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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (1)[...]ba

The Milky \Nay

Muriel

The Story of Adele H

A Study in Terror
Summertime

Sunstruck

Suspira

T[...]t
The Tamarind Seed

Ta ras Bulba

Ten Rillington Place
That Lady

That Obscure Object of Desire
Knights[...]eur

Borsalino

Le Boucher

The Bride Wore Black

A Man and a Woman
Midnight Express

Mr Klein

Mon Oncle

Straw Dogs

L’Homme de Rio

There's a Girl in my Soup

The Lacemaker

Lady Sings the Bl[...]Henry V

Death on the Nile

Dr Dolittle

Dracula

A Bridge Too Far

The Charge of the Light Brigade
2001: A Space Odyssey
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Russian Roulette

Zazie Dans Le Metro
Thunderball

A Touch of Class

You Only Live Twice

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panth[...]em
Stand Up and Be Counted
Stolen Kisses

Face of a Fugitive

The Family Way

Fat City

Fedora

Fligh[...]alileo

The Gambler

The Garden of Fitzi Continis
A Gathering of Eagles
Getting Straight

The Glass S[...]Sam

The Curse of Frankenstein
The Dark Avenger

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
The Day of the Triffi[...]ttle Billy

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
A Doll's House

A Dream of Passion

Eagle in a Cage

El Greco

El Topo

Butley

Capricious Summe[...]The Blue Peter

The Bottom of the Bottle
Boy on a Dolphin

Macon County Line

Major Dundee[...]

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The Boys from Brazil

The Boys in the Band

A Man Called Horse

A Man for all Seasons
Mary Poppins

Midnight Cowboy[...]f Navarone
Heaven Can Wait

Hello Dolly

Shampoo

A Shot in the Dark

Silent Movie

Slap Shot

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And by the wa[...]

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The Sharkcallers of Kontu
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A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
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Peter Weir's The Year of Living[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (8)[...]go
major reorganization. has not as yet
appointed a replacement for Dimsey.

In mid-November, the Vic[...]e circumstances have
changed so dramatically that a complete
re-think is called for.

One motivating[...]ain of creative talent over the border to
Sydney, where the Australian Film Com-
mission and the New Sout[...]otential only if Film Victoria
was able to act as a producer for them.
This is a total change of policy, and a
welcome one.

Eady Fund
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

While[...]ype of govern-
ment support of the film industry, a
similar debate rages in Britain.

There, tax is a[...]he British Films Minister,
lain Sproat, announced a review of the
Eady Levy and it is feared by many[...]industry that the levy may be
abolished. There is a feeling that the
Thatcher Government, in its desi[...]rt to keep the British film
alive: the Eady Levy, aany national culture to
the world. Maggie clearly sees us as a
nation of porno-cable watchers."
Certainly the Sp[...]to be
released at the end of the year, will have
a great effect on how long the British
feature film industry continues to flicker.
(For a more detailed report, see
“Shock Review Stirs I[...]tion. Dr Patricia Edgar, ACTF
director, said that a continuing flow of
good quality projects was bein[...]in 1983.

The ACTF also revealed that it would
be a major investor in the South Aus-
tralian Film Cor[...]e Night —— $15,950
for first-draft funding of a five-part mini-
series to Endeavour Film Producti[...]nd
treatment funding for Episodes two to
five for a mini-series to David King.
Amazing Australian Animals — $3800
for pilot-script funding for a wildlife
series to DNM Productions.

Peppino — $5420 for first-draft funding
for Episode one of a seven-part mini-
series to Colosimo Nominees and[...]and Television Archives in Ottawa,
recently spent a month in Australia as a
consultant at the National Library.
Widely recogn[...]o preservation methods, he advised
the Library on a strategy for establishing
a video preservation facility in the
National Film[...]n.

Easton was born in Sydney and once
worked for a Sydney television station,
but has lived in Canada for 16 years and
is now a Canadian citizen.

Melbourne Festival

New appoin[...]tival
and the Sydney Opera House. In 1982,
he was a member of the jury at the Mel-
bourne Film Festiv[...]scent, has been named
program director. Kuttna is a film critic
who has written for many world film
j[...]tor of the Sydney
Film Festival and presenter for A Whole
World of Movies on 0/28, has been
retained[...]ia, has been appointed
president of the Festival, a newly-
created position.

A billboard image from Times Square, New Yor[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (9)[...]combining an entertaining live per-
formance with a popular distribution of
awards among many films.[...]first controversy was over the
implementation of a pre-selection
process, which ‘narrowed’ the 30 films
entered down to 18. (For a full report see
1Cg£e;'na Papers, No. 37, pp. 10[...]r, as required, the
nominees were jumbled — not a serious
error except for the donkey voters.

The[...]p two
weeks earlier, the rationale was
changed to a don't know.

Finally, the closing date came and
w[...]ards
voting.

Tradition

It is the prerogative of any organiza-
tion to change its protocol requirements
at any time —~ especially if a new
management or board structure is intro-
duced[...]only one past executive
director opted to pay — a profit of $30).

The executive directors involved[...]Peter Crayford. Of
these, Brennan was invited as a pro-
ducer of the nominated Starstruck and
Crayfo[...]bers.

Overall, the whole incident put the AFI
in a poor light. One hopes that in the
future it may f[...].

Eric Porter, winner of the Raymond
Longford A ward.

The Presentation

For those present, the 1[...]and to the point. As compere,
Phillip Adams gave a humorous and win-
ning performance, and Norris certainly
proved a striking presence in her tradi-
tion-breaking app[...]n should speak on behalf of
the AFI).

Looking at a video recording later,
however, the presentation seemed a
little lacklustre in spots. Despite exten-
sive t[...]s O'Donovan and back-up
dancers, for example, was aA second criticism of the presentation
—~ and mos[...]anging Rock which went
largely unrecognized).

As a result, when the ABC agreed to
do the telecast in[...]ta-
tion. The AFI was happy to agree
because such a regulation was felt to

Awards presenters David A[...]audience bewilderment returned.

It is certainly a problem that needs to
be solved if ratings are to increase,
which is the whole point of the telecast.

The A wards

The awards themselves require little
comme[...]redited members of the
AFI. it does seem odd that a film of the
exceptional standard of Mad Max 2
sho[...]r for Mad Max 2.

Best Performance by an Actor in a
Leading Role: Ray Barrett in Goodbye
Paradise.

Best Performance by an Actress in a
Leading Flole: Noni Hazlehurst in
Monkey Grip.

.Best Performance by an Actress in a

Supporting Role: Kris McQuade in
Fighting Back.

Best Performance by an Actor in a
Supporting Role: Warren Mitchell in
Norman Loves[...]ry (Non-feature Awards)

Best Short Fiction Film: A Most Attrac-
tive Man, produced by Gillian[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (10)[...]that Scott said in this piece
and if there can be a recognition of these
basic facts, then actions by people of
goodwill will have a chance of moving
the industry fonrvard once more.[...]fter all, there is nothing
wrong with cinema that a damned good
film won't cure!

Yours sincerely,

G[...]the point is well made that it is
the quality of a film itself, rather than the
presence or absence of a foreign star,
that determines whether the film wi[...]ributor's belief in the box-
office attraction of a particular star that
justifies the producer's dec[...]talent. Such
surveys would indicate, better than any
attempted correlation of box-office
results with[...]he
opposite result, as when the policy
results in a proposed production being
cancelled or removed fr[...]rity from
the demands of an international market-
place.

In an international industry, true talent
shoul[...]affected by the money-raising
activities of UAA, any more than they
have been by other legitimate oppo[...]production
has occurred, UAA has not yet promoted
any projects so far as I am aware.

Producers whose f[...]UAA’s opera-
tions is that they do not rely on any
special tax concessions. The only
deduction offered is under section 51(1),
under which any taxpayer can offset
non-capital, non-domestic bus[...]er newspaper) that section 51(1)
offers investors a 375 per cent write-off.
Section 51(1) itself offe[...]is not satis-
fied that such repayment will take place),
they are only justified when the profit-
abilit[...]est in
servicing foreign film projects (or indeed
any other kind of projects) of guaranteed
commerciali[...]s of certified Australian films
have been handed a major competitive
advantage, in that they can off[...]the
dangers (leave aside the unfairness) of
such a campaign. If it succeeds, what
reason will there[...]tists, technicians and others in the
industry may find their own tax positions
(or that of their loan-ou[...]and which officials have
interpreted as requiring a film producer
to register an approved deed and
pr[...]ditional fund-raising
go ahead seeking to rely on a less-strict
interpretation of the new definition.[...]June 30 deadline (sometimes
wrongly described as a "12 months
rule") was an ill-conceived, last-minu[...]vercome,
Australian film production should
resume a more normal level and hope-
fully we shall see a continuing output of
films of the quality that w[...]y without hesitation and without
having to put to a vote his right to have
that say. I strongly disag[...]es as
having "had all the moralistic hyperbole
of a Jerry Falwell ra||y". Such a strong
statement leaves no doubt whose side
Scott[...]ite enter-
taining — but only if looked upon as a
children's film. The overall critical reac-
tion[...]picture has
amazed me (will Cinema Papers publish
a review of The Pirate Movie? l doubt it.
Scott could do a favorable one himself, if
he dares.)

Bob Ellis,[...]ne else for that matter
going to the U.S. to make a film?

Overseas directors should be allowed
to co[...]be set, or partly set, in Aus-
tralia (e.g., Ride A Wild Pony, Born to
Run, Adam's Woman, The Side Car

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (11)[...]ldsworthy epics, Sunstruck, The
Shiralee, Squeeze a Flower, The
Siege of Pinchgut, and so on). Just
b[...]ng was twofold:

1. UAA has acted within the law, a fact
ignored by most of its detractors; and

2. T[...]than an elected
government, dictating what UAA or any
other film organization or individual
should do w[...]As director of The Travelling Film Fes-
tival — a division of the Sydney Film
Festival — I would[...]e name
—— The Travelling Film Festival — is a
business name, registered in each state
of Australia.

Any legal difficulties relating to other
organization[...]ike, Hank Nelson and Gavan
Daws, Angels of War is a documentary
about the experience of villagers whe[...]ringle, has been awarded the Gold
Ducat (carrying a cash prize of 2000 DM)
at the 31st Mannheim Inter[...]ns of
Heaven is the story of two men who
maintain a satellite relay station on the
Bogong High Plains[...]e, depicts
episodes in Aboriginal women's history
a/nd was recently shown on Channel
0 28.

Australia[...]op.

Further production investment in the
form of a standby finance facility of
$300,000 was allocated to Jill Robb’s
Careful He Might Hear You.

Additionally, a grant of $3000 towards
developing “American Dreams, Aus-
tralian Movies" (a series of radio
programs for NPR Radio in the U.S[...]ws Associates;
and Andrew Mason received $3972 as a
travel grant to enable him to attend the
BKSTS Se[...]lopment and the Creative Develop-
ment branches.

A total of $105,083 was allocated to
Script Develop[...]so won two SilverA wards in the same category and a Silver in Commercial Theatre. No
awards were give[...]AFC’s July
meeting. Major allocations included a
grant of $13,106 for Paul Winkler‘s
Trades; $10[...]ude David EIfick’s Under-
cover, which received a total of
$100,000 for production development:
$10[...]velopment funding of $25,000 for
Horizon Films’ Where East Meets
West.

Additionally, Crawford Productions
has received a standby finance facility of
$300,000 for All the Rivers Run.

Cowarle Holdings has been allocated
a $9350 grant for a 13-week study of
Australian films on the international
market; and a Trainee Grant of $1500
went to the Film Producers[...]g foundation
member Henri Safran. Arrnstron heads
a new executive consisting 0 Phillip
Noyce, Stephen[...]d television industry. It is also working
towards a standard contract that will
clearly define direct[...]y life member, and was recently
guest-of-honor at a meeting of ASDA
where he addressed members on the
role of directors in[...]Dangerously and, with Hanna
Barbera (Australia), a $2.5 million tele-
vision mini-series for[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (12)Peter McLean

VVE FTHE

NEVER NEVER:

A DRAMA 0F
EMPTY SB4CES

Pre-production

When did you start work on “We
of the Never Never”?

I bou[...]e first introduced to it at
school. It always had a relevance
to me about the way of life in Aus-
tra[...]id Adams-Packer
become involved?

After I’d had a shooting script
prepared and only a few months
before shooting. But their involve-
me[...]uidance he gave
was valuable. Greg Tepper, who is
a producer of the film, was at the
Victorian Film C[...]d associate producer
(Brian Rosen). Why was there a
need for four producers?

Phillip, as exec[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (13)[...]leave the
production?

John joined the production a
few weeks before we were due to
shoot, and he lef[...]usy at that time
directing the film. However, for a
producer like John, it may have
been difficult to[...]s. I wasn’t involved
with discussions that took place
between the production company
and John just before he left the
production. Quite a number of
people came and went during the
shootin[...]familiar
with why people were coming and
going.

You sound a little circumspect . . .

I am determined in this[...]to avoid ambiguities in answering
questions that you sort of folk ask.

506 — December CINEMA PAPERS[...]l. We of the Never Never.

We sort of folk?

Yes, you know, people who
interview and publish.

Why did you decide to shoot in the
Northern Territory, with t[...]ill be to some extent
because we were in the area where
the story actually took place, and
because we did, as individuals,
experience b[...]the real characters
experienced. It certainly had a
profound effect on the cast, just to
be in the same place and to walk
the same ground. Some of them
were qu[...]very
worthwhile. The shoot was only 12
weeks and you can live through 12
weeks under almost any hardships.
Perhaps one of the film’s strengths[...]sly over budget.

One of the complaints that Dan, a
character in the book, makes is
that city people,[...]rstand the outback, like
telling bush stories. Do you think
that the 12 weeks out there put you
in a better position to understand
what the book was about?

Yes, even though I had spent
quite a lot of time there in the years
of researching the story and
writing the script.

It is a special part of the world.
It has a spiritual quality. I think
that most of the cast and crew felt

it while we were there, almost as if
it were a foreign country.

Is that another reason why you
decided to shoot on the actual
locations of the b[...]we had shot the film just out of
Shepparton with a few fibreglass
ant-hills.

I don’t see remote l[...]It is part of the
way filmmaking has always been.
Youa lot of differences
in terms of the amount of the
control you can have. You are
subject to the weather, and you
have all sorts of logistical problems
to contend[...]our problems
was that some of the pre-produc-

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tion on the film wasn’t as tightly
org[...]ms of distance. It
should be possible to organize a
film almost anywhere in the world
and have it run[...]at are the advantages and
limitations of adapting a screen-
play from an autobiography?

Peter Schrec[...]itations are enormous,
particularly when adapting a

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (14)[...]the possibility of
severe criticism for damaging a
classic. Whether or not we will
escape that, I do[...]rthern Territory.
That exploration becomes almost a
personal justification, on behalf of
the white pe[...]the way of life out
there. It doesn’t read like a
personal story, but I believe it is.

I think she[...]d the book to be an
explanation of that.

Why did you decide to include the
opening scenes of the marri[...]to
give it an immediate purpose and
identity.

Do you think it shows a contrast
between Jeannie’s attitudes and
the at[...]udes
of the other women, and it shows
that she is a rebel of some sort.
Obviously, it provides a contrast
between city and country, and
gives a context for the rest of the
story.

The book is written in the first
person. Did you ever consider
using Jeannie as a narrator?

No, though we did consider re-
setting[...]cessful
and just as relevant if we retained
it as a period story.

The relationship between Jeannie
a[...]n the film it is emotion-
ally restrained. How do you create
a feeling of intimacy between a
couple who talk so little about
themselves and th[...]her family in Melbourne.

But it wasn’t really a story of
their marriage as such. Their
marriage was a catalyst for the
other events of the story. It is[...]icence in writing
about emotions and feelings was a
product of the time, of the sort of
things that w[...]hat, and partly
because her husband had died only
a year and a half after they were
married. I don’t think she[...]Never Never.

Igor Auzins

about her position as a married
woman.

How did the Gunn family react to[...]elt those
scenes were dramatically
necessary.

Do you see any similarity between
films like “We of the Never[...]function, but
not in the same way. Interestingly,
a comment I heard quite often
from distributors in[...]e
search American filmmakers have
embarked on for a new form of
American Western.

They identified wi[...].

It appears that the Western
forms nowadays are a reflection of

CINEMA PAPERS December — 507

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (15)[...]whereas
in We of the Never Never perhaps
they see a Western form that
doesn’t have an edge of harshness
and cynicism.

There seems to me to be a common
theme in Westerns and in “Snowy
River” to do with the necessity to
prove your worth in a harsh
environment. I saw the horse-
breaking scen[...]two days before the
national release.)

It is a reality in those sorts of
environments, even today, that
unless you are competent you are a
liability. The men expected Aeneas
to do it, particularly given his
background. He was a strange
character: an adventurer, a geo-
grapher, a romantic, a seafarer, a
librarian — everything but a cattle
station manager.

What about Jeannie’s comment
that she’s a wallflower? You get a
much stronger sense from the film
than the book of a woman who is
30, who feels left on the shelf . . .

The concept of herself as a wall-
flower is taken directly from one
of her letters from the Northern
Territory to Melbourne, where she
writes of herself as Plain Jane, the
wallflo[...]station will
accept her. Yet throughout the
film you get the feeling that she is
excluded and resentfu[...]ge of the station
society. She was expected to be a
housewife. She wasn’t the sort of
lady to like that. She wanted to be
accepted as an individual and not
as a woman whose place is in the

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c[...]ncep—
tions of her position.

There seems to be a stronger feeling
of warmth and humanity in the
book. You feel that she under-
stands the men and that they[...]n is their inability to
express their emotions to a
woman. Do you think Dandy’s
tears at the end are an indicatio[...]e arrival of
the feverish stranger is for Jeannie
a demonstration of the bonds of
mateship. Yet in th[...]rmation of exclusion from the
male world. Why did you change
its meaning?

We tried to describe somethi[...]cribe. We tried to
look at the events and suppose a
personal, emotional response to
them from her. Sh[...]d that We
of the Never Never just wouldn’t
make a film because it was
altogether too saccharine, to[...]nnie is convinced
that the men built the house as a
prison for her, to keep her in her
place. It accentuates her resent-
ment and insecurity.[...]rather than taken from the book.
The film needed a forward—moving
structure, and we decided to use[...]uch more
aggressive, more sanctimonious,
and even a bit neurotic . . .

Certainly it is not an absolu[...]d in the book, though I
would hope that it is not a ridi-
culous interpretation. We tried to
ensure t[...]behaviour, given the circumstances
of the book.

A film can only possibly deal
with a very small section of a year
in the life of a cattle station. Some-
times we couldn’t find the approp-
riate dramatic moment in the book
and[...]ucture of the film.

I had trouble with the scene where
Jeannie states that she has no
desire to teach th[...]s,
and teach Bett-Bett (Sibina Willy)
to eat with a fork . . .

Exactly. I am delighted you had
trouble with that. We saw those
moments and a[...]hing she had to work through for
herself. She was a city bred,
Edwardian lady with no special
knowledge or understanding of
other cultures. She had a certain
emotional response to a situation,
and believed that all human beings
are[...]er than to teach.

Yet, when it actually comes to a
moment of how to do that, in the
middle section o[...]al
Edwardian gardening tasks for
Aboriginals.

As a character she is by no

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (16)[...]Is the corroboree at the end
supposed to indicate a resolution
of problems?

It is an indication of acceptance
by some of the members of the
group, a desire for contact. But
even that piece of interv[...]rds the black
people of the time. I think that is a
fairly accurate representation of
how it was and[...]at
the Aboriginals are somehow sub-
ordinate. Did you choose that
change to make people aware of
the prevalence of racist attitudes?

It is not a change we made. That
confrontation between Jeanni[...]the station with the
Aboriginals. I think she was a non-
racist person; she held very
advanced views[...]black-white relationships.

The book does read as a racist
document sometimes, but we
didn’t believ[...]ttitudes of the film?

I can’t tell anymore. Do you
believe that the film takes a racist
or a non-racist stand?

I think it shows that the men[...]nals are heathens
and subordinates. Jeannie holds a
different View at the beginning,
intervenes, find[...]using conflict, and then
leaves it at that . . .

You don’t believe that there is
any advance towards a third form
of treatment of the Aboriginal just
pr[...]that
she as an individual, she and her
husband as a couple, and, through
them, the men of the station[...]) and Jeannie. We of
the Never Never.

Why did you use sub-titles?

I don’t think it is appropriate to
have characters speaking a foreign
language and not understand what
they are[...]at the sub-titles create an
audience awareness of a complex
Aboriginal culture of which the
white cha[...]our intentions was
to give the Aboriginal people a life
and community and culture of

their own. We wanted a device that
would convey the feeling that the
Abo[...]hasn’t occurred to many urban
Australians. But a film as broad as
We of the Never Never, describin[...]must trivialize
most of them, unfortunately.

If you must trivialize events, what
are you hoping to convey with the
film?

Well, you hope the moments
that you indicate are real and true.
But they are not very[...]can’t be. Not necessarily in
this film, but in any film. You are
looking at a broad time scale; you
have to be very specific about the
events you select. You can’t

explain or background the moment
adequately, can you?

I assume that through a whole
variety of different techniques,
without having a literal time scale,
it is possible to convey a sense of
what has gone before and what will
follo[...]aren’t
exactly matching. I consider that
unless you do fully explain and
fully follow up, you have trivial-
ized the importance of something.
F[...]to some of the things that
we tried to indicate.

A film obviously isn’t a defin-
itive statement of any sort. It is an
impression. It is an idea. It is
hopefully an emotional and
moving idea, but it is not a
thorough explanation or examina-
tion.

How did t[...]hey
were being depicted? Did they con-
tribute in any way to the creation
of the characters?

They cont[...]and the script’s concept
of black and white to any great
extent.

Were they satisfied with the way
t[...]gs.

What about the Bett-Bett char-
acter? She is a peripheral character

in the book, but a central one in
the film . . .

Concluded o[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (17)[...]December CINEMA PAPERS

other way, it looks like a characteristic

Schrader work. The heroine, Irena
Gallier (Nastassia Kinski), is both a predator
and a victim of her own nature, and, as such,
she recal[...]linked to sexual
repression. In Cat People, when a young keeper
is attacked by a black leopard, there is a shot of
his blood splashing at the heroine’s feet,
visually implying a link between feline ferocity
and loss of virginit[...]s
brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell): “Every
time you tell yourself it’s love. But it isn’t. It’s[...]cause of Oliver’s apprehension about
despoiling a vision of perfection. The character
is introduced[...]e
to the creative use of his critical faculty and a commercial
deployment of his Calvinism. The result is a body of work
that is a bracing commentary on classic and modern
Hollywoo[...]lm noir look like
musical comedy.

the curator as a romantic idealist in search of
his Beatrice.

