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| [...]IIETT: FILM VICTORIA Interview by Scott Murray 28 P. J. HOGAN: MURIEI. '8 WEDDING Interview by Jan Ep[...]ndrew L. Urban 43 TECIINICALITIES Dominic Case 56 AUSTRALIA’S FIRST FILMS: FEDERATION FILM Part 10 of a con[...]University of NSW, Sydney; ANNA DZENIS is a tutor in Cinema Studies at LaTrobe University; JAN EPSTEIN[...]JOHN FOAM is a film buff with a special interest in Italian Cinema; LLOYD HART is a principal of the law firm Hart & Spira and has for more than 13 years acted for Fi[...]Theology Review; LORRAINE MORTIMER is a lecturer in Cinema Studies at LaTrobe University; TOM O’REGAN is a senior lecturer in Communications at Murdoch University and the co-e[...]ernational; DAVID VALLENCE co-hosts the film show on 3CR; RAYMOND YOUNIS is a lecturer at the Univers[...]er of films; MONICA ZETLIN co-hosts the film show on 3CR. Editor: Scott Murray; Assistant Editor: Raf[...]rtson and Marius Foley; Bromide Output: Witchtype P/L; Printing: Jenkin Buxton; Distribution: Network[...]ch may arise. This magazine may not be reproduced in whole or part without the express permission of t[...]Limited, 43 Charles Street Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia 3067 Telephone (03) 429 5511. Fax (03) 42[...] |
| BRIEFLY letters Dear Editor, In the Ken G. Hall obituary by Neil McDonald Senior Lecturer School of Communication & Cultural Studies The Small Man is a contemporary melodrama The Small Man is about an expatriate, living in Gene Conl-<ie worked with Hillcoat on the screen- Southern Star is the sales agent for The Small The other three projects in the FFC’s Fourth Australian Film Commission Ward's experience includes involvement in the In May 1994, the Australian Film Commission facilities, consolidate its staff on two levels and 000000 Film Victoria On 9 August, Film Victoria announced the appoint- In his role, Laker will be primarily responsible In November this year, Australian audiences Korea possesses the tenth largest economy in —e |
| [...]be targeted to the prime—time documentary slots in the SBS schedule, which are The Cutting Edge, Abo[...]issues. The proposals should reflect aspects of Australia's pluralist society, and should be in positive and innovative ways. The programs should[...]ill wish to see a clear reflection of its charter in the issues treated in the |
| [...]0F THE DESERT’. Priscilla, as nearly everyone in Australia presumably knows by Written and directed by Elliott, whose first feature Frauds was PART 1: RECORDED IN CANNES, MAY 1994, THE DAY It was great fun last night.[...]to be there still watching a movie midnight screening I’ve been to. I even fell asleep in Strictly You did[...]was much more subdued and polite. The film worked on a You touch on Why your characters are the way they are in a very Yes. The world is drowning in politics. We are not allowed to I originally went to the Mardi Gras people inin a bad light”, and on and on. Politics! The transsexual sees herself as a woman and is more subdued in her Drag has nothing to do[...]It’s like cabaret acts now. Hugo Weaving says in the production notes, “It’s liberating to In Sydney, I had Hugo, Guy and Terence done up in the most The world is drowning in politics. |
| [...]ng to give the Festival some life, but it bit him in the bum very badly. The backlash of that was what[...]to me, “We love your film, but we cannot put it in Competition. We don’t want comedy.” And I sai[...]new enfant terrible? It’s getting very crowded in the cradle with all the enfants terrible. For instance, I want to do a film based on a short story by Ayn went away again. PART 2: RECORDED BY PHONE IN AUSTRALIAin a very, very big way. When will it open there? They are racing to get us open on August 7. I have to do this video We are going to open pretty wide by the looks of things. We Yes, because in this country it won’t be seen as a gay flagship[...]y In Australia, it’s going to do fabulously well on its own two |
| [...]ghtened that the film was going to be looked down on by women, because there are not a lot of female roles in the film and the ones that are there are not trea[...]Nights deals with political correctness. It takes on issues — AIDS and promiscuity —- and faces them directly. Priscilla touches on issues like AIDS and then steps right over them.[...]val was, “Why didn’t you face more gay issues in the film? There are a lot of important blah blah ” The heavy—wing gay groups then started in on me. I said, “Hey, if you want to make that sort[...]al here — a very funny, tasteless, brash, loud, in—ya-face film. I didn’t want to get into that.[...]to ignore it, but I didn’t. AIDS is there.” In Priscilla, you diffuse people’s fear of drag qu[...]9505 musicals. The 8 - CINEMA PAPERS 101 TICK [HUGO WEAVING). THE[...]ing it to him. It was the same with Phil Collins on Frauds. Phil was com- now. My next project is a very dark love story. It’s based on a |
| [...]I want to try a really intelligent horror film. On top of those, I have so many other things lined up. There Have you had many overseas offers? Whe[...]were No, we will sit down in a room and have, as It was great getting all this attention, b[...]We’d definitely like to get involved The horror of development hell in Hollywood is that hundreds |
| [...]ry surprised how certain other people have jumped in already. One Australian director I know is doing[...]this?” They said, “Because someone famous is in it.” I said, “But it’s rat shit. It’s not[...]our own shots. The plan is to keep mobile. I’m on a good roll at the moment. I 10 - CINEMA PAPERS 101 about a film or two’s[...]ts we divided with the crew. It’s quite simple: the bigger the bu[...]creeping up past Does[...]the wrong word. It’s a true story that happened in CONTINUES ON PAGE 86 |
| [...]him. Bill is a great actor and the things he did on The Hit were Did you have to overcome any prejudices in playing Bernadette? No, I had to overcome lots o[...]t. It In truth, it didn’t matter whether I succeeded or[...]o women’s clothes. As Adam says, “We In the 1970s, I was really retired and did a lot of[...]vertical. What[...]g queens is they are basically ordinary guys and, Yes, I had a wonderful time. I really enjoyed a[...]o Melbourne because I had a really Why was that? Because I went there[...]ean I’m[...] |
| [...]S...‘ (1 976). Of course, to speak of this film in this particular context is to speak about damned[...]Pure S... is a film that keeps coming back to you in so many different, ephemeral ways. It is a film t[...]ral mise—en-scéne represents the underbelly of Australia’s recent film culture. To echo John Flaus here, this is a film that reminds you, in so many different and engaging ways, of the “de[...]reg- isters that are (to this day) often bypassed in Australian feature and independent films. 12 - CINEMA PAPERS 101 It is a film that rockets along in its modest way with its |
| [...]ty. And, significantly, its characters are always on the move — looking, scheming, wondering how they will get their next shot of “pure shit”. They weave in and around dingy apartments, dives, haunts, clubs[...]s and class structures as if they were characters in a hard- boiled crime novel. Tom Cowan’s sharp,[...]attuned performance as |
| Earlier on in the film, a young Woman fatally overdoses. The de[...]as part of the fabric of everyday life. Life goes on, hysteria and all. In less capable hands, Pure S... would have been milked for all its melodramatic juice. favourite songs[...]therefore, shown with the revised “Pure PURE s... Directed by Bert Deling. Producer: Bob Weis. Sctiptwriter: Bert On the face of it, King ofthe Coral Sea has little going for |
| on himself to avoid capture. All we know is that he[...]ible for the death of a ‘Commonwealth agent’. In classic comic—book logic, they are the baddies;[...]er boyfriend “hanging around”. She also cries in church. Yes, on many counts, Coral Sea is a bad film. It is ideol[...]it those comic—strip qualities too rarely found in our cinema? (In this context, it is nice to know that Lee Robinson was also a key figure in the television series, S/zippy.) Is it that, as B[...]r- writing so much internal migration to Northern Australia, then and now? Is it the problems it creates for[...]rnation- alization as producers are now operating in an environment not far removed from the one Robinson worked in during the 1950s and 19605? Is it the Mabo decision and the recognition of settler Australia’s continuing colonization in and outside Australia that made me focus on this, a Torres Strait, film? Is it the feeling that this film indirectly interrogated Australia’s borders and our relations with the peoples of[...]barrassing recog- nition of a boy’s own Kipling in 1950s Australia? Or is it more personal: that this film and place stretched[...]rther King of the Coral Sea comes out of a moment in Australian RUSTY KING (ILMA ADEY). TED KIN[...] |
| [...]omparison with Tracey Moffatt’s mise—en-scene in BeDe1/il (1993) and some of her photographic work[...]a time as Robinson’s cinematographer. Robinson in his turn was touched by an interest in indigenous peoples. In 1949, he made some bizarre suggestions for the make-up of Australian films: they were to be set in the Northern Territory, “land of Australians in their truest sense”, and Aborigines, in particular, were to be good subjects because, hav[...]and Islander activist claim for a major presence on their terms in Australian cinema. Robinson (director) and Raffer[...]community: King of the Coral Sea’s premiere was in Thursday Island. The Robinson txiuvre of the 1940s and 1 9505 also provides a recognition on film of a multi—racial Australia at a time of the white Australia policy. The film refreshingly shows Islanders wor[...]rkable. Jane Campion’s use of a Maori back~drop in The Piano (1993) and Wim Wenders’ use of Centralian Aborigi- nes in Until the End of the World (1992) are not that di[...]f Yusep, the Chinese woman and the many Islanders in King of the Coral Sea. Of course, there is a limi[...](Yusep and his Chinese girlfriend Serena). Back in 1974, I had a decision to make: to go North to the 2 Ibid., p. 290. 16 . CINEMA PAPERS 101 3 Ibid., p.285. 4 Tom O’Regan, “Australian Film in the 1950s”, Continuum, 1:1 (1987), 5 William D. Routt, “Are you a fish? Are you a snake?”, Continuum, 8:2 6 Jennie Boddington, Drysdale, Photographer[...]Frontiers”, Monthly Film Bulletin, August KING or THE CORAL SEA Directed by Lee Robin[...]scharges getting up the On a sunny Melbourne morning, medical student Paul A[...]rs who seek help or work at the clinic. The day—in—the— |
| [...]st bill by thousands of dollars. 2. SAVE with no on-going bank fees. |
| [...]into the room. He can tell there has been a slut in there. It reeks of sin. “Must be a friend of yours, is he?”, quips Eric. Mood changes quickly in The Clinic. Comedy goes to drama Notes 1 There are no character names given on the front or end credits of The 3 The Screening of Australia Vol. 2: Anatomy of a National Cinema; |
| [...]ILLIEATA. “Voyages of Discovery”, op. cit., p. 12. The Screening of/lustralia, op. cit., p. 6. <>O\lC‘\K/I-F- “Voyages of Discovery”, op. cit., p. 14. Stevens is responding 9[...]1983. FRAFFAELE CAPUTO ) Bello Onesto Emigrato Australia Sposerebbe 9, Compaesana Illibata Directed and co-written by Luigi Zampa Another such film released in 1971 is Bello onesto emigrato Bello onesto tru[...]know of, one at New York’s Museum of CONTINUES ON PAGE 79 CINEMA PAPERS 101 . 19 |
| URBAN EDGE: NEW URBAN CINEMA Film Victoria takes Melbourne to the world[...]ason URBAN EDGE: NEW URBAN CINEMA FROM MELBOURNE, The season showcases a[...]multicultural community. * THE BIG STEAL * DEATH IN BRUNSWICK * THE HEARTBREAK KID * HOLIDAYS ON THE RIVER YARRA Film Victoria, 4th F[...] |
| [...]e two major sites of Australian film production. In fact, the first Australian film (covering the ‘November 1896, followed a few daysilater by t[...]dney assumed revival.[...]Hooks and Chris Fitchett of Film Victoria detail in their; interview). just as there has been an increasing interest in discovering and recording regional differences in pronunciation and dialect Western Australia, which has battled bravely to make indigenous films, will be examined in future issues.) Of course, a film culture is far[...]Image Makers Association has stimulated interest in innovative areas of image-making; the As well, there are the many firms which are syn[...]ourne filmmaking. Most of these have been covered in'_Vi (starting with Soundfirm and its contribution to sound in Australian filmmaking). In this supplement, space allows only a concentration on three recent Victorian productions: Ben lewin’s lucky Break; P. J. |
| [...]TERVIEWED BY SCOTT MURRAY Film Victoria is one of Australia’s longest—serving state film bodies. Formed as the Victorian Film Corporation in 1976, it has been an important stimulus for local and national film culture. The aggregation in Sydney of the major federal funding bodies, along with free and pay television, has placed added pressure on state bodies such as Film Victoria to develop and[...]for the future. What have been the major changes in the past five years or so at HOOK[...]through the problems of some of the other organization had been through a[...] |
| [...]the recommendations that were made we had already in fact incorporated, and the rest we took on board. We’ve implemented some internal structur[...]m. We hope to build it to $ 1 Om by various means in future. That will provide the facility to discoun[...]he Independent Filmmakers’ Fund was established in 1986 and the New Writers’ Scheme in 1991. There have also been changes to documentari[...]r, which we do now. That manager is a great asset in terms of tying—up our project investment manage[...]all the returns came back, and reporting was done on time. What’s happened with that, too, is that[...]orts back, but to In total, Industry Assistance for 1994-95 will be $3[...]wards at FITCHETT:[...]ARTS. HOOKS: I have to say we worked very hard on that. That’s the first thing. Resourcing for Second, we deliver very well for the government[...]ster every Is script development concentrated on features, or spread evenly Because of Film Australia? HOOKS: Partly because of Film Australia, but also because the CINEMA PAPERS 101- 23 |
| [...]strike-rate. We think that’s probably the best in Australia, although we can’t get data out of any other ag[...]al documentary slate. Do you find that imbalance in other areas as well? HOOKS: No. If we look at the state population share and expect FITCHETT: The amount allocated in script development is a third Do you find the percentages of pr[...]strike- FITCHETT: It’s better than one in five, H[...]and marketability. We don’t defy those In 1983-84, for example, there were 40 new projects[...]ow—budget features, it was about $300- Which means y[...]TCHETT: Yes. HOOKS: _ That can be problematical. In situations where the FITCHETT: In fact, we haven’t done one with the AFC since Bo[...]Stomper, Return Home [Ray How, then, does Film Victoria react when[...]ime frame is quite a long time. Wedding [P. J. Hogan, 1994], Tlae Heartbreak Kid [Michael |
