICK) AND BLACK DAUGHTER (MARCIA LANGTON). THE OUTSIDE TOILET, WHEELCHAIR AND A latter memory, and the most puzzling in the film, is of her and One knows the Mother can't ha[...]in old age, so her ‘disappearance’ is strange and unsettling. It is also This connects strongly with the penultimate and most disturbing The image is tough, no doubt cruel, and the further one probes |
![]() | [...]e them. They’re just exercises, like, ‘Go out and make a five—minute documentary’, or ‘I-Iere’s a piece of music, go and put images to it.’ The good thing about the course, and we didn’t have fabulous Moffatt graduated in 1982 and moved to Sydney. The first film I don't really want to talk abo[...]he Australian Film Commission Nice Coloured Girlr (1987), and received a grant from the Creative De- Since Nice Co[...]has films. An inevit[...]nta- Weary, a video and super 8 artist and photographer. I always work with |
![]() | THE WHITE MOTHER AND BLACK DAUGHTER AT THE HOMESTEAD. NIGHT CRIES. I[...]American westerns — even down to the landscape and music. So, I Another[...]ns on a stage. He didn’t go for realism at all, and I 22 ~ CINEMA PAPERS 79 TRACEY MOFFATT and lushly inappropriate music. There is rarely if ever an attempt to an emotional state, and then bring in Jimmy Little with his boppy song s[...]is Christian healing, which |
![]() | [...]Inc. COMPLETION BONDS FOR FILM, TELEVISION SERIES AND DOCUMENTARIES In the past few months the Produc[...]D MY REACH CONTACT CHRISTINE SULI AND JENNY WOODS REINSURED AT lLOYD’S OF LONDON |
![]() | [...], directed by Polish filmmaker Jerzy Domaradzki, and co-produced by Terry Charatsis and scriptwriter Trevor Farrant. This year’s festiv[...]g this uneasy period, a comedy about independence and nova: dignity set in a workshop for the mentally[...]RADIKI, AT LEFT, WITH ACTORS BRIAN LOGAN The film mixes profe[...]zaro (Brian Vriends). Cannizzaro’s enthusi- spoke with writer-covproducer Trevor Farrant and director jerzy Domaradzki. 24 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 |
![]() | [...]rlooking the sea 9 that at one time was a school, and then a hospital. It has cavernous high Novembe r ceilings, and this afternoon its corridors echo to the sounds o[...]f medical ritual, perhaps a mortuary. At the back and seaward side is a brick extension and a dry brush hedge creating a small grassed courty[...]”. There is an arched sign between the building and the beach which reads “Independance with Dignit[...]the Christmas market, put brochures in envelopes and produce small wooden rocking-horses that balance[...]with tables covered in boxes, stacks of envelopes and rubber bands. Here the simplest tasks will be an[...]uch production-line work denies the individuality and creativity of the employees. Can such mentally di[...]enry Salter), a hunched figure in khaki overalls and with protruding ears who wants to be a sculptor and not a maker of identical balancing horses. A cris[...]arly introduction to Rennie’s managerial style, and Cannizzardsfirst gathering of support amongst th[...]script requires Rennie to hit Noel over the head and warn him off his creative endeavours. In rehearsal, directorjerzy Domaradzki sees this action on the monitor and realizes it is too violent, with possible adverse[...]ive. It takes 1 minute 45 seconds to get a take, and, while the crew sets up for the first of three Poland: This production is better equipped, wit[...]ra is very good - not an Arnflex, buta Moviecam ABOVE: ACTORS BRIAN VRIENDS AND DAVID SMITH). AND, DOMARADZKI WITH |
![]() | ‘Riders on the Storm’ doing a play andand Noel. Domaradzki works patiently with McDonald i[...]cramped workshop, discussing at “I prefer to look at the actors and not at the monitor”, Domaradzki explains, “be[...]I get is a cold message. Actors produce an energy and Fri day The first prod[...]something like: “What camera angles do you want and how many set-ups? " The first scene for the day will be o[...]ring his son back to Saltmarsh after a home visit and |
![]() | At 10:35, the first rehearsal is over and the ‘simple scene’ has become aesthetically c[...]ogue, while behind the set a row of Heartbreakers and their families are sitting patiently, watching th[...]a car door. By 11:00, there have been six takes and everyone is keen to get to the next scene which u[...]g, then working For the close-up ofjeffries’ getting out[...]intense continuity discussion By 12:15, after a rehearsal and a small change of camera position, several takes[...]d. Despite the cold wind, a row of Heartbreakers and their parents still sitwaiting on the lawn. The schedule then focuses[...]perspective The scene finishes with a close-up on Rennie, and the crew pack quickly for a return to RENNIE AND CANNIZZARO CINEMA PAPERS 79 - 27 |
![]() | [...]GAIL (BRIONY WILLIAMS) WHILE SHE IS ON THE SWING. AND, THE FIRST KISS OF LOVERS SPENCER (SYD WILLIAMS) AND GAIL. 28 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 support the image of Rennie and Cannizzaro at either end of the sunlit room. The[...]ho the fuck sent you?" Such overlapping of career By now there are only 15 minutes of sunsetleft and on the next rehearsal McDonald misses It is a warm Monday morning after the weekend break and, by 10:00 am, The advantage of mixing the professional actors and Heartbreakers together is shown |
![]() | [...]Moore) judging the dual exhibition- ism of Kevin and Cannizzaro, and then announcing the results to an assembled group[...]ster looks down into the opened tracksuits, turns and addresses the Heartbreakers who then run past the[...]ynamics of the movements are difficult to perfect and, after another four takes, Domaradzki decides to[...]to balance Rennie’s earlier attraction to Gail, and should be one of the strong moments in the film.[...]n Vriends who is consistently perfect in movement and dialogue through rehearsal to Take 3, which fini[...]in Rennie’s office. The scene, between Rennie and Cannizzaro, hinges on contrasting the cruel cynic[...]exercise programme. The room is small, cluttered and difficult to film in. Rennie is meant to be doi[...]rin.) Domaradzki takes the scene one step further and decides to start it with Rennie’s jogging in th[...]eakers, but Rennie is preoccupied with making tea and looking for a hidden bottle of Scotch with which[...]adually rewritten by Domaradzki to become funnier and more dynamic, but it also loses its ending. “Wh[...]fectly because Cannizzaro will now suddenly leave and Rennie will be alone holding two cups of tea in the empty room. The effect is to catch Rennie off balance and transfer the momentum of the relationship back to[...]e, the rehearsals focus on details of performance and positioning in the room. The scene is also too lo[...]The last of six takes is completed by 10:50 a.m. and confidence visibly returns to the set. ' Severa[...]disintegrates into ABOVE: THE IDEALISTIC CANNIZZARO AND |
![]() | [...]’ Jerzy Domaradzki was born in Poland in 1943 and graduated with a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from Warsaw University in 1970, and in Film and Stage Direction from the Lodz Film School in 197[...]has since directed seven features, Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. CINEMA PAPERS 79 How[...], That was February 1989 and a month later he called me and Finance Corporation for the production money and here we are, in It[...]fty metres from the hotel! It was an old building |
![]() | [...]ach in the script has always been more universal, and shows the Downs Syndrome people as ‘normal but[...]ore happy: they don‘t have a past, or a future, and live in the present. So making this film might,[...]exist, in our society. Their parents feel guilty and keep them at home; that doesn’t give them socia[...]e with each other; they can exchange some emotion and learn simple skills. So the mam subject is to gi[...]rts have been to make this a more universal film and not just a The film mixes professiona[...]ur first decision was that they should be actors and not play LEFT: POLISH DIRECTOR JERZY DOMARADZKI. BRIAN VRIEND5 ICANNIZZARO) AND GARRY MCDONALD (RENNIE). we[...]tell us how being in the We invited them to a workshop and set up some- what Is abnormal and so In another way, the film is also a chal- It[...]tors to flnd the Interior Yes. He’s a new face and for him it’s a chance to be the main character in a His casting was a very c[...]people |
![]() | [...]HERINE MCCLEMENTS) IS UPSET BY THE DRUNKEN RENNIE AND CANNIZZARRO). AND, NO SYMPATHY ON THE SOCCER FIELD FROM RENNIE FO[...]s. Why? Because in the next take they’ve learnt You have used a lot of tracks, and cranes. When should the camera The point o[...]because the technique is Does this[...]s well? With a low-budgetfilm, with limited days and hours, we can’twait for Why should audiences care about this story of Rennie, Cannizzaro I care, and I have to believe thatl have an understanding ofthe world millions, a director must give the audience some entertainment, |
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![]() | NIGHT OUT CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: TONY [COLIN IASHING’. MAN (TOM SHERLOCK) AND 38 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 A HOMOSEXUAI. is bashed outside ships become a minefie[...]lsolate. Composer: Neil |
![]() | ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN by Paul Cox and Barry Dickins, and in- spired by a Guy de Maupassant short story, Go[...]a watchmaker who pur- chases an antique cabinet, and finds and fetishizes about a braid of hair in- side one of[...]as Bernard, the man caught between his fantasies and an affairwith Terese (Gosia Dobrowolska), the wif[...]rs applaud him for his desire to involve the crew and produc- tion team in a collaborative process. Cox[...]they are released, such as the controversial ls- /and. And like that film, Golden Braid continues Cox's personalized explora- tion of the human condition and man's obsessions with the past. Cox adds: "People[...]are political. They deal with the human condition and try to penetrate the human psyche. That's a very difficult thing to do. You become a target and people attack you. They don't want to be disturbe[...]a threat." Golden Braid was shot in Melb- Director: Pau|Cox. Producers: Pau[...]), CENTRE, WITH HER CINEMA PAPERS 79 - 39 |