Thi[...]Brian De Palma’s
Obsession (1976), who is also a romantic
obsessive, a man who kills the thing he loves
and then builds a shrine for her. In Obsession,
the Dante—Beatric[...]o be
compared because of their imaginative use of a
New Orleans setting for metaphysical melo-
drama,[...]arated forcibly. The zoo imagery is

used also as a correlative to human savagery

and, as Schrader puts it, “the fear in our

society now that there’s a monster lurking
under the calm surfaces of[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (18)[...]not an animall”, as he batters his head
against aa Schrader character
tears himself to pieces psycho[...]the
dubious achievements of Cat People is to give a
whole new dimension to the word “pus”, as the[...]ves disgusting evidence of its
imminent presence. A hand becomes part of the
garbage in Rolling Thund[...]o clean
and purify becomes indistinguishable from a
desire to expunge and annihilate.

One should be[...]there
sometimes is an uneasy sense of his putting a
sentiment he is afraid to acknowledge within
hims[...]over some of the films. Is
Travis in Taxi Driver a madman or a hero? Cat
People recalls Hardcore in the way it s[...]permissiveness,
purification and perversion. I am a little
reminded of D. H. Lawrence’s early respo[...]hate, his running is

shadowy and rat-like, he is a will fixed and

gripped like a trap. He is not nice.”
It summons again Schrade[...]taxi—driver hero and his description
of him as a man “who moves through the city
like a rat through a sewer”.

chrader might be called a junk-food
Dostoevsky. Like Dostoevsky, he is
viol[...]ruggle furiously
between heaven and hell, and who find
redemption through suffering and sacrifice.
The ultimate dramatic goal is rarely a
narrative resolution but invariably a form of
spiritual transcendence or enigma. One ha[...]aging Bull, following
the ambiguous closing scene where Jake talks to
himself in the mirror, eithe[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (19)[...]s the cage at the end of Cat
People as if it were a shrine, and, as the cat
stares back, the David Bowie song intones the
lyric: ‘‘I could stare for a thousand years, and
don’t you feel my blood enraged.”

All four films conclude with a movement into
the mysterious black hole of the he[...]familiar world
is refracted nightmarishly through a disturbed
central consciousness. The setting is invariably
a modern America of garish impersonality, and
the s[...]of plastic
surfaces.

Cat People is something of a departure from
this and Schrader’s boldest styl[...]olor, sound and performance,
Schrader reaches for a visualization of a
mythical world, not only to summon up the
creatur[...]subconscious but to
evoke the essence of films as a dimension of
magic. Some films make you think; Schrader’s

make you dream. The goal of Cat People is to
provide a pleasurable nightmare in a stylish
exploitation context.

he dark side of li[...]: the preenings of
Paul, the way Irena pounces on a bowl of fish
in a cafe, or the way Paul’s housekeeper,
Female (Ruby Dee), gives a clue to her own
origins by her delighted response[...]John Houseman’s wonderful
cameo as Dr Hoffman, a stuffy, small—town
psychiatrist with a disdain for West Coast
morality (he even pronounces Los Angeles as
“Loss Angeles”).

When a worker in Blue Collar (1978)
launches a one-man attack with a forklift on a
recalcitrant vending machine, the excessive
react[...]perversion and pornography of
Hardcore, there is a funny moment when a

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The reclamati[...]r is also from UCLA. Having
decided not to become a minister, he took up a
place there on a recommendation from Pauline
Kael. Out of this per[...]and Ozu, Transcendental Style
in Film5, which is a fascinating fusion of
theology and film. It has t[...]o Schrader, Taxi
Driver gives the answer to this: a European
existential hero would kill himself; an[...]cle on film noir, which not only
assisted towards a revaluation of the

classic noir films of the 1940s and

1950s but may have helped to create a

climate in which the form could be revised and
r[...]ver, in which the hero has classic noir
symptoms: a loner, sexually-frustrated and
obsessed, and oppressed by night and the city.
Schrader could have become a great critic,
but his ambition was to turn his demons into
dollars and his way to do that was to write a
script. Nevertheless, it is possible to see
Schra[...]is the way it
feeds off previous films and offers a modern
perspective on earlier film classics, a form of
adaptation that is also a form of criticism. This
process variously takes t[...]y for Brian
De Palma’s Obsession is essentially a homage.
The film’s fixation is with Alfred Hitchcock’s
Vertigo (1958), of which Obsession is a virtual
remake, both in terms of plot (man loses[...]dreams, paintings,
letters, the church). There is a moment when
the young artist, Sandra Portinari (G[...]as lost, asks whether it is
preferable to restore a great artistic original or
cut through the surfac[...]é, Obsession becomes itself the restora-
tion of a lost masterpiece. Bernard Herrmann’s
towering, anachronistic score supplies a
delicious and nostalgic slice of authenticity.

I[...]allusion to Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. A
hero’s weakness costs him, he thinks, the life of

6. The film is subject to a contracted legal dispute over
copyright, w[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (20)[...]is ‘Debbie’, Iris
(Jodie Foster), centre, and a friend (Garth Avery) in Martin
Scorcese’s Taxi Driver.

his wife and daughter, but, after a remorseful
16 years, he is given a second chance to redeem
himself through his reunion with a daughter
who is also a surrogate wife figure. Destruction
gives way to r[...]rader’s third act for the drama could have
been a compelling addition, but the film still is
a remarkable celebration of Hitchcockian
aesthetics[...]m of Robin Wood7 and Donald
Spotos.

Obsession is a critical work of interpretative
insight and not b[...]. The
Yakuza takes from The Searchers the idea of a
hero’s quest in an alien world for a kidnapped
girl, a quest which is also a form of self-interro-
gation. However, Taxi Drive[...]Saviours journeying into the under-
world to save a girl from what they perceive as
the lower depths: a rescue mission that is also a
journey into Hell.

Although The Yakuza borrows o[...]hcock, W. H.
Allen. London. 1977.

The search for a lost daughter: Jake looks at a porno film
of his daughter, while watched by Andy[...]wishes and innate violence. Their
revenge becomes a kind of terrible purgation.

It is the madness in[...]evenge thus becomes an elaborate
compensation and a re-enactment of a personal
racist fantasy, rather in the manner of[...]h John
Flynn’s direction softening Charles into a nice
guy (“which would be the equivalent of giving
the character in Taxi Driver a dog”, Schrader
has said), Rolling Thunder now looks less like a
film about a racist than a racist film.

axi Driver is more uncompromising.
It includes a tender scene between
Sport (Harvey Keitel) and th[...]Iris (Jodie
V Foster), which is the equivalent of a
scene often imagined in The Searchers but
never s[...]that the earlier film elided, Taxi Driver is also a
modern reflection on the efficacy of heroism,
mal[...]references to Elia Kazan’s film, culminating in
a verbal confrontation between Jerry Bartowski
(Har[...]rown (Richard
Pryor) that is almost word for word a repeat of
the slanging match between Terry Malloy[...]ts imagery (the rebel worker who
is suffocated in a haze of blue paint spray) and
more cynical in its[...]a has been pressed by Schrader to what
he sees as a specifically Marxist conclusion. The
final frame[...]g, the black
against the white, to keep us in our place.”

aging Bull alludes overtly to On the
' Water[...]Motta recites Terry
Malloy’s famous speech: “You
.: don’t understand — I could have
had class. I could have been a contender.” Both
films have heroes who are punc[...]oving toward some form of
redemption and who have a relationship with a
blond heroine classier than themselves but
representing a desired vision of genteel woman-
hood, a sense of softness in a hard world. Both
heroes have a 1ove—hate relationship with their
brothers who[...]ipted with Leonard Schrader.

Three images of "a blond heroine classier than themselves but representing a desired vision of genteel womanhood, a sense of softness in a hard world”: Travis and Betsy (Cybill
Sh[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (21)[...]so. Brando’s hero
represents the confusions of a typical rebel of
the ’50s; De Niro’s that of the alienated anti-
hero of the ’70s. Brando is a rebel without a
cause; De Niro a rebel without a brain.
Brando’s solution to what he sees as cor[...]or angry young men. They are heroes who
challenge any attempt at identification or moral
approval. (As a British critic observed, Raging
Bull could be subtitled: “Somebody Up There
Hates Me.”) They reflect a contemporary
confusion and scepticism about heroi[...]ality is personal,
private and idiosyncratic.

If aa
series of obsequious fan letters to his favorite[...]nd revalu-
ative. Obsession resurrects Vertigo as a film of
profound romantic psychology. Taxi Driver[...]Searchers but also extends it
and recasts it for a new age, its racism and
ambivalent ideology now b[...]Blue
Collar.

514 — December CINEMA PAPERS

a critical essay on the changing fashions of
cinema[...]hey also create it and become
part of it. Indeed, any critical history of
Hollywood in the past decade[...]reenplay
for The Yakuza) and Tewkesbury (who gave a
liberal feminist slant in Old Boyfriends to the[...]ary melodramatics of Schrader’s
script). He did a first draft of Close Encounters
of the Third Kind[...]opian
fantasies of Spielberg. Schrader looks like a
slightly cold, calculating enigma. How would
one assess his achievement to date? 15 there still
a sense of a vacuum between the quality of his
intelligence and the coherence of his
achievement? If so, why?

A clue might be found in his creative method.
When[...]ents,
apparently, is: “Cultivate your neuroses: you
never know when they might come in handy.”
For[...]But the danger is one of morbid
introspection, of a neurosis indulged in more
than critically examine[...]nly to Scorsese, Taxi Driver becomes
something of a social document and not simply

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (22)[...]in his own
‘cage’. Taxi Driver.

the diary of a madman. Blue Collar also avoids
neurotic narrowne[...]that is ruling

his life at that moment and then find a

dramatic metaphor that corresponds
to that emoti[...]ion and which were converted into the
metaphor of a taxi driver cut off from human
contact by the gla[...]ins why Schrader’s
characters seem to belong in a peculiar twilight
zone between psychological real[...]nal function in society
(taxi driver, gigolo) and a symbolic function in
his particular vision of the world (taxi driver as
a symbol of urban alienation, gigolo as icon of

sl[...]e of
whether it would work for anyone else. It is a
gift more appropriate to an imagist poet than a
narrative dramatist. Schrader is much better at
e[...]under to
brutalization in Vietnam).

Hardcore has a brilliant premise. George C.
Scott’s star persona as a crusader against the
pollution of environment and[...]ader has no real idea how to
translate these into a dramatically—convincing
context. VanDorn’s ho[...]n why she went into porno films. The
mid-section, where VanDorn poses as a trendy
film producer in sweat shirt and wig, is
fearfully unconvincing on any level.
Attempting to be an intelligent examination of
the new morality, the film looks like a porno-
graphic version of Mr Deeds Goes to Town.[...]tic sentimentality and the contrived
diversion of a caper film plot. American Gigolo
never quite pull[...]with the politician’s wife.

Old Boyfriends has a promising concept
— the revaluation of one’s present through a
direct encounter with one’s past — but no cle[...]that the process of
rediscovery will result from a reunion with
former boyfriends rather than, say,[...]What kind of heroine is it
who, professing to be a clinical psychologist,
dresses a retarded young man in his dead
brother’s clothe[...]n or regres-
sion, or whether an adult film about a yearning
for childhood innocence has coarsened in[...]when he turned
down an offer from Kael to become
a regular film critic and instead
wrote a screenplay. Schrader has
always been materially a[...]artistic sensibility slipping too
willingly into a commercial straitjacket. He has
mastered the comp[...]ity.
When thinking of Schrader, I always think of
a line in Obsession when the daughter,
distraught a[...]e with her desertion, how he will
live. “It’s a little late for existential questions,
darling”[...]“Just take the
money. Believe me, it’ll help you to forget.”
That is the question mark ov[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (23)[...]allacoota Stampede indicates), but the failure
to find government funding has not, as it has with others[...]“avant-garde” are now less popular.
There is a wealth of meanings and nuances.

The situation of[...]get, usually on the basis that the filmmakers and any other personnel involved are
prepared to work for[...]n of nil or marginal
financial returns.

There is aa film project
but beyond that to buy up a few cinemas in which to show the film, or at the very least a
few projectors with which to show it, no filmmake[...]ase of Tammer, the fact that he has operated with a measure of self-inflicted
financial independence[...]n notions of film form. It is safe to say that as a result of
this freedom his films are unique, oper[...]s own methods and laws.

I would not count him as a ‘natural’ filmmaker. His methods do not have any smooth
grace. Poverty of means produces work that[...]e. At their best and most effective, they rely on a sense of shock that
derives from an interest in t[...]ay that Tammer attacks that subject. It
is always a frontal attack.

Tammer’s most recently-complet[...]the End of Night, is so far his only
work to have a broad public impact mostly through extravagant pr[...]Overseas film festivals are now showing interest. A breakthrough
into commercial exhibition wo[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (24)[...](Tom Pye) discuss her leaving home.

In the films you made through the
1960s and early 1970s there is a
quite eclectic range of topics. The
one common thing is that you have
chosen people who are in some
way eccentric . . .

Eccentric is a bad word because
it is prejudicial; it has a feeling of
somebody being a nut. I don’t
think of someone like Danny
Cramer[...]are remarkable people.

The only time I have made a film
about a real oddball was Danny
Cramer in Struttin’ the[...]don’t think of Danny as an
eccentric so much as a guy who
had a freaky unpredictability, to
which I was attracted[...]as showing in the film.

What attracts
subjects?

you to your

I don’t have a rule. I don’t look
for specific qualities. When I meet
a person who has some remarkable
attribute, as with[...]ple, I was very conscious
when making Here’s to You Mr
Robinson with Gary Patterson that
we were also making a portrait of
ourselves as vagrant filmmakers.
That[...]f as part of the
commercial film establishment in a
conventional sense. I am an inde-
pendent filmmak[...]ng as an independent filmmaker
and not as part of a general
industry scene.

I prefer to work with st[...]ousands. I want to work on an
intimate scale.

1. A Woman of Our Time, Here’s to You
Mr Robinson and Journey to the End of
Night respectively.

You have called this form of work
“portrait films”, making a distinc-
tion with what others call docu-
mentary or ‘biogs’. How do you
see that distinction?

_ I see my films as one of[...]pre-
supposes films about people of
public note. You might get a film
made by the BBC about Dame
Edith Sitwell or a documentary on
the life and work of Orson Welles,[...]portraits, which always, to my
knowledge, include a narrator.
There are very few films in the bio-
pi[...]th Grey Gardens, the Maysles
brothers established a trust with
two hermits, who reveal them-
selves t[...]adi-
tional documentary because of the
absence of a voice of God dictating
the sort of things that th[...]up on
what it wants.

That is true of Here’s to You Mr
Robinson, much more than it is
true of Journey[...]t of the
cinema verite school, and there has
been a lot of discussion about
whether the camera is inf[...]m before it. In
your films, one suspects there is a
great deal more performance. In
“Struttin’ th[...]ply
by the presence of the camera . . .

There is a great difference
between the amount of perfor-
mance encouraged by me as a film-
maker with Mark and Danny in
Struttin’ th[...]ld fall in between those two
extremes.

I take as a basic departure that
people will not be absolutely
natural in front of a camera. They
will not only reveal qualities about[...]t. That’s
inevitable.

Now, how much one pushes a
person in that circumstance has to
do with the aims and purpose of a
film. Myra, for example, was co-
operative but in[...]ill was the one with the greatest
sense of having a story to tell. He
was the one who most wanted his[...]say to Bill
things like, “Okay, let’s set up a
scene now. I want you to talk
about going down to the T01
plantation, and seeing some bodies
of your mates that you might know
from parade a couple of weeks ago
and just down the trail two days
ago. I want you to live through
that moment again.” He would
th[...]st example of that was the
last take in the film, where Bill
talks to his mother and God and
his mate She[...]at scene, I spent
one whole evening doing what is a
10-minute take on film.

The first three takes we[...]-
tating in its power because he loses
himself in a trance, which he
hadn’t done in the first three[...]nny Boy
take, which is equally powerful.
That was a oncer.

You started making films literally
out of your own po[...]$20,000
for 60 minutes. I put up $18,000,
and got a $2000 Creative Develop-
ment Fund editing[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (25)[...]e

Did “Mallacoota Stampede” start
life as a documentary?

No, Mallacoota was always
meant to be a mixture of styles.
The first level is actuality o[...]umping into
people in the process of doing it, or
a two-year-old kid pushing his
father off a sandbank in a canoe.
Sometimes they are aware of the
camera; sometimes not.

The second level was meant to
be a narrative structure in which
two stories go on si[...]y. In fact, two complete stories
were written and a full cast was
prepared. But because of budget
pro[...]shot as we intended. I could
have completed it in a more
expanded manner, even feature
length, had I[...]ise it before everyone
disbanded.

Then there was a third level,
where things were set up with the
air of possibility. T[...]rrassed. It is beautiful! Of
course, it also owes a lot to
Michelle’s natural coquetry.

“Mallaco[...]mpression of improvized drama.
How much of it did you plan?

The casting of the people who
come from th[...]acted before, not even in
school theatre.

I took a punt down there and
tried them out with bits and pieces
to find out who had a personality
suited to a certain character. It was

either all or nothing at that stage.

So, yes, it was a conscious deci-
sion that we were going to mix
pe[...]d in student films
at Swinburne, Kirsty Grant had a
dramatic course behind her, and
Debbie Conway had[...]repartee with an
audience, but had never acted in a
film. She didn’t know how to do
things actors w[...]It is difficult to be able to
measure and deliver a perfor-
mance, hit cues along the way and
things[...]one
standard. I went for long takes and
tried to find the action as it was
happening, hoping that there[...]ontinuity errors. I
wanted the actors to get into a
wind—up situation.

Unless it was budget, why did you
choose to film like that?

Partly because I like[...]ioning
whether it is performance or
whether it is a documentary of
observation. In fact, one of the
t[...]appy about in
Journey to the End of Night is that
a few people have asked me,
“Does Bill really go[...]artificial would have jumped
out at them.

How do you expect people to react
to this sort of sluggish,[...]his own experience. Is he an
actor or is he just a person, and
where is the difference?

It is not so much what[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (26)[...]I want
and the tightness they want.

Can there be a confusion between
what an amateur actor will give
you, naturally, and what a profes-
sional actor will do by the nature
of his training?

That confusion will be illum-
inated if a professional actor were
cast alongside an amateur[...]an indefin-
able thing. But it is what convinces
you as against what doesn’t. What
I can’t tolerat[...]whether the actors
are amateur or professional.

A war-time photograph of Neave.

Journey to the End[...]ncentrate on
how it is told. We are talking about
a number of dichotomies in this
film. First, you have to stop and
consider how much of what
happens is a performance for the
camera and how much of it is a
deeply felt experience that you just
happened to record. The film
starts with a sequence which to me
denotes fiction: out of the dark-
ness appears a man in his pyjamas,
who looks at the memorial. It[...]instantaneously relives the mem-
ories. There is a scene with his wife
and son talking about putting[...]at is disconcerting for the
audience, which is at aa fic-
tional quality. In a sense it is rep-
resentational, like the other sc[...]ose those two scenes are
fictional, but they have a validity.
Even if he hasn’t been to the war
mem[...]in his mind. Even if getting up in
the night has a representational

Bill Neave sets a charge during the war in
New Guinea.

quality, he[...]mentary than
the other. The pills in the night is a
representational attempt to place a
documentary reality. The
memorial was a fiction in a sense
because I don’t believe Bill had
ever been to the memorial at night,
until that night.[...]ternally may
have fictitious qualities.

Is there a distinction in the film
between a sort of objective truth
and a truth that comes out of this
recreation of what Bill Neave has
gone through?

The whole film is a recreation.
What we are looking at is what is
com[...]s revealed the truth of
every event that he takes you
through. It is only true insofar as it
was true f[...]tance
and clarity, some have receded and
taken on a sort of misty quality.
Others have changed slight[...]ings to him.

What gives the film its interest is a
constantly shifting nature at work
where truth and reality and fiction
and performance all come together
on the screen. That is why I think
you are probably right to call it a
portrait film . . .

Neave as seen in Journey to[...]ons. I believe every film poses
new realities and any good film,
any film that I respect, challenges
me on a multiplicity of levels
including the things you have just
mentioned, such as wherein does
the power or truth of a film lie.

Francesco Rosi’s films, for
instance, have haunted me from
the times I have seen them. In a
sense, they are documentaries
made in a feature mode, but they
are still very powerful documenta-
tions. Why limit them and call
them either a feature film or a
documentary? They are a
wonderful hybrid, and I like
hybrid films.

The q[...]men-
tary on Bill Neave’s state of mind.
But do you see them as more than
that?

They are meant to have a mul-
tiple function. The first level was
to break up the story and to throw
events into a separate relief. There
are, as you know, two separate sets
of quotes, from the “Bo[...]s very religious
because he believed that God was a
personal God looking after him.

I don’t share[...]ation.

According to Celine, we are
going through a terrible existence
which is difficult for us to.u[...]e been
saved by God and then gone back
and become a murderer?” Celine
says, “It is normal, mate! It’s just
the way it is. Accept it!”

You would obviously reject the
notion of various revi[...]mply pompous or
pretentious . . .

There has been a good string of
words: pompous, pretentious,
porte[...], they
have said, “We don’t want to
know what you think about it, we
only want to know what he has[...]s giving them
much more. I felt I was giving
them a view of relief from the story
that would throw it into a wider
context, a historical, universal per-
spective beyond Bill’s personal
experience, and challenge them at
a level of their own cultural exper-
ience.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (27)[...]ible to
make an objective judgment of the
work of a filmmaker without first

seeing a major part of the output?

Director Raymond Longford provides a
good example of this oversight. Of the 26 silent[...]mental Bloke (1919), On Our Selection (1920)
and a part of Margaret Catchpole (1911)
survive. These[...]total overview of
Longford’s work can be made.

A newcomer to film history research was
emphatic in[...]alia’s film heritage, Two
Minutes’ Silence is a ‘lost’ film. Not only is
judgment of its valu[...]arn (1931): produced by Efftee and directed
by E. A. Diettrich-Derrick and Gregan McMahon.

LEGACY

m[...]’30s, the Victorian
exhibition quota specified a minimum of
2000 ft (22 mins) of British and Australian film
per program. A newsreel and a short could fill
this requirement. Features were[...]In its totality, the Efftee collection provides a
comprehensive view of almost the whole output
of one early Australian studio. This is probably
a unique situation.

The Pat Hanna produc[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (28)[...]d. Over-riding their lack of cine-
matic quality, a high technical and artistic
quality allows most o[...]unpretentious shorts — to ‘ride well’
with a modern audience.

The Efftee Entertainers shorts, for instance,
are a home-grown equivalent of Hollywood’s
Vitaphone[...]Harry Jacobs’ Orchestra. Efftee films
provided a convenient means for cinema
patrons to see Austra[...]es. This held particularly true in
country areas, where cinema patrons had little
opportunity to attend g[...]lengths (3 mins).
Their survival alone makes them a priceless and
unique record of Australian theatre[...]could rely
on their cinematic excellence to draw a crowd,
the Efftee films relied heavily on the sta[...]at
Hanna’s films are particularly difficult for a
modern audience to assess, stripped of the
contex[...]an theatregoers in the 1920s,
tends to be lost on a modern audience. Collo-
quialisms, then familiar,[...]post—war
immigration.

fftee films all reflect a rather naive

and idiosyncratic Australia between[...]ttler’ comedies, Dorothy Brunton’s

dreams of a better life in Clara Gibbings and

Pat Hanna’s[...]ies, the

escapist element is evident, presenting a

‘chocolate box’ vision

of Australian life.[...]tching for gold in the gutters of
Ballarat, or by a brief shot of aa
fascinating and highly original record of Aus-
tr[...]g prints of
the Efftee material are all too often a sad
travesty of the 35mm originals.