| [...]JOHNNO JOHNSTON {ANDREW DMIIJG) AND SEBGERHT SAFJ PflI1L{P5(GE»BABD KENNEDY) IN 800!’ M£l.T(PH§L!P BRO?HY}: HENRY EPETEB MJYQTE} AND BRT (JAMIE EMOF[...]E. BBIRIMAN (BILL HUNTER) AKD DALE (DAV!!! FIELD) IN ALKINOS FSIUlfllDOS' El/EBYNIQHT... EVERYNIGHT. JOHN TATOULIS‘ THI-‘SILVER BAVUMBY: JOAN PLOWBIEHT IN RICHIXRD FBANI(LiN‘S E075}. SOIIRENTD;[...] |
| [...]e [Paul Cox, awaiting release]. We were involved in the development of Metal Skin [formerly T[...]ved with that hasn’t been an AFC or FFC project in the past Greg Smith said in his recent Cinema Papers interview2 that he That upper limit has been the situa[...]has been FITCHETT: We are so dependent on returns for our revenue that HOO[...]ays of enhancing the revenue base We used to do discounting on a very small level with different What amount will you be able to discount in any year? FITCHETT: This financial year we can do $2.5m of cash—flow. Will it have much effect on bringing other productions to FITCHETT[...]esult, What other initiatives are important in bringing production to HOOKS: The Melb[...]the skills and the talent of |
| business is one of the most difficult businesses in the industry. World—wide, there is a huge over—supply of studios. Competition in that business is a tough game. I wouldn’t want to be basing competitive strategies on a studio. What are you doing in terms of attracting off—shore productions? HOOKS: There is an interest in off—shore productions, chiefly co- FITCHETT: There is a boom in television production at the There are others, too, such as Neighbours and A Country Well, many of them have a television logo of some kind on the CONTINUES ON PAGE 84 RECENT VICTORIAN FEATURES WITH FIL[...]EDDIE (ANTHONY CINEMA PAPERS 101 - 27 |
| i iwriter-director 9.8- P. J. Hogan interviewed by Jan Epstein Muriel’s Wedding is the first theatrical feature of writer-director P. l. llogan, who made the acclaimed short Getting[...]roducer team behind the highly- successful Proof in 1991, Muriel’s Wedding is already a hit, its me, the inspiration Was a bridal-wear store, in which, of course, I grew up in a small town and it always seemed to me to be story may have nothing to do with your life in its events, but the |
| [...]t. I think that’s the message of the film, too. In fact, Iwould be very suspicious if the film’s s[...]), JANINE (BELINDA JARIIETT). TANIA (SOPHIE LEE). P. J. HDGAN’S MUBIELS WEDDING. What is the theat[...]that she has no power, Iwanted something to happen in Muriel’s life that she had no |
| [...]ent to be as sudden and unexpected as it would be in life. It was a very deliberate decision to have i[...]omes along when we expect it. It always sneaks up on us like a mugger, and slips inIn the script, Rhonda is written as physically a lot like Muriel. My idea was that Rhonda was an outsider in the same way that Muriel was. When Rachel walked in, I thought, “She is so beautiful. There is no w[...]says whatever she thinks and she ruthlessly hones in. No wonder she is an outsider. As soon as Rachel[...]nd down to New South Wales, the sort ofguy who I always imagined Bill as a Labour man, someone who believes Equally, Muriel is very callous towa[...]here, is always 30 - CINEMA PAPERS 1.0.1 MURIEL IN A BRIDAL-WEAR SHOP. MUBIELS WEDDING. going to be[...]re men like that; it’s just a Is Bill based on anyone you know? I actually find that most politicians have more than a little of “Bill When Joce and I were travelling around Canada with Proof, Did you have Bill Hunter in mind from the start? Yes. I wrote the script with Bill in mind. I would have been |
| Muriel’s Wedding is a very vibrant and colourful film in a hyper—real Way. All that comes from the Gold[...]f what the town should look How much did the Gold Coast influence the The girlfriends are raucous a[...]of girls from the Gold Coast. They are absolutely Sophie, I think, grew up in Newcastle and ran with a very While the characters in Muriel’s Wedding are larger than life, I actually went a bit easy on them. The only thing I heightened is There must be a grotesque element in the subconsciousness of It’s just cul[...]filmmakers But other cultures, like America, don’t take the same delight in In my experience, the humour we get from these chara[...]ers that do put the extremes of American society on film, like Did you have any negotiations with Bob[...]cter. When[...]e things that Muriel CINEMA PA[...] |
| [...]the sunshine. I think that Muriel is very unhappy in the 19905. When I was growing up in the ‘70s, I was unhappy. I wanted I thought it important for Muriel not to feel right in her time. Was it pleasurabl[...]n always brought me back to what a woman would do in We reall[...]because the Oh, yes. In fact, we fought a lot at the very beginning, beca[...]oing. After one It is really how I write. I[...]ilm is as much what you leave out Looking back, what sort of effect did Cannes have on you? Personally, it was very fulfilling. There i[...]be one of the high points. What about the impact on the film? That was immense. Ciby [Sales] made sa[...]he film, What ma[...]wanted to back Ciby invests in filmmakers. They consider themselves a direc- It was a bit rough. I thi[...]. [Laughs.] Is it different to Muriel’s? Yes. In a lot of ways, I feel that Muriel’s might turn out to be I’m sort of in the script now. You’ve caught me on a good day. Who are the people you admire in film? There is not a director that I could name,[...]first ones that sprung to mind. You obviously believe in entertainment, because they are all very |
| [...]director John Ruane has been making films in Melbourne for twenty years. His most recen[...]ival. “Melbourne's a great city to film in. It’s got diversity of locations on its doorstep from the desert country of Tha[...]inner city streets that could be anywhere in Paris or New York. lt’s no accident that we’[...]E FILM OFFICE facilities to back us up. Why shoot[...] |
| [...]des clear evidence that there is inspired ferment in that so often marginalized area of Australian fil[...]pted by Kokkinos and Mira Robertson, and produced in association with the Australian Film Commi[...] |
| [...]KlNOS' omv THE BRAVE. BELOW: DIRECTOR ANA xoxxmos on SET WITH ELENA MANDALIS. Film Festival, it won t[...]d Lon- At first we recog[...]rls about to torch a hedge. The hedge is into tunnels, into darkness, into oblivion. In her dreams, Alex is |
| [...]a song she once performed, maybe still performs. In a moment of fantasy and yearning, Vicki puts on Alex’s mother’s red dress and sings this song[...]Words and their construction play a central role in other ways as well. It is Alex’s own words (wri[...]tually hear, that become the most powerfully felt in the film. There are also two scenes, both at scho[...]ges when their escaping wartime plane crash lands on an island, and the boys are left to 36 . CINEMA[...]an erotic THE FIGHT IN THE SCHOOL TOILET BLOCK BETWEEN ALEX AND T[...] |
| [...]PRODUCER FELLOWSHIP SCHEME $360,000 is available in amounts from $8,000 to $60,000 to enable producer[...]NG FELLOWSHIP SCHEME Up to $125,000 is available in the form of five fellowships (of up to $15,000 each) in Australia and two fellow- |
| [...]EWED BY ANDREW . R A \| CINEMA PAPERS 101 Back in Australia after his French-made The Favor The Watch & The Very Big Fish, writer-director Ben Lewin has[...]orporation, Lucky Break was shot early this year in Melbourne by DOP Vince Monton. Ben Lewin[...] |
| [...]t get Eddie out of her head. She pursues him and, in the course of that pursuit, she breaks her leg. P[...]lot of Lucky Break as somewhat autobiographical. On reading a transcript of the following interview, Lewin is no longer so not necessarily as an analysis of a completed work. LEFT: PLUMMETING OVER A BAL[...]tinuity to making the movie. The whole thing goes Since you’re dealing with a more[...]autobiographical rites—of-passage, growing—up-in—sub- |
| a writer, who lives much of her life in a fantasy world. It is much more exotic and much more of a turn—on then her real world. The In my mind, she’s never entirely become her own pe[...], it’s not profoundly personal. It’s personal in the way that every In the course of this reconciliation, Sophie hits him with her SOPHIE AND EDDIE (ANTHONY LAPAGLIA) LOOK ONin In terms of the “be yourself” moral, where does[...]lse Yes. It’s definitely an editorial point of vi[...]o cope with. The moral is that at a certain There is a sense in which people who are physically disabled Now, I’m not trying to make[...]ndi- How much humour is there in the film? I hope it is a balance between laughin[...]t of self-mocking |
| [...]er when I was about 10 or 1 1 years old exploring on my crutches the neighbourhood of East Coburg, whe[...]it slipped and the whole of me ended up face down in the tar. It wasn’t then terribly hot fortunatel[...]hat it’s not an hilarious moment, even for me. In retrospect, it was me discovering the world and I[...]is a statement of fact. I’m a Jew who was born Do the things you associate with when you were growing up In that sense, yes, my norms are European norms. But humour does, I presume. Eur[...]nd glorified comedic I wanted to ask you about an overview comment on filmmaking. I don’t know how informative or[...]ing else. It was a great joy to have it published in the Dingo |
| Writing screenplays has now taken on a completely different complexion in that, every time I have to make a decision to wri[...]d investment for the next three years of my life. In the old days, my preoccupation with a subject was[...]a gun for hire, but the more you want to succeed in anything the more you have to become one, in some way or another. At the same time, compared[...]he’d say, “I’ve All right, but presuma[...]ularly if you There is an element of truth in that, but it’s only true if you On the other hand, I’d say that being a writer is[...]s (series) — creator, a director 1986 Adam’s Australia (documentary, UK) 1987 A Matter of Convenience ([...]n) — writer , ORSON wELL£.s..oN DIRECTING, A V (Welles Storyflesiielviegahey, /to§_;,}/,.s , j/sleegwith if r,f[...]very tenipti1ig,,tar,siee / a directorgfes. He is a kind of di1‘e,<[...]Bogdanovich, states the documentary went to air in 1980, but the copyright on the programme |
| [...]Kine Recording — the next instalment Following on last issue's survey of digital film transfers com[...]“top—end” digital film transfers of- |
| [...]echniqueofawooden clapper and rubber edge numbers on the sprocketed sound tapes worked well enough in simpler times, butthe mechanics of marrying up the film and audio tracks at rushes and keeping them in sync during the edit have always been a bit clums[...]. After several phases of development, Aaton‘s The system works in three stages: on the On the set, timecode generators in the cam- -‘,w>.6m;.~»«»s§u« ‘ ‘ - on any frame, with Usually, editors will require video timecode Atlab‘s view is that the Aaton[...]Ps THE KIT FOR AATDN KEYLINK LOGGING. CLOCKWI[...]AATDN XTR CAMERA; MONITOR SHOWING AATDN TIMEGODE |
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| [...]ode slates, where the audio timecode is displayed on an elec- tronic slate, frozen when the clapper is[...]t editor (or telecine operator) to read it. Typed in at the telecine transfer stage, this is enough in[...]changes some of the traditional responsibilities. On set, it is now the sound recordist who has sole r[...]lapperboard, it's hard for the camera crew to get in on the act. In post-production, syncing has always been possible at telecine, but usu- ally is left until afterwards in a restriping opera- tion, often at the post—production facility. In the automated “chase sync” operation, the ma-[...]videotape and computers, there’s less and less in post-production that is recognizably film equipme[...]he Aaton XTR super 16 camera, an amazingly small, on-board sound recording system, using Sony Microdat cassettes. This records timecode on one track, and a single channel of digital sound on the other, with up to 60 minutes of sound in one postage stamp- sized cassette. Given one soun[...]DAT cartridges — “They’re too easy to tread on” — the biggest technological problem with thi[...]l be the ease with which it will fall down cracks in the floor. Miller Professional Products complete[...]e THE SONY MICRDDAT CASSETTE FITS INTO THE ON-BOARD The SMPIE Conference As well as the exhibition, the SMPTE show in- CINEMA PAPERS 101- 49 |
| [...]FERENCE, IS REPRODUCED HERE BY PERMISSION OF THE AUSTRALIA (NORTH) SECTION OF SMPTE.] DOMINIC CASE This is[...]ooking Parallel technologies are going in the same 80 now, in an ever-wider range of technolo- In fact, the principle is well illustrated by This is how the collision between comp[...]EPING THE BABY, As I1’ EL editing, resulting in a change of direction in Only the most fe[...]nology, stor- THE V[...]iscovered that one of the |
| [...]ow was the exposure, and will the close-ups grade in with the wide shots when the answer print comes up? With the best will inON THE SKILLS, OF INHERITING THE CULTURE, IS COMPROM[...]disadvantaged. The traditional rushes screen- ing in a theatre at the end ofthe next day’s shoot simply doesn't work on a video monitor, or even a video projector. There[...]nings any more, with the resultant loss of morale on the entire production. Of course, non—linear e[...]esting that we should forgo 1H resolve difficulties in the camera department. TRAINING ISSUES Back in the editing room, an- We Specialise in Insurance for: |
| cause non-linear editing systems are mounted on a personal computer, there's only room for one person at a time, so the assistant has to come in at night to do this. But after digitizing, there[...]parison. Some years ago, colour—grading systems in laboratories were computerized. There is still a[...]reliably. So, there are no trainee graders. Back in those days, every grader had once been a grading[...]nd job and, before long, with no one to pass them on to, the skills will be lost. So, when leadingfil[...]mselves how to GETTING IT RIGHT Of course, non-linear editing 52 - CINEMA PAPERS 101[...]y num- In another case, short loads of raw stock CURIOUSLY, THE ONES CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE These are some ofthe phys[...]ms up the position well: “There are |
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| [...]ing Act demands that 50.000 Votes must be Polled in Favor FACTS AND FABLES MOTE FGR[...]tended the official Federation ceremony, at THE PATH T0 FEDERATION[...]enda to approve a Federal Constitu- July 1900.7 Queen Victoria gave her assent to Australian Federation on 9 |