![]() | [...]40 CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: DANNY (BEN MENDELSOHN) AND MARK [DAMON HERRIMAN), DANNY [MAGGIE KING) AND DANNY. - CINEMA PAPERS 79 MARK CLARK VAN ARK is[...]rlfriend, '‘I see myself as a servant— I serve |
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![]() | SWEETHEARTS ABOVE: JULIET (CHRISTABEL WIGLEY) RIGHT: JULIET. BELOW: SCHOOLGIRLS 42 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 BASE[...]el by feature that was shot in and around Writer—director[...]omposer: Paul |
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![]() | [...]d after the war. lt was written by Denis Whitburn and Brian Williams, Williams’ father having been th[...]e’: decent, irreverent, tough, sensitive, butch and clever". Director:StephenWa|lace.Producers:Charl- [For information on Heaven Tonight, Hunting LEFT: PRIVATE TALIOT (JASON DONOVAN) AND CAPTAIN COOPER (BRYAN IIOWN). STEPHEN WALLACE'S B[...]is a black com- Director: Craig Lahiff. Producers: Craig[...]an Vriends (Cannizz- IELOW: SAM [ROBERT MAMMONE) AND MEG (DANIELLE SPENCER). GEORGE OGl|.VIE'S THE CROSSING. RIGHT: KATE |
![]() | [...]thriller from Karl Zwicky, director of Contagion and much televi- sion, including the recent children'[...]a public relations exec- utive for Origin records and a fiery aff- airwith his dominating colleague Car[...]whose prev- ious features were Fortress, Buddies and Dark Age. Director: Arch Nicholson. Producer: Ph[...]he’d stay Director: David Elfick. Produ[...]Flowers Paul Cox |
![]() | [...]renchman Pierre Rissient is an activist for films and filmmakers he believes in. He has discovered and promoted many new directors, overseen the critical revival of oth ers whose careers have faulted, and argued eloquently for those unjustly ignored. So[...]arly come to Australia to seek out the innovative and idiosyn- cratic. He has then helped guide those[...]ngly labyrinthine selection procedures of Cannes and other festivals. An occasionally practising NIGHT STAND and CINQ ET Paw, neither of which have been seen wide[...]lish by Scott Murray, with the Australian cine[...]ributed to the and sometimes for wrong ones. That is what we[...] |
![]() | [...]ave been an international success without Cannes. And last year there was Sex, Lies, and Videotape, which would certainly not have done that well commercially without a place and a prize in Cannes. exhibitors around the world are encouraged to gi[...]tions at Cannes. What are their various When Cannes was created — and I was too young a boy to really know LEFT: DIRECTOR ANDand went through several locations before Next year, or the ye[...]Its |
![]() | [...]ferences between Un Certain Regard, the Quinzaine and the Critics’ Week are no longer that clear. A p[...]ther. VVhat is important is the quality ofa film and the way the picture is promoted. One other impor[...]the past two or three years, Are films a[...]goes into Competition Last year, itwas r[...]the critics, film festival directors, exhibitors and distribu- 50 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 reacte[...]n 1830 established romanticism. Many people booed Naturally, if you ha[...]k or Un It used to be the case that ma[...]n films because they were thought too mainstream and boring. The real discoveries were in the o[...] |
![]() | [...]TIONS How did your association with Cannes begin and what forms has it After my military servi[...]ng to make money. Having I was also a small distributor and pioneered the reissue of un- Naturally, I became more and more in demand. There was even Then, in 1971 , Favre le Bret became president and Maurice Bessy But not only in Paris and in Cannes, but in many countries, At that time, there was no Un Certain Regard andand certainly wasn’t The y[...]ayground also gotinto FACING PAGE: GERARD DEPARDIEU AND NASTASSJA KINSKI (BACKS TO CAMERA) ARRIVE FOR |
![]() | [...]David was at that time a commissioner of the AFC, and he asked me ifl would be interested in being invi[...]lian films in order to recommend them for Cannes and, eventually, other festivals. I came for the first time in 1985 invited by the AFC and since then every year. You had been to Australia[...]ucers inform the AFC if they have a picture Once I get to Sydne[...]y, I don’t dis-recommend films. Ifl see afilm and like Is there a danger in becoming too associated with an advocacy of the Maybe some people in Australia think that, but in Paris and London |
![]() | [...]difficult as Sweetie. Then Sweetiecame to Cannes and was extremely well re- ceived. It got very good distributors around the world, and got into the good theatres. To a certain extent[...]can say. Fred the schism between what you and others are doing to help Australian needs to be addressed? First, let me s[...]ifl like a filmmaker, I like to see him develop. And its FACING PAGE: MEI. GIBSON (LEFT PHOTO) AND SIGOURNEY WEAVER (RIGHT), WITH Since 1975, there have been very few[...]an Streets. A lot of filmmakers have |
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![]() | [...]constraints of business on cinema image quality, and about having your eyeballs sucked out. ODERICKH[...]engineer for Greater Union Village Technology, and along with his counterpartfrom Great- Cinemas are now be[...]in at- We have reallyjust got the city complex [Vil- Lucas was concerned that the hundreds of hours and millions of As always, the problems come back to money and to the foresight With the Village complex in the city, t[...]underway This move must have been personally |
![]() | [...]Lucas uses in conjunction with Dolby laboratories and ensures that the sound that you are hearing is as[...]gives you all the technical back—up, the logos and the advertising material. Every six months there[...]inema to see that it is maintaining the standard, and that information goes back to Lucasfilm. If it p[...], which uses its analyzer to detect problem areas and tell us to address them. I have visited Skywalker Ranch and, compared to their system, I’d say I be[...]Village. There is a lot ofone- There is no wide deviation between Dolby and THX. Dolby has The standards are achievable here and we seem to get it right with |
![]() | [...]are of a better quality than most American prints and certainly better than any of the reconditioned ones. We take more care in Australia and I really have high praise for the people at Atlab and Colorfilm and the other labs doing release prints. Technically,[...]con- Focus has bec[...]ease” returned to the laborato- Some ofthem come up quite well, but the image on others falls apart and The other problem with large screens is tha[...]projection staff, where the guy is moving around and can’t check each “Technicalil[...]n be faxed to (03) .427 9255. people at Atlab and Colorftlm andand automated projection booth, with all the advertisements, trailers Mirrors are batch made and when you look at the cold light One of the restraints is that management usually doesn’twant to go I believe that you must keep the quality[...]public deserves it. There is too much Hailey[...]ntinue cultivating It is the paradox ofbeing in the dark in the cinema: there is intimacy |
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![]() | [...], DRIVING MISS DAISY, BEYOND EL ROCCO, RAW NERVE AND HENRY V BRIAN MCFARLANE NE DOESN'T[...]Goulding’s 1947 film. Popu- time film, made at the instigation of the Ministry |
![]() | [...]e. They are, that is, both films of their times, and Branagh is on record as seek- ing to reclaim the[...]g as one who has seen it only twice, once in 1968 and again last year, I have to say that I find Brana[...]who has almost no resources left than the courage and devotion of his band of brothers? Yes, it strikin[...]earlier rendering of the scene. Can Emma Thompson and Geraldine McEwan, as Princess Katherine and her (more or less) English-speaking lady-in-waiting, lay the ghosts of Renee Asherson and Ivy St Helier, or Richard Easton, Robert Stephens, Christopher Ravenscroft and Judi Dench, as the Constable of France, Pistol, the Herald, Mountjoy and Miss- tress Quickly, lay those of Leo Genn, Robert Newton, Ralph Truman and Fredajackson? The answer, variable across so larg[...]o work at it. Those earlier players were so vivid and so varied that, in one’s memory, they cast long[...]latter, who know how to speak Shakespearean verse and made it sound like conversation, even- tually —[...]ing, humane Mistress Quickly as one could imagine and her report of F alstaff s death is as moving as M[...]France), Ian Holm (Fluellen) , Alec McCowen (Ely) and Brian Blessed (Exeter), who bring individuality and authority to their brief scenes. But it is on Br[...]warrior king, that the film must Branagh not only produces, directs and stars |
![]() | [...]is-hell ideology, but inappro- priate for lighter and more heroic moments); and the surprising sombreness of the ending deflates[...]s, but a great deal does. Branagh has made a bold and venturesome as- sault on what might have seemed s[...]the arts as having nothing to do with each other and no history. The greatness of great works needs to[...]e Films presentation, in association with the BBC and Curzon Film Distributors. Distributor: Hoyts. 137[...]vie about social change, interracial friend- ship and dignity is a fairly solid achievement. Driving Miss Daisy is a well-crafted, beautifully performed and written film (Alfred Uhry’s finely chiselled[...]in its extraordinary ability to capture fleeting and touch- ing moments about black-white relations in the American South). And like the film’s sturdy three cars, which epitomize American know-how and reliability, and are commonly regarded as being impressive achieve[...]e a syrupy liberal movie with a white-meets-black-and-we-can-worlo it-allout storyline and, given the increasing pub- licity attached to it (i.e., a star cast and a screen ad- aptation of a Pulitzer-winning play[...]scar movie — Driving Miss Daisy is a refreshing and absorbing surprise. The three Oscars it received[...]gside with Jessica Tandy receiving an Oscar, too. And in no way underrating Ber- esford’s unobtrusive[...]tion, Dn'vingMiss Daisy belongs to Freeman, Tandy and Uhry (like Tandy, he won an Oscar —justifiably so). Driving Miss Daisy is a poignantly observed and an incredibly moving film about a radier odd cou[...]ur’s garden. As a direct conse- quence of this, and thanks to her persistent son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd)[...]rgan Freeman). At first, Miss Daisy is reluctant and too proud to have a driver, but she eventually accepts and over a twenty five—year period (1948 to 1973)[...]It is a genuine friend- ship premised on empathy and sincerity, a friend- ship that is elastic enough to test their attitudinal and behavioural differences, and cuts across class and race. Dn'vingMiss Daisy is a richly textured fi[...]ce is a source on many occasions for |