Without exce[...]m print of the
Regent Theatre Orchestra short has a virtually
unlistenable soundtrack, full of hiss a[...]ly all of the pre—1934 sound films were
shot to a square frame, or pre-Academy
format. In practical[...]are held by the NFA, so the job
should not entail any technical difficulty.
Fortuitously, the Efftee nitrates haven’t
deteriorated except for a little shrinkage.

Of the five Great Barrier Reef[...]Murray.)

each film. In several cases, during a search
through some of these cans in 1978, I foun[...]unnoticed by NFA staff. It
is quite possible that a thorough investigation
of the cans of Efftee nitrate could reveal a
wealth of film material hitherto undiscovered.

Until a thorough documentation of Austra-
lian film is undertaken, including newsreels,
documentaries and shorts, any analysis of the
history of Australian film will b[...]Camera: Arthur Higgins; Ben‘ Nicholas

Sound: A/an Mill; Alan Stuart; Jack Murray (RCA Photo-

ph[...]Made in the
Efftee Studio

(chronological order)

A Co-respondent’s Course

(44 mins, rel. 6/11/31) P.C.: Efftee. Dir.: E. A. Diettrich-
Derrick. Marital farce starring John[...]n
(43 mins, rel. 28/11/31) P.C.: Efftee. Dir.: E. A. Diettrich-

Gladys Moncrieff and Rober[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (29)[...]: F. W. Thring.
Talkie adaptation_of C. J. Dennis poem, starring Cecil
Scott and Ray Fisher. N.B.: the N[...]an down-and-out
who dreams that he is the king of a small European
country. Stars George Wallace, Joh[...]mond Longford. Wartime comedy
starring Pat Hanna. A sequel to Diggers.

Waltzing Matilda

(87 mins, r[...]ord. Comedy of returned
servicemen in Melbourne.

A Ticket In Tatts

(91 mins, rel. 6/1/34) P.C.: Eff[...]of 1933) P.C.:
Efftee. Dir.: F. W. Thring. About a third of this film was
completed before productio[...]s produced on stage by Thring at the end of 1933. A
film was planned, but only sound tests were made before
production was suspended. A six-minute sound test of
Gladys Moncrieff and Rob[...]inging "Stay
While The Stars Are Shining”, with a spoken introduction
by Frank Harvey, survives.

H[...]empt at an Australian

equivalent of The Birth Of A Nation. Stars Peggy

Maguire and Franklyn Bennett[...]7 mins,
1931) Pioneer broadcaster O’Hagan sings a
selection of his own compositions, including "Car[...]ns, 1931) Trio of violin, cello and
piano playing a selection of ballads and light
classical items.[...]ations (No. 1) (3 mins,
1931) Desmond recites the poem On The Stairs in
typical turn-of-the-century decl[...]mins,
1931) This short exists at the NFA only as a picture
negative, and may not have been released.[...]e of this short induced Thring to hire
Wallace as a star comic for his later features.

(8) Melody and Terpsichore (7 mins, 1931) Violinist
Herme Barton leads a corps-de-ballet of dancing
lady violinists and so[...]pman's Dance Orchestra playing "There Ought
To Be A Moonlight Saving Time”.

(10) Stan Ray and Geor[...]ns, 1931) Impressions of Gracie Fields
singing “AYou Brought A New
Kind Of Love To Me".

(15) The Sundowners - H[...]character “Dr. Mac",
sings “That's My Idea Of A Lady”.

(18) Kathleen Goodall — Songs At The Piano (No. 1)
(4 mins, 1932) A character actress in panto and
Gilbert & Sullivan, and later a classical singer of
some repute, Miss Goodall's personality shines
through these shorts. It is a great puzzle that Thring
never cast her in his fe[...]lebrated Violinist (5 mins,
1932) Bornstein plays a selection of classical items,
with Henri Penn pro[...]2) (5 mins,
1932) Sings ‘‘I Never Forget I'm A

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (30)[...]liana Cavani, like compatriot Lina Wertmuller, is a controversial director.
Not only have her[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (31)After graduating with a degree in
Classics at the University of
Bologna, you attended the Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografi[...]young people in
successive years were deprived of a
school. It was the only one for
cinema which exis[...]ed badly.

In most American universities
there is a cinema section, but not in
Italian universities.[...]was
very practical: at the end of the
first year you did a 15-minute film,
at the end of the second year a
30-minute film and so on. You
learned to use lenses, to edit, etc.

They are no[...]estroyed, and hopefully they will
do it well.

Do you think you would have gone
into the cinema without attending[...]n Italy, schooling is virtually
worthless, unless you want to
make a career in the public service
or as a functionary. No one has
ever asked me about my degree.

I applied for a post as a func-
tionary at the RAI [the Italian
equivalent[...]Instead,
I proposed certain projects for
them on a freelance basis. One was
The Story of the Third R[...]about things
that were not very well known. I
did a story about Stalinism, and an
inquiry about urban[...]e.” I was able to do
this because I already had a
relationship with the RAI and had
done various things for them.

I did have a bit of trouble

because we were dealing with Saint
Francis. I chose a modern young
man who didn’t fit in with their
i[...]t of
my generation.

Galileo

Galileo grew out of a co—produc-
tion between a private network and
the RAI and Sofia (Budapest)[...]Catholic. So it was shown
in cinemas.

There were a lot of problems
because in doing Galileo I had to[...]ago they took his books off the
black list. But I find the polemics
within the church and the church
its[...]It was the
topic of the time and for me there
was a desire to modify and above
all to rediscover the true value of
things — a search for the meaning
of existence. The Cannibals was a
version, shall we say, of Antigone,
set in a contemporary ambience —
at least, that was its[...]exclusively an
Italian problem, but terrorism is a
general one. I have never treated
these issues on[...]re is no point retelling it in the
cinema, unless you have certain
revelations to make.

L ’ospite (The Guest,

the Host)

The Guest, the Host is a film I
wanted to make because I had
visited an asylum, and it had made
a great impression on me. I went
for a week to observe and make
notes. I wanted to do a story about
a woman who lived there for many
years.

In those d[...]o were not neces-
sarily raving mad, but who were a
bit nutty and an annoyance for the
family. So the[...]tive.

The Guest, the Host was the
story of a woman who had been
dumped in an asylum and who wa[...]ad of sheltering
these people, the asylum becomes a
prison or concentration camp.

Now they have closed down a lot
of these institutions and people
who formerly[...]liked very much. In the film I tell
the story of a young person who
reads the book and identifies wi[...]h has an
important experience.

Sometimes reading a book does
this to you: it is like experiencing
physically the thing itself, or being
taken on a voyage. I simply wanted
to relate the feeling of having an
experience with a different culture
and making an imaginary journey.

I made it for television on a low
budget but nowadays it is impos-
sible to app[...]film by
the Taviani brothers, for example.
It is a swindle; it is not right.

It is fair enough to s[...]lly with
the American cinema, but there
has to be a minimum of profes-
sionalism and technical modern-
ization. You can’t just rely on the
moral content; you also have to
produce something that is well
made,[...]ood technically,
like Bernardo Bertolucci and me,
you have to go through death
struggles to ensure that things are
done properly. Advanced tech-
niques cost a lot of money; you
have to hire expensive equipment.

Top to[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (32)[...]critics don’t help at
all. The more ‘poor’ a film is, the
more they go for it; it is ludicrous[...]oman who said
that every year she goes to Dachau,
where she had been a prisoner, for
her holidays. This made a strong
impression on me. I would prefer
to go on[...]ilan, who, when she returned
home after surviving a camp, was
greatly annoyed that people
treated her like a poor wretch. It
got to the stage where she couldn’t
stand her friends and relatives.[...]epths
of human nature. We always think
of this as a positive thing, because
we look for the better si[...]d, “The
physical suffering passes; this
won’t ever go away.”

A story slowly evolved from all
this, a story of the things that
really happened. War doe[...]here is sado-masochism, which
can be developed to a maximum or
remain at a minimum. The ordi-
nary filmgoer understood this[...]hings with which
they are familiar. And, if it is a
woman who has made the film,
and she has presented things in a
manner to which they are not

Top: Lucia runs[...]Cavani,
Dominique Sanda and Robert Powell

during a break in filming of Beyond Good
and Evil.

ac[...]rave. They are very
conformist.

For example, if you make a film
about the war, you have to talk
about the Resistance. I have made
tw[...]The Night Porter and The Skin,
which treat it in a manner contrary
to what they expect. I would not
enjoy giving a history lesson along
the lines of what they would[...]When I want to say
something, I want to do so in a
different way — to the sound of
another drum. By doing things this
way, you come to understand them
better yourself.

I grew up in the post-war era.
Listening to what people said then,
you would ask yourself: well who
was a Fascist in Italy? Nobody!
There was not one Fasci[...]way again in their
spaceships, back into the sky. You
ask yourself: how is this possible?

In fact, you were not allowed to
talk about the things the Naz[...]mocrats to the Communists. All
of them had rolled a big rock over
it. And then you come to discover

certain things, such as many
It[...]rly all
Italians — had actually liked

Fascism. You start to see things as
they really were then, not as they
had been told to you. My genera-
tion doesn’t know what really
happe[...]ustrated
in some way. So the moment he
can put on a black uniform and
punch somebody, he feels better.
He feels like a big man.

Fascism opened the doors for all
those who had a problem. To
make a career in the university, for
example, you_ had to be a card-
Carrying Fascist. Every university
p[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (33)suddenly there was a mass of them.
But the world has always been this[...]t we
are made from.

Did things become easier for you
after the success of “The Night
Porter”?

Ind[...]had that
1800 type of female behaviour;
more than a feminist, she was
already simply herself. He push[...]y ideal of woman; I
am not interested in relating a
story about the dolly-like heroine.

I don’t find these women physi-
cally interesting, either.

Ac[...]king love.
It was the first film — in Italy, at
any rate — with ‘her’ on top and
with ‘her’[...]ay not
arise, but it does in Italy: how has
being a woman influenced your
career?

I really don’t think that things
are any better for women in the
U.S. than they are in Italy. On the
contrary, due to a strange cultural
contradiction, in the Latin
coun[...]han in Anglo-Saxon
countries.

Sure in Italy when a woman
walks down the street, men turn
and look at[...]may not pinch your
bum in the U.S., but there is a
greater hatred of women among
the men. They all s[...]ertain jobs. If she did, she
wouldn’t encounter any more
difficulties than those encountered
by American women. Actually,
when you look around, you see
there are female prime ministers in
India and[...]ate, but never in the U.S. The
Americans all talk a lot but they
never actually do anything. They
are a bunch of fops.

So, I don’t believe that Italian
women have a more difficult life
— especially in the north, where I
come from. My town is full of big-
business wom[...]in the south of Italy
men are capable of killing a
woman if she has a lover. But you
have to understand the context. It
is part of a game. I am not saying
that you should kill — on the con-
trary —— but it is important to see
the thing as a whole.

Germaine Greer went to Sicily in
a very provocative way and with
negative preconcept[...]lly of it. But once
she got there, she understood a lot
of things, much of which was con-
trary to wh[...]o stop at their
own experience. One can say, “I
find it annoying that a man
pinches me on the burn”, and of
course that[...]te [author of La pelle],
like everybody else, was a Fascist
and then became a Communist.
But in many things he is much
better t[...]n Mafia] was
involved and it was practically like
a war breaking out. Last year
alone, there were 187[...]r what happened then,
when today it is worse?

Do you always collaborate on a
screenplay?

If I were offered a screenplay
which I liked very much, I would

do i[...]one films
based on stories written by me or

with a collaborator or, as in the
case of The Skin, based on a story
taken from a book, but again with
the screenplay written by me.

You have been quoted as saying
that the images are mo[...]e . . .

It is always better to tell every-
thing you can without words. The
value and relevance of the[...]remely important. But I believe
it is better that a scene has as little
dialogue as possible. Naturally, if
you are making a film about a trial
then there has to be a lot of
dialogue. But the photography, the[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (34)[...]graphies take up
several, good—sized shelves in any performing arts
bookshop. Twenty years ago, an ac[...]and
Shaftesbury Avenue, from Tallulah Bankhead to A. E. Matthews, were
trying to persuade us that the[...]have the enthralling saga of your life take its

place on the shelf with all those other lives has become a tacit admission

of not having made it. Mere decent reticence in the face of aa still more disquieting sign, there is a new trend
towards stopping mid-career. Presumably[...]nticipation for Volume Two. This is
indeed making a little go a long way, since the off—screen lives of[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (35)“They ’re not stars for no

9?

reason, you know . . .

Film stars are so much a phenomenon of a
packaging process, whereby some astute
producer recognizes a saleable commodity,
ensures that it is handsomely[...]hat sometimes it is hard to know what there is
to any given star apart from a seductive
physical presence. This presence is, of[...]es, or Gregg
Toland catching the upturned face in a way that
softens the hard egoism.

On the basis o[...]frittered away my youth in recent
months, I would find it hard to adduce evidence
for Gregory Peck’s assertion that, “They’re not
stars for no reason, you know. They’re stars
because they are interestin[...]even to get noticed to
the point of being offered any role in a film
takes a degree of persistence allied crucially to a
powerfully egoistic belief in one’s powers.

Having achieved not merely any role but the
power and right to choose their roles — that is,
to be a star — it is equally clear that an
immense egoi[...]to play
to sustain that privileged position. Even a pro-
fessional nice—guy like Peck derives grati[...]it has
never gone anywhere else since” (p. 57). A
monstress like Bette Davis5 snarled and clawed
her way to the roles that made her a star, and,
once established, she alienated many b[...]rse too, but essentially best for Bette.

To know you are a film star is, presumably,
to know that millions of people around the
world want to watch you both being recog-
nizably “yourself” and doing something that is
called film acting. It is a heady thought no
doubt, and to the head, no doubt[...], unsustained by
families, education, religion or any other of the
decentralizing structures of their society, they
are encouraged by those with a financial
interest in their careers to believe th[...]are not fulfilled. To be as
universal an icon as a film star is makes prepos-
terous demands on the[...]lives, of course, but every
aspect of cinema) is a product of a more or less
starless age. Now that there are so[...]attached to them. For, whatever it is that
makes a star, the public knows one when it sees
one.‘ A[...]wman, etc., and one
woman — Streisand). This is a black night
indeed when you think of how many stars
glittered on the mid-’40s payroll of any one of

4. Michael Freedland, Gregory Peck, W. H. Allen, 1980,
p. 59.

5. Charles Higham, Bette: A Biography of Bette Davis,
New English Library, 19[...]ge general
public — knew exactly who was to get a standing
ovation: that is, Eleanor Powell and Aud[...]seems to me that the public still reaches
out to anya business deal; a decreasing
willingness of newer actors to share their
private lives (even a diluted or sugared version)
with their public; an[...]articulate sectors of
the public which both make a cult of old stars
and decry the need for contemporary ones:
these are a few guesses about the reasons for the
decline in stars. The mass audiences will still
turn out for a Star Wars but not for a star turn.
We are no longer “visited all night[...]the matter — and I don’t mean to be
striking a moral pose about this — is markedly
at odds wit[...]he wanted to be rid of
Jess Barker, “The son of a bitch hit me”, to the
tasteful evasion of Freed[...]I want to suggest that it is
easy to write about a succession of liaisons,
with and without ‘the b[...]he (auto-) biographers are caught in
something of a bind here: on the one hand, they

may wish to present their subjects as a moral"

mixture of Little Nell and Mother Theresa of
Calcutta; on the other, they are aware that a
breath —— or better, a gust — of scandal will

7. Kenneth Barrow, Flor[...]. Allen, 1982, p. x.
10. Christopher P. Anderson, A Star, Is a Star, Is a Star!
lT9h8e2Life and Loves of Susan Haywa[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (36)have offered just a carefully preserved public

The Biography Industr[...]ey Winters has
decided to let it all hang out and a very
repulsive spectacle it makes; James Mason has
opted for such discretion that it comes as a
surprise to find him named as a co-respondent
in Roy and Pamela Kellino’s divorce or to find,
100 pages later, that he and Pamela are parting.[...]f this is to suggest that very rarely
indeed does a star emerge from one of these
biographical skirmi[...]to
them; discretion can make them sound dull;
and a flair for the salacious may lose respect
even as sales thrive. It is not just a matter of
sexual behaviour; revealing other aspec[...]bition and selfishness that, she
believes, played a part in her career. So, too, is
Flora Robson who[...]ting
sometimes leads biographers into whipping up
a spurious sense of drama where none exists.
For women stars this usually means a[...]s
lesser people, they could very usefully tell us a
great deal that would be worth knowing about
the[...].

Productions were built around the talents of , A . - — = V ~ — _, ~ ,_ ,,
particular stars;[...]’ ‘ /15¢u[;1;g1L1gw,mi];g{;;,,,,,;,,,,

on a star for a film’s success or failure, the
more powerful be[...]n the
making of the film. If stars could not sell a bad
or unattractive film to the public (cf[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (37)[...]self-
dramatizing, obsessively ambitious and, “a
woman whose brilliance and , aggression
prevented her from achieving fulfilment in a
relationship.” The one great, positive attribut[...]rely more to Now
Voyager than “. . . of course, a camp classic, a
masterpiece of schmaltz”. Higham (and Joel
Gree[...]ce, mascu-
line security, strength that disguised a fawning
servile weakness”; at Paul Muni —
“withdrawn, haughty, never a mixer”; at John
Farrow, “a boorish, drunken lecher with a foul
mouth”; at George Brent who was “mean-
spirited, tough, and handicapped by a wickedly
vicious tongue”; and at that “small,[...]say to 1941, she was less
and less likely to have a leading man who could
draw her full fire —- either on—screen or off.

Possibly a terrible woman, Davis is
indubitably a great star. She frequently took
unpromising scrip[...]ed them and everyone concerned into
shape, and as a result she has survived as a star
for 50 years. Despite ill-temper, unco-opera[...]ion to Power’s
sexual ambidexterity, is in fact a surprisingly
humane account of the man and a sometimes
shrewd appraisal of the career. If Power’s
sexual life caused him a good deal of torment,
his star career was rarely[...]ns of acting Powers, he always seemed to be
after a success which eluded him — that is, as a
serious actor on stage and screen.

Power established quickly a potent romantic
image in his pre-World War 2 film[...]le film noir,
Nightmare Alley, in which he played a shoddy
opportunist very well indeed. His earlier,[...]bout eventual
redemption had to be delivered with a genuine
sense of inspiration, since the camera he[...]y dangerous liaisons and whose
public life hardly ever satisfied him, even when
it was satisfying millio[...]towards the setting up of idols, are essentially a
phenomenon of 1930s and ’40s Hollywood.
Brando[...]m Books, 1980.

century. But, with the backing of a shrewd and
grateful studio who pushed him ——[...]ough 25 films in seven years
(1936-42), he became a household word in a
way that is scarcely possible now that the
studio[...]n 1958, just at the stage when the
maintenance of a star career was getting
tougher as the studios cr[...]television, anti-trust legislation, and
possibly a more sophisticated public awareness.
But if the s[...]9),
, » retained his star status until his
death a quarter of a century after Power’s,
clinching it with his 19[...]long had he lived. It is
not just that Fonda was a “better” actor —
i.e., more complex, more resonant, more
eloquent — than Power ever was, and he estab-
lished this on the stage too;[...], he was never firmly held in the
stranglehold of a long-term contract with any
one studio, and he insisted on retaining the
right to appear on stage.

Teichmann, a man of the theatre, tends to
stress the plays —[...]and that microphone

are doing all the projection you need. No
sense in using too much voice, and you don’t
need any more expression on your face than
you’d use in everyday life.’ ”

And Teichmann adds:

“In almost a hundred films the technique

Fonda employs has no[...]l mobility as possible. Whatever he
does he makes you see inside the character he

plays.” (p. 98.)[...]thm of film-making”, believing it to be
largely a director’s medium, with actors as
“two-dimens[...]ur pages
altogether, while My Darling Clementine, a
time-secured masterwork, gets no more than a
passing mention. Other notable films like The
Wro[...]while The Best Man is not there at all;
there is a little more on Sidney Lumet’s 12
Angry Men, which Fonda also produced. “I
don’t think if you took a stick and beat him he

13. Elizabeth[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (38)[...]could do anything false, he’s incapable. As a
performer, as a man, he’s pure”, Sidney Lumet
claimed, and if[...]ral; according to Teich-
mann, there is more than a little correspon-
dence between the screen person[...]or issues; and
in some of his chief relationships a stubborn
integrity emerges, not unbecoming Tom Joad,
Wyatt Earp and Barney Greenwald.

f Henry Fonda made a career out of

persuading us to take him seriously,

whether in a humid jury room or

bringing order to the wild We[...]— especially
not sex or men, and especially not any of the
virtues held dear by middle America. Fergus
Cashin’s slim volume (a happy change from the
never-mind-the—quality-fe[...]Cashin is to be trusted, the real-
life truth is a good deal less amusing and less
glittering than h[...]career
might have suggested. In fact, Mae West is a
somewhat sad story of a creature who purveyed
lubricity in public, first[...]that it can
have mattered to anyone in over half a
century), including the marriage (or was it?) to[...]e in 1911, whether or not, if it
happened, it was ever consummated, and
indeed most of her private life.

West’s 19305 films are now camp classics, a
status that has nothing to do with their quality,[...]wn invention we are told, and she
quickly secured a powerful position at Para-
mount. Her first scree[...]oth with the young Cary Grant, established
her as a major star.

If none of the remaining six films s[...]with W. C.
Fields in My Little Chickadee was not a happy
occasion (“They were, in turn, suspicious[...]— prove
curiously immiscible.

It was, however, a triumph of subtlety, wit
and taste, compared with[...]career: Mike Sarne’s Myra Breckinridge
(1970), ayou had
smelled that seal, you wouldn’t look too happy either”).

Sextette ( 1978), in which she plays the bride of a

young English aristocrat. But it is absurd to.[...]er tried before”) and Cashin does well to
quote a good number of them. For the rest, he
is left with an enigma: a star who became the
target of a ferocious purity campaign, a woman
whose private life would almost certainly h[...]herself not merely as shapely but as blessed with
a nicely deflating sense of humor that worked
to be[...]rivate life are now presented for inspec-
tion in aa cheerful, pleasant woman but there just aren’t[...]this too as she tries conscientiously to
whip up a spurious narrative interest: “Being
practical,[...]we know
they all made it, so that suspense is at a
premium. This being so, most of them need[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (39)[...]and Maude (directed by
HalAshby) was the basis of a continuously-popular cult film.
Subsequently he w[...]treal Film Festival,

David Stratton.

Apparently you grew up in Sydney

Yes. Actually, I was born in
N[...]er from San Francisco. They
had met while she was a passenger
on the “Mariposa”; my father was
Chief Purser. It was a shipboard
romance.