| Left: Earl of Hopetoun (1860-1908), who was sworn in as Australia’s first Governor- General onin Sydney on 1 January 1901, and appeared prominently in the coverage. COMMISSIONING THE FEDERATION FILM Late in October 1 900, the theatre manager J. C. Williams[...]atrical” sectional commit- On 12 November 1900, The Sydney Morning Herald reported: CINEMATOGRAPH PICTURES: On more than one occasion the The tender to[...]r Baker A further report on the filming by the Sydney Mail of 26 By 22 December 1900, Baker SC Rous[...]o facilitate filming. Their positions were listed in a (3) At Park Street, about 20 yards East of the Commonwealth (4) At the corner[...]o the Mint. (5) Near the steps to the Swearing—in Pavilion at Centennial Park. The expense lavished on these high platforms to guarantee an Lumiere Cinématographe cameras[...] |
| equipment on loan from the stock of Baker 85 Rouse. The camer[...]Army Limelight Department, had conveniently been in In order to ensure the Major’s swift passage from[...]cording to their means and Around 9 a.m. on 1 January 1901, the 15,000—strong proces- “A” REEL 1:200 mounted policemen in full dress uniform lead the head Above left: Hopetoun’s carriage on its way to Above: Looking north up Macquarie Street from Far left: The route of the procession on Federation Left: The gates of Government Ho[...]Day. The first movie camera position was |
| [...]ovie camera platform built to record the ceremony in on the lower right of this photograph. The Above right: Frames from the Federat[...]un leading the Left: Staff Captain Robert Sandall of the 40 bluejackets of their Naval Contingent (many were absent at the “A” REEL 4: R[...]wards to the gates of Government House some 20 metres east of the intersecti[...]reet. Camera 60 . CINEMA PAPERS 101 the Swearing—in Pavilion can be clearly seen Taken at Centennial[...]ment ministers and judges. Carriage “B” REEL 3: Royal Engineers in wagon-borne pon- “C” SERIES: Near the Swearing-in Pavilion at Centennial Park. Swear- |
| [...]EL 4: Pavilion entry steps from elevated platform on south-west side. 2:30 p.m.: the end of the ceremony. Naval and Military l[...]Review of 10,000 Empire Troops at Centennial Park on 3 January 1 901 , a gesture of gratitude to Boer[...]feet (approx.) taken survive. They were assembled on Federation Films with the assistance of military[...]French (com- manding NSW forces) and an ADC, all on horseback, break ranks to go to the Saluting Base[...]and ADC at Saluting Base, NSW Lancers file past in review, wide shot from elevated camera platform.[...]French and Hopetoun at Saluting Base, VIPs “D” REEL 4: Colonial Infantry in khaki South African field kit, taken from elevat[...]rm looking south-east. 1 0,000 troops can EXHIBITING n[...]ydney for its The print was in the possession of the Government Printer and was[...]bought the rights to show the Federation coverage in CONTINUES ON PAGE 78 CINEMA PAPERS 101 . 61 |
| [...]n cinema and about issues of a gay—themed genre in particular. One genre that this film clearly nods its head Terence Sta[...]lm with much of its It is when they come in conflict with the |
| [...]d engaged more thoughtfully with certain elements in the film, the end product would have had more tex[...]interviews with Stephan Elliott and Terence Stamp in this issue. Also, see Jan Epstein's review of the film in “47e Festival Interna- tional du Film, Cannes",[...]man). Polygram Filmed Entertainment presentation, in association with the Australian Film Finance Corp[...]stralian distribu- tor: Roadshow. 35mm. 102 mins. Australia. 1994. BAD BOY BUBBY ANNA DZENIS ‘‘It seem[...]35-year-old adult/ In the film's very happy ending, Bubby mar- Notes 1 HQ, ]uly—August 1994, p. 82. 2 Rolling Stone, July 1994, p. 96. 3 Variety, 13 September 1993, p. 35. Further reading: See interview[...] |
| Nicholas Hope in this issue. Also, see Peter Moran's review in “50a Mostra del Cinema di Venezia”, Cin- ema[...]e Australian Film Finance Corporation. Australian distributor: Roadshow. 35mm. 112 mins. Australia. 1994. COUNTRY LIFE MONICA ZETLIN Amidst the recent crop of Australian films Bernard Shaw (a fact It is interesting to consider the film in two JACK DICKENS (JOHN HARGREAVE[...]ds up coming across as particularly Anglo- |
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| [...]unenviable prospect of only ever being spoken of in the context of its younger, and more successful, sibling — and as the one with Phil Collins in it. While it is tempting and perhaps even propert[...]r the failure of Frauds to gain cinematic release in its own right, one must concede thatthe film’s[...]orization. Its makers, Latent Image productions (in the In the beginning, the tone of Frauds is ‘natu- While the performances in Frauds are di- HAMMERS OVER THE ANVIL FINCINA HOPGOOD ust how do you go about adapting 21 short stories set in the Australian bush at the turn |
| rate on the final draft, has produced a sensitive and liv[...]on of Marshall’s sto- ries, and a charming film in its own right. Penguin Books Australia has released a A fundamental concern in adapting several Ann Turner's involvement in the final script between Grace and East: she sug[...]osed exile to The narrative focus on the three characters |
| Filmed in the Clare valley of Adelaide, the sound and photo[...]lens, to a close-up of the blue hand of a corpse on frost-covered grass. The soundtrack is further e[...]vides a perfect accompaniment to the visual This richness of individual talent might oth- tion to historic detail (Celia was set in the tions. Australian distributor: Roadshow. 35mm. 101 |
| [...]y realize they are movie buffs or not). it relies on that intuitive connection of plot twists and char[...]oddball brood of six children circulating Sydney on the tourist bus, but statuesque Sandra’s being[...]hey approach the private detective genre and stir in the mutant creature genre, they rely on ocker humour to give it unity and persuade us tha[...]selection com- mittee has acknowledged this skill in giving The Holy Poly Man a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. It is original in its absorbing of traditions and transforming them[...]ogical touches). David Stevens has recently shown in The Sum of Us (Kevin Dowling and Geoff Burton, 1[...]zement intonation to oppressive And, surely, Les Foxcr[...]nd maniacal attendant), its naughty- TRAPS SCOTT MURRAY ne of the most impor[...]Pauline Chan, a Vietnamese national now Encouraged by thats[...]s, which she co-wrote Michael Duffield (Robert Reynol[...]ap- By c[...] |
| [...]ial and physical forces bring about major changes on both individual and social levels. The parallels[...]eing imperialist overlords and exploiters; and so on. On a structural level, these and other paral- Where Chan tends to falter is in having co- Notes 1 In 3 Cinema Papers interview (see “Further (p. 8). Further reading: See interviews with Paulin[...]Scriptwriters: |
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| [...]innocence? Guilt? Why? But Bubby does not arrive in the world at age In a way, he had experienced things most 01 The power and veracity of Bad Boy Bubb[...]dhood he describes as “revo- Born in Holland, he was one of six children; The idea was to make a very low-budget film, in How much of the central elements were in Well, I had a[...] |
| [...]judging people too easily. Hy- pocrisy goes hand in hand with judging people too easily. The central[...]I drove IT, more than it drove me. Also, my views on television are not compli- mentary, so the fllm i[...]goes out of our culture. There are tough things In the film, ’cause it’s Ultimo in Sydney — and several of the scenes Well, the three words “IS IT CINEMA?” were written on one of the main cards that I stuck to NICHOLA[...]was seven when his family children who were brought up in the wild — wolf How would you describe Bad Boy Bubby in l’d say it’s a modern Frankenstei[...]he most supportive environment |’ve ever I love working in theatre immensely, but film is |
| [...](ZBIGNIEW ZAMACHOWSKII AND MIKOLAJ (JANUSZ GAJOS) IN KRZYSZTOF KlESLOWSKl‘S THDIS CHULEURS: BLANL‘. six Short Notes on the 41st Sydney Film Festival RAYMOND YOUNIS Tw[...]mes Hosse//in/’ Seen by Hossellini promised much Finally, in Be/ls from the Deep, Werner II — FIVE NOT-S0-SHORT FILMS “Love triumphant”[...]ertainly, four orfive of |
| [...]cinematic sweet- eners. Nevertheless, the tension in Grape’s life dissolves as two relationships off[...]se children are taken from her by welfare workers on the grounds that she is unfit to be a mother. The film is a powerful one in parts but, once again, there is an object lesson[...]. It is a pity that Loach did not spend more time on these positive things. The film might have been m[...]d farce. The film does not plumb any great depths on the question of the discrepancy between the intri[...]riel and Mariel); it does seem to be unduly harsh on the institution of marriage; but it is a highly a[...]ividual who finds her own voice and her own place in relation to someone who values her for what she i[...]al- though it does not reach any dizzying heights in terms of technique or innovation, it is ultimatel[...]firmation of extraordinary love; of relationships inon the life and art of Glenn Gould is a fragmented reconstruction in collage-like fashion. It combines animation, comp[...]with actors to evoke scenes from an unusual life. In a Festival where the boundaries between docu- men[...]ed unproblematic, it was refreshing to see a film in which these and other issues are problematized and questioned. In Girard’s film, it is suggested that the The most satisfying element in the Festival was loss. It is a cine[...]e shifting perceptions ofthe role |
| [...]st eager|y—anticipated films were documentaries on Nazism and its legacy: The Wonderful Horrible Lif[...]s of excerpts from Riefenstahl’s films and from in- terviews. Though Riefenstahl is still a forceful[...]ard to the National Social- ists’ racist agenda in Germany. Yet the facts of the matter are that the[...]an official record of a Nazi rally at Nuremberg. In the film itself, the speeches of Hess and Hitler[...]es and swas- tikas without any trace of irony — on the con- trary, these scenes are often hagiographic in tone and focus. There can be little doubt that th[...]tographical strategies. Hitler is often portrayed in messianic terms. And Riefenstahl accepted the German National Film Prize for it in 1935 — it should not be forgotten here that the[...]S 101 LAWRENCE JDHNSTDN‘S ETERNITY. asthetics in any sense in Triumph des Willens The documentary itself is impressive in structure 43RD Melbourne l[...]ed. There were plenty of interesting With the excep[...]lly as a media event. Perhaps the identi[...]slowly gathering pace over the |
| [...]ic Film Collection, and the broad field exhibited in the Animation Focus. The Festival has always com[...]. The Sum of Us is a modest-looking produc- Jack Thompson's role as Harry Mitchell is in Body Meltis a dynamic film in the sense that A restoration pro- THE BOLEXEROTHERS' T[...]ENTURES OF TDM THUMB. the season called “Black & White In ’Scope: The CINEMA PAPERS 101 - 77 |
| [...]wever, one animation technique some- what ignored in preference to cel-animation is three—dimensiona[...]hers and David Sproxton of Aardman Animation were on hand to enlighten the uninitiated. Both have their studios based in Bristol, which is really the centre for 3-D animation in Britain. 78 - CINEMA PAPERS 101 FOUR HETHDSPECTIVES: TOP LEFT: RICHARD BROOKS’ IN BOLD BL000, Showing for t[...]c SEAHCHERS AND BOTTOM: SAM FULLEITS FURTY GUN[...]chniques are different Aardman’s material is intriguing becaus[...]Prometheus, of course, being the man made of Clay animation on film first made its appear- Given the hurdles animation has had to |
| [...]g for Brisbane) to Broken Hill inexplicably takes in tropical rain forests, the Sydney Har- bour Bridg[...]attractions like Ayers Rock. Of course, not all in Bello onesto is prosaic, nor is the above Carmela and Amedeo end up together in his desert home of land. Thus, it is apt to quote the speec[...]cades ofSurvival: Australian Film 1 930-1970”, in The Australian Screen, ed. Albert Moran and Tom O[...]Feature Film Production, Oxford University Press in association with 3 I believe Bello onesto is not available in this country on film. It was BEI.lO ONESTO EMIGRATO AUSTRALIA SPOSEREBBE COMPAESANA ILLIBATA [Girl In Australia] to ADVER'I'_lSE In -P AFP E R s CALI. (03) 429 5511 J CINEMA P[...] |
| [...]CINEMA PAPERS 101 @i994i '6:e§3ie2’c»eK in a laudable spirit of optimism, however mis- The most common company structure in the A s[...]ff energy-sapping and costly litigation of ers to participate in a business competing with Some care must be t[...]to good faith in the best interests of the company. This can be d[...]the relevant Here are some of the issues arising in Share- Rouzs or THE Pumas[...]ntributions and SHARE or Pnocasns In the types of arrangements we have pre- DEATH on INCAPACITY If one filmmaker is unable to partici[...]death or incapacity, the other may not wish to the two members of a company are in durable |
| [...]heir nominations of the valua- tion of the shares in a sealed envelope, which is then opened at a meet[...]filmmakers to spy the instruments of torture well in advance. As such, they are solutions of last res[...]etting the There may[...]VANTAGES Where disputes must be resolved quickly in the In summary, a shareholders’ agreement can For further inquiries: Hart & Spira, Level 2/ A NOTE on HART & SPIRA Hart & Spira is one of Australia’s leading and The firm has wide experience in negotiating, Hart & Spira has well-established relation- The firm sets out to provide the full range of for our Fully Self Contained & serviced Apartments 0 Comfortable 4 Star Apartm[...]D 0 Right in The Heart of Cosmopolitan St. Kilda CALL[...] |
| W Australia's First .3 v» 4 ,, Fi N CONTINUED FROM P.53 is machines. The Limelight Department nor—General in his State carriage. How- ever, by far the best pictures were those taken at the swearing-in pavilion. Here, the arrival of the Governor-General with a brilliant staff, the scene in Debuts of the film in other states were slightly delayed by the In Victoria, it was first presented by G. H. Snazell[...]r In South Australia, its first screenings were given at Harry Tasmanian scre[...]rt’s Temperance Hall from 6 February 19015‘), in British screenings were given by the New South Wales Agent- 82 . CINEMA PAPERS 101[...]triotic pantomime, Australis, or the City oflero, in which the The dispatch of a print to Canada is also noted in governmen- The Salvation[...]o The profits from this fir[...]rs to replace their obsolescent Lumiere |