![]() | [...]to terms with being a victim of racial prejudice and Daisy is someone who has not experienced racism i[...]refer to the civil rights move- ment in the 19505 and ’60s: the 1958 bombing of Atlanta's oldest jewi[...]an’tbelieve that racists would want to bomb it) and the scene where Hoke is forced to listen to Dr Ma[...]Miss Daisy is blessed with an exceptional script and two seminal screen per- fonnances is quite an und[...]sy is someone whose life is built on family pride and tradition. Her relationship with her maid, Idella[...]ere Miss Daisy enters the kitchen to caution Hoke and Idella against the ills of watching too much television. 64 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 Daisy and Hoke take a refreshment break during This idyllic sce[...]e is questioned about |
![]() | [...]S THE HISTORY of writing on film proves A again and again, very few reviewers, critics or theorists[...]semble of relations be- character locks into a[...]ostAmerican movies, the sound ensemble thick- BEYOND EL ROCCO RAFFAELE CAPUTO . '1' AN EARLY POINT IN Beyond El[...]Asked what he’d like to play, he chose KEITH HOU[...]he El Thisjekyll-and-Hyde description serves to il- This looks and sounds like a fairly familiar op- |
![]() | [...]ohn Sangster virtually apologizes for playingjazz and not being black, but pretending to be; while the[...]ntre 44 in Melbourne tended to demand Miles Davis and john Coltrane as models for their artists. Thus,[...]period of disintegration, alienation, withdrawal and experimentation: McGann headed into the bush for[...]open spaces; thejazz Club scene almost died out; and experimentation groups like Free Carter divided t[...]od for experimentation, artists like Phil Treloar and Roger Frarnpton attempted to dis- cover a distinc[...]g of a jazz club, The Basement, at Circular Quay, and the institution of ajazz course at the Conservato[...]d from the Conservatorium a new breed ofmusicians and with them came a contemporary version of Zoots. C[...]exist independently from the mainstream of jazz, and with a desire to get out from the under- dog mentality, to move away from overseas mod- els, and to discover this country’s influences and unique sounds. Also, early in the decade, McGann returned from the bush and formed a band, The Last Straw. In the 1980s, the jazz scene thrived, with 66 - CINEMA PAPERS 79 more fully and widely developed. BEYOND EL ROCCO Directed by Ke[...]s Stylewise, the film is totally void. The[...]the nun or the sexually inade- But the biggest[...]from. Came, Cujo, An American Werewolf in Advertisements and posters for the film dare It sounds like one of thos[...]505, which would be fine, |
![]() | AN UNSEEN KILLER STALKS LOVERS MARY [HELEN THOMSON) AND KEVIN [IAN WILLIAMS) IN THE WOODS. ALEC MILLS’[...]bviously the film is adud, the promoters knew it, and this was one way to help fill theatres. Fortunat[...]to believe. The Many reams of dialogue in the film - the Those who remained continued to groan, I A 7‘ I _‘ I I _ . - .—’ 4' . least it was funny” and “unintentional comedy”. |
![]() | [...]Yahoo basically said “Fuck you” to the world and made his own movie. Good luck to him. I mean, ho[...]m not sure. It was made by an Australian director and an AUSTRALIAN FILM FINA[...]cess, but you have to have some sort of A GROWING AND DANGEROUS ATTRACTION: BELOW, ANNA (DEBORAH UNGER) What are your[...]a criterion-less situation. That’s grant time, JIM: It seems like an argument between a race and a lottery. However, getting back to the scrutiny[...]for a pre-sale, you know |
![]() | [...]ided we should get to know more about it. Bothjim and I had worked in television years previouslyzjim had started in television on In Melbourne Tonight, and I had produced commercials for it. So, it wasn’[...]us that it was for other people in the industry. And, somewhat foolishly and arro- gantly, we believed it was going to be a lo[...]figure out television. It is just as complicated and difficult as feature films. As it turned out, I[...]first feature film producers to As well, you get the chance to[...]less ofa risk. With film, there is a higher risk and JIM: Well, it was huge in England. HAL: And it was a hit in France three months ago. Poland was huge, It is interesting that when you went into television, and it was a couple JIM: Product is still needed and good producers will still be around. have to lift our game. HAL: The[...]were made, there |
![]() | [...]s producer the toughest old bastard, Howard Koch, and he hired the toughest old cameraman, joe Biroc, w[...]stuck those two old stagerswith these young turks and came up with a hit movie. In Hollywood, they alw[...]ence, LOOKING DICK The 1970s for McElroy and McElroy are easy for an outsider to HAL: We were truly teenagers when we were[...]HAL: We have always been perceived as businessmen and, yes, we have We actually had a mixed fortune in wo[...]eir. He After all, people make decisions to go and see movies and/ or watch 70 - CINEMA PAPEI5 79 television based on a concept~ they sure as hell don’t read the script! Given the[...]h an international reputa- It has been a marvellous[...]Seale has a Till There[...]movie. We’re not competing against the Batmans and so on, but we |
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![]() | [...]sis when he discovers, after 18 years of marriage and two children, that his wife is an alien. BACKSTR[...]director Phil Warner Casting Judy Hamilton VVAITING . Prod. designer |
![]() | [...]Synopsis: A post—war story of love, mar- riage and friendship, begun during the occupation ofjapan, and set in 19505 and ’60s Victoria. Here the cultural shift and new pressures force three people through inevitab[...]Kur-zer Costume designer Amanda Lovejoy Planning and Development Casting Alison Barrett Production Cre[...]l Goddard (Bobby). Synopsis: A tale ofreal estate and revenge set in the ominous inner-city ofthe imagi[...]yd Carrick Neil Thumpston Chris Kennedy Planning and Development Casting Greg Apps Casting consulta[...]ggles to main» Synopsis: Eddie and Mick are out-of-work |
![]() | [...]oblems: Crazy Cora, who thinks he is her husband, and a ruthless landowner who wants him to kill Aborig[...]igner David Rowe Composer Tony Meillandt Planning and Development Casting Mike Fenton Fa.ith Martin RECENTLY CO[...]Composers John Fearnside David Kottlowy Casting Spotlight Artists Casting c[...]evalence of MARKET OF DREA[...]world today: that between the traditional |
![]() | [...]ious forms of pain relief available to the woman, and these are demonstrated. Explanation is given of t[...]Mable) , Patrick Falzon (Johnny), ex—Cinesourtd and —Movietone staff and the people of Australia. Synopsis: Th2La.rtNewsreelis a short black- S C H O O L 111 THISTLET[...]Tor Larsen Planning and Development Casting consultant Cast;John Polson (David, aged 17) ,Juliet MASCARADE —— competent sp[...]for Enquiries for Agency and School: Shirley Reynolds on (03) 2662087[...] |
![]() | [...]rill. Synopsis: A short film about love, memory RETREAT Planning and Development Casting consultants Synopsis: Koala: is a humorous and dra- |
![]() | needed by difierent-aged children, and suggests how to keep them amused on long, boring[...]an who thinks he knows everything about it. FOOD AND WINE IN MELBOURNE Direc[...]esigned to promote Mel- GRASS FED BEEF ME AND MY BIG MOUTH Director Louise Hubbard Synopsis: What is our mouth for and what THEIRLIVESIN OURHANDS Director M[...]t pre-school children have in FILM VICTORIA POST-P[...]ed to promote Melbourne as a vital PROCESS OF GROWIH Director [Not given][...]sing on the food—processing NSW FILM AND BETWEEN THE LINES FROM STOP TO SLOW Prod. company EVS GETTING ST[...]see his gradual progress from HO[...]x- IMPORTANT PARLIA[...]er, the Leader of the Opposi- LEARNING TO BE SAFE Synopsis: This programme examines the RAINFOREST PARKS OF NSW Prod. company S[...] |
![]() | [...]ow the management programme of the National Parks and Wildlife Service has made the parks accessible t[...]n benefit THE RIGHT PERSON IN controllers employed by the Roads and THE ROLE O[...]hree Members of the Parliament of New Budgeted by ACTF Production Crew Onset Crew Gauge 16mm Int. sales agent Diana Quintner Cast: [No details supplied] Synops[...]t passed a law requiring all boys aged Planning and Development Casting Liz Mullinar Casting Extras[...]minds. The estate has an Production Crew In[...]s Cast: [Details not supplied] Synop[...]althy prospector, lives with his daugh- MORE WINNERS Planning and Development Production Crew On-set Crew Post-production Gauge 16mm Cast: [Details not supplied] Synop[...]hould both “grow up”. MORE WINNERS Casting Forecast |
![]() | [...]gic powers. The last wish was given away 99 years and 364 days before. When Prince Wilton reaches earth[...]on of Phar Lap. Mark is fascinated by the concept and becomes convinced that he is the reincarnation of[...]t into the act believing they were Queen Victoria and Albert Einstein. TELEVISION BEYOND T[...]ector Steve Muir Planning and Development Composer Simon Walker Kristen D[...]el). SKIRTS[...]dical drama follows the HOME AND AWAY Mike Perjanik Planning and Development Script editor RO[...]nce CINEMA PAPERS 79 ~ 79 |