After Pearl Harbor, my father[...]r
brother. In 1945, we lived in San
Francisco for a while but soon
afterwards returned to Sydney,
where I stayed until 1957. We had
a house in Hunters Hill and I went
to school at Riv[...]ydney, working for MGM at their

While serving as a jury member at the 1982

old Chalmers St office;[...]y
and suburban Metro cinemas every
week.

How did you become interested in
writing?

At first I wanted to be an actor.
In fact, I lost a scholarship to Stan-
ford University because I be[...]tudio, but there were no
acting jobs. So I became a page at
the ABC television studios. Then I
lost h[...]d for the
Army. I was sent to Germany, and
became a reporter on the army
newspaper, Stars and Stripes[...]e U.S.,
back to Stanford, and eventually
got my B.A. majoring in Creative
Writing. While at college,[...]laying
in small theatre productions. I also
spent a year and a half in a
dreadful sex farce called Once
Over Nightly.

The[...]direct. I was accepted
into Film School at UCLA, where
one of my fellow students was Paul
Schrader. At t[...]and
the industry proper.

What sort of films did you make at
UCLA?

I made two: Opus One was a
satire on student films; Retreat was
an anti-war statement. Then I sub-
mitted as my thesis a feature
screenplay, which was Harold and
Maude. I hadn’t much money and
I had answered an ad in the L.A.
Times. A couple wanted a part-
time chauffeur and someone to
clean out the[...]chauffeur’s quarters.

I was very lucky. It was a pretty
swank Bel Air home, and turned
out to be owned by a film pro-

CINEMA PAPERS December — 533

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (40)[...]for
“Harold and Maude”?

It came from seeing a dolly
crane for rental in a film equip-
ment store. I thought I would
make an[...]ing very elaborate tech-
nically. So I worked out a situation
with the dolly crane in mind, and
that became the first scene where
the mother discovers Harold
hanging.

Then I thought, this is a bit grue-
some, why not make a joke of it?
So it became a fake suicide. And
that is how the whole idea came to
me; it all sprang from a desire to
use that piece of equipment. Much
later I realized that it developed
into a personal story, with Harold
and Maude representin[...]my
script to Bob Evans at Paramount,
who liked it a lot. But I wanted to
direct it myself. Now, in that post-
Easy Rider period a lot of new-
comers had been given the chance
to d[...]gave me, or rather Paramount
gave me, $7000 to do a director’s
test.

Ed, who was making a film at
Columbia at the time, arranged for
me to[...]t; Paramount was
high on it, too. Then, fate took a
hand. It was the end of 1971 and
The Godfather wa[...]hadn’t finished it. So
Harold and Maude became a last-
minute replacement: this little film
of our[...]p releases of the
season. We were swamped. It was
a major failure; total disaster. And
I, of course, was persona non
grata.

But it became a success eventually

Much later. In the meantime, I
was in trouble. I finally got an
offer from a couple of friends,
Tom Miller and Eddie Milkis, who
ran a television film company.
They had sold a “Movie of the
Week” to ABC on the strength of
a title, The Devil’s Daughter. But
they had no sc[...]ters and Joseph
Cotten starred in it. It was just a
job.

Then out of the blue I received a
letter from Paris, from J ean—Louis
Barrault. He told me Harold and
Maude was a success there, that he
had loved it and had thought of
turning it into a play for the
veteran French actress Madeleine
Ren[...]red. I went to
Paris, adapted the screenplay into
a theatre piece and then worked
with Jean-Claude Carriere on the
French translation. It was a huge
success and ran for seven years.

While in P[...]company as “playwright-in-
residence”. We did a play together
called The Ik, ayou get back into movies?

Well, by now Harold and
Maude was looking better; it had
become something of a cult film
internationally. I still wanted to
direct films, and I had figured the
way to do that was to find pro-
ducers who would support me. So
I contacted Tom and Eddie with an
idea for a script, which was Silver
Streak, in the hope that if, by using
another director, we could make a
success with that one, I would have
a chance to direct the next one.
And that is what h[...]r Hiller did on “Silver
Streak”?

_ Arthur is a very sweet man. He
15 not Hal Ashby, but he is a good
commercial director. Seeing the
film now, I think the climax, the
train crash, is terrific, but I find
the early scenes kind of slow. He

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (41)treats the script with a great deal of
respect. If I had directed it, I
would have been a bit less faithful
to the writer; I would have sla[...]self
must have made working with
them easier when you directed
“Foul Play” . . .

Yes. Goldie Hawn is a joy to
work with, very natural and totally
understanding of the comedic way
I like to work, which is to base a
situation on honesty and reality,
and then let it play out. I wrote the
script for Goldie, but it was a fight
to get her; the studio didn’t want
her ve[...]first movie, and
his style was very different — a
television style of‘ establishing a
rapport with the audience on the
other side of the television camera.
Of course, you don’t do that in
movies; you let the camera come in
and discover you. At that time he
had no real respect for the craft of
acting. But he did a very good job.

Dudley Moore, of course, was
terr[...]em getting per-
formances.

What visual style did you go for?
I wanted a crisp, bright, well—lit

film with sharp colors[...]in Co/in Higgins’
Foul Play.

What attracts you to comedy?

I have great satisfaction in
hearing[...]e the best part is
when the piece is finished and you
sit in the theatre and hear the audi-
ence laugh.[...]existence. Comedy comes
very naturally to me.

Do you find writing easy?

I would not say “easy”. It is[...]e in it, and at the same time
report on it. It is a very schizo-
phrenic state.

In the early days, I[...]editative state, or whatever
it is, which enables you to create;
now when that state doesn’t come I
j[...]myself up! Now I think

that to write anything is a kind of
miracle.

How did you come to do “9 to 5”?

I was approached by Jan[...]ul Play. I
had heard about this project for
about a year. The premise was that
three secretaries want[...]was to have been the
director; I know it was then a pro-
ject for Herbert Ross.

Essentially, no one[...]r I started working
on it, I went to Cleveland to a
meeting of an organization of
office workers. I asked, as a dis-
cussion point, if any of them had
ever thought of killing their boss.
Suddenly everyone[...]on which to hang it all:
to get the women in such a stressful
situation that they would imagine
killi[...]ose ad-
libs were scripted, I was very
impressed. Any time an actor fools
me, I am impressed. I[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (42)[...]the problem
was that the Broadway show was
about a sheriff who was 65 years
old and a madam about 45, who
had a relationship about 20 years
before, a one—night stand in
Galveston. It was clear to m[...]re-
house.

Considering how expensive it is to
do a musical, which means you
have to aim for the widest possible
audience, the[...]only in its nudity but
in, for example, the scene where
Parton presents Reynolds with
some flimsy panties[...]print ads using the
word “whorehouse”. But if you
are making a film with “whore—
house” in the title, you can’t be
too coy about it all.

Many American c[...]he
Governor of Texas . . .

I cast Charles. He is a very
accomplished actor, but he had
started out as a dancer years ago.

536 ——- December CINEMA PA[...]uence. We did it on location in
Austin; it is not a set. And there is
no process photography involved[...]e rained
out the day before we shot it, so we
had a whole day in which to
rehearse in the Capitol its[...]operator, choreographer and
actor — happy.

Do you think there is a problem
with the ending of the film?

Well, we di[...]osite directions. But finally I
figured we needed a happy ending.

I am not entirely satisfied with
t[...]when characters burst into
song. Maybe we have to find a new
convention.

The reason I loved doing
Whoreho[...]with two
big stars doing what they do best.
It is a slight story about a simple
relationship: boy has girl, boy
loses girl[...]e been
interesting.

Now that “Whorehouse” is a big
success, presumably you can pick
and choose your next project . . .

I can, as you say, get finance
easily now. I would like to do s[...]pressed by all the
excellent actors and actresses you
have. I would very much like to
work with some of[...]our future

comedies?

projects

Probably. I have a couple of
projects that are not comedies per
se,[...]y. He
said once that he always insists on
getting a laugh in the first ten
minutes, whether it[...]

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upheaval. There he is befriende[...]iving Dangerously is directed by Peter Weir, from a
screenplay by David Williamson (based on t[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (49)[...]nce. It is true that the film’s
Lincoln High is a dingily—depressed school, that its central gang
is sometimes a variation on Alex and his Clockwork Droogs,

a[...]cular-saw slashings,
are alarmingly gruesome. But a case can be made for Class of 1984.

he film pres[...]ts.
These signal sentimentality. It also
presents a punk gang that suggests
sadistic eruptions are no[...]ntention of
massacring anyone, but there had been a real
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The punk gang attacks a black student. Mark L. Lester’s
Class of 1984.[...]trong.

Mark L. Lester’s films have usually had a
drive—in release in Australia. Distributors hav[...]rs that will please the
drive—in audiences like any other exploiter. The
films then disappeared, alth[...]1984.

film, has been shown on television. In aa great deal of B—feature territory,
inves[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (50)[...]ark L. Lester . . .
has an astute eye and ear for a cliche, and
knows better than Hawks ever did how to
invert it to expose its absurdity. He also has a
very witty way indeed with casual details and
thu[...]ntions.

The filmmakers know that if they suggest a
convention vividly enough, the audience will
reco[...]tions —— and relish this recognition —
with a kind of automatic response which
governs how they[...]ce, often identify the convention that
gives them a feeling of instant superiority to the
film. But even in the act of looking down on a
convention, a critical audience acknowledges
that the stereotyp[...]rector (or exploitive director,
depending whether you are for or against him)
can presume.

Lester choo[...]hooses
gut response before intellectual response. A
moment’s recall of his previous films highlight[...]d, especially
in action. Stunts had the pluses of a murder
mystery and love story to gain a larger audience.
Truckstop Women and Bobbie Jo an[...]law in an exploitive, ugly world.

Lester is also a film-buff director. Allusions
or quotations can d[...]r school films.

The kids assemble for classes in a style
reminiscent of Grease (with an ironic twist[...]on echoing West
Side Story. The psychotic gang is a bizarre
variation on The Warriors, The Wanderers[...]Stegman is an American Alex and possibilities
of a Clockwork Orange future world. Circular-
saws sug[...]ilm showing how
authority and law are inadequate: a headmaster,
who enjoys closed circuit television[...]of the right and of moral
majorities. But because a large group in power
upholds a view, it is a fallacy to assume that all

The terror continues:[...]hat Norris is pursuing decency within
the law and a sense of justice rather than
wanting to be a member of a private law-
enforcement agency. This is further[...]dle-aged audience. Teenagers
might be tempted for a while to identify with
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end, because he can’t teach any more. The film
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(though they recruit a 14-year-old hit—and-stab

Norris fights back[...]audience sides with him. Class
of 1984.

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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (56)[...]ercial industries have been
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production of a quality that will allow it to present its
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producer and director can call upon, and this in[...]nd went on

chartered accountancy, before getting a
job at Artransa Film Studios in the
accounts depa[...]sound department and in the animation
department wherea director’s
assistant to Alec Ezard on The Adven[...]xpendable.

I then worked for Les Kelroy, who had a
Nagra, for a while. People would ring him
up and say they needed a sound
recordist; one day I said, “This is it. I[...]ed me to come
back to work on it again.

I became a freelance recordist on the
strength of that. In t[...]ds of
Peter Fenton [mixer at United Sound], I
had a Nagra and a roadmap and I was off
and running. I freelanced for a while and
eventually got a three-month contract at
Film Australia as a location recordist, a
contract which ran for about three years.

locati[...]tudio work and do the

Julian Ellingworth, during a sound mix.

x

‘. . . two plus our computer”:[...]e others sat
around.

I was at Film Australia for a total of 10
years; I left shortly after my long s[...]ited
Sound. Although I intended going
overseas on a study tour, I only got as far
as Pier St They wer[...]olds His Own and the
second Alvin Purple.

It was a great experience working with
Peter Fenton. He wa[...]tyle on the three-track. It was new,
exciting and a lot easier. You were able to
do things that you would get frustrated
trying to do when recording[...]onsole.

The console was made by Neve, which
cost a fortune, and ergonometrically was
my idea of how a console should be laid
out. Because I had worked[...]edom, Starstruck, Dead
Easy, The Pirate Movie and a few others.

After leaving Film Australia, I freelanced
for a while as a mixer. At the same time, I
became interested in stereo mixing and
applied for a Commonwealth Film Com-
mission Grant for assisted[...]an award before, they said
“Sure!” It wasn't a lot of money, just
enough for an around-the-world ticket and
about $50 a day.

I was away for six weeks and watched
some s[...]picked up an enormous amount

of information and a lot of tricks about how
the rest of the world operates.

Did they welcome you?

Yes. I was not allowed into a couple of
films because the directors were a bit
‘anti’, but, through Ron Purvis’ contacts in
Hollywood, I was able to see quite a few

films. I saw them do The Muppet
Movie[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (57)[...]and won an Academy for
Ordinary People.

So I saw a lot of top people. It was
interesting to compare[...]ong, they just tended to
“goddamn” around for a few minutes.
They would then wait until a tribe of thou-
sands walked in and they then all[...]inefficient hierarchy?

Yes. Certainly there were a lot of guys
behind the panel. I watched them on o[...]as
nothing to it: there was just stereo music
and a vocal track. They played it to make
sure it was t[...]of people who became
involved seemed to me to be a bit beyond
the pale. It would have been better to[...]instead of farting around for four
hours.

How do you stop that happening in
Australia?

Well that is exactly what we don’t do
here. If there is a debate going on, we
would go on to something else[...]on’t have the time not to.
They were looking at a six-week mix on a
film which didn’t need that long.

I had done the trip and learnt what I
thought was quite a lot — a good ground-
ing in Dolby stereo — but I was still not at
the point wherea lot of work
happening at United Sound when I came[...]tion
in September 1979. From that point on it
was a dream to build a bigger and better

sound studio at Atlab.

In all[...]Sound
would do something eventually. It was just
a matter of where we did it and how.

We had a few problems building the
ideal studio because of[...]f people saying it
would be that much better with a new
console. In February 1982, we made a
decision to buy a Quad-Eight Console.

The only choice was between a custom-
built Neve and a Quad-Eight console
modified to our system. Most o[...]CINEMA PAPERS

are completely music desks and, in any
conversion to film, have to be absolutely
retro-fitted, which can be nasty. If you say
that is no good because this has to be
here, then a whole box of controls has to
be bolted on the side, which is not the way
to 90.

To my knowledge, Neve does a very
fine line in custom design consoles, but
nei[...]the
delivery schedule was favorable. We
could get a better deal from Quad-Eight in
Hollywood, where most film studios, or all
the ones I saw, had custom-built Quad-
Eights.

We came up with a proposal for Quad-
Eight whereby we bought an off[...]Quad-Eight console, and still
looks exactly like a Quad-Eight Coronado,
but there have been quite a few changes.

It started originally as a quadraphonic
music console with two front speaker[...]e modules.

Surely, that is the reason for having a
custom-built desk . . .

Well, the Americans wouldn't entertain
that sort of console unless it was for a
smaller studio. There they all start from
the ground and build a huge console.
Todd-A0 has 93 inputs on it and they tend
to work in deliberate sections; they have
huge buttons and you go to recorder 1, 2
or 3. Our console does look like a music
board to most people. You can still assign
to any of 24 outputs.

Do you have three or four people on the
panel?

Three or[...]g console in the the Allab sound theatre.

for a week and we reworked it so that it
had left centr[...]p the front.

They wanted, once again, to tack on a
box and say, “For a film modification,
what you need is this.” I said,

“But, all this part of the board is going to

waste. If you want to change all those

buttons to something el[...]puter acceptance has not been large
in Hollywood: a lot of mixers over there,
whom I revere, are olde[...]it. I am having difficulty and I am
only 37.

Do you have to program the computer
yourself or is it ex[...]the computer itself has certain RAM
instructions. You put two identical discs in
and the program is for[...]an one man could possibly handle, say
24, and mix a group of them, say 12. The
computer will keep playing them back
until you get the balance right. Then add
these to the othe[...]e fader movements and will do it as
many times as you like.

What about equalization?

It doesn’t nee[...]the stereo mixes
I have done, there has not been a huge
amount of equalization. I don't usually
equa[...]ks, the effects mix and then the
final mix.

When you have a couple of four-tracks
already pre-mixed for stereo, and dialogue
and music, you can put them on group
faders, run the computer an[...]something, saying “That’s nice but why

don't you bring this in earlier”, you can
update that bit of information. The whole
thing is then on the disc and you can then
go straight into record.

In effect, it is replacing your memory,
freeing you from writing and revising
dubbing charts. . .

And allowing you to rehearse as many
times as you would like, rather than
saying, “Let’s go for a take.” This way I
can guarantee that the final[...]earse for an hour to get it right.

In Melbourne, where there is no decent
dubbing set-up, the sound is trans-

ferred at one place and mixed at
another. What do you think about the

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (58)sound recordist having a supervisory
role in this situation?

I think it would be dangerous to bring in
a sound recordist on a job. There are
times when it could work, but I kn[...]at the mix
and has been convinced that there was a
better take of something, or that it should
have been equalized, and the mixer has

said, "Thank you but l’m mixing this film!”

Do you think there is anything positive
about having a sound supervisor?

What there should be is a pre-
production conference with the location
reco[...]editor dis-
cussing how to handle the stereo mix. You
discuss what will be an advantage and
what will be a waste of time. This is useful
because you can suggest that they should
get stereo atmospher[...]in the initial stages,
which the Dolby people say you should
do. We have decided that is a waste of
time because it means that the dubbing
editor has to work with Dolby encoded
rushes which, when you screen them any-
where else, sound shithouse — the inter-
cines don't sound right, etc.

There also needs to be a big sound
post-production conference, especially
when using stereo, to talk about whether
you are going to re-transfer all the sound
later or encode it in Dolby first or what-
ever. But I don't think the sound recordist
needs to b[...]ic people more because we still get
the situation where the music guy says, ‘‘I
thought that was a music sequence" and
the dubbing mixer says, “What are you
talking about? It is World War 3 and we
are going[...]o optical track. For
years, mono tracks have been a matter of
listen to the mix but, if it needs a bit of mid-
lift or a bit of compression, don’t tell the
mixer becaus[...]from the producer who
will say it doesn’t sound any good and it is
not loud enough.

There has been a certain little protec-
tion racket going on for years, here and
overseas. If you talk to people at. Glen
Glen, say, they will say[...]d to hell with what the mixer says.

That is what you have to do with mono
tracks: if you play it in your optical transfer
suite and it sounds too wide-range, too
dull or the music is too loud, you have to
compress it for the optical. You can't tell
them that the film is no good, because[...]fantastic.

With stereo it is slightly different. You
are mixing through, a much tighter-
controlled Dolby system and, by the time
you do your two track transfer to
magnetic, it is limited. There is no way you
can exceed certain boundaries. When you
lace it up to go to the optical camera you
line up the Dolby tone, 50 per cent on the
camera, press button A then button B, the
transfer goes straight across and you
can't tamper with it. That is the first time
that has ever happened!

Do you see any improvement in sight
for 16mm optical tracks?

Th[...]non-standard print
problems: 16mm was invented as a

reversal medium years ago and no one
intended pr[...]m optical tracks for in-flight
movies!

Are there any technical reasons why a
stereo mix would need to be done
overseas?

No. Certainly they have the expertise
from having done a million films, but they
are probably going to take a hell of a lot
longer than we will. I guess we are more
enth[...]films that are as good. i

Magic Sound for

A bra Cadabra ”

The soundtrack for Abra Cadabr[...]nt channels and one rear
channel, so as to create a surround-sound
feeling.”

Abra Cadabra stars th[...]techniques of tape,
cassettes and disc, there is a vague
assumption in the air that film has been
le[...]s of recording visual images. It is
easier to use a film camera in most situa-
tions; editing is chea[...]evision broadcast
companies).

But it is not only a matter of film being
the ideal image-recording me[...]y the film-
goer, and this traditionally has been a
problem.

The principal raw materials of the film[...]intain maximum
stability in these areas to obtain a high
quality product, existing methods of bulk
pr[...]tic
problems. It is therefore interesting to note
a revolutionary method of improving print
quality.[...]Laboratories, through its
Fl & D Group, has found a method of over-
coming this and other deficiencie[...]invention of new equip-
ment and the creation of a total system
whereby a complete film of up to two
hours and 25 minutes (4000 m) could be
printed and processed in one pass, a
condition which allows the grading at a
reel change-over to be as accurate and
fixed for[...]uipment cleans
negative or positive film rolls of any
length; negatives are spliced together on
the cleaner-rewind and then wound on to
a large 46 cm centre core by a modular
winder, creating a true-and-hard roll which
needs no side supports o[...]as follows: the negative
is examined, cleaned at a speed of more
than 100m per minute to remove all[...]ns that rolls can be made up in
advance, removing a complete operation
from the printing cycle.

Chec[...]own diagnostic pro-
grams to identify and display any elec-
tronic or mechanical problems.

After the p[...]transported to the processing machine
and, using a modular film winder, is fed
into the developing machine as a whole
copy.

As the developed print comes off the[...]em to the
SMPTE Conference in 1981. It represents
a major contribution to ensuring constant
print qua[...]e
future of cinema exhibition, it is con-
sidered a positive step fonrvard. Ar

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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (60)[...]rdmen oi Kilimanjaro (16mm):
Australia, 767.90 m, A. Folland

Der alte und der Iunge ltoenlg (16mm):[...]00 rn, German Embassy

Der schlmmeireiter (16mm): A. Weidenmann, W.
Gennany, 1087.00 in, German Embas[...]dslKestrel Films, Australia, 2413.84 rn,
Filmways A’sian Dist. PIL

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial: Uni[...]r, W. Germany, 990.00 rn, German Embassy

so That You can Live (16mm): Cinema Action, Britain,
932.00 m[...]bassy, S(i-I-i). V(i—l-j)

Born To Kill (16mm) (a): RKO, U.S., 1012.00 m,
National Library of Austr[...]y: Lilin Prods, Philippines,
2468.70 rn, Filmways A’sian Dist P/L, V(l-I-g)

lhr verbrechen war lie[...]ist. P/L, O{sexual
innuendo)

Rolls, Rolls I Love You: R. Shaw, Hong Kong,
2586.91 rn, Joe Siu Int’l[...]4.26 rn, Joe Siu lnt‘l Film Co. PIL, S(i-I-/)

(a) Reconstructed version registered "Suitable Only[...]—m-)'), O(adult concepts)

Conan The Barbarian (a) (reconstructed version): Dino
de Laurentiis, U.S[...]lisation: Manson Int'l,
U.S., 274300 in, Filmways A’sian Dist. PIL, L(i-m-g),
V(i-m-))

Desolation[...]Gratuitous

Ria|tolMaran, W. Germany, 2852.72 rn,
A’sian Dist. P/L, Ofadult concepts)

Far East: Fi[...]P/L,
L(l-m-9). O(sexual allusion)

My Survival As A Deviant (Super 8): G. Lewis, Aus-
tralia, 329.00[...]And Forever Film Partnership,
30'-m-l)

Partners: A. Russo, U.S., 2496.13 rn, United |nt‘l
Pictures[...]s, Australia,
855.66 rn, John Cruthers, L(i-m-g)

A Question 01 Silence: Sigma Films, Netherlands,
26[...]Raggedy Man: Universal, U.S., 2523.56 m, Filmways
A’sian Dist. PIL, V(i-m-/), O(sexua/ concepts)

S[...]oadshow Dist. P/L, L(f-m-9), O(sexual
concepts)

(a) Reduced by importer’s cuts to qualify for lowe[...]The Bloody Fists (videotape) (reduced version) (a):
Ocean Shores, Hong Kong, 94 mins, Risis Ethnic[...]TuccilDe Angelis, Italy, 86 mins, Central
Video W.A., V(l-m-g)

(a) Previously shown on January 1973 List.