| NEXT INSTALMENT The next installment will focus on Clement Mason’s Florodora IIIOO[...]under an Australian Research Notes 1 The films in “Soldiers of the Cross” were initially only 9[...]1899 Wills—Mobsby coverage of Wheat 2 Ford C. O[...]For example, see Everyones, Sydney, 7 March 1923, p. 3; Everyones, 13 4 Victorian Public Records Office, Laverton:[...]No. 9539, 5 Discussed at length in Cinema Papers, June 1994, p. 60 et seq. 6 Cinema Papers, June 1994, pp. 62-3[...]Souter, Lion and Kangaroo, Fontana, Sydney, 1978, p. 29. 8 Cyril Pearl, Australia’s Yesterdays, Reader’s Digest Services, Sydney, 1974, p. 15. 9 The South Australian Register, Adelaide, 2 January 1901, p. 6. 10 Punch (Melbourne), 3 January 1901, p. 2: “The Indian Guard of Honour”. 1 1 J.J. K[...]Printer, Sydney, 1904, pp. 2-7, 289-91. 12 Ibid, p. 2. 1 3 Commonwealth Archives were checked in Melbourne, Sydney and Mitchell 16 J. J. Keenan, loc. cit., p. 289. 17 The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 December 1900, p. 6; 19January 1901, p. 13. 18 Ibid, 12 November l900, p. 5. 19 Ibid., 20 November 1900, p. 5. 20 A. J. Perier to H. L. White, National Librarian, 26 October 1953, p. 2; also 22 Cinema Papers, July 1994, p. 66: “Exhibition Difficulties”. 23 Australas[...]6 Australasian Photographic Review, January 1951, p. 9: “One People, One 27 Sydney Mail, 26 January 1901, p. 207: “Dramatic”. 28 Australasian Photographic Review, January 1951, p. 9. 29 Australasian Photographic Review, 22 December 1900, p. 3. 30 State Archives of NSW ref. 1/163 Governme[...]opies of 32 Cinema Papers, June 1994, pp. 65-6. 33[...]tion. 34 The War Cry (Melbourne), 4 August 1951, p. 8; 15 June 1957. 35 These men were members of t[...]ugh Seas at Shelly Beach, Warrnambool 36 Australasian Photographic Review, January 1951, p. 9. 37 lbid. 38 The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 1901, p. 2. 39 Ibid, 27 December 1900, p. 6: “Amusements”. 40 Ibid, 19 January 1901, p. 13: “Amusements”. 41 National Library Correspondence file P21, A. J. Perier to H. L. White, 26 44 The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 January 1901, p. 8: “Amusements”. 45 Argus (Melbourne), 25 J[...]ry 1901. 47 Bendigo Advertiser, 4 February 1901, p. 1; Bairnsdale Advertiser, 21 48 The 1 January 1901 coverage of Federation[...]y revived by 49 The South Australian Register (Adelaide), 9 February 1901, p. 5; 11 50 The Mercury (Hobart), 5 February 1901, p. 3; 6 February 1901, p. 2; 7 51 The Daily Telegraph (Launceston), 16 February 1901, p. 4; 18 February 52 Brisbane Courier, 9 February 1901, p. 7; 11 February 1901, p. 4. 53 Maryborough Chronicle (Queensland), 12 February 1901, p. 3; 16 54 Clement Semmler, The Banjo of the Bush, University of Queensland 55 State Archives of NSW ref. 1/164 Govern[...]ce, copies of 59 Cinema Papers, June 1994, p. 66. 60 Australasian Photographic Review,[...] |
| “Quality, Innovation, CONTINUED FROM P. 27 HOOKS: You’re absolutely right, but that w[...]nd with My interest is not specifically financial. In the mid-’80s, when They were ve[...]e that the We all wish there were more mini—series. And, in fact, when the What are the returns like on documentaries? FITCHETT: They are low: between 8[...]for Do you get one-off hits in documentary as you do with features? FITCHETT: Well, we weren’t involved in Cane Toads: An Unnatural Given the activity you have detailed in features, shorts, documen- CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FITCHETT: In Cultural Development, we fund organizations HOOKS: We fund some of them, on an experimental basis, and |
| [...]ined the discussion.] What does Film Victoria do in The season is being launched in Melbourne by I-Iaddon Storey HOOKS: We felt that those groups of films[...]law MJSTHlLlpl NATIONAL Fm THEATRE \ _ . 1 12-31Ausus’H994 creative and financial successes, in MELBUURNFE WRIGHT: I went to the Lon[...]. It’s HOOKS: In terms of other market- Next year in March, the World Summit on Television and It’s an interesting time in television all over the world. Some Equally, in the States, where they have always had a really f[...]ly don’t want a diet So, they look at Australia, which has a combination of public released in Australia in 1986. The AFC has also funded Aleksi Velli[...] |
| T CONTINUED FROM P.10 will always be prepared to give me a go, or a[...]would really like to have it. If it doesn’t fit in, nominated in many categories. How seriously do you take the s[...]. Well, fuck them. I decided not to put Priscilla in Unfortunately, most members of the crew, many of whom are The FFC got dumped on a while ago on the press by a very snaky |
| [...]ers regrets it cannot accept information received in a different format, as it does not have the staff[...]ent Script editor Doug Stanley Budgeted by Production FFC ON OUR SELECTION Legal services Gaffer On—set Crew Icon Productions Inc. lntemational distributor Majestic Films Cast: Leo McKern (Dad), Joan Sutherland (Mother). Synopsis: A rural comedy based on the Steele Rudd novels. [No further details sup[...]omantic black comedy about Minnie R[...]tudying Law at Brisbane University makes On—set Crew 1st asst director |
| [...]reg de Marigny Generator operator Greg de Marigny On-set Crew 1st asst director Euan Keddie Standby props Dean Sullivan Standby wardrobe Isobel Carter[...]y Tim Morrison Asst. grip Gaffer Best boy On-set Crew 1st asst director Peter Fitzpatrick Based on play by Hannie Rayson Motoro|asBrett Woodhouse. Hirecom Australia Camera Crew 1st asst. director Vicki Sugars 2nd as[...]s (Sister Paula), Synopsis: Mary MacKiI|op is one of Australia's NAPOLEON |
| [...]anderson), Marc James (Felle) Synopsis: Isolated on a remote planet, the crew TUNNEL VISION H. W. Wood Australia Martin Cooper & Co. Travel Jet Aviation Production FFC Marketing DOCUMENTARIES THE BIGGEST RISK Prod[...]untant Mandy Carter Completion guarantor Film Finances BOYSTOWN Moneypenny Servies insurer Completion guarant[...]16mm T[...]velopment Film Victoria Synopsis; On New Years Eve 1991 . 56 Chinese but were soon placed in detension at Port Hedland Sound transfers Soundfinn MISSING: PRESUMED ALIVE Budget $349,909 |
| [...]ABC Publicity ABC Publicity Synopsis: Each year in Australia hundreds of Hannan & Co Insurer Intl. distributor RPTA PRIMETIME Synopsis: Atwo-hourdocumentary special which See previous issue for details on: Camera type Best boy On-set Crew 1st asst director Boom oper[...]Wilson Judy Brown & Associates Ivan Sen Simon Gray On-set Crew 1st asst director Boom oper[...]a|- ian society. See previous issue for details on: LOVE ROS|E’S SECRET AUSTRALI[...]ISION 8:, RADIO SCHOOL See issue 99 for details on: FILM AUSTRALIA SPELLBINDER Prod. company Prod. designer Film Australia Noel Price Noel Price Electician Asst electrics Liz Mullinar Glenda Carpenter See previous issue for details on: TELEVI[...]grip Asst grip Gaffer Best boy Genny operator 2nd asst dire[...] |
| [...]FC Film Victoria Film Queensland Marketing Cast: Marzena Godecki (Neri)[...]THE FEDS (tele-feature) Prod. company Crawford Australia 5/4/94 — 2[...]Anthony Tulloch Studios Crawford Australia Post-prod. supervisor David Birrell Music editor Chris Pettifer Trout[...]IRE (mini-series) Prod. company Extra Dimensions in Liberty Films Beyond Distribut[...]Asst grip Gaffer Best boy 3rd Asst Electrics 1st asst directors 2nd asst director HALIFAX F.P. (tele-feature) Prod. company Best boy 2nd asst director Angelo Sartore Dick Tum[...]N See previous issue for details on: CINEMA PAPERS 101 - 91 |
| [...]wERs HAS RATED A SELECTION or THE LATEST RELEAsEs oN A scALE or 0 T0 10, THE LATTER BEING THE OPTIMUM[...]TTAN MURDER MYSTERY Woody Allen MURIEL'S WEDDING P. J. Hogan LES NUITS FAUVES (Savage Nights) Cyril[...]RDEN Agnieszka Holland SPEED Jan De Bont SPIDER & ROSE Bill Bennett THE SUM OF US Kevin Dow[...] |
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| COVER: GIA CARIDES IN BEN LEWIN'S 'LUC KY BREAK* plus S T E P H A N E L L IO T T 'S `PR ISCILLA, QUEEN OF TH E DESERT* |
| [...]pro facilities, consolidate its staff on two levels and[...]with a shop-front marketing capacity. Ireland: In the Ken G. Hall obituary by Neil McDonald [Cine[...]an Gene Conkie worked with Hillcoat on the screen There was an existing theatre structure already error in one of the photo captions, pages 14-15. play of Ghosts ... of the Civil Dead, which was in place, which we have improved. It was a The r |
| [...]slate. The program s should be targeted to the p rim e-tim e docu m e nta ry slots in the SBS The proposals should reflect aspects of Australia's pluralist society, and should be To q u a lify fo r considerati[...]r w h ich explains the proje ct and w h y it is a p p ro p ria te to SBS, a tre a tm e n t, |
| [...]The w orld is drow ning in polities[...]push the envelope. Priscilla, as nearly everyone in Australia presumably knows by now, tells the story of two[...]me, with a cute image they travel across half of Australia to climb a rock and put on a and nice values. show[...]d blow your box apart, 'cause it's also released in Australia this year, Priscilla stars Terence Stamp the[...]at more than the shock value. PART 1 : RECORDED IN CANNES, M AY 1 9 9 4 , THE DAY AFTER P R IS C IL L A 1S M ID N IG H T SCREENING IN UN They'll forgive it. You're r[...]here Tick says, "Bernadette has left her cake out in the rain ..." the hardest. It's tough having to[...], whereas the Americans laughed for at 2 o'clock in the morning. I've fallen asleep in every single ten minutes. midnight screening I've been to. I even fell asleep in Strictly B allroom [Baz Luhrmann, 1993].[...]B allroom . It was a different film in different territories and it You did not![...]You touch on why your characters are the way they are in a very[...]h for them. Yes. The world is drowning in politics. We are not allowed to I could see it.[...]ay issues. Any film that's gay themed is drowning in its own amazing. People pulled the seats up and[...]I originally went to the Mardi Gras people in Sydney to see It was much more subdued and polite. The film worked on a about props that we could hire.[...]ly excited. But different level - the emotional. In San Fran, they laughed at all the when they re[...]kers go home", portrays queers in a bad light", and on and on. Politics! Bernadette and Bob's love scene, thin[...]exual sees herself as a woman and is more subdued in her ovation afterwards was such a lift-up.[...]aken over. It's stepped beyond that, particularly in[...]It is the world leader, though it's happening now in the But isn't this the sort of audience you are[...]States and elsewhere. the-road, with an emphasis on young people?[...]g this afternoon at 6pm. Hugo Weaving says in the production notes, "It's liberating to It wil[...]d test. dress up." W hat's the kick for a male in all that imitation I'm desperate to see how it w[...]. In Sydney, I had Hugo, Guy and Terence done up in the most[...]went wandering around the town. 6 . C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 01[...] |
| [...]PART 2 : RECORDED BY PHONE IN A U S T R A LIA , be ourselves.[...]a good time doing it?" It's the America in a very, very big way. same thing. It's the need[...]ared to They are racing to get us open on August 7 . 1have to do this video P risc illa ?[...]tomorrow and then I'm flying out to do 26 cities in 26 days. Ambivalent. Last year, there w[...] |
| [...]have ever conceived of offering it to him. down on by women, because there are not a lot of female roles in the film and the ones that are there are not treated all that It was the same with Phil Collins on Frauds. Phil was com positively.[...]f people have said she's your typical round on Snow y River, and I said, "Let's turn him into a[...]e just love him anyway. He can't How do you feel P riscilla compares to a film like Savage N ights[...]ights deals with political correctness. It takes on issues - AIDS and promiscuity - and faces them d[...]death with movies. All I want to do with touches on issues like AIDS and then steps right over them.[...]ill have tried. didn't you face more gay issues in the film? There are a lot of important blah blah[...]have a capacity to explore things that won't be in on me. I said, "Hey, if you want to make that sort o[...]al here - a very funny, tasteless, brash, loud, in-ya-face film. I didn't want to get into that. I t[...]ut I didn't. that they are very colourful and in-ya-face. But I've done that AIDS is there."[...]ext project is a very dark love story. It's based on a[...]olutely fascinating short story. It is something In P riscilla, you diffuse people's fear of drag queen[...]50s musicals. The theatrics were just so big and in-ya-face and I realized this was it; this was the[...]k. Drag queens are the most undisciplined people on earth. Their evening kicks in at about 11pm and when the sun comes up they go[...]can think o f." T hat's where Terence Stamp came in. 8 . c i n e m a P A P E R S 1 01 |
| [...]ink about that and that I was seeing every studio in town. meet, but just keep passing. It will be a[...]I'd like to get under way. Everyone of them On top of those, I have so many other things lined u[...]not too is the Ayn Rand story I mentioned to you in Cannes, which I have sure if they're our cup[...]ght. It's the most astonishing story with them in the future, but, ah, look we have a script at the[...]in Cannes that they wanted to make my next film, no[...]I'll never do another gay film again. I've played in that The horror of development hell in Hollywood is that hundreds area and I've had eno[...]something of thousands of dollars are spent on scripts every week. Execs different. If you see[...]ll develop a screenplay by spending $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 on it. Then they spend deserve a good kick up the a[...]repeating myself is one another $5 0 ,0 0 0 on it to make it a little bit better. But it's still[...]stage. Someone's head's on the chopping block. So, no matter Yes.[...]aramount, for example, says it is very interested in putting Good question. Michael Kuhn, with whom I[...]ased company that is really films have you in development at the moment?", and they said, going fast, sat me down and said, "We really want to invest in "6 0 0 !" When I enquired how many of thos[...]ways sit at a dinner table throwing as much wood on the fire as I can until somebody basically snaps[...]rd back. We are still waiting. There are lawyers on standby. Have you had many overseas offers ?[...]re No, we will sit down in a room and have, as |
| [...]What was the budget for P riscilla} I'm going to keep changing, but I've[...]ry surprised how certain other people have jumped in Do you think that's a plus[...]appen a lot here, but |