![]() | [...]ume designer David Copping Planning and Development THE PAPER MAN Script editor Penny Chapman Story editor Peter Cawler SHADOWS OF THE HEART (S[...](03) 429 sstt courage before she wins acceptance and |
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![]() | [...]in his last years to return to Achievement Award and the accompanying film[...]script became Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Martin a challenge to turn it into something good with re-writing and Scorsese, among others. (In fact, Lucas and Ste so on. And that worked often. The other night we ran Where[...]Danger Lives: it is absorbing and timeless ... Nine decided he was not important e[...]Many good wishes and gratitude speeches of American sound technicians and effects editors were judged to be more rivetting[...]MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN FARROW CUSHING and important.[...]Uni ada, working on a number o f Canadian and Ameri some of Andrew Peacock's comments immedi[...]versal Pictures, contacted Chips Rafferty and told can feature films and a Canadian television series. ately prior to the[...]trating on her writing, and guiding a team o f young the spirit of the Award[...]Zealous, determined and good humoured, Cavill trained dozens[...]ing Lyn McEncroe, Adrian Read, Sue Milliken and[...]ved in script dis AFI awards. no mention and didn'teven list Kurosawa'sAward cussions, and learning budget and cost control. She with the others; neither did T[...]production, first-assistant-director and camera- series, as well as co-producer on the feature, Nickel and not known of Nine's later deletions, surely a[...]rts to inventing the stripboard Queen, and two television series, Barrier Reef and newspaper has an obligation to be aware of what[...]respected throughout ambition: to write and produce her own feature[...]production co-ordination and cost control. Later office success, it d[...]she would add producing and writing to her skills, Award for best orig[...]and win an Awgie from the Australian Writers Guild[...]1990 for her first and last feature film, Dawn!. Sec[...]writer, producer, filmmaker and "Mother": Joy[...] |
![]() | [...]ad P oets Society. Many new offers are piling up and Hector Babenco [Kiss of the Spider Woman][...] |
![]() | [...]this adventure-romance set in the Vanuatujungle, and notju stfo r Seale. Apartfrom the $13 mill[...] |
![]() | [...]documentary look, with lots of cuts and montage-like grabs of images. dead[...]Viv (Jeroen K rabbe), who was C harlie's partner, and Viv's beautiful The shots are la[...]there are two crane shots, and some tricky underground sequences[...]ound the sunken bomber, which was specially built and sunk in the It seems Charlie had said somet[...]intense by the growing attraction between Frank and Anna, the presence of the[...]te all the planning, unpre- Vanuatu tribespeople and a couple of choice baddies.[...]pared-for things will always happen and[...]nflict now doesn't lie as much between the blacks and whites as[...]es. We show the native people as they are - noble and says Seale, as he nods towards the Bun- dignified - and it's clear that it's the white man who doesn't fi[...]also wanted to keep a balance between the action and the relationships of the three central character[...]d Hollywood movies, like Elephant Walkand To Have and Have[...]he Vanuatu archipelago, N o t... real characters and real situations".[...]ribe hurl themselves it is before one scene and is followed by another. You play a sort of[...]a specially built sacred tower, once Seale and his director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson, ha[...]carefully selected and m easured vines time, he m ade sure he d[...] |
![]() | [...]skirts JO H N SEALE O N DIRECTING for women and nambas (penis sheaths) for men, became the location favourites, and some predicted they will steal the show with thei[...]w many answers you have mischievous good hum our and energetic performances. to ha[...]on your script It's very hard to try and fly it once you're shooting."[...]the action tell the story, and not let the cinematography overpower[...]I've worked with quite a few first-time directors and writer- directors, and I like to take those kinds of chances. That's not[...]say if Sidney Pollack rang and asked me to do a picture I would say,[...]find on a map, and, through situations he cannot control, discov[...]ers a lot about himself. And it changes him. All in two weeks."[...]a red. I let that dry, and then start painting the blue. It's the same[...]Bogarde do it, and how would Dustin Hoffman do it. They're both[...]the ultimate, and yet very different: Bogarde is very still, and[...]model, sometimes the Hoffman. And the older you get, the more[...]And I love the way he sees life, his conceptual framework, and, as[...]"I love theatre and feel very comfortable there. I am beginning[...]to feel playful and, as I am expanding, able to give more, to be[...]there 100 per cent with all the crew and other actors, all going for[...] |
![]() | [...]partner, and lived in a smaller adjacent[...]the man, and he, Charlie, has lost inter[...]atu. Viv would try and steal it.[...]the action, and to some of the charac[...]escape - and Frank's arrival on the scene[...]Till There Was You is expensive and yet it isn't: both Jim and his brother, Hal[...]is the other main structure, the house where |
![]() | [...]dJim McElroy are two ofAustralia's most prominent and successful producers. Th[...]hrough success, locally and overseas. Their third, The Last Wave (Weir, 1977)[...]sly (Weir, 1982) was in many ways a consolidation and re-affirmation of the c[...]dfilm, aimed squarely at the international market and utilizing the drawing power of the Australian star Mel Gibson, and rising American name, S[...]ns (director Peter Weir and scriptwriter David Williamson).[...]incer, 1986) was an American network breakthrough and Return to Eden, mini-series and series, a world-wide hit. Thefeatures have left l[...]theJanuary 1973 issue, and again after The Last Wave. In many ways, these in[...]are a record oftheproduction and cesthetic issues ofthe time. This interview,[...]to theirpast successes and forward to hopefully those of thefuture.[...] |
![]() | [...]rs in 1977, the major the consequence of it, and there really is no point in regretting it. chang[...]1OBAwas not as beneficial as everybody hoped, and certainly not perspective on 10BA, the pluses and minuses?[...]isaster. JIM: We have built the film industry up and made it adult, turning it YoungBinsteinwsLS m[...]into a business. T hat is a plus. and a lot of good Kennedy Miller stuff. O n that leve[...]cond Wave, maybe out of the 15 million were made and inflation took over. From a commercial point ofvi[...]ved. JIM: We consciously adopted a low profile and d id n 't speak about I mean that slig[...]am nothing any of us can do about[...] |
![]() | [...]tly, Australian television has also gone sideways and IN THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (1 98[...]the exceptions, like things is to get costs down and productivity up. We need to get back a Young[...]5 million in Australia. a little more to reality and re-kindle the pioneering spirit and energy and com m itm ent we had in the 1970s. Even if we do[...]O ur problem is that, if you graph don't work, and inevitably we will, the cost won't be as great be[...]y the budgets will be lower, relatively speaking, and we will a shortage of facilities and talent. People just bid everything up. But be[...]t million equally, when you look back to '73, '74 and '75, we were making films dollar disasters, it is a m uch m ore painful and for unrealistically low budgets. I mean, Jim and public problem.[...]available, we stopped working for $11,000 and JIM: Oh yes, much. If you com pare the cost of[...]actors, writers and directors were, relatively belts in - everybody, n o tju st the crews, but the IBLE AND PRAGMATIC. THIS SO- speaking, underpaid comp[...]the writ CALLED PRINCIPLE OF DEFENDING and electrics. So that is where the greatest rises JIM: Yes. And if Sweetie had been made for $10[...]As for the $10 million film, it m ust have a star and other interna hate to try to do it without a tra[...]sts in the speech was that going international and the energetic so as to keep the industry alive and vital. If we d o n 't[...]do that, we are all going to calcify and petrify into middle age,because |
![]() | [...]doing. We have to regain that exciting and adventurous desire to be[...]JIM: And how many days did they shoot the pilot in?[...]shooting and there are n 't many directors in Australia who co[...]to have to work faster and harder. T h at's a challenge the American[...]ure aged now. Unless we encourage the young guys and women, we are Film Producers Associat[...]do you get costs down? Do you re-negotiate awards and return to the sanity o f a six-day shooting week and cancelling those ridicu JIM: We were some of[...]So, we sort of cut loose. But we want now to try and get m ore HAL: T hat would be good, but it would[...]ying to my m ind the answer is in working faster and m ore efficiently. We rationalize the industry. have got all slack and let laziness and unprofessional behaviour appear on the set. You[...]re active m em bers of SPAA got caught up in 10BA and Picnic in five and Last Wave in seven.[...]ameramen we rushed around making money and movies. We all let a situation around these days[...]The American style is to have high-paid people and have them go worry about the problems. ver[...]SPAA in regard to Actors Equity's policy on out and they were n o t having `the hom e life' they want[...]that all three networks were more flexible and pragmatic. This so-called principle of def[...] |