(b) See[...]0, 1982 and then exported.
Maianggan Lavarima — A Tribute To Bukbuk (16mm):
Inst. of PNG Studios Fi[...]one For The Money (reconstructed version) (iemm)
(a): Tudor & Taylor, U.S., 504.62 rn, 14th Mandolin[...])

Reason for deletions: O(sexua/ exploitation of a minor)
The Pussycat Ranch (reconstructed version)[...]version) (e):
Diamond I-“ilms, U.S., 2276.00 m, A.Z. Assoc. Film Dist.
P/L, S(f-m-g)

Deletions: 6 metres (13 secs)

Reason for deletions: S(i-h—g)

(a) Previously shown on January 1982 List.

(b) Prev[...]n: E. Dietrich, W. Germany,

2207.00 rn, Filmways A’sian Dist. PIL, S(i-h—g)

Kiss 01 The Spider[...]rror (soft version): W. Evans, U.S.,

2639.00 rn, A.2. Assoc. Film Dist. P/L, S(f-hg)

Pixote (English sub-titled version) (a): S. Naves, Brazil,

3490.00 rn, Consolidated Exhibitors, O(sexual exploita-

tion ol a minor)

Scream For Vengeance: Manson lnt’l, U.S[...].S., 31

mins, Rahima Prods, O(sexual violence)

(a) See also under “Films Registered Without Elimi[...]hopstix (reconstructed pre—censor cut version) (a): W.
Dancer, U.S., 1986.00 rn, Cinerama Fi[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (61)i AGFA-GEVAERT

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It also offers a wide exposure latitude way. Gevacolor Type 682.[...]ydney 8881444,
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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (62)[...]vision

Cast: Hugh Keays-Byrne (Quin).

Synopsis: A suspense thriller horror film of a
night watchman who spends his last shift in a
department store. Twelve hours later, two
men are[...]g
Assoc. producer ..lan Pringle
Prod. manager.. ..A|an McKenzie
Unit manager. ..Dannial Scharf

.Anne[...]ooks desperately for refuge.
Seeking sanctuary in a caravan park, Jenny
battles defiantly to protect[...]0.000
Length .95 mins
Gauge ..Super 16

Synopsis: A contemporary comedy. The
story of a young urban "bushranger"
fighting for survival in[...]ick,
that Teresa comes to understand her power
as a woman and emerges from obsession to
a real consciousness of sexuality and love.[...]| group in Australia. The
scenario unfolds around a ten~day concert
tour during which they are exposed to a life-
style they have only read about, now they r[...]e. ...35mn-i

Cast: Ciaud arvan (M e).

Synopsis: A contemporary fairy tale about
Maxie, an 11-year-old girl who befriends
Molly, a dog that sings.

THE MOST WANTED MAN

Prod. compa[...].Patric Juillet

Cast: Roben Menzie ( .
Synopsis: A gentle comedy about the end of
the world.[...]cElroy
Scriptwriter. .. .Trevor Farrant
Synopsis: A crazy comedy set in Sydney in
1942. At the beginn[...]s. By
September the mood had changed. Before
long a saying was going around that there
were three thi[...]Cropper (Rose), John
Howard (Ginger).

Synopsis: A romantic comedy based on C.
J. Dennis’ book of verse in which a rough-
tough Australian is unafraid of sentimenta[...]oting stock. ..Eastmancoior
Synopsis: it is 1949. A young woman, Nina,
arrives in Australia from Europe. She is all
alone in the world. She finds herself in a
huge migrant camp, Silver City. She is drawn
to a young fellow Pole, Julian, but he is
married and has a child. They have a secret
love affaire, while experiencing the cultu[...]xplores the relationship
between Denny and Maddy, a boy and girl
from opposite sides of the track. Strangers
who find something as innocent and
inspiring as love in a world that is rapidly
going to hell.[...]r Stitt
Scriptwriter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A|exander Stilt
Based on the original
idea by . . .[...]. . .. Mike Browning

Art director . . . . . .. .A|exander Stitt

Musical director .. .._..Pet[...]tand-by wardro e.. Margot Lindsay
Props buyer ....A|ethea Dean
Standby props Shane Rushbrook
Set cons[...]Sumner (Ben), Bushwackers Band (Band).

Synopsis: A re—make of the film made in
1947 starring Chips Rafferty, Bush
Christmas is an adventure involving a group

oilteenagers in pursuit of two would-be horse
thieves.

CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU

Prod. company .Syme international Prods[...]ore.
accept responsibility for the
correctness of any entry.[...]ydney in the 1930s, this is
the poignant story of a small boy caught up
in a bitter custody battle between two sisters.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (63)[...]Scriptwrit .Charles Stamp
Photography. Phil Pike A.C.S.
Sound recordis Don Connolly
Editor .........[...]. . . . ..Meredith Baer,
Hilary Henkin

Based on a story by . . . . . .. Meredith Baer
Photography .[...]opsis: Romeo and Juliet: R—rated and
updated to a New Zealand prison.

RUNNING MAN

Prod. compan[...]Quinnell

Based on the novel
by
Photography

.W. A. Harbinson

Sound recordist N[...]Mark Lee, Ralph Cotterill.
Synopsis: The story of a strange love affairs
in a world of young outsiders living on the
edge.

THE[...]ordist. Max Bowrin
Editor.. ...Henry Dangar
Exec. a a .. ..Jan Williams
Prod. co-ordinator.

ally Ayres[...]Dennis Grosvenor (Reilly).

Synopsis: Two men and a girl set up house
in an abandoned mining shack on the
outskirts of a small country town in the
mid-'50s. The scandaliz[...]es are still charged
with emotion and futility in a small New
Zealand town as they try to escape the[...]uzanne
Roylance (Patty).
Synopsis: The film takes a light-hearted look

at what goes on in an Austral[...]per (Sally), Jon Darling (Bob Henning).
Synopsis: A contemporary story of sexual
rivalry and obsession: of lost youth and
false manhood. A triangle which leads to
disaster.

DE[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (64)[...]ny Barry (Ozzie), Max Phipps (Francis).
Synopsis: A love story in a combat zone.
Every city has one.

DESOLATION ANGE[...]aside reson of Portsea. Three
teenage girls enjoy a wild weekend away
from their parents while a mysterious woman
is on the run from the police an[...]d her search for the missing Joey. Dot
meets with a hobo In her outback home
town, the hobo becomes Santa Claus.
and takes Dot on a wonderful adventure
witnessing various Christmas[...]secretary), June Jago (Mrs
Coolidge).

Synopsis: A psychological thriller, its plot is
a mystery of manipulation and double-
deaiing about[...]ne, successful
man—of-the-world husband, Peter, a
daunting, sensuous young man and Peter's
efficien[...]..

Dog trainer. .Mary M0Ci'a!-‘lb
Wrangler .. ...John Baird
Best boy .. ..Br[...]pratt),
Will Kerr (Jim). I
Synopsis: The story oi a sheepdog in the
Australian outback, based on the[...]uel (Chris), Kit Taylor (Paul
Sloane).

Synopsis: A suburban community is bliss-
fully unaware that a killer stalks the streets.
A mother and her two sons survive in a dis-
integrating relationship. These two ele-
men[...]urns,
Set construction ...Hans Theiie tan Gilmour
A55‘ 9d'l°l , - ~ - ~ ~ Cathy Sheehafi Camera o[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 mins

Synopsis: A remarkable relationship be- Shooting stock . . .[...]disturbed 13 year-old boy. Tom is written
off as a delinquent by most adults until
John, the[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (65)A brand new

double feature from Sammies

Introduci[...]e and our newly completed commercial sound stage.
A double feature you should definitely make a point of seeing.

SYDNEY:

1 Giff[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (66)[...]iney). Paul Chubb
(Curly).

Synopsis: She was all any old fool could ask
for—a beautiful masochist with an Electra
complex. She knew her life was a great pre-
destined adventure. and, if it ended l[...]tst asst director ..
2nd asst director.

..Anton|a Barnard
. Howard Wheatley
...Stuart Freeman
.. Co[...]Thomas). John Ewart (The Train Driver).
Synopsis: A period comedy drama set In
Sydney about two crime[...]. James Elliott (Patrolman Rex
Dunbar)

Synopsis: A young woman. looking after
her sister's house whi[...]murderer
returns to kill the woman. and so begins a
battle of wits.

MIDNITE SPARES[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . .Wednesday
investments.

A Filmco Presentation

Producer . . . . . . . . . .[...]ty life. accept his ltalian
background. and start a new kind of life.

hopefully one more step t[...]dren cross the
harbor to explore Castle House — a
strange. unoccupied mansion — they on-
counter sinister baddles, a kidnapping and
a hilarious. eccentric lady. Excitement.
mystery an[...]t
Clare. the old family home run by her mother
as a retirement home for the aged, and
strange things[...]hort

3rd asst director ..
Continuity
Producer's a

.. Bob Donaldson
. .. ...Shir|ey Ballard[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (67)[...]ent), Henri Szeps
(York).

Synopsis: The story of a stylish Sydney
boutique owner and her husband. a
promising writer who has not as yet
achieved financial success. On the surface.
they appear to have a perfect relationship.
However, their marriage is shattered when
he is accused of rape after a casual indis-
cretion one afternoon with another[...]ld, Rod Taylor, Beau Cox.
Ray Meagher.

S nopsis: A chase drama about a callous
kifier on the rampage and a black man with a
hatred for the corrupt world which has made
him a[...]be
(Soldier on train).

Synopsis: Two men work in a satellite relay
station on the Bogong High Plains[...]erge

Unit cars . . . . . . . .. Thrifty Rent A Car
Best boy .. Paul Gantner
Runner . . . . . .[...]Bluthal, Maggie
Dence, Norman Erskine.

Synopsis: A madcap, musical comedy-
adventure where the flying super hero
crushes Nazis, threatens bo[...]ornelia Francis (Member for Southdown).
Synopsis: A young girl taking photographs
of her pet cockatoo is prevented from
leaving a lonely island by an illegal
immigrant, who tears deportation. After a
widespread search, she manages to escape
with the help of a boy scout Sympathetic to
the immigrants problems,[...], Shane Porteous.
Synopsis: The poignant story of a young
child, orphaned by war, and her struggle to[...]e suffer-
ing and hardships imposed by all wars.

A SLICE OF LIFE[...]amond
Director ..John Lamond
Scriptwriter .. .. .A|an Hopgood

Sound record t .. ....Pau| Clark[...]Pinkus (Addy), Gwen
Soares (Mel Linn).

Synopsis: A young man goes into hospital
for the routine removal of a cyst and finds
that he gets more than he b[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (68)[...]Hatfield
Photography . . . . . . . . ..Phil Pike A.C.S.
Sound recordist . .. Rowland McManis
Editor[...]fairs with
visiting Russian ballet dancer becomes a
matter of concern to the family when it has a
dramatic effect on several of the business
enterp[...]t Burgess, Tony
Barry, David Downer. _

Synopsis: A dramatized reconstruction of
the trial, in Februa[...]ing Service journalist, arrives in
Jakarta during a time of political upheaval.
There he is befriende[...]Progress ....... .. ..Post-production

Synopsis: A chronicling of the growth ofjazz
in Melbourne fro[...]abulous Dixielanders.

KUMBHA MELA — SAME AS IT
EVER WAS

Albert Falzon Creations
............ ..Cryst[...]t: Millions, shot on location in India.
Synopsis: A mystical journey through the
lakes and mountains[...]Brian Eno and Talking Heads leads
the audience on a surreal adventure.

THE LEGEND
Morning Star Prods[...]led r ....February 1983

Synopsis: Twenty- ive a ults and children
head overland for Shark Bay in[...]. Their dream is to live together
harmoniously as a tribe and to culminate
with a meeting of another tribe — the wild
dolphins of Monkey Mia, the only place in the
world where the air breathing mammals
virtually teach themsel[...]on the Serpentine River which is
to be flooded by a government hydro-dam.
About the conflict between[...]930s, Australian gold
prospectors stumbled across a million
people in New Guinea's highlands, whose
existence was previously unknown. The
prospectors took a camera with them. For
the first time both sides t[...]ly and
stamp production in China.

PLEASED TO SEE YOU

Prod. company Aardvark Film Prods

Director[...]f the
Royal Society for the Blind and the life of a
sight-handicapped person within a narrative
framework.

SHORTS

JULIE JULIE[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (69)AATON

A ustralian dz'stribut0rs.'—

(INCORPORATED IN N.[...]their executive, for
direct liaison with Dolby in any aspect relating to Dolby film
productions[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (70)[...]got sick of living in Broken
Hill, so she bought a motorbike and left to
ride around Australia. The[...]Walker (Jane); Gaytana Adorna
(Maria).

Synopsis: A short drama about the conflicts
that a teenage boy from a Macedonian family
faces in trying to cope with li[...]ge ...16mm
Progress .Pre—production
Synopsi . , a Sydney medical multi-

national, is secretly deve[...]n hands. They

resolve to sabotage Utero and make a
political documentary for television to be
screen[...]orge Parker is the No. 1 machinist at
the factory where he has been employed
most of his working life. Hi[...]19),
with love and care. Her one little luxury is a
cream cake every morning from the local
shop. An[...]fer Press, Clive Hearne, Joy
Smithers.

Synopsis: A humorous look at the role of the
Al-‘iS's Open[...]cinema
feature; treatment development — $10,000
A King of Shreds and Patches — P.M.
Productions;[...]at Never Ended — Terence
McMahon Ltd — $1750

A shitting Dreaming —— Imago Australia —
$15,[...]ript and project development —
$10,000

Love on a Tourist Visa —- Jan Sharp;
cinema feature; 3rd[...]wood; television mini-series treatment —
$7000

A Grave for a Dolphin — McElroy
McElroy; package — $69,000[...]— $7000

Peter Tammer Vic. ; rant for Tri t ch A
$11,000 ( J 9 p V

Max Bannah (Old); grant for Bi[...]— $18,411

John Prescott (Old); grant for Just a Whiff of
Consent — $2000

grant for Sacred

Wom[...]Series — Film Victoria is currently
developing a major television series to be
produced for the Au[...]say Foole; television special; scripting.
Crow On A Barbed Wire Fence — Edward
McQueen Mason; telev[...]; pre-
production.

Documentaries

Thomastown — A documentary on Thomas-
town School, its special s[...]sis: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
has developed a method of treatment, giving
great hope to Cystic[...]Police.

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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (72)Lonely Hearts
Keith Connolly

Paul Cox’s Lonely Hearts is a neat
compendium of attainable virtues, and
the Au[...]est Film of 1982 no
doubt appreciated this fact.

A sad little social comedy with
moments of anarchic[...]laces its
somewhat implausible comic situation
in a recognizably commonplace milieu.

Though the char[...]adylike counterpart,
totally against the grain of a lifetime of
complaisance, accepts the lead role i[...]e individuals are Peter Thomp-
son (Norman Kaye), a 50-year-old
bachelor piano-tuner, and Patricia
Curnow (Wendy Hughes), a shy,
mousy, but younger, bank clerk. They
meet through a grasping introduction
service and the film charts the uneven
course of a diffident romance. It is a
less-than-novel subject, ripe for cari-
cature, but Cox, maintaining a basical-
ly humorous premise, invests it with
war[...]neering sister (Julia
Blake) and others. There is a sugges-

tion, too, that Peter has been only too
ready to shelter his inhibitions behind
a dogsbody eagerness to please just
about everybody[...]ons) regard as
the next step: they nervously seek a
partner of the opposite sex, not neces-
sarily vi[...]Paul Cox’: Lonely Hearts.

bolic, but there is a little of Peter and

Patricia in many Australians[...]eenplay
(by Cox and John Clarke) pilots them
with a nice mixture of artifice and
simplicity.

As well[...]ossy and interfering Dad.

Cox and Clarke concoct a small but
effective drama, when Peter is c[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (73)[...]idents, such as
the blind-piano-tuner episode and a
nervous assignation with a call-girl,
rattle about rather loosely in the narra-
tive structure, giving the impression
that a certain amount of post-produc-
tion revision has[...]er (Ron Falk) who brow-
beats Peter into ordering a new hair-
piece. (A far more important charac-
ter, an amateur theatr[...]r shortcomings
notwithstanding, Lonely Hearts has a
consistency of imagination and func-
tion that is[...]in the
bumper crop of 1981-82.

It is, in short, a triumph for Cox and
a tribute to his perseverance. The
visual and drama[...]on that
marks his earlier work is fused here
with a descriptive delicacy lacking in
Inside Looking Ou[...]er-
emphasis in the cause of comedy. Cer-
tainly, a sequence in which the hesitant
couple engages in fumbling word-play
before a disastrous episode in bed is a
considerable advance on a somewhat
similar situation in Kostas and a coun-
try mile ahead of the fatuous, wordless
scr[...]addition to
his nicely—modulated leading role) a
nostalgic musical score of familiar
melodies, Yur[...]ppressed — beneath “sen-
sible” clothes and a repressed mien,
reminds us of the many films and[...]s dramatic and
humorous contrivance, she achieves a
pathos reminiscent of her memorable
stage perform[...]to do Strindberg is
particularly piquant.) Bruce, a
character not unlike Peter, finds
release in dumb[...]rts and even
lends Peter’s more antic behaviour a
certain perverse dignity.

The Best Film award as[...]ies in
his successfully tackling social com-
edy, a genre all but ignored by Aus-
tralian filmmakers[...]nds, what else is there apart
from Don’s Party, A Salute to the
Great MacArthy and perhaps two of
the four segments of Libido?) The
field is a notoriously tricky and
demanding one, and Lonely Hearts is
unlikely to provoke a flock of imita-
tions. But after the disasters of[...]ei [The
Mattei Affair], to mention two),
comes as a very positive surprise.

Whereas most of Rosi’s films were
made with a political perspective,
based either on facts —[...]orpses/The Context, 1976) and
Cristo si e fermato a Eboli (Christ
Stopped at Eboli, 1979) — this ti[...]n original script, which
has been translated into a creative
film.

Although there are similarities i[...]nds that
of the previous one. It is the result of a
broader and deeper, more symbolic
and innovatory[...]rom the South. To this Rosi and
Guerra have added a narrative key,
taken from The Third Son, a short
story by the Russian writer Andrei
Platonov: an old man sends a telegram
to each of his sons informing them of
th[...]onato Giuranna (Charles Vanel) is
the old father, a peasant from Puglia,
who has seen all his sons le[...]ssible
education, sent to university, and is

now a judge living in Rome with his
unbalanced wife and[...]n. He has been offered the task of
presiding over a terrorist trial, which a
colleague has relinquished for fear of
being murd[...]which is

usually the case with the second son of
a Southern Italian family. He is a
teacher in a Naples reformatory for
problem children and has been
approached by the police to find out
which of the children have been
making trouble at night, “stealing or
doing something worse”, as a
policeman puts it.

The youngest brother, Nicola[...]ned with
dismissal. From his broken marriage
with a Northern girl, he has an eight-
year-old daughter[...]him to
the farmhouse.

Three Brothers opens with a still
shot of a white wall of a building, with
the windows looking like dark holes,
or empty eye sockets. The subsequent
image is a close-up of rats in a city
rubbish dump, which one soon learns
is part of a dream of Rocco’s.

The fact that Rocco is the f[...]y his side during
mourning. They even look alike, a fact
that is emphasized by Mezzogiorno
acting bot[...]three brothers finally are
brought together after a long
separation and gradually their signif[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (74)[...]not feel much
sympathy for the establishment. As a
result, their arguments tend to be very
emotional[...]ar of losing his job that
stops him from becoming a terrorist;
this belief reflects the emotional dif[...]murdered.

Rocco does not want to help the
police find the troublemakers among
his reformatory children;[...]cation, which is his main
concern. Raffaele faces a similar
dilemma when asked by some villagers
to s[...]rism. In
answer, he uses the case of Guido
Rossa, a worker from Genoa, who was
murdered because he de[...]. all saw them, it would have been
impossible for a crowd of witnesses
to be murdered.”
But Raffael[...]first and foremost

about love: love for parents, a wife,

a little girl; love for nature, for one’s

own di[...]nt that Platonov’s The
Third Son is credited as a source of
inspiration since some of the situation[...]ta, who sleeps
beside her grandfather in his bed,
where his wife used to sleep.

Most effective of all is a dialogue
between Marta and old Donato. One
of the[...]she bursts into tears and
he asks her, “Why are you crying?”
The girl answers, still crying, “We[...]g groups, after initially
obtaining sympathy from a few dissatis-
fied sections of Italian society, w[...]t & Sound,
Winter 1981-82.

tears, accompanied by a discreet and
almost silent sobbing, and it is Marta
who asks him, “Why are you crying?
I’ve stopped.” The embarrassed
grandfather dries his tears with a hand-
kerchief saying, “I’m not crying, it’[...]an egg
on the ground and gives it to the old
man. A close-up of this gesture — his
old, wrinkled ha[...]pected to preside and dreams he is
gunned down in a bus in Rome, and
wakes up in anguish.

Rocco drea[...]weapons, syringes, money and
gaol window bars, in a colorful, sur-
realistic scenario which alternate[...]n
the presence of an image of Christ
crucified in a crossbow (in which
Christ is the arrow); Rocco sets fire to
a rubbish pile, with a view of a canvas,
paradise—like, sunny beach as the back-[...]y ballad “Je so’ pazzo” (“I am
Crazy”). A Neapolitan, Daniele is one
of Italy’s most orig[...]ele sings:

“In my life I want to live at least a

day like a lion

“And the state should not condemn

me, be[...]razy.”‘

He then mentions Masaniello, hero of
a popular uprising in 17th Century
Naples against t[...]ects distinctly Rocco’s
idealism, his Utopia of a clean world: a
world without drugs, crime and
money; a world of happiness.

The artistry of Three Brothe[...]e
Rocco is making coffee in the kitchen
and hears a sound of sobbing coming
from outside the house. H[...]ent’anni da peccora” (“It is better to
live a day like a lion than a hundred
years like a sheep”).

4. “Nella vita voglio vivere alemno[...]o understand
what is going on. This was certainly a
difficult shot to do — and masterfully
accompli[...]lly set
the pace for the film:

“He lent us all a sort of serenity.

During filming he was like the[...]e cadence of his movements.“

Three Brothers is a very special film
and perhaps an example to many great
Italian directors who have not
managed to produce any recent work
that is worth mentioning.

It reflect[...]paradoxically, very real. At the
same time, it is a montage of poss-
ibly conventional fictions which,
when put together, achieve a highly
unconventional result.