| [...]Bill is a great actor and the things he did on T he H it were No, it didn't worry me. It[...]own and make you lean towards doing P riscilla even more? laughed. He thought it was h[...]ngels or Did you have to overcome any prejudices in playing Bernadette? demons. But they h[...]It is a different dimension altogether. In that sense, it was a big[...]the trip was being less than perfect. It in that moment when they get up and perform, they ar[...]ng did it take you to become your character? In truth, it didn't matter whether I succeeded or no[...]ve a lot of time, really. I had a couple of weeks in are just guys who jump into women's clothes. As[...]body waxed, looked for high-heel shoes dress up in women's clothes and prance around, mouthing to ot[...]g liberated through dress Do you like Australia? ing up. You obviously felt some liberation as w[...]nd fear. bad time there in the '60s. Was that fear of failure responsible[...]some less Why was that? |
| [...]It is a film that rockets along in its modest way with its[...]"Mahogany City" narrative of heroin addicts in search of the 83 MINS, 1976[...]mpathy for its main characters, who of this film in this particular context is to speak about damned are caught in the vortex of surviving with a heroin addiction in films - films which go against the grain, films[...]ced work that avoids the more coming back to you in so many different, ephemeral ways. It is fa[...]d mainstream Australian cinema. Deling conveys in graphic and from our local cinematic soil.[...]te, the episodic narrative energy and the on his characters and storyline is another refreshin[...]the underbelly of this praiseworthy film. Australia's recent film culture. To echo John Flaus here, this is a film that reminds you, in so many different and engaging ways, Th[...]experiencing. Nothing is cheaply romanticized in this nitty- recent film industry. Nothing I imag[...]reg isters that are (to this day) often bypassed in Australian feature and independent films. 12 - C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 01 |
| [...]at And, significantly, its characters are always on the move - surrounds these characters[...]dell's characteristic of "pure shit". They weave in and around dingy apartments, high-vo[...]ouses, and one of the main characters on the move for the next shot. Helen chemist shops.[...]s and class structures as if they were characters in a hard- who believes in his panopticon morality as the prescriptive boil[...]credible characters in terms of their dialogue and actions. Phil[...] |
| on himself to avoid capture. All we know is that he[...]hed from the old Papua New `Commonwealth agent'. In classic com ic-book logic, they are the Gu[...]encouraged by reading. Two titles stick out in this regard: Jack Serena (Frances Chin Soon), ai[...]p her boyfriend "hanging around". She also cries in church. Yes, on many counts, C oral Sea is a bad film. My[...]full-time jobs was as a blacksmith's striker on the Queensland railways in Rockhampton. There the railway workers held the But, K ing o f the C oral Sea is my candidate for a neglected film Torres Strait Islander gang of fettlers in awe. They were the best; worthy of reconsiderati[...]ce; and you bloody well steered too rarely found in our cinema? (In this context, it is nice to know well clear of them while they were in town. They were also soon that Lee Robinson was also a key figure in the television series, to be displaced - as[...]outt would say, we are just too just as in C oral Sea the Islanders on the pearling boat were, one concerned to make Au[...]umes, to be displaced by the "aqua lungs" brought in by morally, and politically5- that we won't allo[...]d writing so much internal migration to Northern Australia, then have become more like that with Ne[...]King o f the C oral Sea comes out of a moment in Australian quential yarn suited to the Saturday[...]g when industry downturn and a lack of investment in slots of a black-and-white television childhood?[...]eling that new plant and equipment made a focus on the margins of C oral Sea has much to tell us about film industry internation Australia's means of selling `Australia' internationally and na alization as producers are now operating in an environment not tionally. This intere[...]oss Aus far removed from the one Robinson worked in during the 1950s tralian visual and li[...]decision and the recognition of settler and Australia's margins in storytelling and settings. In doing so, Australia's continuing colonization in and outside Australia that made me focus on this, a Torres Strait, film? Is it the feeling th[...]D TAYLOR). LEE this film indirectly interrogated Australia's ROBINSON'S KING OF TH[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 0 1 |
| [...]South Sea Islanders came 3 Ibid., p. 285. into focus. And with it came a foregroundi[...]elations 4 Tom O'Regan, "Australian Film in the 1 9 5 0 s", Continuum, 1:1 (1987), persistin[...]ften complicit - and at best p. 11. lightly questioned such colonial relations.[...]all bad. Russell Drysdale's (1994), p. 219. paintings and photography6 bear com[...] |
| [...]thousands of dollars. 2 . SAVE with no on-going bank fees. |
| [...]n a Stevens), in the end Stevens thought T he Clinic religious fa[...]had "the same soft, humanist love in it".4 It is a slut in there. It reeks of sin. "Must be a friend of your[...]ng woman with herpes is Mood changes quickly in T he Clinic. Comedy goes to drama[...]comforted, a patient who suicides and back again in the space of a wink or a nudge. But by the end[...]cal transformed in a day. ("You're not such a pub, softened and mor[...]ul young condition of his own. Eric examines him in a toilet. "All your[...]muster a laugh between them in spite of it all.[...]two gay patients strike up an 1975) and `B r e a k e r ' M orant (Bruce Beresford, 1980; co-scripted[...]at the same fairy story" element he mentions in relation to "U n dercover" time foreground perti[...]nal love story treated as "natural" denial in the new film not hear "Life Could Be A Dream" pla[...]espite the ensemble strength of T he Clinic, it's in Chris[...]hat Stevens is quite shameless. He is nosed on-the-ground realism and live-your-dream openness i[...]ose poor ignorant prudes out there. At one stage in The Clinic, Wilma main protagonist [...] is[...]this affecting (Betty Bobbit) appears incognito in black wig and dark glasses, either his vi[...]s us all sexualities.8 The identity politics in T he Clinic are not of the short with a perfect[...]death have become firmly yoked together again in popular[...]clinically-curable diseases in this film seem benign, but it needs[...]1 There are no character names given on the front or end credits of The[...]Cinema Papers, 44-45, March-April 1984, p. 12. 3 The Screening o f Australia Vol. 2: Anatomy o f a National Cinema;[...]Currency Press, Sydney, 1988, p. 221. 18 |
| [...]PA'S BELLO ONESTO EMIGRATO AUSTRALIA SPOSEREBBE COMPAESANA ILLIBATA. 4 "Voyages of Discovery", op. cit., p. 12. to Enker's question about whether Nina in "Undercover" is rR A F[...]Kotcheff films have become since 1971. For good |
| URBAN EDGE: NEW URBAN CINEMA FROM MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Film V ictoria takes M elbourne to the[...]URBAN EDGE: NEW URBAN CINEMA FROM MELBOURNE, The season is a FTm Victoria init[...]ent The season showcases[...]al community. * THE BIG STEAL DEATH IN BRUNSWICK *[...]American Film Institute Theater London U.K Washington DC U.S.A. Film[...]) 651 4089 Fax: (03) 651 4090 20 . C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 01 |
| [...]In fact, the first Australian film (covering the[...]VJRC D e rb y) was shot in Melbourne in November 1896, followed a few days later by the[...]y assumed greater prominence as a film capital in the 1920s and '30s. But Melbourne revived to be, on and off, the principal hub of the 1970s reviva[...]Hooks and Chris Just as there has been an increasing interest in discovering and recording regional differences in pronunciation and dialect Of course, a film culture is f[...]Image Makers Association has stimulated interest in innovative areas of image-making; the As well, there are the many firms which are s[...]ourne filmmaking. Most of these have been covered in : "Technicalities" stories over the years, but[...]also intends more company and personnel profiles in the future (starting with Soundfirm and its contribution to sound in Australian filmmaking). ^_ In this supplement, space allows only a concentration on three recent Victorian productions: Ben Lewin's lu ck y Break; P. J. Hogan's Muriel's Wedding, which while conceived and post-produced in Melbourne was partly shot in Queensland; and Ana Kokkinos' 59-minute[...] |
| [...]y S c o t t M u r r a y Film Victoria is one of Australia's longest-serving state film[...]bodies. Formed as the Victorian Film Corporation in 1976, it has[...]The aggregation in Sydney of the m ajor federal funding bodies,[...]ree and pay television, has placed added pressure on[...]W hat have been the m ajor changes in the past five years or so at[...]bodies in terms of cost overruns and terrible government re[...]nonetheless we did have a public bodies review in 1991. The[...] |
| [...]Finally, there's the Commit had already in fact incorporated, and the rest we took on board. ted Funding Facility of $ 2 .5m W e've[...]elbourne Film Office to the tune of cessful in not only holding it FIT[...]$300,000. tionate share. In total, In d u stry Assistance for 1994-95 will be $3m. Because of Film Australia? mentary M entor Scheme:[...]inappropriately focused on Sydney and New South Wales.[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 101 . 23 |
| h o o k s : "Overall, we have a 22.5% script development[...]e think that's probably the best in Australia, although we can't get data out of any other agen[...]entage of a budget. Do you find that imbalance in other areas as well? FITC[...]4 0 0 ,0 0 0 : On R om p er Stom per [Geoffrey Wright* 1992] it was tion, or it's just a good selection of[...]when you are dealing with an industry criteria in order to get that strike-rate up. We don't set it[...]mmunal committee assessment, of There is no point in developing something for a particular fund[...]nanced, that they can target. That is why finally a good one[...]ped. Independent Filmmakers' Fund. In features, we are always a[...]junior partner to either the AFC or the FFC. 24 |
| [...]DDO) AND SERSEANT SAM PHILLIPS {GEBARD KENNEOV) IN BODY M ELT (PHILIP BROPHY); HENRY {PETER COYOTE) AND ORT {JAM IE CROFT) IN JOHN RUANE'S THAT EYE THE SKY; MARY {BETH CHAMPION) AND PETER {ADEN YOUNG) IN PAUL COX'S EXILE. BERRIMAN {BILL HUNTER) AND DALE {DAVID FIELD) IN AUCiNOS TSIUM IOOS' EVERYNIGHT... EVERYNI[...] |
| [...]flow these guarantees. As Jenny said, in the past we did do it on We were involved in the development of M etal Skin [formerly[...]television pre-sale. On O cean Girl, for example, we could only S p eed , Geoffrey Wright, awaiting release] and Ange[...]ork-consuming for a producer to have to do that. in the marketing of L u cky B reak [Ben Lew in,1994].[...]olved with that hasn't been an AFC or FFC project in the past shoot and post-produce in Victoria. We advance against the[...]release], which they actually got to double-head on their HOOKS: The project has to go through t[...]ligence credit checks own money and we just came in at the end to finish off. through[...]e counter parties to the deal. Greg Smith said in his recent C in em a P apers interview2 that he W hat amount will you be able to discount in any year? We used to do discounting on a very small level with different |
| business is one of the most difficult businesses in the industry. TELEVISION World-wide, there is a huge over-supply of studios. Competition in that business is a tough game. I wouldn't want to[...]re significant than it is competitive strategies on a studio. now. W hat are you doing in terms of attracting off-shore productions? HOOKS [surprised]: Oh ... oh. HOOKS: There is an interest in off-shore productions, chiefly co FITCHETT: There is a boom in television production at the McKENZIE) IN MICHAEL RYMER'S ANGEL BABY.[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 0 1 . 27 |
| P. J. H ogan inte rvie w e d by Jan Epstein[...]the firs t theatrical feature o f writer-director P. I. Hogan, who made the acclaimed short Getting W[...]nning, M uriel's was always a woman's story. For in the Quinzaine des R |
| [...]JARRETT). TANIA (SOPHIE LEE). P. J . HOGAN'S MURIEL S WEDDING. I actually felt[...]hat. I think that's the message of the film, too. In fact, that she is put upon. But, in the course of the film, she is the cause |
| [...]MURIEL IN A BRIDAL-WEAR SHOP. MURIELS WEDDING. happen t[...]ry selfish and self-centred man. In the script, Rhonda is written as physically a lot[...]f "Bill |
| M u riel's W ed d in g is a very vibrant and colourful[...]FFITHS) AND MURIEL PERFORM ABBA MUSIC AT AN film in a hyper-real way.[...]deal of affection for his like from the script. In fact, there are a couple of cha[...]ers that do put the extremes of American society on film, like skies above and beach below. It comes[...]nce the makes a film on American soil, you get a more penetrating view t[...]have certainly seen them since travelling in the U.S. doned on the way. [Laughs.][...]f girls from the Gold Coast. They are absolutely in love with themselves and certain that there is no[...]tle bit daunting. Sophie, I think, grew up in Newcastle and ran with a very We left it[...]actually happened or There must be a grotesque element in the subconsciousness of[...]CIN EMA PAPERS 10 1 -3 1 It's just cul[...]ilmmakers But other cultures, like America, don't take the same delight in In my experience, the humour we get from thes[...] |
| [...]hat was your reaction to Todd M cCarthy's review in V ariety[...]at for good taste. Muriel is very unhappy in the 1990s.[...]what I gather the film When I was growing up in the `70s, I was unhappy. I wanted seemed[...]The film is very truthful and I to have grown up in the '60s. I thought that in the '60s I'd be think he was expecting so[...]at you expect it to. wanted to have sex with me. In the '70s, I felt very lonely and out- of-date.[...]thought it important for Muriel not to feel right in her time. you. It's the most powerful of art-f[...]omantic vision for herself, but she is not living in a very into a cinema and the lights go down and[...]n always brought me back to what a woman would do in understand that. the circumstance,[...]u riel's ? film is done and its images are fixed in my head. They tend to wipe away how you first thought the film should be. Yes. In a lot of ways, I feel that M u riel's might turn[...]Did you and [editor] Jill Bilcock work as a team in putting it together? I'm sort of in the script now. Y ou 've caught me on a good day.[...]eeling very positive about it. If you'd Oh, yes. In fact, we fought a lot at the very beginning, beca[...]doing this one!" big blow-up, we finally decided on the shape the film should take. Jill and I have[...]nything rather than write, wonderful details are on screen, I'm happy. But Jill was actually so[...]do the dishes thinking about where we should be in the story right now. and vacuum and[...]Who are the people you admire in film? You have to cut stuff out. Film is as much what you leave out as what you put in.[...]Looking back, what sort of effect did Cannes have on you? B on n ie a n d Clyde [Arthur Penn, 1967], is one of m[...]ey are an eclectic bunch. W hat about the impact on the film?[...]No, I love W om en in L o v e [Ken Russell, 1969] and T he C on[...]ederiqo because I think there is a bit of Muriel in everybody. She is a Fellini, 1963] is als[...]nt? You obviously believe in entertainment, because they are all very[...]wanted to back the project. They really believed in it from the beginning. Yes I do, thou[...]by absolutely cruddy films. J| Ciby invests in filmmakers. They consider themselves a direc tor[...]tely the right people for us. 32 . C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 01 |