![]() | [...](a) with an American film made here, crew and to America.[...]America; Q.E.D., more Australian and therefore m ore valid. W ithout m en tioning the[...]y in terms of cost, because of the extra loading And please d o n 't tell me it was m ore valid than s[...]elem ent in the film. And when that actor goes to his[...]nship the last one and the crew m em ber wants what he between budget and freedom . The higher the budget, the less[...]received on his last American film; and freedom you have making the story. If you make a[...]g to be $3-4 million, then we all have to export, and helping the industry? to do that you are pr[...]o need im ported elements Hal and I have a conflict here in that we d o n 't object philosophi involved. Get your price down to a million and you get all the cally to American pr[...]be hypocritical and say they can't come. But we do ask that Equity at[...]counterparts. It isju st nuts. That is dishonest and distasteful.[...]created a situation where really offensive and destructive to our industry, and the movie, for a the Australian producer is pena[...]ing in Australia and that's inappropriate. There is the "international[...]movie", which is viewed as being mid-Atlantic and purely shitty, and[...]Australian movie and it was very, very successful. But I d o n[...] |
![]() | [...]refreshing tofind filmmakers concerned with image and sound, who realize that mise en sc |
![]() | [...]This connects strongly with the penultimate and most disturbing B LA C[...]broken bond between m other and daughter. So even though the[...]d adoption, where black children were placed in, and raised by, white Australian[...]adoptive m other (there is no dialogue, no names and only a[...]st white M other (Agnes Hardwick) is incontinent and near senile, and[...]wn cancers. wheelchair visits to the outside loo and by fitful sleep. The black D aughter (Marcia Lan[...]The image is tough, no doubt cruel, and the further one probes selflessness and, at times, a touch of suppressed anger. Unable to[...]n of that is shown when she sits outside the loo and violently twangs the handle of the bucket on whi[...]the attem pts ofwhite society to make her dress and behave as ifwhite. A latter memory, and the most puzzling in the film, is of her and O ne knows the M other[...]er |
![]() | [...]E W HITE M O TH ER A N D B LACK DAUGHTER and lushly inappropriate music. T h ere is rarely if[...]convey thoughts an d feelings through sound, and R obert B resson's[...]with her sound crew, w rought a wonderfully eerie and very Bonanza, from the era when Australian[...]American westerns - even down to the landscape and music. So, I the images and, at others, com m ents perceptively on them . Mof[...]of the film's characters,Jedda, the black woman, and[...]ubs around Surry Hills at her white mother, and aged them as if thirty years had past. In the[...]three o'clock in the morning, dressed in leather and crawling around a original film, Jedda is thrown off a cliff and killed. I wanted to resurrect[...]floor shaking a rattle. She's really into voodoo and the sound at the her, and place the two of them back in the homestead situa[...]loped the script, the film became less about them and more about me and my white foster mother. I was raised by an older[...]I'm writing a script I think of white woman and the script became quite a personal story. The lit[...]away from the intensity of a film. And it really is an intense piece. Some connection f[...]pe. I'm not particularly obsessed with landscape, and I like[...] |
![]() | [...]Polish filmmaker Jerzy Domaradzki, and co-produced by Terry[...]Charatsis and scriptwriter Trevor Farrant. This year'sfe[...] |
![]() | [...]IN S, *3 that at one time was a school, and then a hospital. It has cavernous high N o v e m b e r ceilings, and this afternoon its corridors echo to the sounds o[...]f medical ritual, perhaps a mortuary. At the back and[...] |
![]() | [...]HE LO N G TRACK. doing a play and a film at the same time. Sometimes when I[...] |
![]() | [...]LEAD THE HEARTBREAKERS and their families are sitting patiendy, watching the[...]ACH. By 11:00, th ere have been six takes and everyone is keen to get to the next scene which u[...]then working |
![]() | [...]support the image of Rennie and Cannizzaro at either end of the sunlit room.[...]and character goes straight to the psychic nerve all actors feed off, and each time McDonald[...]between Rennie and Cannizzaro, which he wants to be a m etaphor for[...]relationship. He re-arranges the furniture and changes the path Brian must take along the[...]tor. Sokol agrees this new arrangem ent is better and a short[...]trust. Then,ju st before a full rehearsal, Sokol and Domaradzki p u t boxes and chairs in Vriends'way to give his m ovem ent m or[...]rsal which runs 78 seconds, but should be shorter and on the next it is down to 66.[...]By now there are only 15 m inutes of sunset left and on the next rehearsal McDonald misses[...]light behind M cDonald's head and he is instantly dubbed "St R ennie". T he first t[...]the second is better, and shorter, but the cam era battery fadesju st befor[...]sinks on cue. Everything is running on adrenalin and team work now as the battery is[...]quickly replaced and another take catches the last m om ents of light.[...]"Cut!" the relief is instant and the verdict unanimous: best shot of the day.[...]is a warm Monday m orning after the weekend break and, by 10:00 am,[...]hasize R ennie's attraction to Gail's pale beauty and the possibility of his[...]:25, is stopped by the sudden arrival of a plane, and several m ore by[...]continues with the close-up of Gail on the swing, and an hour later the scene is all the better[...]are two m ore short scenes scheduled, a close-up and a reverse angle.[...]lunches on their laps and now are told they can only pretend to eat them in[...]take, which is almost certain. Sokol, Domaradzki and Wolfe-Barry are coaching the[...]H eartbreakers to `eat', and to respond to each other while the cam era takes[...]an only be done twice before the lunches are gone and the effort of co-ordination proves too[...]The advantage of mixing the professional actors and H eartbreakers together is shown TO A C[...]Cannizzaro and Rennie approach. At first Kevin's dance is awkwar[...]sked to dance for Kevin. T he result is brilliant and Domaradzki comes to 28 |
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![]() | [...]e involved with Struck by Lightning? and graduated w ith a M aster's degree in Social Sciencesfrom Warsaw University in 1970, and in Film and Stage Directionfrom Like m ost of[...]T hat was February 1989 and a m onth later he called me and two telefilm s and one mini-series. H e was chairm an o f the Polish[...]eature Film m akers'Associationfrom 1982 to 1987, and subsequently Finance Corporation for the production money and here we are, in[...]Film Television and R adio School in Sydney.[...]and would have been excellent for Saltmarsh, but it t[...]we looked for som ething similar and eventually found Estcourt[...]owner and in a state of decay. To[...]tune and, because only big com[...]Centre for Aboriginal Art and[...]Activity, and before that a hospi[...]have problems and advantages[...] |
![]() | [...]film would affect them , and we were afraid that the[...]We invited them to a workshop and set up some say that you are exploiting t[...] |
![]() | [...]You have used a lot o f tracks, and cranes. When should the camera prised that I loo[...]too heavy: it takes time and m ore m ovem ent means m ore barriers What chang[...]actors between me and the actors. I want to create an em otional tensio[...]rfect on where we put fences, what is private and public, and how people most of the first takes. Why? Because[...]ake they've learnt behave in different spaces. and they fix a reaction; they are not motivated by em[...]With a low-budget film, with limited days and hours, we can 't wait for So, the general m[...]ped is a technical rehearsal the best light. And the agreem ent with Yuri Sokol from the begin and, when everything is ready, we bring on the H eartbreakers and ning was that we would use a softer lig h t[...]flattering, soft, dispersed light and not too many close-ups.[...]and the Heartbreakers? I care, and I have to believe that I have an understanding of[...]and stories. I liked what Milos Form an said about fi[...]because h e 's making the film for millions and it must be shown to[...]hum our and humanity. If a film is n ot for the mass a[...] |
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![]() | [...]and promoted many new directors, overseen the critica[...]and argued eloquently for those unjustly ignored.[...]arly come to Australia to seek out the innovative and idiosyn[...]of Cannes and other festivals. An occasionally practising[...]as a living, but because of a deep lovefor and commitment[...]about the declining standards of world cinema and is[...]doing his utmost to seek out and promote new talent.[...]Rissient began his film career as a distributor and[...]ABO VE: THE CROW DED N ight Stand and Cinq et P eau, neither of which have been[...] |
![]() | [...]ly a positive thing. It was like when Quinzaine and the Critics'Week are no longer that clear. A pict[...]t could be in another. What is im portant is and whistled, b ut romanticism was established after that. So the fact the quality of a film and the way the picture is prom oted.[...]e past two or three years, especially last year and I hope this year, is that the Competition has[...]to the Critics'Week or become m ore adventurous and daring in the choice of films. It is a Un[...]? less official, in the bad sense of that word, and a m ore adventurous selection. That in itself h[...]thought Directors'Fortnight, Un Certain Regard and the Critics'Week more that. No, I clea[...]hey are now looking in certain ways more academic and greater status to the film. Second, I kn[...]erved in one of the other sections? film and that the picture would receive much more coverage[...]developed since. it gets much more exposure and interest. However, in the past it could be dang[...]or three years, we have tried to be aware of that and a backward step if a later film goes into[...]e for Competition can be wrong from time to time, and if are now warned by the num ber of screenings w[...]ain, maybe the selection committee was not wrong, and O f course, there is still danger for any p[...]t didn't like it, the film won the Critics' Prize and it for it. If Sweetieh.a.d not been preceded[...]n's Sweetie shorts had been discovered at Cannes and, after that, travelled was not well received at[...]the critics, film festival directors, exhibitors and distribu hesitate about putting it in Competition. tors who could like and defend that film liked itverym uch. That was the[...]Cannes would no t like it wherever they saw it. And the fact that they conscious attitude and I d o n 't think it should be considered a[...] |