Three Brothers[...]ind. What my
open mind received was, in the main, a
sumptuous bore. How far this impres-
sion tallies[...]save it. Igor Auzins, the
director, has opened on a close-up of
Jeannie, being prepared for her
wedding clothes, and this gradually
gives way to a beautifully composed
use of the widescreen to sug[...]ne fuss going on around her.
This in turn cuts to a vast, empty,
brown landscape, vertiginously pre-
sented in a fast forward-tracking shot,
as the camera hones in on and then
passes a figure on horseback, before
pulling up for an overhead view of
men and cattle.

These shots — and a great many that

6. Interview with Rosi, Sight & Sound,
Winter 1981-82.

follow —- offer a ravishment to the
eyes which in the early part of the film
seems exciting. There is a quite
thrilling use of landscape (tree trunks,
fo[...]journey to
the Northern Territory cattle station,
where Aeneas is to take up the position
of manager. As a result, there is a pre-
monitory dramatic effect in the
camera’s d[...]eart of the narrative, so that what
was initially a visual excitement
degenerates into tedious bravur[...]r Schreck’s screenplay
dissipates its energy in a series of tab-
leaux, scarcely vivants, which fails
utterly to build to any sort of cumu-
Iative power or meaning. The screen[...]ustering over the Gunns’
dinner table will give place to the
pounding hooves and pounding score
of the[...]ill return to sleep in
the house and give Jeannie a new sense
of purpose. The soundtrack knows
this,[...]nist or racist issues tentatively
raised, carries any dramatic weight. In
fact, the word “relationshi[...]of Mrs Gunn is to mean
anything, it must suggest a moral
toughness and ardor that are outside[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (75)[...]and
she is unable, by her physical presence
or by a sense of inner conviction, to
transcend these. Ag[...]quacy: In the opening scene
Jeannie is warned, “You must never
lose your femininity” and “Don’t try
to be a mate to him”, but the prom-
ising irony — as[...], the film
hardly seems interested in her role as a
woman: there is a promise of warmth
of feeling between her and the[...]considered using the white woman’s
situation in a male-dominated world as
an organizing narrative p[...]cial
issue but does nothing about it. It is
again a matter of scattered remarks
and incidents: of Jea[...]tt into the
house despite Aeneas’ claim that
you can’t take her away from her
people”; and so[...]he
dies, she asks, in plaintive anach-
ronism, “Where did we go wrong?”
The jejuneness of the film’[...]Chinese cooks,
one spitefully inclined, the other a
comic character who raised indulgent
laughter fro[...]hing as vulgar as an adventure;
and it lacks even a good car for a
period piece. What we are left with is
the Marlboro look and sound of the
Australian outback wedded to a quite
exceptionally dim little story of this
and[...]stars are twinkling brightly in
the night sky. In a secluded clearing of
a redwood forest on the outskirts of
Los Angeles, a[...]aft. Long, delicate,

brown fingers gently uproot a small
plant, while a rabbit looks on
unafraid. One of the gremlins wan[...].T. with the aid of
some candy. Keeping the alien a secret
from everyone except his older brother
Mic[...]art and back into his childhood
memories and made a film that is both
exhilarating and deeply moving.[...]r Pan. E.T. is
the lost animal, the stranger from a
strange land, the secret that grown-ups
cannot see and whom the children
must aid in any way they can, just as
Tinker Bell would die if th[...]one
who is even more helpless and more in
need of a friend than himself. This
compels Elliott, and hi[...]ity
of helping E.T. stay alive and to help
him in any way to contact his ship.
They must also keep him[...]help of Gertie and
Sesame Street, and constructs a signal-
ling device using levitation. The rela-
t[...]other. Instead of being reluctant about
trying to find the creature, Elliott
enthusiastically goes into[...]faceless’ biology teacher,
for example, and, to a greater extent,
the ‘agents’ who hunt E.T. an[...]an environment that Spiel-
berg knows well. It is where he grew up
and where he started to tell his stories
on film. He[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (76)[...]eople would deal with it. In Polter-
geist he set a graveyard of ghosts onto
the home salesman and his family; Roy
Neary had his first close encounter
with a UFO while on the job; the
supershark in Jaws terrorized the
sleepy coastal resort town of Amity
Island; and a man quietly travelling the
country roads of the Midwest is
attacked by a maniac driving a
decomposing tanker in Duel. Incred-
ibly, all the[...]Allen Daviau’s practical
method of lighting — where, for the
most part, the lighting fixtures shown
a[...]Spielberg’s re-
creation of suburbia invaded by a
small, brown alien.

E.T. is, perhaps, the first film in
which the main star has not been a
person or an animal (with the possible
exception[...]fter
another special effects crew had failed
with a loss of $700,000. The creature
that Rambaldi devised is a fantastically
complicated being with a rubber/ poly-
urethane skin covering a steel and
aluminium skeleton that sometimes
needed a dozen operators to handle via
electronic controls[...]mself said that
E.T., at first, is something only a
mother could love, and that is indeed
true. Soon[...]t time, standing quietly in the
corner wrapped in a blanket, I heard a
young voice behind me in the theatre
whisper, “Isn’t he beautiful.” When a
filmmaker can imbue a pile of rubber,
wires and servo-motors with the
q[...]t E.T.
exhibits, then that filmmaker is
certainly a master of his medium. This
is obviously what Spie[...]elighted with
E.T. It has been far too long since a
film has completely captured and
made one feel things ashamed of or
forgotten. One recalls the loss of a pet
or a loved one during childhood years
and the reluctan[...]him
if he is to live.

E.T. is purely and simply a joy to
watch. No sequence, scene or
individual sh[...]5 million by
the way — one-third of the cost of a
Marlon Brando and with a lot more
personality).

The young and the not-so-[...]uashy

guy’ from the stars. For some it will be
a new experience after having been
bombarded by min[...]special effects cinema epics. It
would have to be a hard heart indeed
that did not want to cry out fo[...]en from close to heartbreak to
high exhilaration. You will be glad that
a film can move you so.

Steven Spielberg has made, in E.T.
The Extraterrestrial, a film that is vir-
tually the cinema ideal; a film that
comes from the maker’s heart and
touc[...]talk
Geoff Mayer

Scenario: the hero, confined to a
wheelchair, discovers that a man, in an
apartment in the same building as him-[...]lengths to bury this

deceptively simple plot in a film which
eschews narrative progression for a
visual obsession with computer print-
outs, glist[...]r-
porate group and its financial invest-
ment in a sensory computer, the 1-500,
developed by Ed Ball[...]the financial ramifications of the
project. When a car accident confines
him to a wheelchair he loses interest in
it — that is, until the computer draws
his attention to a murder in a nearby
apartment. The computer thereby
begins a cat-and-mouse game between
the killer, Stollier (John Ewart, superb
as ever), and Ballinger.

The early scenes in the film es[...]emise: Ballinger’s
obsession with his computer. A pre-
breakfast argument with his wife
Cindy (Penny Downie), conducted on
afind an Australian
film that acknowledges a narrative

tradition largely ignored since the
revival of the industry a decade ago. In
this regard, the film works extremely
well on occasions as a thriller. An
excellent example of this occurs whe[...]llier’s apartment
during his absence and attach a bug to
his phone. Ballinger, who is watching
the[...]tably dis-
tracted and the killer arrives home to
find Jane trapped inside with the dis-
membered head o[...]di-
ence involvement is sacrificed.

It is always a somewhat presump-
tuous, and totally futile, act to wish
that a film incorporate neglected

material. However, one cannot resist
pointing to a number of missed oppor-
tunities, which also coul[...]scope
within the framework of the drama to
create a number of tensions between
the characters.[...]

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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (78)[...]cessary
for plot progression is Stollier, who
has a predilection for leather and
bondage. Without kno[...]stylish film
to look at and listen to. There are a
number of striking visual sequences
which readily[...]leading up
to the murder of Stollier’s wife are a
prime example: the carefully-
composed image of S[...]Barrie Pattison

Fred Schepisi’s Barbarosa is a
Western shot in Texas in the Lajitas
area, where the U.S. army was based
when fighting Pancho Vill[...]Nelson and Gary
Busey lead the cast as Barbarosa, a
white renegade living in the Mexican
community, and Karl, a German
immigrant farm boy who teams up
with him.[...]ng scenes, the teaming
up seems uneasy: Nelson as a grubby,
foul-mouthed old man and Busey as
the fug[...]from
Butch and Sundance. Having been
together for a while, however, they
become clearly defined individuals,
each with a likeable sense of humor.

Even if there is no hur[...]ndary bandit, he
stands apparently unperturbed as a
Mexican’s bullet creases his cheek
(great effec[...]he begins to
tutor Karl in the business of being a
shootist and tells him, “Nothin’ makes
a man more nervous than to see a man
standing when he should be running
like a spotted ass ape.”

Language is one of the film’s
conspicuous features in a script by co-
producer William Wittliff, which he[...]e film is full of lines like, “The
Mexicans got a saying —- what cannot
be remedied must be endured” or
You haven’t got enough ass in your
britches to pull[...]changes
between the leads —— “I’ve killed a
man”, “That ain’t no kind of a recom-
mendation” — or Nelson joking about
their parting, “I’m getting all wore out
keeping you entertained.”

It has been said that Western
di[...]rosa makes considerable use of
verbal set pieces. A local bandido tries
to kill Barbarosa who avenges[...]he words for Karl, who is
impatient till he finds a part of the
song about himself.

Later, Barbarosa[...]) The
exaggerated sound of the word “shot”
is a nice flourish. Once again,’ one
hears a different version much'later.
Both end with Barbarosa blowing
away Don Braulio’s leg below the knee
with a shotgun.

The film’s humor, its unfamiliar
look[...]he thorns through which Karl
forces his way, with a single drop of
his blood falling from them; the
b[...]washing, flut-
tering on the line.

Why then did a well—made, enter-
taining film pitched at a popular
audience not do better business? The
most[...]ecology. The cowboy has become
the Ugly American. A generation has
grown up unable to understand that[...]al
reasons. The audience is already
familiar with a variety of these exciting
set pieces: e.g., Don B[...]mmissions in the
American states knows, there are a
host of regional American features,
with a couple of Hollywood stars and a
stylish and entertaining gloss, which
have sunk w[...]y as they
had his The Devil’s Playground.

Mind you, Schepisi is not the first of
the home team to go off to the U.S.
and come back with a feature. That
distinction belongs to Philippe Mor[...]-
scape or the rousing passages in the
music give a lift to their scenes. There
is no question that Barbarosa is a
handsome film.

It is particularly revealing to l[...]y Catholic episode in
Libido, carried conviction. A naivety,
which suggested that the death of a
class-mate was less shocking than des-
cribing ma[...]ing
in truth rather than traditional atti-
tudes, a quality that outweighs any
shortcomings in, say, Craig’s Wife,
Are We All[...]dirty, thieving, murderously
shifty and whoring, a representation
which, incidentally, contrasts sha[...]pig, it is with much pleasure I
am going to keel you”; Chris Pin
Martin back shooting John Wa[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (79)[...]y the
Taiwanese cop more flak in films.

Lacking a lobby as effective as the
NAACP or the supporters[...]ading of image during the past
decade, apart from a few minor items
like Robby Benson, Walking Tall o[...]ny Richardson,
et al. It does, however, emphasize a
problem very evident in the Australian
scene: the[...]io. There is the curious
notion of the pursuit as a crusade
which has elevated the way of life of
the[...]mud”,
and the use of the crucifix knife (thank
you Luis Bunuel).

This undeveloped idea recalls the[...]d and bad sides of his nature, simil-
arly stated a couple of times without
being integrated into the[...]chepisi’s Barbarosa.

ally. They have yet to find a film which
will advertise the fact.

Barbarosa[...]eliefs and
the pressures of change. The result is a

A shark-caller battles with a shark caught in his hoop. Dennis O’Rourke’s T[...]cember CINEMA PAPERS

complex film, which reveals a web of
relationships between the spiritual and
physical worlds of the people, and a
sensitive relationship between the film-
maker an[...]s the practice of
shark-calling in the context of a belief
pattern and its rituals. It is more than a
method of catching fish: it is a form of
magic, an expression of a relationship
with a spiritual world and with the
people’s ancestors[...]not be as important. The shark-
calling provides a bridge to these
spirits and is a form of communica-
tion.

This aspect of the magi[...]d from the
prow of the boat, at close range, with a
camera that is amazingly steady, even
as the shar[...]clubs it and
brings it into the canoe. They have a
quiet intensity unmarred by super-
fluous comment[...]throughout the film, but in an unob-
trusive way: a very low-key narration
by Dennis O’Rourke (the[...]ns or feelings to the
subjects.

Later, there are a few instances of
editorial comment in this narrat[...]in the
hoop, and rock the lightweight boat.
“If you attract a bad shark, it can
attack you”, says the man of Kontu

The dramatic nature of[...]ld have been played up for
effect, as was done in a couple of films
on the same subject made f[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (80)The Sharkcallers of Kontu

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy

the dramatics[...]from the narrative
film in order to build towards a
climax. Catching the shark itself is not
the main[...]ith their adherence to the
traditional magic) and a culture under
constant economic, educational and
religious pressures.

It is an immense pleasure to see a
documentary that does not sacrifice
idea content, where it is important, to
the cheap immediacy of emotion up
front on the screen, or to the old cliche
that a close-up tells us more than the
words of a person. So much of tele-
vision documentary on ot[...]ribed as
‘closed’ to the extent that it takes a
certain point of view and unashamedly
uses editin[...]ren learn English
in school using textbooks about
cowboys, not fishermen. They are
subtly conditioned, by t[...]and
sweet potato in what is to some extent
still aa small Pacific
island, especially in the ironic us[...]explicitly
made the point about the alienation of
a people from their culture. The
inanities of American soap operas
were contrasted with a lone guitar
player, strumming to himself on the
fringe of the living quarters, where he
was once the centre of the evening’s
enterta[...]s
to score, but in YAP they are in the
context of a look at U.S. imperialism
and economic exploitation. In The
Sharkcallers of Kontu, one again finds
a strong sensitivity to the sounds that
make up dai[...]t about by the imposition of
other values are, in a sense, didactic
points that are stated explicitly[...]the shark-calling and the
‘counter-magic’ of a church service, or
any other Western ritual (such as the
Queen’s Birth[...]tting caught in the hoop;
O’Rourke then cuts to a church
service, then to an old man who
defends hi[...]clusion, stated by one of the elders
in answer to a question about the
survival of the traditional be[...]t, others are given to
the villagers. The fin has aplace and offered to
the Chinese merchants who buy them[...]y. The film returns
in the last shot to the scene where the
Chinese merchant tells the men that if
they supply two tons of shark fins,
then he can give them a world market
price. The film thus shifts its emphasis
and leaves a final suggestion that the
greatest pressure on th[...]urke recognizes the impor-
tance of repetition in a documentary
that integrates its themes into the daily
life and belief patterns of a society. It
is not always sufficient to state a point
once and proceed with the film as
narrative[...]owever, it is not lacking in wry
humor, and gives a sense of a more
careful process of sifting out, leaving
the[...]what is an unabash-
edly transparent structure in a very
fine film.

Sharkcallers of Kontu: Direct[...]Ronin
Films. 16 mm. 54 mins. Australia. 1982.

A Midsummer Night’s Sex
Comedy

Margaret Smith

W[...]outrageous fortune and
turned to fairy-floss. In A Midsummer
Night’s Sex Comedy he has lost the
fighting edge of a pioneer who
ventured bravely into Annie Hall,
Int[...]e of
humor and pathos, but in the final
scenes of A Midsummer Night’s Sex
Comedy that seems to be all that is
left intact.

The film begs a question: where do
you go when you have stopped
exploring? For Allen, it seems to me[...]the fiancee of Leopold, nymph-like,
liberated and a woman of the future;
Maxwell (Tony Roberts, as always),
the faithful friend to Andrew and a
philandering womanizer; and Dulcy
(Julie Hagerty)[...]weekend, the not-so-silly nurse
who can cope with any emergency.

When all the visitors descend on the
house, their dreams take on a reality
and transformations are in store.

As in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, they become tantalized
as if under a spell. No one wants the
partner they are with, an[...]me so frantic and ill-
begotten that life becomes a dizzy
labyrinth.

when we are all variations on o[...]eath, he twists an old classic (Shakes-
peare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
on its head as a starting point. If one
wasn’t familiar with All[...]n who turned one out of
the cinema grappling with a sense of
oneself. One was amused, but it might
ha[...]the laughs hadn’t
been so constant or so long.

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
takes six characte[...]of the memory of
an illicit affaire. They live in a rustic
rural setting, at the beginning of the
century, where Andrew concentrates
on his inventions to the detr[...]tension, and love causes it. ” Woody Allen ’s
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy.

The photography[...],

floating ducks, perfectly realized
flowers and a host of other chocolate-
box goodies. It all makes for a marvel-
lous send-up, and is one of the delights[...]and Maxwell
duel for word space, there is rarely a
kind shot of them. But Allen’s persona
i[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (81)[...]ucks

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drama, based on the bes[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (82)[...]d by Simon Wincer, for producer John Sexton,
from a screenplay by David Williamson.

Clockwise from top: Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson) rides Phar Lap during a morning
training run, filmed by a Movietone crew; early morning preparation[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (83)[...]Publishers Ltd), London, 1982

Hardback, 814 pp., A$45
ISBN 0 86259 019 1

International Film and TV
Year Book 1981-82

36th year

Edited by Peter Noble

Aa little more than 100 countries.
Under these natio[...]sis (it goes almost
without saying that it is not a patch on
the current Australian Motion Picture
Ye[...]and obvious
omissions, almost inevitable in such a
considerable and wide-ranging project.
For instan[...]e Victorian Film
Corporation/Film Victoria? It is a
reasonable sample, but obviously in
need of updat[...]vell is in, Matt Carroll is out, and so
on. It is a seemingly arbitrary
selection.

All this is nit-p[...]prone to
errors and omissions — Marketplace is
a valuable handbook. The price, given
that it is a paperback, is prohibitive.

The two other recent[...]ect than Marketplace, and intimi-
datingly so. In a sense, it is a commem-
orative volume for Variety’s 75th anni-
versary, a distillation from the back
files of what is claim[...]”. Its avowed aim is no less
than “to provide a single source of
information on all facets of sho[...]ians, producers,
singers, songwriters and writers ever
achieved”, ranging from the RKO

sound engineer[...]ce dogs and the pretentious
arty pieces.

Next is a complete listing of all the
Oscar winners, as wel[...]ry 1, 1976, to December 31,
1980, including quite a few Australian
programs, from A Big Country to
Young Ramsay; a list of all the Emmy
winners, as well as all the[...]tion ranges from the revival
of Patrick White’s A Cheery Soul to
Steve J. Spears’ Young Mo); all[...]terbalance the
current biographies at the outset, a
“Necrology” (to use Variety’s quaint
term),[...]ite
simply, it is an essential reference work
for any library resource centre con-
nected with any branch of show
business.

Variety’s third recen[...]ze Plays. On the other
hand, this latter work has a massive
index, which the former, perhaps
u[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (84)[...]national and inter-
national counterparts to the A ustralian
Motion Picture Yearbook.

Kemps Interna[...]” to “Zoom fluid
drive units”; then follows a separate
“Film technicians” section that, in[...]hnicians diary
booking service”. This seemingly ever-
multiplying craftwork is reminiscent of
all the[...]rors, though
not to the same degree as in Market-
place.

If you are a devout reader of, say,
American Cinematographer o[...]on Picture and Tele-
vision Engineers Journal, if you are
something of a Samuelson’s freak, or
if you require anything from an ana-
morphic lens to a live vulture (or even
a stuffed one) for your next British
(and to a lesser extent U.S.) produc-
tion, then Kemps is definitely the
manual for you: technical information
overkill for some, but the[...]as technically oriented
as Kemps. It is aiming at a slightly dif-
ferent market, more the up-front
sh[...]s to Noble’s 30
pages or so distributed amongst a
paltry nine countries). The Australian
section, consisting of a meagre page
and a half of various names and
addresses, is, at best, token, and really
needs a major re-think and update.
Again, for instance, K[...]er, represents
almost two-thirds of its contents: a
“Who’s Who in International Films
and Televis[...]ngent is fairly
obviously not so. It is, in fact, a fas-
cinating conspectus of well-known and
not so[...]cides these things and on what
grounds? And it is a pity that the
entries could not be more up-to-date:
there seems sometimes to be an unfor-
tunate lag of a year or so.

So, all in all, if you are in need of
some light bedtime reading . . .[...]d High Noon.

The Best Movie Trivia and Quiz Rook Ever
Malcolm Vance

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An illust[...]ok of lists”.

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Malcolm Vance

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A nostalgic look at American television.

The Book of TV Lists

Gabe Essoe

Arlington/Imp., $12.50 (TPB)

A great collection of facts, figures and anecdotes[...]by Bob Bruno, illustrated by Marguerite
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A&W/lmp., $9.75

Clever cartoon comments on famous[...]okbinder
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A survey of the American films made during the
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John Kobal

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A history of lobby posters, includes numerous
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Great Hollywood Teams

Garson Kanin

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An illustrated sur[...]t Movie Stars — The Golden Years
David Shipman

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The second v[...]nson

Starlog/Imp., $12.30 (TPB)

Third volume in a series of fantasy and science-
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A complete guide to the science-fiction television[...]len and Unwin/Allen and Unwin Aust., $l9.95
(HC)

A biography of British actor Michael Wilding.

Befo[...]t Touch
Lionel Godfrey

R. Hale/Imp., $22.50 (HC)
A biography of Archie Leach, born in Bristol,
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Bob Hope: Portrait of a Superstar
Charles Thompson

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A well-illustrated coverage of Clint Eastwood’s
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A well-illustrated coverage of her career.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (85)[...]Millerson 192 Small Television Studio - Equipment Ayou . . .
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HE also looks good in front of a camera.

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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (86)[...]eer of the
screen’s most publicized actress — a most detailed
biography.

Elizabeth Taylor: Her L[...]i
Bantam/'I‘ra.nsworld Publishers Aust., $4.50

A sensational biography of Liz Taylor.

The Films o[...]rmilye

Citadel/Davis Publications, $12.75 (TPB)

A title in the popular “Citadel” series. New in[...]stein

M. Joseph/Thomas Nelson Aust., $4.95 (TPB)
A well-illustrated and comprehensive large format[...]Wattle/Gordon and Gotch Distributors, $6.95
(HC)

A well-illustrated coverage of Bogart’s careers.

Iron Eyes — My Life as a Hollywood Indian
Iron Eyes Cody as told to Colin[...]st-
known American Indian actors.

James Dean — A Portrait

Roy Schott

Delilah/Hutchinson Group Au[...]Bert Stern

Orbis/William Collins, $29.95 (HC)

A series of photographs of Marilyn Monroe,
taken si[...]95
(HC)

An illustrated biography of Chaplin with a
complete filrnography.