| [...]PRING STREET been making films in Melbourne for twenty MELBOURNE VICTORIA years. His most recent feature That Eye The AUSTRALIA 3 0 0 0 Sky starring Peter Coy[...]0 9 0 "Melbourne's a great city to film in. It's got diversity of locations on its doorstep from the[...]could be anywhere in Paris or New York. It's no accident[...] |
| [...]ired ferment in that so often marginalized area of Austral[...] |
| [...]OS' ONLY THE BRAVE. BELOW: DIRECTOR ANA KOKKINOS ON SET WITH ELENA MANDALIS. Film Festival, it won[...]into tunnels, into darkness, into oblivion. In her dreams, Alex is |
| [...]passage from Anais N in's story,[...]W om an on the D unes. It is a book[...]she `borrowed' on trust from Kate.[...]ally gyrating and gesturing on top of[...]her school desk. Kate walks in to[...]scene in the toilet block, that has[...] |
| [...]ODUCER FELLOWSHIP SCHEME $360,000 is available in amounts from $8,000 to $60,000 to enable producer[...]FELLOWSHIP SCHEME Up to $125,000 is available in the form of five fellowships (of up to $15,000 each) in Australia and two fellow Clo[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 0 1 . 37 |
| [...]M_____________________ I _______ ________ Back in Australia after his A n d r e[...]French-made The Favor The Watch & The Very Big Fish*[...]shot early this year in Melbourne by OOP Vince Mpi |
| [...]of her head. She pursues him and, frontally? in the course of that pursuit, she breaks her leg. P[...]out the genesis as if the first time you thought On reading a transcript of the following interview, Lewin is no longer so sure. He believes the film has taken on its own life and that the of an idea[...]nterview, therefore, is best read as a discussion on a work in process, and not necessarily as an analysis of a completed work. s[...]in stop/start stages. At a certain point, there migh[...]on the plate, any one of which has a chance of makin[...]another movie to get my life back on the rails."[...]an autobiographical rites-of-passage, growing-up-in-sub[...]limb disability, which forces her to walk on crutches. Technically[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 101 |
| [...]SOPHIE AND EDDIE (ANTHONY LAPAGLIA) LOOK ON WORRIEDLY AS EDDIES LAWYER[...]KY BREAK. a writer, who lives much of her life in a fantasy world. It is much It's a physical thing, so there was never anything in |
| [...]Yes, but try and pin down the nationality of T he P iano [Jane For example, I remember when I wa[...]Campion, 1993]. As far as I know, no one in the world out there exploring on my crptches the neighbourhood of East Coburg,[...]an, or any damn thing. It really does seem to sit in so I tentatively put my crutch into the tar and,[...]ny genre. and the whole of me ended up face down in the tar. It wasn't then terribly hot fortunately[...]less relevant these days. Films have become In retrospect, it was me discovering the world and I[...], the laconic understatement that Paul Hogan uses in C ro co[...]e is a statement of fact. I'm a Jew who was born in Europe and I still feel a lot of connection to Eu[...]ce I wanted to ask you about an overview comment on filmmaking. where I've spent a lot of time. We migrated to Australia in 1949. What is the challenge and reward in making a film? I then went to do my voyage of di[...]e or insightful this is going to be to wandering in search for something, but actually enjoying the[...]consciousness stuff. experience of having a home in more than one place. I don't quite know where that puts me. I'm very Australian when I'm not in I used to get tremendous kicks out of writing because no one Australia.[...]ing else. It was a great joy to have it published in the D ingo Do the things you associate with when[...]people praised you. In that sense, yes, my norms are European norms.[...]things". But humour does, I presume. Yes.[...]d glorified comedic |
| Writing screenplays has now taken on a completely different probably trying to shock people. [See box.] complexion in that, every time I have to make a decision to write There is an element of truth in that, but it's only true if you a screenplay, I[...]care. And I suppose there are directors who are In the old days, my preoccupation with a subject was[...]abled? You don't eliminate it, you incorporate it in your life. the more you want to succeed in anything the more you have to Your de[...]you survive to a ripe old age. I've become one, in some way or another.[...]ain. there. I haven't been disadvantaged in the long term. Who knows[...]what you miss out on if you don't know what it is. Is making the fil[...]the film? On the other hand, I'd say that being a writer is th[...]for him to 1991 The Favor The Watch & The Very Big Fish - also writer paint the Sisti[...]Break - also writer never had such a nightmare in my whole fucking life." As di[...]1986 Adam's Australia (documentary, UK) I don't know. We had a very b[...]documentary went to air in 1980, but the copyright on the programme One is drawn to the conclusion, t[...]larly if you have children and mortgages, and so on. But there are moments when you are able to step[...]ng is a bit the same. When you count the moments in filmmaking which are observably creative moments,[...]on as the orgasm does to the total sex ritual! D on't draw that analogy out too far, but I marvel wh[...]lles. He said directing is just this biggest lie in the world. They all think it's difficult, but it[...]mean, I can't believe that when Orson Welles was in the thick of making T ou ch o f E vil that he ha[...]t-hearted attitude of "Hey, it's the easiest job in the world. Everyone's doing it for m e." He said that after 30 or 40 years and was 42 C I N E M A P A P E R S 101 |
| Kine Recording -- the next instalment Following on last issue's survey of digital film transfers com[...]ice. I screened a in the shadows. With the rich blacks came |
| [...]CAPTURING FILM TIMECODE. __ Timecode on Film; on any frame, with generated either at the VTR[...]ll of a system, is stored, together with the on-film data[...]ith all operator or from the database created on set, in |
| to be in t fo r |
| [...]Cultural Differences and Ethnicity in catalogues especially prepare[...]U CLA film and television archive in the U.S.[...]are now available for sale in Australia. Edited by Scott Simon Wincer, Quigley Down[...]several of Australia's leading writers on film and televi Bangkok Hilton, John Duigan, Fli[...]astwood and Unforgiven; Raul sion, such as K ate Sands, Women o f the Wave; Ross Romero, Denn[...]Howson, Ron Cobb. duct; David Elfick's Love in Limbo, On and Collaboration: Kennedy Miller, Scott M urray, The Beach, Australia's First Films. George Miller, Scott M urra[...]Lover, Women in film and television. NUMBER 78 (MARCH 1990) Australia's First Films Part 2. PRICE: $[...] |
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| [...]e slates, where the audio tim ecode is displayed on an elec tronic slate, frozen when the clapper is[...]editor (or telecine operator) to read it. Typed in at the telecine transfer stage, this is e[...] |
| [...]editing, resulting in a change of direction in ____ or: The close-up, the cutaway, a[...]ar editing has demonstrated a number of OF THE AUSTRALIA (NORTH) SECTION OF SMPTE.][...]advantages for the editing process: edi D O M IN IC CASE[...]t non occur in sim ilar universes, but the inhabitants of that -[...]atch out for horror bytes! each universe exist in complete ignorance of collision. It's unlikely to be head-on, but there |
| [...]T he m e c h a n is m of p a s s in g on th e s k il l s , of INH ERITING THE CU LT URE, IS C O M P R O M I S E D BY[...]THE C O M P U T ER . much less for 35mm. Atlab is adapting[...]transfer comes without resolve difficulties in the camera departm ent. cinesureLevel 10, 1 Elizabeth[...] |
| [...]E S C A U G H T I N T H E M I D D L E O F T H E on a personal computer, there's only room for one person at a time, so the assistant has to by-frame in key num- w a r p a r e t h e NEGATIVE MATCHERS. THEY ARE BE- come in at night to do this. But after digitizing, ther[...]editorto do, and bers, video is meas- c o m in g the sole CU ST ODIA NS OF THE ARCAN[...]ust as the edit is getting interesting. But this in tim e co de : it isn't just the classic effect[...]s to ounces. The trouble is a lot same shot twice in video, but a little harder in One of the important functions of an assis[...]tion of of odd-ball techniques have evolved in video film, where a dupe negative has to be made[...]is that you can try a recut editing and in film cutting that don't really take before either shot is cut in. And they've all without upsetting the original[...]parison. Some years ago, colour-grading systems in laboratories were but separate technologies[...]dimensional warp ortim e making. I'm fully in favour of non-linear editing tapes, and rewindi[...]ter and tunnel. Curiously, the ones caught in the middle for the reasons I've already given. But, in more reliably. So, there are no trainee graders. Back in those days, every grader had once of[...]een a grader for at least themselves now in the role of the ferryman, mis-cut. One[...]nstead of before long, with no one to pass them on to, the to explain and account for the intr[...]properly, the to see the cut projected on a cinema screen, in[...]ming re negative, and the wrong pictures on the screen. It using the tried-and-tested rush[...]ps too fanciful - after all, has happened, on a number of productions, and provides for[...]about saving edit. But the mechanism of passing on the skills,[...], I think, a genuine con across recently. In one production, the director labs may have t[...]e trans and they don't have an immediate check on the[...]laboratories, replaced by a small single moment in time, but while we are study fully-graded transfer later on. Why should the chemical department out at the back of a couple ing it, the world is moving on. There's not much camera department need to[...]sider what is going to production methods? In fact, though, the 24-to- the video engineers around town, I doubt if that happen in the next few frames. 25 p[...]f scenario would be welcomed by anyone in the[...]f the original film industry - and not many on the video side GETTING IT RIGHT Of course, non-l[...]ues to cause confu either. wasn't adopted in film production in isolation of sion. There are perfectly accu[...]but there is too much room for someone in the These are some of the physical re[...]code, made the actual m atch-back possible. But in actual In another case, short loads of raw stock Ha[...]full roll to fit a smaller maga more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than te re dits is a headache. In theory it's simple: film[...]common practice. If it's not done are dream t of in your philosophy." The film 52 |
| [...]lloura, provides Aus facilities in Melbourne, Auckland and, shortly,[...]ng their 20th birthdays this year: now centred in Melbourne, Sydney and, AAV Business Communications produces there is AAV Australia Pty Ltd. shortly, south-east Q[...]a wide range of creative comm unications in[...]und the Twist, When AAV was established in 1974, the The Man from Snowy River serie[...]electronic communications industry was in Rex H unt's Fishing World. its inf[...], television series and pro size, in Australia or overseas.[...]Other recent developments include the in video was state of the art. Today, we operate duction services. The increase in in the digital domain enabling multi-layering[...]ost work can be at stallation (in 1992) of the Rank URSA digital and doze[...]d integrity as of-the-art equipm ent housed in telecine and grading system, and (in 1993) the the original image.[...]cent purchase of Victorian Film Labora In many ways, AAV has been a major inno vator in a complex industry, developing such[...] |
| H R I S LO N G Australia's First Films: P art Ten: Federation[...] |
| [...]Victoria gave her assent to Australian Federation on 9[...]0 0 8, and nine days later it was announced that Australia's FEDERATIONVOTE FOR[...]Chamber- ON[...]ed Australian Common 50.000 Votes must be Polled in Favor[...]unprecedented day's celebration in Sydney. A triumphal military and[...]Centennial Park. There, set in a natural amphitheatre with room for[...]age for the final act of Federation, the swearing-in of attended the official Federation ceremony, at Australia's first Governor-General and Federal Cabinet. which Australia's first film approaching feature[...]he federation coverage survives, released on the NFSA videocassette[...]Committee to a design by Varney Parkes in a special plaster and presentation --longer, more important in content, more widely[...]ute of the proces shown, and more lasting in its effect on our production industry.[...]logans and flags with the Union Jack IlflE P a t h t o F e d e r a tio n[...]0 local and imported Empire defence forces joined in the independent British colonies with no[...]Boxer Rebellion were still in progress. 2 ,0 0 0 British troops from[...] |
| Left: Earl of Hopetoun (1860-1908), who was sworn in as Australia's first Governor- light D epartm ent.21 "Soldiers of the General on 1 January 1901, and as Queen Victoria's re[...] |
| equipment on loan from the stock of Baker & Rouse. In aug uratio n of the A ustralian The camerame[...]Army Limelight Department, had conveniently been in Sydney for the week prior to Commonwealth Day at[...]ra positions at the Treasury Around 9 a.m. on 1 January 1901, the 15,000-strong proces and in Park Street by the Citizens' Arch were probably m[...]ajor Joseph Perry directed sion marshalled in the Domain in reverse order of precedence. It the proceedings,[...]he wood-blocked M acquarie Street, turning In order to ensure the M ajor's swift passage from p[...]west into Bridge Street. The movie camera high up on the |