![]() | [...]mple, How did your association with Cannes begin and what form s has it there was Panic in[...]u n popular subject and with a director who was completely unknown.[...]'s earlier films had been a total flop in America and A1 After my military service, I was looking to m[...]ve said that; I was also a small distributor and p ioneered the reissue of u n I d o n 't[...]re issued in France were Citizen Kane, King Kong and Grapes of Wrath. I Bessy ran[...] |
![]() | [...]al, where I was invited by tee beforehand and influenced them. T hat is n o t the case. If I se[...]e, I d o n 't call GillesJacob or the com m ittee and mine, I saw David Stratton. David was at that ti[...]like it. I ju st d o n 't say anything. the AFC, and he asked me if I would be interested in being inv[...]that you have fought for films them for C annes and, eventually, other festivals. I came for the firs[...]get into Cannes? time in 1985 invited by the AFC and since then every year.[...]om year to year on what is com ing from Australia and ready and want to submit it to Cannes.[...]films which could be Bill Bennett and others. available, even if they're on 1.6 mm or[...]Australian cinema and thus losing an independent standing? Once I[...]some people in Australia think that, but in Paris and London point ofview. I am very cautious of any such established value system, and New York that is not the case. For a long time I[...]vious as an advocate of American cinem a and American genre. T hat was years. People can crit[...]Forman, Makevejev, King Hu, Lino Brocka and many people from take their film, which is never[...], I d o n 't dis-recommend films. If I see a film and like happened. The success she had thatyear at Cannes led, I guess, to her it, I recom m end it. And if I like it very m uch, I will fight for[...] |
![]() | [...]ifficult as Sweetie. T hen Sweetiecame to Cannes and was extremely well re[...]It got very good distributors around the world, and got into the[...]asier to speak about the Hollywood film industry, and they may not have done the right pic tures afte[...]nce there is a kind of cult, which is exaggerated and not well followed the success o f Sunday too far[...]say. F re d Schepisi is a success out of Cannes, and Occasionally p[...]ack o f follow-up is the schism between what you and others are doing to help Australian trali[...]an American film set in Arizona, cinema overseas and the funding psychologies o f the bureaucracies b[...]re Austra cesses at Cannes were Campion, Bennett and myself. Yet all three were rejected by the AFC f[...]lian than Mad Max, was sold m ore on the jungle and the crocodile to Australia. Obviously I have a v[...]stion, but do you see this situation as a problem and one that than being Australian. You cou[...]if I like a filmmaker, I like to see him develop. And it's true that I have som etim es been disappointed to see that some of and in life values. I d o n 't think Australia is any[...]time to time, some interesting films do appear, and sometimes from say to the people I m eet here that we should think m ore about protecting and developing the talent for the future. It is the best and Australia. Some year there are more from Aust[...]to go. I wish it had been done m ore in the past, and I certainly hope itwill be done more in the futu[...]t week in H ong Kong, or next week in Los Angeles and Probably. It also probably reflects hypocrisy.[...]istra New York. I react from my own instinct and experience and impulse. |
![]() | [...]constraints of business on cinema image quality, and about having your eyeballs[...]Village Technology, and along After Star Wars went into release in the[...]ion, Bob Lucas, is responsible for the evaluation and installa projected image and sound in many of the theatres he visited. With tion of the theatre projection and sound equipm ent for their fifty the movie's success and the ensuing financial clout, he resolved to plus[...]or Spielberg movie and reported back on the problems. They did, in Ci[...]re thought to be T h at's the im pact[...]As always, the problems come back to money and to the foresight choices are simply n o t enou[...]where we of theatre m anagement. Hailey: live, and part of their suburban shopping centre, so that t[...]ow the theatre projection and sound equipm ent? Second, is THX, Lucasfilm's[...]information and the process was then bounced We have really just got[...]o. He was impressed by the lage, Melbourne] up and running. We con system and his message came back to look at it. I sider i[...]all up for the possibility of THX sound, and they sound. The reason that the other theatres[...]levels and acoustics, to that standard. multiplex, the ex[...]satisfying to Hailey and his team as it was After Knox, THX was[...] |
![]() | [...]Lucas uses in conjunction with Dolby laboratories and DolbySR ensures that the sound[...]and loan Allen from Dolby Laboratories. T he presenta[...]ic sound, then to 70mm Dolby back-up, the logos and the advertising material. Every six m onths A stereo and finally to Dolby Lab's latest release, Dolby SR.[...]esults surprised many people. Hailey: standard, and that information goes back to Lucasfilm. If it pa[...]amples of SR were so stunning that people came up and said, `It[...]ves: in the box and you will see a piece of 35 mm film with an optica[...]running through the projector.' It was that good, and the We bought from Lucasfilm a very expens[...]The standards are achievable here and we seem to get it right with analyzer to detect problem areas and tell us to address them. films like Crocodile Dundee, The Fringe Dwellers and, more recent, The[...]ility. I have visited Skywalker Ranch and, compared to their system, I'd say we were within 95 per cent of the original. We're very close, and we've Actually, a lot of the pr[...]There is a lot of one- upmanship involved and there are people who think it's all a lot of[...]shorter at Adab, Roger Savage at Soundfirm and Les Mackenzie at Colorfilm, release,[...]o the spend coundess hours mixing, dubbing and re-recording to get a result video m arket and the prints are ju nked. With this "splash release[...]th. Savage has a THX licence for his mixing suite and he also uses Village theatres so that he try out[...]X is a pretty stringent requirement for recording and reproduction. So if you do a mix and it doesn't sound right on a wide-range sound[...]cinema systems that are using old speakers and amps. THX can pick up inherent fault in dubbing and mixing, and dtere have been directors and sound recordists who have turned their noses up at it because, and I hate to say it, their recording wasn't r[...]can remove the house cards, put them aside and give them the three cards and say, `Play with it and line it up for yourself and make it sound like you want it to. 'At the end of[...]put our EQ cards back to the standard that Dolby and Lucasfilm say is correct. There is no wide deviation between Dolby and THX. Dolby has |
![]() | [...]f a better q u ality than m ost Am erican prints and certain ly better than any o f th e recondition ed ones. W e ta k e m ore care in A u stra lia and I re a lly have high p raise fo r the people at A tlab and C olorfilm and the other lab s doing release prints. Technically[...]lity con people at Adab and Colorfilm and the other labs doing release prints. trol. Combine this with the trend to bigger and bigger screens in Technic[...]n side. I have the utmost praise for our lenses, and the image magnification over a short viewing dist[...]n the industry to improve positive print stocks, and thinks that the majority of the complaints are th[...]s with projectors requiring and autom ated projection booth, with all the adverti[...]s where focus is critical. T he other and feature assembled on a large, continuous platter.[...]says, "T he film only has to breathe in the gate and we have serious focus problem s."[...]that the colours were accurate to the landscape and the period of the Focus has becom e a const[...]of having the it right, and fortunately we did. But we had to bring things ba[...]was mostly alignment: all xenon ries for repair and reconditioning, and then being sent out to other[...]o warm m arkets such as Australia. Unlike a new (and expensive) print, these white[...]Mirrors are batch made and when you look at the cold light whatever th[...]an have varying colours degrading the image and the stability of the print as it runs through the[...]mpany: one projector. These prints flop in and out of focus, and they flutter badly in was green white, one was blue white and one was pink white. All you can the gate. We know it's not the projectors and the result is an unaccept do is use a[...]thing. the film with each of them and ask which he prefers. W hat Hailey knows[...]that management usually doesn't want to go Some of them come up quite well, but the image on others falls apart and I believe that you must keep the[...]ase that makes it unstable. competition and we are saying to the public go out and look at our big |