Lulu in Hollywood

Louise Brookes

Hamish Hamilton/Thomas Nelson Aust., $22.50
(HC)

A Hollywood story — the autobiography of
Louise B[...]Wattle/Gordon and Gotch Distributors, $6.95
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A well-illustrated, in color and black and white,
v[...]tle/Gordon and Gotch Distributors, $6.95
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A well-illustrated career coverage.

Monroe: A Life in Pictures

James Spada and George Zeno
Sigdwick/Hutchinson Group Aust., $19.95 (HC)
A pictorial tribute to Marilyn Monroe, mostly in
black and white and with a section of color photo-
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A new paperback edition of ‘long’ interviews with
Bette Davis.

P.S. I Love You: Peter Sellers 1925-1980
Michael Sellers

Fontana/William Collins, $4.95

A biography of Peter Sellers by his son, assisted
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A large format illustrated biography with a
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Ronald Reagan — The Scr[...]Elm Tree Press/Thomas Nelson Aust., $37.50
(HC)

A biography of C. Aubrey Smith, English
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life and presents a vivid insider‘s view of film-
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Howard Hawks

Robin Wood

BFI/Gaumont, $15.95

A revised edition of this book originally published[...]cusses the 40
films made by Hawks and it includes a new
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Rosalind Delmar

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A survey of the work of political filmmaker,
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Seven years of film reviewing — a critical view of
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A discussion on Indian films and various aspects
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RKP/Cambridge University Press, $43.95 (HC)
A critical history of the origin and development of
the cinema in Britain.

A History of Narrative Film

David A. Cook

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A comprehensive history of the cinema designed
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Hutchinson/Hutchinson Group Aust., $19.95 (HC)
A pictorial history of Australian cinema from
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A Pictorial History of the Talkies

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A year-by-year, fully-illustrated coverage of the
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edition up to 1981.

Western Films —— A Complete Guide

Brian Garfield

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A guide to the Westerns screened in the U.S. since[...]s

Two Screenplays — Jean Cocteau

The Blood of a Poet/The Testament of Orpheus
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BFI/Gaumont, $8.75

A critical view of television drama through a
series of essays primarily on the British series,[...]ichard Collins and V. Porter

BFI/Gaumont, $9.35

A discussion of documentary films made for West
Ge[...]overseas publications such as
Graphis Annual — a presentation of the adver-
tising industry in Aus[...]tzwinkle

Sphere/Thomas Nelson Aust., $9.95 (HC)

A picture book for young readers of the film
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A new edition of the Australian classic novel, now
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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (90)[...]with
rubble because of the incredibly
high cost.

You have to make certain
choices; you have a measure for
giving an impression of a given
situation within the limits of what
you can spend. We don’t have all

those millions for making a film
like the Americans.

Are you one who is compelled to
impart a message?

Not really. I do this work
because I like it, not necessarily to
transmit a message. It is an experi-
ence to make a film; it is also
human and informative, because I
usually make a film about some-
thing that I knew very little about,
initially. So, in the first place, it is
an experience for me. I learn to
think mor[...]s,
as an experience.

But I don’t see myself as a priest
preaching to people. I detest
message film[...]xperience for me. Maybe there are
others who also find the film is an

interesting experience; if so, gr[...]at.
Every film expresses the opinions
or games of a director; it is like
that throughout the performi[...]don’t pretend to do these
things. But they are a prime mover
of ideas, of thought, and can

present a point of view that may be
different from one’s own. They
can help you to understand certain

things, about yourself and about
others; for me, a film or a play
always has a significance. ‘Ar

Filmography

1961 Inco[...]*

1962 L’evento* _
‘Short films produced for a diploma

at the Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia in Rome.
1963 Storia del III Reich
A documentary for Italian television.
1963 L’eta[...]ary in four parts.
1963 Philippe Petain: processo a Vichy
(Philippe Petain: Trial at Vichy)
1965 La d[...]orship Board.

Decision of the board: Register

(a) Previously shown on May 1982 List.

(b) See also[...](G)

Conversations with Willard Van Dyke (16mm): A.
Rothschild, U.S., 648.00 rn, Australian Film Ins[...]2.00 m, Grand Film Corp. PIL

The Secret of Nlmh: A 8. D Bluth, U.S., 2221.83 in,
United lnte-r'l Pic[...]od., Australia, 636.26 m, Gittoes & Dalton Prods

A Trilogy on Tibet — Part II — Radiating The Fr[...]stralian Film Institute

The Weavers, Wasn't That A Time’?: Brown, Stoney &
Lowenthal, U.S., 1645.8[...]s Enterprises,
Vf-I-'

R£attl)rn Of The Soldier: A. Skinner, Britain, 2797.86 rn,
Roadshow Dist. P/L, O(adult concepts) A

The 7 Grandrnasters: Hong HWA lnt Film (HK) Ltd,[...]ln‘ Loose: Universal, U.S., 2537,81 m, Fllmways
A‘sian Dist. P/L, L(I-m-g)

Croque La Vie: UPCT/Films A2, France, 2880.15m,
Consolidated Exhibitors, O(aduIt concepts)

A Deadly Secret: Shaw Bros, Hong Kong, 2665.00 rn,[...]on:
H. West/G. Shapiro, U.S., 2605.65 m, Filmways A'sian
Dist. P/L, L(i-m—g), O(reIigious satire)[...],
2146.00 rn, Cinema ltalia, S(I-l-g), O(nudity)

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy: Orion, U.S.,
2358.9[...]Aust. P/L,
S(I-m-g)

Axe (reconstructed version) (a): Box Office, U.S.,
1810.38 rn, Regent Trading En[...]Love) (video-

tape): Not shown, ltaly, 94 mins, A,M. Alessl Films &
Video, S(f-m-g)

Golden Gate Pa[...])
(videotape) (d): C. lnfasselli, Italy, 93 mins, A.M. Alessi
Films 8 Video, S(l—m-g)

ll giudlce e[...]andolin PIL, S(f-m—g)
The Tale 0! Tiffany Lust: Aa) Previously shown on July 1982 List.

(b) Previou[...]Exhibition (R)

Alice In Wonderland (videotape) (a): W. Oscc, U.S., 75
mins, Video Classics, S(f-m-g[...])

Amanda By Night: N. Wescott, U.S., 2194.00 rn, A2
Assoc. Film Dist. P/L, S(l-m-g)

Deletions: 4 me[...]metres (3 secs)

Reason for deletions: S(i-h-g)

(a) Previously shown on November 1981 List.

(b) Pre[...]Woodyard, SpainllN. Germany,
2203.00 m, Filmweys A'sian Dist. P/L, V(i-h-g)
Mystique (pre—c[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (91)[...]amour — is bent on adhering to the maxim:
“If you can’t say something nice about a
person . . .” She has some trouble accommo-
dat[...]ryone in stitches.‘

Dorothy Lamour’s was not a major career
but it provided a good deal of innocent
pleasure. To give her — o[...]emember who did what
in her films. She has either a good memory or
has been careful in checking the c[...]talking
about the films, even if this remains on a pretty
simple level. Her private life, once over her
early marriage to Herbie Kaye, was a model of
happy domesticity with William Howard, “the
most beautiful man [she] had ever seen, in or
out of motion pictures.” From Howar[...]than Lamour can muster by
way of drama), she was a real fighter — tough,
demanding, humourless, lo[...]een anything
like it” (p. 258).

It sounds like any number of the characters
she played in the heady[...]“loved
not wisely but too well” — there was a lot of
that about in the ’40s — in My Foolish[...]man, overcoming disability to
entertain troops in a walking machine, in With
a Song in My Heart (1952); beating the booze
again[...]ttom of the
bottle! Filmed on location — inside a woman’s
soul!” the posters tempted us; and Ba[...]she
was now — had been since the late 1940s — a
true star and was now unimaginable as
anything el[...]ce that had hitherto eluded her. It
eluded her in a big way during her marriage to
minor actor Jess Barker, a stormy liaison even
by Hollywood standards, a schism growing
mainly out of her professional superiority and
leading to a scandalous and acrimonious

580 — December CINE[...]were made in more or
less lurid roles but I have a special affection for
some quieter achievements: for Lucy Overmire,
wavering between admirers (not at all a
“frontier spitfire” as Anderson characterizes[...]ry King’s I’d Climb the Highest Mountain
(not a “technicolour blockbuster” as Anderson
wrongly claims, but aa dog to give it conviction.
Anderson’s book pays[...]est in her difficult life, and that
means perhaps a dozen of the 60—odd films she
made. Her last ap[...]on two occasions

was GREGORY PECK, who,

without ever being especially

interesting, has remained a star

for just on 40 years in 50 films.
Perhaps t[...]but the variety of roles
pushed at them gave them a chance to find their
metier and prove their mettle. Peck’s car[...]impression of being very
carefully moulded around a limited range of
responses as he moves from one p[...]cision and Ingrid
Bergman in Spellbound.

Peck is a star of the same kind as John
Wayne, James Stewar[...]of the
same calibre. Like them, he is essentially a
“small effects man” (unlike, say, such
potent[...]nd sinewy integrity respectively.
With Peck, what you get is what you see.
Michael Freedland’s biography posits a real-life
figure that corresponds quite closely to the
usual screen persona of a liberal American —
and the resulting book is a bit dull, like its
subject. As Freedland presents[...]UAC squalors,
but he can’t help sounding rather a pill from
time to time. For example, in his advic[...]ut the films are mostly dealt with skimpily,
with a few exceptions like A Gentleman’s
Agreement, The Gunfighter, Twelve O’Clock
High and To Kill a Mockingbird. Those are all
good films and Peck is[...]illiam Wyler in Roman Holiday
but his is scarcely a comic performance, and in
his only other c[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (92)[...]the
Kingdom — but somehow it is all suffused in a
rather monotonous haze of decency. The roles
may[...]seemed to,
and this adequately written account by a
reverent hack hardly persuades one otherwise.

0s[...]box-office.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR began her career as a
child in the ’40s and to that extent overlaps w[...]films since 1950, she has never really felt
like a star; she seems not quite able to take
charge of[...]n when they
are not necessarily great actors.

As a teenager, from National Velvet (1945),
through adolescent fluff like Cynthia (1947)
and A Date with Judy (1948) to Father of the
Bride (195[...]r beauty came with George
Stevens’ still moving A Place in the Sun (1951).
As Kitty Kelley claims in her[...]. She had the kind of
beauty that would bring all a man ever
dreamed of —— wealth, fame, position.

George[...]orge Eastman [Mont-

gomery Clift] would kill for a place in the sun

with her” (p. 33).

Stevens, that i[...]ly seemed aware
of what was going on.

Kelley has a sure grasp of the high-spots of
Taylor’s career[...]a of her off-screen life, and Kelley
records with a nicely sardonic edge how “The
perilous melodram[...]st prized roles” (p.
146). She became, in fact, a bore about her
health and, indeed, about most thi[...]her boring” (p. 55). The answer is not hard to
find: apart from a certain generosity and cheery
vulgarity, there is[...]xcept her
sexual appetite and that, of course, is a matter
for restricted circulation — well, fairl[...]here for
Taylor), her sexual adventures comprise a
sickening chronicle. Husbands and lovers alike
are a sorry lot, though she is perennially gushy
and ho[...]just published memoirs I have
promised myself as a special treat not to read.

15. Kitty Kelley, Eli[...]itled “The Last Star”.
Surely not the last in any sense — others have
certainly followed her so that she was neither

the most recent nor the last in a line. Is she
even, one wonders, a star? As the looks that
made her famous began to[...]els an unwarranted tolerance for Taylor,
based on a certain likeability and survivorship.
But perhaps[...]e 1930s and ’40s, when she might
have been made a real star instead
of just a famous commodity, and
the ’70s when she looked[...]ered the changing cinematic
climate better. After a brief starlethood at
Columbia, she was thoroughly noticed in
Cukor’s A Double Life (1948) as the doomed
waitress. She then starred in half a dozen

Universal features before reaching certifiable
stardom in Stevens’ A Place in the Sun (1951).
In this she was very touching[...]p to 1954 to bring her
unappetizing life-story to a halt with Robert
Roosen’s Mambo, opposite one of her early
husbands, Vittorio Gassman. A threatening
note is struck on page 497 with an ep[...]lley —- Also
Known as Shirley except that it is a wholly
unworthy account of (half of) a lively career?
She offers an egomaniacal wallow t[...]se —— omitting
none of her star—studded (if you’ll excuse the
term) promiscuities with the like[...]w adven-
ture cutting at the crucial moment to “A fire
roaring in the fireplace, Waves pounding a
beach, Fireworks exploding” or some other
clich[...]orgasm. In the name of
love-of-life, she reveals a shoddy set of values
in language of unengaging co[...]aviour.

As for the career, she has some sense of
where the high spots were (A Double Life, A
Place in the Sun), but the telling is so riddled
with e[...]ey, perhaps I’m sometimes vague
about what took place in which year . . .”: this
disclaimer is presumably meant to excuse those
mistakes that derive from a lazy failure to check
her information as well as those that derive
from a wilful blurring of time in her first 20
years. At[...]its like
how she was “about 21” when she made A
Place in the Sun (“about 21” in the sense, that
is,[...]hind Betty Grable and Alice
Faye for some kind of a decent part” in 1951,
just six years after Faye’s retirement; and later
she has Monroe cast as a schoolteacher in River
of No Return; and so on.[...]doing with my life? I didn’t really want to
be a movie star; I wanted to be a fine actress, a
responsible citizen and a mother”) and dim
sententiae along the lines of, “I have come to
know that at any given moment in life one has
to do what on[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (93)[...]ftee Shorts —
One Act Plays

(1)

(2)

Oh, What A Night! (14 mins, 1932) Excellent
domestic comedy[...]runk. Also stars Marshall Crosby and John Dobbie.
A British print is held by the National Film Lendin[...]s, 1932) Corny comedy sketch
and impersonation of a child actress. Two songs.
Randall was an English[...]. Babe Scott
was George Wallace s halfsister, and a well-known
vaudevillian in her own right. Dir.: P[...]ost Son”
(9 mins, 1932) Dandy actor applies for a job through
a labor exchange. Valli appeared in many
Australian films as a supporting comic, while
Charles Albert's career o[...]ted in Everyone ‘s of
14/12/1932). Pat Hanna as a cleric, preaching the
fate of ‘Australia's Elev[...].: F. W. Thring.

Dear Old London (40 mins, 1934) A tourist’s view of
London in four reels, shot by[...]ction for Efftee. Includes an
interesting shot of a Fascist march.

Efftee Film Magazine Series; ‘
“The Wedge Tailed Eagle” (3 mins, 1934) A series
shot by Bert Nicholas late in 1934. Only t[...]According to Jack Murray and Bert Nicholas,
about a dozen newsreels were made specifically for
the Ta[...]rom Tatler News No. 2 — Dr William
Maloney, M.L.A. (born 1854, died c. 1940 gives his
political ret[...]e of the 1934 Eucharistic
Congress procession and a topical item on a
crippled model-maker living in Essendon.

The “[...]horts

Australian Educational Films was formed as a

partnership between Thring

and naturalist Noel[...]gative held by NFA. Sound
could be recovered from a release print in the
Davidson collection.

Secret[...]The Cliff Dwellers (9 mins, 1933) Life history of a
primitive Australian native bee, found living in[...]arvey.
Direction and photography by Noel Monkman.
You’d Never Guess (9 mins, 1934) Micro-
photography[...]n
natural history phenomena. The beating heart of a
fly larva; the ways wasps store fresh food; water[...]for British Dominion
Film Distributors. Shown at a special all-British
program at the Melbourne ‘A[...]sic for the George _ Wallace _fiIm
accompanied by a rolling caption written by Thring,
explaining the[...]Y. No copy known.

Efftee Contract Advertisements A large number of
these were made under contract to[...]ings Several of these were
made on Efftee’s R.C.A. recorder for subsequent
use on radio broadcasts.[...]se of back projection
(Campbell Copelin filmed in a train carriage with the
background flying past in[...]e. Unfortunately neither of these tests survive._
A deleted musical item from His Royal Highness

survives as aa brief item titled Australian Talkies a Fact
At Last! .. . “Gala premiere at Plaza Melb[...]November 6, 1931,
at the premiere of Diggers and A Co-respondent’s
Course. Item survives in can A-006 V/A-O34

Melbourne Herald Newsreel No. 21

Released M[...]the basis for Thring’s offer of partnership in
A.E.F. “Looking At A Smaller World” . . . “Mr N.
Monkman, noted Australian micro-photographer,
grants Movietone a glimpse through his powerful
lens. Sub-title 1: Magnified one thousand times
under the eye of a microscope. This item seems not
to have survived.[...]. 27. Released July 7, 1931. "Strange
Monsters In A Drop Of Water” . . .“Movietone takes
another[...]apher”. This
survives in Movietone Library can A-002,

-012.

Australasian Gazette
(silent, c. 1927) F. W. Thring and W. A. Gibson in
Melbourne. Viewing print NA553.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (94)[...]ion

CoIIit’s Inn (1933) — also planned as a film
Beloved Vagabond (1934)

Mother Of Pearl (19[...](1934)

Streets of London (1933) — also made as a film
Clara Gibbings (1933) —— also made as a film

The above produced in Melbourne at the Garr[...]e.

The “Non-stop Variety” Series

These were a re-arrangement of the Efftee
Entertainers shorts[...]op Variety No. 2

Ada Reeve in I Never Forget I'm A Lady (short 24)
Small section only of Parkes’ S[...]ariety No. 5

Lou Vernon — "That’s My ldea Of A Lady” (short 17)
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Non-stop Variety No. 8

Lou[...]9. This short, now
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while Thring was finalizing a big film distribution deal
for Hoyts. It was shown at the Melbourne Regent
Theatre in October 1929.

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy

(2) Alan Mill in[...](silent). Held by Mill's
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i[...]of female exploitation in his
previous films into a situation of sub-
mission and vulnerability. It i[...]ay, and eventually turns
the tables on everyone.

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
seems to go nowher[...]er again,
despite the resistance.

In other ways, A Midsummer
Night’s Sex Comedy can be seen as a
development: as one friend said to me,
the film is a lighter version of
Interiors. It concentrates on[...]ant lives of six characters, and in
this sense is a departure from the self-
absorption of his other[...]ory which concerns
itself with trying

“to live a decent life amidst all the

junk of contemporary culture — the

temptations, the seductions. So how

do you keep from selling out?”
Stardust Memories had nearly
everyone selling out, and proved too
much a cross for the cinema audience.
People were not us[...]were indicative of the West’s
greater failing.

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
seems to be almost[...]grace of learning
wisdom.

Hopefully, having got A Mid-
summer Night’s Sex Comedy out of his
system, Allen will return to the fray,
where he tackled not only one’s sense
of fun but one’s sense of the poignancy
of the times. ‘Ar

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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (96)[...]nderstood from the very start that
we were making a film and that
what I did, either by action or
ina[...]f the film, was about the face:
that your face is a mirror of every-
thing you have been through, but
how terrifying a face you would
have to have to reflect all that you
have been through. I thought he
would take it per[...]erstand it, as being
beyond him and being as much a
general comment on our faces and
the faces we see[...]it is all all right
when it is terrible!

Why did you reject the idea of
using archival footage?

I did[...]well dressed.

Apparently Film Victoria has given
you some money to promote
“Journey”. What plans have you
for it?

The Australian Film Institute
has not offered any reasonable
season at the Longford or
anywhere els[...]ding the
dialogue, I feel we will have to try
and find another way of showing
the film.

Pat Longmore has a plan to dis-
tribute the film throughout Aus-
tra[...]We believe that distribution does
not have to be a loss to the film-
maker or production company,
unless you get yourself into the
hands of the conventional distri-
butors and exhibitors, where for
many films the certainty is that
very little[...]offering the film for
hire through Cineaction to any
interested organizations, societies,
clubs or col[...]n. I
feel it is the sort of film which
would make a wonderful special
feature for Anzac Day.

The awa[...]gan-
ized by the AFI, I also received in
the mail a standard letter from the
AFI’s Vincent Library.[...]as we
have not been able to promote
your films to any reasonable level
of hiring, would you please take
your films out of our library as
they are taking up too much space!

This has had a very serious
effect on me and, I am sure, upon
ma[...]tions, totally sick of
begging and grovelling for a
reasonable release of my films in
their theatres[...]lms through their Lib-
rary, even to the level of a quarter
of the hire the same films were
achieving[...]e
Co-op Library.

I Future Plans

What films have you in prepara-
don?

I have four scripts in various[...]pment. They are all
fictionally oriented.

One is a feature film script,
Summer Rain, which I wrote with
John Lord. It is ready to go,
though we haven’t any actors for
it.

Two of the other scripts have
con[...]are
not ready for funding.

The fourth script is a very
embryonic thing which is just at
the idea-mu[...]as an
avant—garde plot which moves all
over the place, and characters who
change roles all the time. Th[...]un and we
don’t know what from. We assume
it is a crime and that he is searching
for an answer to h[...]Without Hardware by
Catherine Dalton, which gives a
completely different analysis of the
Bogle and Chandler, and Holt and
Calwell era. I would like to do a
portrait film of Catherine Dalton
rather than a film specifically
about Bogle and Chandler, or a
film about the book. It would be a
portraiture documentary, dram-
atized and non—n[...], but I am still
trying.

For which projects have you
approached the funding bodies?

John Ruane and I have a script
that is currently in the first-draft
stage, Trial By Order, about a
mass murderer and a boy who gets
in his clutches, and the struggle
be[...]nt
because of the abhorrent subject
matter.

Have you that word for word?

Yes. I can show it on paper:[...]-
matter makes it difficult for us
to accept such a project as a
viable competitor for the invest-
ment of public[...]ten-
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able to warn you of the
problems associated with this
type of proj[...]s year’s Mel-
bourne Film Festival. [Tammer
won a special award on opening
night for Journey to the[...]only ones who
have reacted to it like that. It is a
gruesome story, but how can you
make a film about a mass
murderer without it having grue-
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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (98)[...]make one realize that, if taken at too realistic a
level, the film becomes either absurd or offen-
s[...]t the level of
myth.

lass of 1984 may be seen as a contrived

symbol of the confrontations in our

c[...]emotional response. Lincoln High and the
city are a ‘not-yet’ world like that of A Clock-
work Orange or of the pessimistic science[...]and shoot-out. And it
happens — with more than a vengeance.

Two possibilities are suggested: Corr[...]his lab-
oratory. Berserk, he teaches by pulling a gun on
the gang in class to make them answer questions
correctly. This gets a laugh from the audience so
that it will take the[...]er possibility is that faced by Norris:
help when you can, stay strong in attitude even
when assaulted,[...]t to the killers the horrors
they had in mind for you.

In fact, the film is not advocating either poss[...]ome calm. No student is likely to
be massacred by a teacher who sees Class of
1984 — even though there might have been a
danger before the film was seen.

lass of 1984 ra[...]uent deaths.
Response to visual violence is often a matter of
sensibility.

In theory, there is no li[...]on the screen.,Picturing the removal
of an eye in a training film for ophthalmic
surgeons is valid. A raven pecking an eye in a
horror film, or even the eye-gouging sequence
in[...]g, missing the scenes which
follow) or as part of a cumulative effect. One
presumes that this is behi[...]gs of the Aus-
tralian Commonwealth censor. It is a different
experience to watch the only partially-[...]e
context of the film but rather on the standards a
film sets itself and on the conventions of the
ge[...]dramatic process of the screenplay,
occurring in a set of circumstances which deter-
mine the effect[...]ability or unsuitability for this film.