| [...]platform built to record the ceremony in Julian Ashton. Chu[...]the Swearing-in Pavilion can be clearly seen[...]on the lower right of this photograph. The[...]replacing a film magazine on the camera. leader[...]e with four men in powdered wigs probably has[...]Vice-Regal suite into the Swearing-in Mayoral carriage[...]B" REEL 3: Royal Engineers in wagon-borne pon[...]published in Australasian Photographic[...]Review, January 1951, p. 12. th[...]moment of Federation at the Swearing-in[...]narration now identify "Dub Boxer Rebellion in China). 196 Artillerymen and Rangers of Victo[...]ria's recently-returned First Boer War Contingent in parade kit.[...]ps, 10 Royal Army Medical Corps, 4 Army Chaplains in dog Smaller ambulance and service corps (cut[...]men, 30 Artillerymen, Victorian Scottish Regiment in kilts, Engineers[...]and Pipers, First New Zealand Boer War Contingent on their[...]impsed distantly (cuts). 52 Indian Native Cavalry in Native Cavalry in turbans, including Bengal and Bombay Lancers. 48[...]Infantry (in khaki); Western Australian Mounted Rifles, senior[...]C" SERIES: Near the Swearing-in Pavilion at Centennial Park. Swear with crowd in foreground greeting Hopetoun's first appearance ing-in of First Governor-General and First Federal Cabinet recorded before joining the parade in his open carriage with a NSW Lancer in considerable detail, from a variety of vantage po[...]ng section of film. Australians to see action in the Boer War (cuts). Cavalry officer in Life Curiou[...]SERIES: Taken from the north side of Park Street in Hyde Park, in Pavilion down the red carpet flanked by sailors f[...]and Colonial soldiers. Admiral Pearson follows up in the rear gives a fixed view of the passageway in the Citizens' Arch.[...]EL 2: Same vantage point, but with camera trained on the[...]Smith waits in Pavilion. Hopetoun shakes hands with a Premier's[...]and Deakin look on. Shot 4: NSW Premier Lyne sworn in to Federal 60 . C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 01 |
| [...]bought the rights to show the Federation coverage in minute 50 seconds).[...]EL 4: Pavilion entry steps from elevated platform on south-west of a travelling picture showman was not to his tastes. side. 2:30 p.m.: the end of the ceremony. Naval and Military l[...]Review of 10,000 Empire Troops at Centennial Park on 3 one of the wires used fo[...] |
| [...]ties invest the film with much of its and aliens in a strange land is both reinforced energy and as[...]se manages humour as they negotiate life in cramped quar and upset in this scene, as in theirow n way they to avoid most of the confusion and narrative ters on the bus "Priscilla", and amid the hostile[...] |
| [...]shes, police brutality, and vio certain elements in the film, the end product transmitters were built into Hope's lence in custody are all part of Bubby's experi would hav[...]loving and hopeful, honest and and Terence Stamp in this issue. Also, see Jan sion, we have[...]Bubby finds it and Epstein's review of the film in "47e Festival Interna fundamental about his sp[...]cars, that has resulted in international acknowledg Russell. Scriptwriter:[...]things about Filmed Entertainm ent presentation, in association with was to film the different scene[...]fronts a pub rock tor: Roadshow. 35mm. 102 mins. Australia. 1994. stemming from financial necessity[...]r budget was found, it still re in a lunatic, dramatic, staccato way, something BAD[...]to everything performs bound up in cling-wrap. The Bubby " It seems to me the b[...]u b b y has been compared with the In the film's very happy ending, Bubby mar[...] |
| Nicholas Hope in this issue. Also, see Peter Moran's Bernard[...]HN HARGREAVES) AND DEBORAH VOYSEY (GRETA review in "50a Mostra del Cinema di Venezia" , Cin[...]s, No. 96, December 1993, pp. 42-4. in a state of excitement),[...]icularly anx Celtic in its outlook and construction. The the Ian Jones[...]isitors that, `new' Australia (as represented by the national James Currie. E[...]ar. Composer: although they may live in istic doctor) battle[...]cringe is revealed as Roadshow. 35mm. 112 mins. Australia. 1994. he left to find fame and fortune in England after needless, as Alexander is expo[...]tant in this ensemble cast, are the figures of the te[...]her loyalties such as M uriel's W edding (P. J. Hogan), (Ron Blanchard).[...]tioned - but, unfortunately once The Sum o fU s{K e v\n Dowling and Geoff Burton),[...]wife set up the viewer along with her role in the film wanes. The A dventures of Priscilla, Q[...]albeit in an unsatisfactory and largely[...]o-aristocrat, ignorant and disdainful of in this film. John Hargreaves' performance, overseas interest in it) comes a film with rela the Australian condition, and of his brother-in- while being overbearing at first, provides[...]the homestead going. It the few interests in the film, as he becomes a tional standards, but[...]a multitude of original and exciting on the uptake, he finally comes to this climactic[...]film yet strangely attracted to it - in particular, to the turn to a middle-brow filmmaking that is pictur depends on what one thinks of that once old[...]spiring at worst. standby of our national cinema in the 1970s, the also the object of atte[...]cal cross-firing going on in the family to fuel the Scriptwriter: Michael B[...]ion designer: Larry ues and viewpoints of `old' Australia - i.e., colo nized.[...]tume designer: Wendy Chuck. Sound nial British - on `new' Australia - the people who[...]It is interesting to consider the film in two poser: Peter Best. Cast: Sam Neill (Max[...]Sally Voysey), Googie W ithers (Hannah), a scene in which Max Askey (Sam Neill), as the[...]t of this theme, tor: UIP. 35mm. 110 mins. Australia. 1994. shanty mining village. Against this scene[...]ry Fox), and his mother Maud (Patricia Kennedy). In their large home C ou ntry Lif[...]eeling that the they fuss amongst the house help in their nerv inspiration for the film[...]ation. It adds to the double bind Jack's brother-in-law, and his newwife, Deborah that the film finds itself in: while seemingly an (Greta Scacchi). The[...] |
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| [...]in the burglary and was secretly attempting[...]increase his While the performances in Fra u d s are di DAVID VALLENCE[...]fight back and eventually confront him in his tradiction also seems to have cre[...]many of the pleasures to be being spoken of in the context of its younger, and found in Frauds, but there is a distracting sense mor[...]ivalence about Jonathan, wavering as Collins in it. While it istempting and perhaps even laughin[...]and suffers from his extra-fictional release in its own right, one must concede that the provide are dissipated in the fruitless attempt to status as the imp[...]te Its makers, Latent Image productions (in the Rather than mixing its generic modes[...]f art design. play with normality or banality in different and surreal effects, or to `darken' a story's humour, possibly contradictory ways? In the context of Frau ds sets out to "bend"[...]`gotten it right' with Priscilla, at least on a formal seen as part of Elliott's artistic impulse, although strategy is reflected in the film's migration from level, perhaps t[...]and the later scenes - removed from any In the beginning, the tone of Frau ds is `natu mea[...]cers: goes horribly wrong and Beth shoots the in[...]s a close friend. and Steven Spielberg on his directorial style, designer: Brian[...]production, in association with the Australian Film[...]Finance Corporation. Australian distributor: Hoyts.[...]35mm. 92 mins. Australia. 1994.[...]stories set in the Australian bush at the turn[...] |
| rate on the final draft, has produced a sensitive bet[...]cAlister to Mrs McAlister so that the ing place on the screen. As Harvey-Wright ries, and a charming film in its own right. film could explore anoth[...]s and feelings, rather than de Penguin Books Australia has released a peating the tragic tale[...]nt and determined to are used at key moments in the narration and Wright on the adapting and filming of these asser[...]s stories time to fulfil your own requirements". In conver[...]Marshall recog The narrative focus on the three characters est account of the impover[...]going to be a writer. A fundamental concern in adapting several boy. In adaptation, fourteen-year-old Alan is individual[...]t this grace McAlister (c h a r lo tte r a m p u n g ) a n d e a s t oriscoll lack of a key foc[...]film's climax or resolution. ancy to relations in the Marshall household; Scriptwriter Peter Hepwo[...]Russell Crowe) as the main charac takes on a maternal role ter, apart from young Alan himse[...]ide the necessary impetus for the film's in her cynically pragmatic narrative. In both Marshall's stories and the approach[...]mance cess to the physical definition of manhood in a from Frankie J. Holden), small country t[...]d by one's power over a four and Grace, in whom he legged animal.[...]lationship between East and through East. In the cli Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling), th[...]land- true narrative resolution owner. In a separate story from that of East of th[...]bold into the moral codes of the early 1900s is in (and, I believe, success cluded in the film in the adaptation of the story of ful) alterations[...]of his Frank Gallacher). Linking Grace with East in the text. Throughout the film draws these t[...]ully balanced to il Ann Turner's involvement in the final script draft led to a crucial change in the relationship[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 0 1 . 67 |
| Filmed in the Clare valley of Adelaide, the[...]f tion to historic detail (Celia was set in the DIRK TRENT (PAUL CHUBB) AND SAND[...]e hills and a palette of colours essence on the screen. It is now three years f[...]than just the story of a young hand of a corpse on frost-covered grass.[...]is further enriched by the stories lies in its ability to give life to his charac silent[...]ot Drowning, Waving. Its variety of ters on the screen. Crowe's performance as[...]repeated throughout horseman (he trained on his days off from symbolism of t[...]hich accompanies East and Grace's R o m p e r S to m p e r). Rampling does indeed have blows life deals out on the individual which outdoor dance with Alan - and each time it star quality; her presence on the screen com mould and shape a pe[...]blows shape a piece of metal. image on the screen. Production designer Ross whe[...]ding: See "Ann Turner's Hammers Over the Turalla in the early 1900s. Alan. There are few scenes in which he does Anvil" , a location[...]the film's narrative focus. erwise have resulted in a fragmented and over His only weakness[...]s off when she teams him with Based on the stories Hammers O ver the A nvil by Alan sib[...]e adaptation of Marshall's other characters in intense exchanges - most Marshall.[...]ing (Grace McAlister), Russell Crowe (East awake in bed to hear East's horse cantering father, especially in their bitter argument over Driscoll), A[...]South Australian Film Corporation & Harvest Produc book under his bed; a shot of Eas[...]both its male and tions. Australian distributor: Roadshow. 35mm. 101 in a stirrup which conveys in an instant the mins. Australia. 1994. details of his tragic accident. She explo[...]the Creteil International Women's Film Festival in Paris and a commendation at the Edinburgh[...] |
| [...]n), Rowan Woods (Professor Wauchop), Th e H o ly P o ly M an is an entertaining contri o[...](Axel). Rough Nut Productions in association with sounds quite cute, but when Sa[...]n Kolapore Management. Australian distributor: Total Lyons) derisively calls Dirk Trent (Paul[...]ausible sex object as he Film & Television. 35mm. 93 mins. Australia. 1994. "merely a roly poly man", she is not fla[...]d has and acts like Wendy Hughes in S u m n e r Lo ck e suddenly surprised him (and[...]offspring (six) on to Trent for the weekend. On[...]realize they are movie buffs or not). It relies on roles as Mickey, Trent's respectable si[...]resident in Australia, graduated from the Austral brood of six children circulating Sydney on the There are some very brief cameos that are ian Film Television & Radio School after having tourist bus, but stat[...]made two striking shorts, H a n gu p and Th e S p a ce chomped and devoured by the monster leech[...]perator, and Barbara screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes. A ra c h n a p h o b ia (Frank Marshall, 1990) and the Step[...]s (with Robert Carter). Based on characters taken[...]s music, the morgue, Vietnam in the early 1950s. who also has a history as a sta[...]e detective genre and boy pleasure in crude jokes and language and Michael Duffield (Robert Reynolds) is ajour- stir in the mutant creature genre, they rely on ooze-and-guts jokes (a handful of br[...]proved' pieces for those who employ him - in audience.[...]s and laughs. mittee has acknowledged this skill in giving Th e However, the very fastidio[...]As the film opens, and Michael and wife R o ly P o ly M a n a nomination for Best Original[...]rive towards Daniel's Screenplay. It is original in its absorbing of T h e R o ly P o ly M an is symptomatic of recent pl[...]evalence of parody, marriage is on a troubled course. They pause wit (with Australi[...]n for Louise to take a pee in a forest, where Stevens has recently shown in T h e S u m of U s tiousness and port[...]ake us laugh. M u rie l's W e d d in g (P. J. Hogan), T h e A d v e n (how could[...]tures o f P riscilla, Q u e e n o f the D e s e r t( Stephan[...]occupation in recent decades). To that extent, needs as individuals and as partners in a union. T h e R o ly P o ly M a n is good for us. In particular, Louise fights to move beyond the[...]Kym Goldsworthy offer us a tongue-in-cheek drain and inhibit those close to him. righteousness (as in Paul Cox's G o ld e n Braid, movie tri[...]bution to Ocker grunge. 1990), to funny slob (as in Brian McKenzie's[...]a n d G e o r g e 's N e w Life, 1992). He relies on THE ROLY POLY MAN Directed by Bill Young. Produc[...]e here and turns Dirk Trent into a local P eter G reen. E xecutive producer: Jonathan in part through fear. This is symbolized by her con[...]. near film's end does she do this in an unneces[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 0 1 . 69 |
| [...]think of, and be bring about major changes on both individual[...]ity. Having gone to the trouble of shooting in and social levels. The parallels with the Duffi[...]ties in a film or Thailand, as most `Vietnamese' prod[...]e. Many of the overlords and exploiters; and so on.[...]s. exteriors are underlit, such as by the hut on the[...]eway, where several conversations are quite On a structural level, these and other paral[...]namese as sition, but in this case (unlike her shorts) the each o[...] |