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![]() | [...]BEYOND EL ROCCO, RAW NERVE AND[...]of Information, subscribed to such a view and the IN BATTLE. "THE GREATN ESS OF G REAT W O R K[...]Kenneth literally embattled and Henry's "happy few", his G E N E R A T[...]lar novels, plays and original screenplays: all these other, more pro[...]what Shakespeare offers, Olivier version, and, in the case of many older[...]that tends to believe that what was good and old[...]why Henry and his forces should be in France in appeari[...]play as a hymn to British courage and solidarity. graphic stress on the physical[...]Certainly, Olivier's beautiful and romantic war[...] |
![]() | [...]role, just as his film offers a of their times, and Branagh is on record as seek McCowen (Ely) and Brian Blessed (Exeter), who harsher, mu[...]pearean text from its bring individuality and authority to their brief World War II mythology.[...]d, one who has seen it only twice, once in 1968 and tation of the warrior king, that the film must arrows being fitted to bows) and then give way to again last year, I have to say that I find Branagh's finally rest, and it is with relief and gratitude that more violent metonymies of death,[...]ar-triumph in shaking himself cious blows and moments of sharp poignancy. turn. Will the flig[...]. His There is a mixture of balletic beauty and horrify bows describe the same graceful parabol[...]this in stan t..." as he discovers the courage and devotion of his band of brothers? impression is quickly erased, and his dealings death ofyoung boys, or his[...]ring of with the three traitors - Grey, Scroop and Cam Fluellen with "I am Welsh you know. "The whole the scene. Can Emma Thompson and Geraldine bridge - confirm one's sense[...]ly edited to juxta McEwan, as Princess Katherine and her (more or arch to be reckoned with. If he is a less romantic, pose the personal and the corporate, the touch less) English-sp[...] |
![]() | [...]TLA N TA S Y N A G O G U E . priate for lighter and more heroic moments); and the surprising sombreness of the ending[...]ship and dignity is a fairly solid achievement. fier[...]ng works, but a great deal does. performed and written film (Alfred Uhry's finely into[...]arden. As a direct conse Branagh has made a bold and venturesome as chisTled script glistens like a diamond in its quence of this, and thanks to her persistent son sault on what might[...]extraordinary ability to capture fleeting and touch Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), she finds herse[...]philistine word on the American South).And like the film's sturdy three first, Miss Daisy is reluctant and too proud to have subject of Branagh's Best Osca[...]cars, which epitomize American know-how and a driver, but she eventually accepts and over a `There should be no awards for rehashing 400 reliability, and are commonly regarded as being twenty f[...]s of current Holly ship premised on empathy and sincerity, a friend history of the arts, this se[...]resford who is in the driver's seat. and behavioural differences, and cuts across class nothing to do with each other and no history. The and race. greatness of great works needs to b[...] |
![]() | [...]has come to terms with being a Daisy and Hoke take a refreshment break during code of values. victim of racial prejudice and Daisy is someone their car trip to Mobile.[...]as not experienced racism in any dramatic, and he is standing outside, admiring the scenery. ov[...]uld travel to Mobile to visit her complex and not predicated on cultural and Woven into the film's narrative are certain[...]t an aura of historical direction of the horizon and her finely modu ablished history of Afro-American actors and authenticity. In particular, there are two signi[...]screen performance that is de ment in the 1950s and '60s: the 1958 bombing of of how as a chil[...]the Gulf of Mexico. It is a very vivid image and one rable performances in American cinema by Afr[...]American performers: Canada Lee in Body and way to the synagogue; she can't believe that rac[...]Soul, Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding and would want to bomb it) and the scene where This idyllic sce[...]here King is the origins of her surname) and is probably hav tions were forced to give "[...]like contraband into a maudlin tale, and with an exceptional script and two seminal screen per[...]tive someone whose life is built on family pride and so many different levels: his perpetual st[...]ust, dramatically obvious, it is a subtle stoop, and an Editor: MarkWarner. Producdon designer: Bru[...]Colburn), Jes enters the kitchen to caution Hoke and Idella Afro-American peers who graced th[...]Miss McClatchey), William Hall Both Tandy's and Freeman's roles are ideal his lips, the pregnant pauses in his speech and the jun. (Oscar), Alvin M, Sugarman (Dr[...] |
![]() | [...]V IN L U C A S ' BEYOND EL ROCCO. again and again, very few reviewers, critics Ne[...]Rocco, the pianist's rendition of "Body and Soul" score, but the whole ensemble of relations[...]is playing at Chequers tween voice, noise, music and silence. If you are ocker questio[...]that it left Don Burrows and the rest of the band hoping to cultivate such an[...]At least keyboards and then quickly opening it, before droning track of[...], once the strings and banged the keys with his elbows. handed drama th[...]"It was like Jekyll and Hyde", says Burrows. With single house. Try as y[...]ff ThisJekyll-and-Hyde description serves to il Nerve.[...]lustrate the unpredictable and improvisational[...]hing in it. and hence to explain the attraction it held forjazz[...]gentleman'sjazz", and there is modern, improvi Sydney's North Shore. L[...]with ager, in turn, lets down his or her `mask', and characters stuck in one[...]position, that between the underground and the between the two films more or less stops the[...]through the dramatized sequences, and with a does not display much of a `pop' feel, ei[...]The first is roughly centred in the late 1950s and have written for himself such a `talky', potenti[...]s aural design. Rather, like in early '60s, and is characterized as a period of emu static debut[...]classic `moves' that are ens and thins, ebbs and flows, in strict accordance possible within this situation: using different rooms with the feel and flow of the drama. This is an[...]n that it is aware of these dynamics that lating and transforming itself, its characters, and are so central to `popular' cinema.[...]gresses from seeming `frigid' AND PETER LAWRANCE to admitting she is a `bruised ch[...]IN G W ALL), O N FLO O R, BILLY (JO H N "Body and Soul", which he had been playing for PO[...] |
![]() | [...]only 2 years; John Sangster more fully and widely developed. their e[...]mysterious' virtually apologizes for playingjazz and not being In the three major periods that Beyond El married couple who run the school and the grow black, but pretending to be; while the[...]cern of the local policeman develop with Sydney and Jazz Centre 44 in Melbourne tended Rocco[...]cGann's place within them is the grace and subdety of a surgical chainsaw to to demand Miles Davis and John Coltrane as always uncertain: he[...]ipster. With his comment emplary figure, and McGann kicks off the narra that "There's no nee[...]th being seen packing away his instrument and was made. T he second major problem[...]n in the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels, going and experimentation: McGann headed into the[...]returning to the gather right up to numbers 4 and 5, the makers were very bush for a time, practising his horn in the open ing and blows a brief solo before they all set in. c[...]fe, spaces; the Jazz Club scene almost died out; and personalities and charisma, and to hire actors experimentation groups like Free[...]es, leaving many jazz musi seem to mirror and individuate the film's trajec was at least[...]teenage characters who fail to raise one Treloar and Roger Frampton attempted to dis surpr[...]ing this by what isn't said, that the opening and closing of couldn't give a toss whether they live or die. And spirit over into the next period.[...]1973 into the '80s was marked by parture and a genuine return. devel[...], the easy way out of this would have been Quay, and the institution of a jazz course at the duc[...]New Wave disembowelling or a new ap of musicians and with them came a contemporary Musicians[...]n Quar spurts of Heinz Big Red around the neck and jazz, and with a desire to get out from the under tet[...]y Evans Quartet, Mark Simmonds Freeboppers, els, and to discover this country's influences and Paul Grobowsky Music. Production company: Lu[...]Produkzions, in association with Channel 4 (UK) and indictment is its inability to master the basic rule returned from the bush and formed a band, The the AFC. Distributor[...]quate husband - and before long there's no In the 1980s, the ja[...]nce no suspense. exciting things on the horizon. And it is in this third period that Beyond El Rocco[...]camerawork is drab and the lighting is flat. If stands apart from Zoot'[...]uld be made as soap opera, this film is periods, and, on the other hand, the role of Zoot[...]e way. It is a film pro turn the lights out and drench the film set with image of Zoot in his 1940s garb, he plays the role moted as a horror film, and it is for anyone with rain. of a detective[...]ing is where the best scares when one steps back and takes a long, hard look, and promotional gimmick, and it is the worst come from. Carrie, Cuj[...]for where the Australian Film London and, more locally and relevantly, Dead the film patterns a rather orth[...]alm extract their biggestjolts from the audience and a rather orthodox bi-partisan conception of[...]major film getting that of emulation, withdrawal and rebirth. Most with style, the story' in a[...]m like Bird with its bi-partisan conglomerate of Romeo and Juliet, Halloween, Fri it is, which highlights a[...]t being day the 13th, Revenge of the Nerds and The Film with local industry that such a bad f[...]c school, etc.) get almost no push at all. And something There is a sense of another histo[...]must be said about the cunning way the film has and Beyond El Rocco is not a film completely lack choral choirs and flash their developing breasts at been promot[...]a custom-made strand Advertisements and posters for the film dare which attempts to docu[...]ester school, something frowned break"and those too scared to sit through the rest McGann[...]cinema to "chicken's corner"and get their money sionism is suggested in the film[...]ies and the lead Catholic girl. if these were the 1950s and not the 1990s - or if[...] |
![]() | [...]rps cheerfully, flashing a least it was funny" and "unintentional comedy".[...]ALEC M ILLS' laughed loudly with her as if she and they knew it about the first mains[...] |
![]() | [...]said, going to want to keep on aboutit. BothJim and I had worked in television years previously:Jim[...]ad started in television on In Melbourne Tonight, and I had produced be able to pay as much as th[...]No. Will they buy other people in the industry. And, somewhat foolishly and arro from as broad a range of people[...]mistake. television. It isju st as com plicated and difficult as feature films.[...]producers to was some exceptional television and some terrible television. Sta make the move, and, with hindsight, we can say how sm art we were.[...]because they thought it We had to sell the house and everything. But necessity is the m other wo[...]on't quote productions, but we all of invention, and we went into television at the right time. We wer[...]on the staggeringly low budget of $2.25 million. And it's still making us money; we get a[...]up, forget it. Now, I think most people can film and television - and we always want to do both, if we can - is that sit down and figure out who those six or seven are. You then have the the swing between loss and profit in television is pretty small, and situation where people who want to make so[...]ven. T hat way they will money making television and you can make quite good profits. In h[...]u can lose the lot the first weekend, or bust out and w o n 't. make a h un d red million dollars[...]. We do television, which makes us regular money and keeps us working, and T hat is part of a very necessary c[...]the studios have satellites spinning around them, and cameras and 12 weeks shooting, with a shooting ratio of 15 to 1 and around those satellites are other satellites and so on. You have to link a crew of a hundred. You[...]T hat's what should happen a lot less than that. And th at's healthy.[...]less of a risk. With film, there is a higher risk and a higher possible return. It is m ore of a gambl[...]experience and contacts. It's n ot so m uch the idea, but w ho's[...]hands of anyone other so instant: it goes to air and is g one.You can spend a year or so of your than[...]r breathed life creating a wonderful mini-series and, because people are going a magical quality into it and turned the thing into a hit movie. He was out on[...]wonderful. I'll never forget that when the Zuker and[...]ing audiences at the m oment o f Return to Eden. And Clive Jam es spoke o f it the other night,[...] |
![]() | [...]inexperienced people directjt. So they hired And once the concept's right, then everything else se[...]s producer the toughest old bastard, Howard Kochi and he hired place. T hat'swhy we have nev[...]t Towering kind of gone for concepts, and, if the concept is right, people give us Infern[...]the money. I mean, the concept of Sex, Lies, and Videotape is terrific: and came up with a hit movie.[...]it. where some have been doing it for 25 years, and presumably have learnt something. I'm always de[...]And the setting is an exotic, fantastic part of the world. The 1970s for McElroy and McElroy are easy for an outsider to[...]alian so black they are actually blue. And into that exotic context, you put |
![]() | [...]rt Young discovers, after 18 years of marriage and Art dept coord. Nikki Cavanagh[...]Leonard Lee Planning and Development[...]Judy Hamilton borrows characters and events from popu Insurer Stee[...]Patrick Stewart lar fairy tales and weaves them into one Complet, guarantor[...]ssts Andreya O 'Reilly charming and suspenseful tale of love,[...]Trish Graham mystery and mirth. Legal serv[...] |
![]() | [...]MacIn tain his dignity amidst brutality and Make-up asst Anna Karpinski Sy[...]Hairdresser Tony Meredith riage and friendship, begun during the Greaves (Kogara[...]irdresser Greg Staines occupation ofJapan, and set in 1950s and Grant), Paul Goddard (Bobby). n[...]anville '60s Victoria. Here the cultural shift and Synopsis: A tale of real estate and revenge kitchen-hand Mustafa leaves Carl feeling[...]Lou Horvath Planning and Development Editor[...]duction Crew Planning and Development Prod, manager[...]ntant Mandy Carter Synopsis: Eddie and Mick are out-of-work[...] |
![]() | [...].O.P. Ross Berryman P la n n in g and Development Ma[...]r Mike Davies is her husband, and a ruthless landowner Location manager Ro[...]nsman Peter Hordern Planning and Development THE RETURNING[...]m violence in hospitals, reasons for it and John Day[...]AGFA XT320 violence scenario and Violence Response[...]fer Simon Lee his brother and finds murder, intrigue Prod, secretary[...]Asst electrics Darren Bellangarry and romance - it's a jungle out there. Prod, ac[...]ODMOON Pintubi and Walpiri artists of the Western[...]Desert of Australia and the high com[...] |
![]() | [...]stian Bass CastJohn Poison (David, aged 17),Juliet Producer Mike Davies[...]a operators Brigid Costello Planning and Development Synopsis: Set in a sm[...], manager Frances McGivern of memories, and explores the geography Composers[...]ttorino of pain relief available to the woman, and Screen ratio 1.85: 1[...](Johnny), ex-Cinesound and -Movietone Art dept runner Andrew Rob[...]staff and the people of Australia. Standby props[...]THE LAST NEWSREEL and-white film that celebrates Operation Wardrob[...]company AFTRS Newsreel and is a fitting finale to the Post-prod[...] |
![]() | [...]z Crosby Synopsis: Koalas is a humorous and dra- year olds. Laboratory[...]ith which reveals some very interesting and Neg matching Karen Clark[...]FA Scriptwriter John McKay and isoladon. Cast Da[...], company AFTRS outward and inward journeys. Briefly two Producer[...]Saunders operations of the Sheriff s office, and Pre-prod'n 16/10/89-10/11/89[...]ter John Patterson encourages men and women to consider Producdon 11/11/89-[...]erson SHOWING A LITTLE RESTRAINT Planning and Development Sound rec[...] |
![]() | needed by different-aged children, and Sound GeoffWhi[...]hion, Post-prod Barry NancarrowProdsing and design can produce saleable/ and entertainment. Length 10.5 mins acceptable villas and townhouses, creat THE CRIMINAL COURT[...]BVU ing a lifestyle that is both practical and Prod, company Balcony Prods[...] |
![]() | [...]IanAndeUrsnoint publicist Howie and Taylor Publ. Narrator Guy Blackmore Di[...]g how the management programme of the Planning and Development Int. di[...]r Quartier Latin Int. Nadonal Parks and Wildlife Service has Budgeted by[...]Howie & Taylor Publ. Publ. Howie and Taylor Publ. made the parks accessible to visi[...]oducer Saadia Winter Unit publicist Howie and Taylor Publ. Scott Major (M[...]t all of whom have music ("Pratt and the Prince") Laboratory Visualeyes Publ. Howie and Taylor Publ. foremost in their minds. The est[...]pplied] air of mystery about it and, when mention Dist. company Quartier[...]Synopsis: A docum entary-style pro between 12 and 17 to register for compul become fa[...]ndary school sory military training. Between 1911 and[...]Director Esben Storm and skills in areas of learning which have,[...]ing prod. Ewan Burnett Computers and Mathematics. Prod, company[...]ner Larry Eastwood Sponsor Roads and Traffic Authority Production 27/[...]ec. prod. Patricia Edgar Planning and Development Producer To[...]Patricia Edgar Planning and Development Production Crew[...]Michael Atkinson Unit publicist Howie and Taylor Pubi. Prod, runner David Holmes controllers employed by the Roads and Yuri Worontschak[...]fic Authority of New South Wales. Planning and Development Gauge[...]Publ. Howie and Taylor Publ. (Sue Mil[...]Naomi Silver ter, Ada, and a housekeeper, Martha, and Camera Crew Sound recordist[...]ks Accounts asst Mary Makris and steal her inheritance. On-set[...]Sue Andrews South Wales and shows how they operate Camera Crew[...]Latin Int. Unit publicist Howie & Taylor Publ. and the types of problems they encoun Focus puller[...]up Nik Doming Planning and Development Asst edit[...] |
![]() | [...]Ebony Ricketson (Katie). Planning and Development Planning and Development Scriptwriter[...]n McCann The last wish was given away 99 years and Sue Ell[...]Colleen McNamara comings and goings of an inner-city Wrangle[...]Joanne Stevens HOME AND AWAY Catering[...]The Editing Machine fascinated by the concept and becomes Catering Tas[...]Tape house Bob Dog Inc. Victoria and Albert Einstein.[...]Julie Puglisi Planning and Development Rooney[...] |
![]() | [...]Suzie Clemo P la n n in g and Development Prod, company Crawford Prod[...]AnnaSeniostrruggle to win the woman he loves and Marc Ryan Completion guarant. Finances Planning and Development claim the land he h[...]Foster Casting Jan Pontifex and loyalty.[...] |
![]() | [...]EMERALD CITY Anim ation Directed and I N T E R N AT IO N A L Directed by[...] |
![]() | [...]kicked off the NSW Rugby League TV commercials and I used EXR stock to cover the play. Thrown in with these tough football players, Tina was great - and looking through the end of a 400mm lens she was[...]amic. Day interior, day exterior, night interior and night exterior with a chopper landing in the ra[...]A lot of our shooting was at 50,75, 100 frames and with this stock I knew I'd have m ore depth. It'[...]h a decent s t o p ... something like 4 or 5.6. And pretty quick! A true El 500. Grain? None! There was no grain and the blacks were black. It's simply the best. I could use EXR 5296 all the time. I know Tina and our director Dick Marks (of Dick Marks: the Aus[...]aphy Eastman Motion Picture Films Kodak and Eastman are registered.tradem arks. 49 0 G[...] |
MTV Publishing Ltd, Richmond, Cinema Papers no. 79 May 1990 (May 1990). University of Wollongong Archives, accessed 19/01/2025, https://archivesonline.uow.edu.au/nodes/view/5088