| B riefly CONTINUED FROM P. 2 Park Kwang-Su's B erlin R e p o rt { 1991) and To the the same time. A[...]ians. the world. Since hosting the Olympic Games in (1992); Im Kwon-Taek's S opyonje (1998);[...]rs t Lo ve (1992); Kim Yu-Jin's O n ly B eca use Australia'sthird largest export market and is poised Y ou'[...]J. Brodie Hanns, who has been C inem a P ap ers' to overtake the U.S. for second place.[...]is moving on to new endeavours. All at the maga Korea's c[...]Film Finances and AFC", pages 36 to 39 in issue and to satisfy international art-house audiences. (Oxford University Press in association with the 100, the name o[...]Soames, was incorrectly spelt. C inem a P apers The Festival will introduce viewers to[...]book, including the additional spelt in the cover photo caption and Bernardo Kwang-Su an[...]years of 1993 and 1994, in November 1995. A Bertolucci's Christian name was misspelt in the book of similar methodology on New*Zfealand cin heading of his interview (p. 4). The eight features comprising the Festi[...]ITE 4, 200 TOORAK RD, SOUTH YARRA, VICTORIA 3141, AUSTRALIA NEW & UNUSUAL[...] |
| [...](ZBIGNIEW ZAMACHOWSKI) AND MIKOLAJ (JANUSZ GAJOS) IN KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI'S TROIS COULEURS: BLANC.[...]Finally, in B e lls from the D ee p, Werner[...]Herzog offers yet another obsessive and in[...]tense meditation on the intersections of reli[...]the translations in English with some gravity, for[...]times, his interest in outcasts, fanatics, vision[...]modernity and of rationality - in documentaries[...]such as E c h o e s from a S o m b re Em p ire , S c re a m[...]o f S to n e and L e s s o n s in D a rk n e s s -- remains[...]timely and provocative. Six Short Notes on the 41st Sydney Film Festival[...]ABOUT LOVE (AND HOW AUSTRALIA |
| [...]ience; with the eners. Nevertheless, the tension in Grape's life GOULD[...] |
| [...]terful filmmaking. aesthetics in any sense in Trium ph des W illens haps one-tenth of t[...]viewer often retreats just when we are on the Australian entries were qui[...] |
| [...]B o d y M elt \s a dynamic film in the sense that the season called "Black & White In 'Scope: The specialist events such as this. No matter, such its identity doesn't rely on the woeful applause Anamarphic Vision"; O h[...]ralian. That part of "The Films of Powell & Pressburger" year by the predominance of twp eve[...]cin': The MGM Musicals of Arthur field exhibited in the Animation Focus. fessio[...]sur The focal point of all this in B o d y M elt is, of prints, and just the very[...]) as it films again, or for the first time, on the big attended of all events. But audience fig[...]us thing about B o d y M elt is that it Perhaps in future years the Festival can organ[...]ause they are certainly worth reappraising. tion in comparison to the fanfare of the opening[...]-minded academic night film, M u rie l's W e d d in g ( P. J. Hogan). Yet it justification. It is a film[...]original film. B o d y M elt is certainly not shy on the popularity of television programmes like h[...]blood lines, it's just that the herit Th e S im p so n s, exposure through commercials, employ the[...]tic. coupled with ever-increasing advances in com- ally strengthens rather than shatters the e[...]a Jack Thompson's role as Harry Mitchell is in little like the ocker films many ways a reworking of his role as Foley in Australia made in the S u n d a y T o o F a r A w a y (Ken Hannam[...]positive, classic charac disowned. In the context teristics of the mateship myth: stro[...]pple incapable of a `personal' film in this re genuinely loving relationship with a wom[...]National Film Archive in T h e S u m o f U s does indeed include a h[...]British morous visual reference to S un day, and in so Film Institute under the doing[...]patronage of Piper- masculinity in Australia in the 19 years since Heidsieck resulted in the S u n d a y was made. Harry Mitchell, in compari Piper-Heidsieck Classic son[...]t' made up of a number of becoming p threat to his masculinity.[...]the country through the certainly essential in understanding the change Australian[...]seasons. The selections innermost thoughts on formative moments in shown at this year's Fes thei[...]ature, B o d y Melt, re Richard Brooks' In C o ld volves around the inhabitants of Pebbles[...]ects of suburban culture as it can get its hands on, from FM radio to fluoro- clothes, from n[...] |
| [...]FOUR RETROSPECTIVES: TOP LEFT: RICHARD BROOKS' IN COLD BLOOD-. TOP RIGHT: STANLEY DONEN'S ON THE TOWN LEU: JOHN FORD'S THE[...]but the approach is similar in principle. Whether[...]e common denominator is the fact of what ignored in preference to cel-animation is[...]Borthwick was Sproxton of Aardman Animation were on hand appro[...]th have their in the late '80s to do a tally Aardman", a showcase of 17 pieces, the studios based in Bristol, which is really the centre[...]ich are A G ra n d D a y O u t for 3-D animation in Britain.[...]d N u rs e ry (British Academy Award winner in 1990 and[...]n Oscar the same year), C re a 78 . C I N E M A P A P E R S 1 01[...]ture Com forts (winner of an Academy Award in episodes based on a clas 1991) and Th e W ro ng Tro u se r[...]d G ra n d D a y O u t and another Oscar win in 1994).[...]of the work-in-progress, tween science and magic. Just[...]t it was unrepresenta Shelley's F r a n k e n s te in , o r the M o d e rn[...]ing bleakvision. But on the ence inbuing life into a dead object (w[...]planners decidedtosched clay in Greek mythology).[...]ng, despite Borthwick Clay animation on film first made its appear[...]advising against it. Thefilm ance in silent cinema in conjunction with live-[...]provoked a lot of negative action in what were called tableaux vivants,[...]consequently the Cocteau's B lo o d of a P o e t.) These films usually[...]BBC went cold on the involved a dream sequence brack[...]Borthwick, however, coming to life. In a lot of cases, clay animation[...]film immediately picked up several awards in its like Aardman came along in the late '70S:.[...]renewed interest from the overcome in the face of live-action, the Mel[...] |
| Films We Love 2P a rt C O N TIN U E D FROM P. 19 ably wealthy. Nor, final[...]y becoming a visual travelogue, does, and in the process woos Carmela for himself. Giuseppe e[...]source of his wealth). Hill inexplicably takes in tropical rain forests, the Sydney Har bour Bridg[...]ural Carmela and Amedeo end up together in his desert home of attractions like Ayers Rock.[...]Bun Bun Ga, united in their misery. Enrichment or the hope of a[...]otif of movement, but the Of course, not all in Bello onesto is prosaic, nor is the above paradoxical undercurrent is that in gaining more one still has necessarily inconsist[...]sto is thus something of a "pink" neorealist film in perhaps it is just such commonplace `Australian'[...]ope of a better life is not altogether impossible in the new[...]e Italian immigrant, is writing to his betrothed in Italy, a peasant girl from the South whom he Dear Carmela, has never met and believes now resides in Roma as a factory This is a histori[...]Bun Ga. You come from the worker. Amedeo is seen in mid-shot propped up against a n[...]taly: the country of Julius telegraph pole while in voice-over we hear the words he scribbles[...]country of Michelangelo, of Galileo, the country on his pad. The camera slowly pulls away high up int[...]0 -1 9 7 0 ", are wet and Carmela, all dolled up in a blonde wig, mini-skirt and in The Australian Screen, ed. Albert Moran and Tom O[...]Feature Film Production, Oxford University Press in association with Finally, the film cuts back[...]3 I believe Bello onesto is not available in this country on film. It was[...]- is not subtitled. Penta Films in Italy is believed to hold the theatrical rights.[...]y of movement is BELLO ONESTO EMIGRATO AUSTRALIA SPOSEREBBE COMPAESANA ILLIBATA [Girl In Australia] the emotional paradoxes of the migrant, of livi[...]Carmela is not the peasant girl Amedeo had seen in a Art director: Flavio Mogherini. Cos[...]lmi, Angelo Infanti, Elli Maclure, cannot get by on his own appearance so he sent Carmela a photo[...]echt Lucari for Documento Films. 35mm. 114 mins. in Broken Hill, owns an American car, a house[...] |
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| [...]creative and financial successes, in[...]platform, that was represented in[...]the films. What does Film Victoria do in terms of marketing, as opposed[...]re suggesting, and the has come out of Melbourne in[...]lity of the work that the past three or so years in an[...]HOOKS: In terms of other market to screen at BFI's Nationa[...]ing, we have done the SWOT analy Theatre from 12-31 August. From[...]sis - Strengths, W eaknesses, there, it's going on to Washing[...]pportunities, and Threats - and ton DC to screen in the American[...]tion, the ACTF, Crawfords, Jonathon Schiff and so on,[...]ave are The Big Steal [Nadia Tass, 1990], D eath in Brunswick [John Ruane, 1991], The H eartbreak Next year in March, the World Summit on Television and K id, H olidays on the River Yarra, Nirvana Street Murder [Aleksi Children will be held in Melbourne. That's something we are all Vellis, 1991], P roof, R om per Stom per and Spotsw ood [Mark looking forward to, and will certainly put Melbourne on the Joffe, 1992]. The three shorts - Only the Br[...]We also have It's an interesting time in television all over the world. Some three short documentaries - K oories and Cops [Daryl Dellora, of the co[...]etter [Aleksi Vellis, 1992] and L ife at Little L on [Jo always taken a significant interest in children's television, are Lane, 1992] - that we[...]ing borders and so on. The other thing that we wanted to point out through the Equally, in the States, where they have always had a really free |
| Stephan Elliott CONTINUED FROM P.TO system works. Well, fuck them. I decided not to put Priscilla in[...]y would really like to have it. If it doesn't fit in, Unfortunately, most members of the crew, m[...]now I've become part of the family thing. on their first film, came to me one by one and said,[...]in, but I don't want to know about it. I'm not going[...]g up and Priscilla seems certain to be nominated in many categories. How seriously do you take the[...]The FFC got dumped on a while ago on the press by a very snaky[...]to incredibly difficult, has had a change in management. Andrena Comp |
| [...]ers regrets it cannot accept information received in a different format, as it does not have the staff[...]roduction 29/8/94 ... On-set Crew[...]O n-set Crew Casting Maura Fay & Associates Laboratory[...]H.W. Wood International distributor Majestic Films[...]ldron Synopsis: A rural comedy based on the Steele Motion control electronics[...]company Rosen Harper Entertainment On-set Crew[...]stment and Flo, widows in their mid-sixties, who be Post-prod, s[...]FFC come embroiled in a macabre plot when a corpse Mixed at[...]duction FFC International distributor Beyond Distribution and a cop both decide to take refuge in the S[...]tt, Synopsis: Glad Rags is a costume hire shop in disused pawn shop that is their residen[...]dresses and joins an all-girl band in town for the vivid imagination. She loves dres[...]local festival. He falls hopelessly in love with fancies herself as an actress ... a[...]ed but being a woman he's honest. ON OUR SELECTION Pr[...] |
| [...]ing. I decided to change my life. I took my life on Asst location manager Melissa Rymer[...]nsurer Tony Leonard On-set Crew[...]ducer Terry Charatsis On-set Crew Camera equipment Samuel[...]Standby props Murray Gosson On-set Crew M[...]On-set Crew Wardrobe[...]aloff Synopsis: Mary MacKillop is one of Australia's Sound design Frank Lipsom[...]ll photography Simon Stanbury In January 1995, Mary will be beatified by Pope o[...]Maria Blore John Paul II in Sydney as Australia's first saint.[...]Fahy Prod, companies Film Australia Based on play by Hannie Rayson Editor[...]rod, manager Sue MacKay On-set Crew[...] |
| [...]rah Stephens but were soon placed in detension at Port Hedland Synopsis: A story of a[...]ty Insurer Tony Gibb, H. W. Wood Australia Post-production August 29 - mid December[...]Robertson issues relating to sexuality in their daily lives. Scriptwriters[...]t Jenny Davies Synopsis: Isolated on a remote planet, the crew Wardrobe asst[...]oth Warren Solicitor hostile world they reside on. Construction Dept[...]Sound editor Dean Gawen Pre-production 14/2/94 .[...]nou Borrey Mixer Dean Gawen Production 21/3/94 .[...]gett Insurer H. W. Wood Australia Government Agency Investment Prod, d[...]rner Titles Optical & Graphic Completion guarantor F[...]Legal services Heidtman & Co. SBS[...]Frameworks number of children bom in Melbourne in 1990, Extras casting Rose Garc[...]se Shooting stock Kodak 7298 & 7293 Prod, manager Brenda Pam[...]Frameworks Prod, company Cariyon & Rivette Pictures Prod, secretary Kerry Mulgrew Pacific Film & Television Commission Government Agency In[...]obert of youth, culture, crime and music in the urban Principal Credits Production ru[...]Terry Cariyon Insurer H. W. Wood Australia Shane Briant (Kevin Bosey), Craig Bresli[...]ark Hamlyn Legal services Martin Cooper & Co. Vanessa Steele (Rachel Kossinger),[...]chael Collins Cast van Starwagons Australia Kelly Wheatstone, has her own agenda. Th[...]Hirschfelder Unit truck Starwagons Australia killer holds the ace card and decides to[...]Other Credits Qld liaison Pacific Film & TV Commission game on his terms. Ex[...]Camera maintenance Lemae Film Rentals On-set Crew[...]Sarah Stephens Synopsis: On New Year's Eve 1991,56 Chinese Still pho[...]Eva Omer Nationals landed in a wooden boat - code named Post-Production[...]er Fiona Cochrane "Isabella", on the shores of far north western Post-produc[...]producer Geoff Barnes Australia. After weeks in the desert, all survived, Sound editor[...]C I N E M A P A P E R S 101 . 89 |
| [...]On-set Crew[...]4 Art Department Synopsis: Each year in Australia hundreds of Principal Credits[...]n NSW FILM & TELEVISION OFFICE unhappy or abusive homes, ot[...]e Centre See previous issue for details on:[...]Casting Judy Brown & Associates[...]See previous issue for details on: Pre-production[...]IN LIVING MEMORY Inti, distributor RPTA PRIMETIME[...]Brendan "Moose" Boyd tells the tales of Australia's earliest known ship Prod company[...] |
| [...]Maggie Kolev C la p p e r- lo a d e r Trish Keating[...]Peta Lawson HALIFAX F.P. (tele-featu re) Neri double/diver Zel[...]Robotechnology On-set Crew[...]Howard Griffiths Inti, distributor Beyond Distribution[...]Studios Crawford Australia On-set Crew Pr[...]Margot Brock Prod, company Crawford Australia Sound editors Stephen Vaugha[...]O'Brien Legal services Marshalls & Dent Production 30/5/94 - 11/11/[...]Mixed at Crawfords Australia Special fx supervisor Steve Gourt[...]Time lapse Digital Arts Film & Television Special fx coord Debbie Jackson[...]On-set Crew |
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