There is a long tradition of stylized, ‘myth-
ical’ play[...]he styles of popular plays
indicate the crises of a society and its ability or
inability to cope. One[...]Rex is surprisingly violent but that it reflected
a religious interpretation of fate, guilt and
responsibility. Shakespearian tragedies reflect a
belief in order in the universe and in poetic
jus[...]in the English
executing their Divine Right King a century and
a half before the French Revolution. Our con-
temporary melodramas reflect a confused,
violent and frustrated society.

The va[...]outburst. It is also reassur-
ing to know one has a sense of frustration and
rage that puts one in touch with the feelings of
those whose life is, to a large extent, based on
rage.

Class of 1984 is an[...]ver Never and The Little
Black Princess, which is a
children’s book written by Jeannie
Gunn. It dea[...]g of the
whole year.

We have used Bett—Bett as a
character to advance our story of
black-white interaction. She is a
device and a character useful in
our attempts to alert the aud[...]blems is an inadequate
solution?

That’s right. You are supposed
to have the response that any sort
of paternalistic approach to
another culture isn’t going to
work. You are supposed to have
the response that domination of

another culture isn’t going to
work. You are supposed to have a
response that, somewhere in her
mind and in the l[...]one of the
sadnesses of the film; that there
was a moment of progress where
he and white men saw that what
happened to old Go[...]her said, yes, they were.
That small statement is a huge step
forward for them. It may have
taken 90[...]t it is very
important, and, from that moment
on, a different sense of interaction
between black and[...]this. For virtually every shot
we wanted to have a feeling of the
horizon, a feeling of the size of the
country, even though i[...]on
wide-angle lenses to accentuate
that feeling.

You seem to prefer a mobile single
shot, which encompasses all the
action, to ayou tend to
use single long shots, rather than
cutting? Do you risk a detachment
from the characters?

No, I don’t think so. I think it
probably draws you into the

characters a little more effectively.
One doesn’t use a long take when it
is inappropriate; one uses what[...]ate for the moment.

But long takes do seem to be a
mark of your technique as a
director . . .

It is probably something that I
h[...]ee the characters
prepare the scene in as genuine a
way as possible, and then just
determine a method of getting the
camera into the correct obs[...]way to accomplish
that camera repositioning.

Are you happy with the final
result?

I am delight[...]

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I'd Rather Be Rich A lice's Adventures in W onderland Cries and W hi[...]Betrayed
Guys and Dolls A Man and a Woman Till Death Us Do Part[...]The Trojan Women Boy on a Dolphin
Hot Enough for June Mon[...]ffer
Hustle There's a Girl in my Soup Z[...]The Great Gatsby Face of a Fugitive Gallipoli
The Sto[...]he Family Way Hoodwink
A Study in Terror M onty P y th o[...]Lady Stay Dead
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Lancelot and Guinevere A Bridge Too Far A Day in the D eath of Joe Egg Dangerous[...]s Talk
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The Little Hut A Touch of Class A Dream of Passion Starstruck
Live for Life You O nly Live Twice Eagle in a Cage Breakfast in Paris[...]The Darkroom
Lover Come Back A rth u r The Cob[...]
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The[...]Jonathan Livingston Seagull stock that you demand.
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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (108)[...]has to look at the French for Episode one of a seven-part mini-
Ross Dimsey, chief executive[...]contract. Dimsey, who is in presenting any national culture to Honey -- $8000 for Package D[...]ut the world. Maggie clearly sees us as a ment and $20,166 for first-draft funding
befo[...]ave
Film Victoria, which is to undergo a great effect on how long the British Nation[...]re film industry continues to flicker.
appointed a replacement for Dimsey. (For a more detailed report, see Roger Easto[...]ernational, November 13-20, recently spent a month in Australia as a
introduced legislation which provides for pp.[...]ents totalling almost $60,000 the Library on a strategy for establishing[...]in the script development of five new a video preservation facility in the
In 1976, w[...]te unfair competition with director, said that a continuing flow of recording section.
privat[...]in Sydney and once
changed so dramatically that a complete professionals and new writers. " If all the worked for a Sydney television station,
re-think is called fo[...]ach production," she said, " we have is now a Canadian citizen.
One motivating factor has b[...]hildren's Melbourne Festival
Sydney, where the Australian Film Com programs."
missio[...]Mathews also said the Victorian be a major investor in the South Aus director[...]ions at the Adelaide Festival
was able to act as a producer for them. Thiele, and follows Storm[...]and the Sydney Opera House. In 1982,
This is a total change of policy, and a Fin. he was a member of the jury at the Mel
welcome one.[...]h-risk stage of the program director. Kuttna is a film critic
the degree, function and type of gov[...]ny world film
ment support of the film industry, a ment -- and then to attract the industry[...]ns are needed to continue
lain Sproat, announced a review of the investing in new programs.[...]Film Festival and presenter for A Whole
within the industry that the levy may be[...]of Movies on 0/28, has been
abolished. There is a feeling that the follows:[...]itted to govern for first-draft funding of a five-part mini Don Dunstan, former Premier of[...]$5644 for final- president of the Festival, a newly-
The Association of Independent Pro[...]ucers, has already expressed alarm five for a mini-series to David King.[...]Hamilton: for pilot-script funding for a wildlife[...]ent
supports its indigenous film industry. A billboard imagefrom Times Square, New York (The R[...]o keep the British film
alive: the Eady Levy, a parafiscal tax
that costs the Treasury[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (109)[...]combining an entertaining live per
formance with a popular distribution of[...]It is certainly a problem that needs to
awards among many films. B[...]t as they represent the collec
implementation of a pre-selection producer o f We o f the N[...]AFI. It does seem odd that a film of the
entered down to 18. (For a full report see[...]uld have been allowed to Phillip Adams gave a humorous and win Prize for features, b[...]proved a striking presence in her tradi Journey t[...]n Looking at a video recording later, John B. Murray.[...]however, the presentation seemed a Best Achievement in Direction: Geor[...]Lonely Hearts It is the prerogative of any organiza little lacklustre in spots. Despite e[...]ensive Best Performance by an Actor in a
realized the error another ballot was at any time -- especially if a new Louma crane, the camera work and[...]Best Performance by an Actress in a
Voters were told to discard the first cour[...]dancers, for example, was a brisk, invig Monkey Grip.
problem was th[...]-- : Best Performance by an Actress in a
already completed and returned the first A[...]e Best Performance by an Actor in a
corrected the errors on the ballot, bent[...]executive directors would have to pay if A second criticism of the presentation Best[...]director opted to pay -- a profit of $30). to Fred Schepisi's unreleased De[...]in Costume Design:
nominees were jumbled -- not a serious John Foster and Peter Crayford. Of[...]key voters. these, Brennan was invited as a pro[...]As a result, when the ABC agreed to Best Short Fiction Film: A Most Attrac
One Melbourne voter (not myself)[...]d
so incensed that his ballot paper had not in a poor light. One hopes that in the films be r[...]e contributions of those who because such a regulation was felt to produced and di[...]Best Experimental Film: The Bridge,
changed to a don't know.[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (110)[...]dsworthy epics, Sunstruck, The
Shiralee, Squeeze a Flower, The Australian Fil[...]hem are Daws, Angels of War is a documentary also won two Silver Awards in the same category and a Silver in Commercial Theatre. No
unnecessary (e.[...]ced by meeting. Major allocations included a Albie Thoms (02) 969 7468.
of the non-st[...]ing the leads and Ducat (carrying a cash prize of 2000 DM) Sealer; and $9358 for A[...]come here. The sort of maintain a satellite relay station on the[...]d press) are determined cover, which received a total of
uniformly bad.[...]Stephen Wallace, James Horizon Films' Where East Meets Barbera (Australia), a $2.5 million tele
P.S. Let's hope that Tender Me[...]has received a standby finance facility of Barrister Micha[...]a $9350 grant for a 13-week study of speciality will be cont[...]market; and a Trainee Grant of $1500
in support of UAA. The po[...]n o f the Year.
1. UAA has acted within the law, a fact The AFC approved profit-sh[...]included: $75,000 allocated to Naked a
for example, has been able to argue[...]nd television.
government, dictating what UAA or any
other film organization or individual[...]h their or their investors' form of a standby finance facility of president of AS[...]an investors to Careful He Might Hear You. a new executive consisting o f Phillip
put money i[...]l-too-vocal Additionally, a grant of $3000 towards James Ricketson, Sophia[...]s. If Australia tralian Movies" (a series of radio
produced films as entertaining,[...]r and Andrew Mason received $3972 as a and television industry. It is also workin[...]avel grant to enable him to attend the towards a standard contract that will
Maher goes on to[...]ts and grants approved guest-of-honor at a meeting of ASDA
Travelling Festival[...]included projects from the Project where he addressed members on the[...]A total of $105,083 was allocated to " If the d[...]credited film and television directors
tival -- a division of the Sydney Film City;[...]minal Man.
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Any legal difficulties relating to other[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (111)Peter McLean A DRAMA OF Adams quite o[...]Pre-production a producer of the film, was at the[...]n Film Corporation when I
When did you start work on "We first started the proj[...]cer (Phillip
school. It always had a relevance Adams) and associate producer[...]of life in Aus (Brian Rosen). Why was there a
tralia.[...]ecome involved?

After I'd had a shooting script
prepared and only a few months
before shooting.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (112)[...]it were a foreign country.[...]Is that another reason why you[...]Shepparton with a few fibreglass[...]You don't always shoot in studios.[...]There must be a lot of differences[...]control you can have. You are[...]subject to the weather, and you[...]We sort of folk?
John joined the production a
few weeks before we were due to Yes, you know, people who
shoot, and he left perhaps one[...]Why did you decide to shoot in the
What caused his resignati[...]worth noting, because we were in the area where took the film grossly over budget.[...]too busy at that time the story actually took place, and[...]of distance. It
directing the film. However, for a because we did, as individuals, One of the complaints that Dan, a should be possible to organize a
producer like John, it may have experien[...]ct and that I experienced. It certainly had a understand the outback, like[...]the cast, just to telling bush stories. Do you think planning.
don't know and I don't think it be in the same place and to walk that the 12 weeks out there put you
would be proper of me to make the same ground. Some of them in a better position to understand Screen Adaptat[...]t the book was about?
with discussions that took place others.[...]hough I had spent limitations of adapting a screen
and John just before he left the It is not easy working like that, quite a lot of time there in the years play from an autobiography?
production. Quite a number of obviously, but I think it is[...]shooting. My job at the time was weeks and you can live through 12[...], not being totally familiar weeks under almost any hardships. It is a special part of the world. the limitations are[...]erhaps one of the film's strengths It has a spiritual quality. I think particularly when adapting a
going. is that[...]insanity about it.
You sound a little circumspect. . .[...]were there. Transport costs had
questions that you sort of folk ask. been underestimated,[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (113)[...]more successful about her position as a married
Never Never. Obviously, we had to o[...]e aware of the possibility of that she is a rebel of some sort. it as a period story.
severe criticism for damaging a Obviously, it provides a contrast[...]lm?
escape that, I don't know. gives a context for the rest of the and Aeneas (Arthur D[...]written in the first ally restrained. How do you create table with the two or three scenes
intent of the book, and I believe we person. Did you ever consider a feeling of intimacy between a between husband and wife that
have been. Perhaps some people using Jeannie as a narrator? couple who talk so little about aren't in the book, because they
won't quite see it lik[...]from her family in Melbourne. Do you see any similarity between[...]films like "We of the Never
What did you think its intention But it wasn't really a story of Never" and "The Man From
was?[...]marriage was a catalyst for the Western in terms of[...]I thought her reticence in writing a comment I heard quite often[...]about emotions and feelings was a from distributors in North[...]embarked on for a new form of[...]a year and a half after they were They identified[...]forms nowadays are a reflection of

I think Jeannie Gunn's inten[...]ern Territory.

That exploration becomes almost a
personal justification, on behalf of
the white[...]the way of life out
there. It doesn't read like a
personal story, but I believe it is.

I thi[...]he book to be an
explanation of that.

Why did you decide to include the
opening scenes of the marr[...]give it an immediate purpose and
identity.

Do you think it shows a contrast
between Jeannie's attitudes and[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (114)[...]we were searching for some slightly
they see a Western form that before the me[...]d cynicism. film you get the feeling that she is warm, open, contemp[...]tionship. It remains reserved and make a film because it was
There seems to me to be a common[...]ing that's Australian today.
prove your worth in a harsh society. She was expected to be a which are crucial to Jeannie's Frank[...]as a woman whose place is in the character charted in the book. Th[...]that the men built the house as a[...]place. It accentuates her resent[...]The film needed a forward-moving[...]and even a bit neurotic . . .[...]would hope that it is not a ridi[...]A film can only possibly deal[...]with a very small section of a year[...]in the life of a cattle station. Some[...]times we couldn't find the approp[...]th the arrival of I had trouble with the scene where
feverish stranger, and Aeneas takes the s[...]e others woman and they had pre-concep a demonstration of the bonds of desire to te[...]ere and two days before the There seems to be a stronger feeling male world. Why did you change proceeds to bribe Goggle-Eye
nati[...]book. You feel that she under[...]and teach Bett-Bett (Sibina Willy)
It is a reality in those sorts of stands the me[...]We tried to describe something to eat with a fork . . .
environments, even today, that[...]she didn't describe. We tried to
unless you are competent you are a look at the events and suppose a Exactly. I am delighted you had
liability. The men expected Aeneas[...]moments and attitudes as some
background. He was a strange them or that they don't[...]ad to work through for
character: an adventurer, a geo her. Towards the end of the fi[...]events in the book. She herself. She was a city bred,
grapher, a romantic, a seafarer, a the attempt at comfort that she[...]lady with no special
librarian -- everything but a cattle receives from Dandy (John[...]the book. We just other cultures. She had a certain[...]rk through her response emotional response to a situation,
What about Jeannie's comment[...]and believed that all human beings
that she's a wallflower? You get a took in the script was more[...]is to rather than to teach.
than the book of a woman who is between the whites an[...]accepting Yet, when it actually comes to a[...]w to do that, in the
The concept of herself as a wall One of Jeannie's major criticism[...]express their emotions to a I would argue that the reactions[...]letters from the Northern woman. Do you think Dandy's we gave her are reasonab[...]dian gardening tasks for
Territory to Melbourne, where she her influence on them?[...]As a character she is by no
wallflower.

508[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (115)[...]it to depict atti their own. We wanted a device that I assume that through a whole
does cause problems. Later in the tud[...]riginal people have their own without having a literal time scale,
vention, but we have to see[...]their own sense of it is possible to convey a sense of
before it is worth questioning.[...]I can't tell anymore. Do you their own sensitivity. I would[...]at the end believe that the film takes a racist suggest that that thought probably
supposed to indicate a resolution or a non-racist stand? hasn't occurred to many urban Perhaps our definitions aren't
of problems? Australians. But a film as broad as exactly matching. I consider t[...]We of the Never Never, describing unless you do fully explain and
It is an indication of a[...]ny events, must trivialize fully follow up, you have trivial
by some of the members of the and subordinates. Jeannie holds a most of them, unfortunately. ized the importance of something.
group, a desire for contact. But different view at t[...]intervenes, finds that her actions If you must trivialize events, what should probably ru[...]are only causing conflict, and then are you hoping to convey with the three weeks solid a[...]s that
Why is it necessary for them to get You don't believe that there is Well, you hope the moments we tried to indicate.
up in the middle of the ceremony any advance towards a third form that you indicate are real and true.
and start shooting?[...]But they are not very deep A film obviously isn't a defin
pri[...]tions of the moments -- itive statement of any sort. It is an
As their form of expression of[...]one of the things that this film, but in any film. You are hopefully an emotional and
people of the time. I think that is a perhaps the film ultimately says is looking at a broad time scale; you moving idea, but it is not a
fairly accurate representation of that it i[...]would suppose it is unresolved events you select. You can't tion.
All we hoped to be able to[...]e understanding that adequately, can you? How did the Aboriginal actors i[...]have no answers, only questions. husband as a couple, and, through[...]tribute in any way to the creation
Occasionally the book is qui[...]of black and white to any great[...]acter? She is a peripheral character[...]in the book, but a central one in[...]uyul Yanthalawuy) and Jeannie. Top
ordinate. Did you choose that right: Rosie, Jeannie and fr[...](Sibina Willy) and Jeannie. We of

It is not a change we made. That the Never Never.
confron[...]e
and the men is described in the Why did you use sub-titles?
book. She specifically suggests[...]er ability to use that have characters speaking a foreign
country than whites. She says that l[...]nd the white charac
Aboriginals. I think she was a non ters, I think we should also under
racis[...]audience awareness of a complex
The book does read as a racist Aboriginal culture of which the
docu[...]film. to give the Aboriginal people a life[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (116)[...]to the creative use of his critical faculty and a commercial
deployment of his Calvinism. The result is a body of work
that is a bracing commentary on classic and modern[...]People (1982), the curator as a romantic idealist in search of[...]other way, it looks like a characteristic Michael Courtland (Cliff R[...]Obsession (1976), who is also a romantic
Gallier (Nastassia Kinski), is both a preodbasteosrsive, a man who kills the thing he loves
and a victim of her own nature, and, as such, and then builds a shrine for her. In Obsession,[...]core compared because of their imaginative use of a
(1979), the viole[...]repression. In Cat People, when a young keeper drama, and their concern with the taboo of
is attacked by a black leopard, there is a shot of incest which in both films traumatically[...]visually implying a link between feline ferocity preserve the charact[...]s films, Cat
time you tell yourself it's love. But it isn't. It's[...]y is

despoiling a vision of perfection. The character used also as a correlative to human savagery[...]ltimate descent into the society now that there's a monster lurking[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (117)[...]ector Paul Schrader and erect
against a brick wall. actress N[...]rts Julian Kay (Richard
sion. Similarly, just as a Schrader character Gere) in American Gigolo;[...]d arm in Cat purification and perversion. I am a little
People; the most sickening broken nose in[...]One of the shadowy and rat-like, he is a will fixed and
dubious achievements of Cat People is to give a gripped like a trap. He is not nice."
whole new dimension to th[...]iver hero and his description
imminent presence. A hand becomes part of the of him as a man " who moves through the city
garbage in Rolling Thunder. The demented like a rat through a sewer" .
desire of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro[...]rk by practical Schrader might be called a junk-food
action, rather than by political persu[...]ion to
and purify becomes indistinguishable from a massive psychological dramas about self-
d[...]between heaven and hell, and who find
One should be wary of identifying Schrader[...]here
sometimes is an uneasy sense of his putting a The ultimate dramatic goal is rarely a
sentiment he is afraid to acknowledge within narrative resolution but invariably a form of
himself into the mouth of an unbalanced[...]of American Gigolo. " One
Travis in Taxi Driver a madman or a hero? Cat thing I know that, whereas I was bl[...]titillation, the ambiguous closing scene where Jake talks to[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (118)[...]s the instant feeds off previous films and offers a modern
People as if it were a shrine, and, as the cat
stares back, the David B[...]ise: " He's perspective on earlier film classics, a form of
lyric: " I could stare for a thousand years, and
don't you feel my blood enraged."[...]adaptation that is also a form of criticism. This

All four films conclude with a movement into Schrader is also from UC[...]ut there on the decided not to become a minister, he took up a parallelism with variations, expansion and
sidew[...]place there on a recommendation from Pauline contrast.
should ext[...]ndental Style De Palma's Obsession is essentially a homage.
realism', in which an objectively familiar world
is refracted nightmarishly through a disturbed in Film5, which is a fascinating fusion of The film's fixation is with[...]central consciousness. The setting is invariably
a modern America of garish impersonality, and[...]of the kind Vertigo (1958), of which Obsession is a virtual
the style takes its shadings from the te[...]come across her

Cat People is something of a departure from character, spiritualit[...]lor, sound and performance,
Schrader reaches for a visualization of a existentialism were to be transposed to the letters, the church). There is a moment when
mythical world, not only to summon u[...]inari (Genevieve

evoke the essence of films as a dimension of Driver gives the answer to this: a European Bujold), the mirror-image of the woman
magic. Some films make you think; Schrader's[...]hael Courtland has lost, asks whether it is
make you dream. The goal of Cat People is to
provide a pleasurable nightmare in a stylish can existentialist would kill everyone but preferable to restore a great artistic original or
exploitation context.[...]assisted towards a revaluation of the relationships, su[...]1950s but may have helped to create a deception and his desire to restore[...]ognized in films such as Klute, Chinatown tion of a lost masterpiece. Bernard Herrmann's[...]contribute towering, anachronistic score supplies a[...]symptoms: a loner, sexually-frustrated and Palma because he w[...]Schrader could have become a great critic,
Schrader's work seems[...]dollars and his way to do that was to write a spirit of the tragic outcome of Ve[...]allusion to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. A
analogies to human feelings: the pr[...]inks, the life of
Paul, the way Irena pounces on a bowl of fish[...]Schrader, Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu,
in a cafe, or the way Paul's housekeeper,[...]ifornia Press, 6. The film is subject to a contracted legal dispute over[...]the film being shown in
Female (Ruby Dee), gives a clue to her own Berkeley, 1972[...]John Houseman's wonderful

cameo as Dr Hoffman, a stuffy, small-town

psychiatrist with a disdain for West Coast

morality (he even pronounces Los Angeles as

"Loss Angeles" ).

When a worker in Blue Collar (1978)

launches a one-man attack with a forklift on a

recalcitrant vending machine, the excessive[...]rversion and pornography of

Hardcore, there is a funny moment when a

512 -- December CINEMA PAPERS

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (119)[...]Niro) talks to his `Debbie', Iris The search fo r a lost daughter: Jake looks at a porno film similar to those of Ethan and Scar in[...]racist issues
his wife and daughter, but, after a remorseful Driver and Rolling Thunder, like The[...]that the earlier film elided, Taxi Driver is also a[...]n the efficacy of heroism,
16 years, he is given a second chance to redeem Searchers, have psychotic[...]ch Ford's films
himself through his reunion with a daughter onists are nightmare images of their own[...]ord, in The Searchers, is profoundly
who is also a surrogate wife figure. Destruction undisclosed wi[...]ves way to renewal: dam nation to revenge becomes a kind of terrible purgation.[...]Waterfront. Schrader's debut as writer and
been a compelling addition, but the film still is he has[...]references to Elia Kazan's film, culminating in
a remarkable celebration of Hitchcockian Rolling Th[...]onfront this issue a verbal confrontation between Jerry Bartowski[...]Pryor) that is almost word for word a repeat of[...]observation of shop-floor politics,
Obsession is a critical work of interpretative he was prevented[...]is suffocated in a haze of blue paint spray) and
insight and not bl[...]film takes implicitly throws the compensation and a re-enactment of a personal[...]he sees as a specifically Marxist conclusion. The
romantic an[...]boys, the old against the young, the black
A nother key film from the same Flynn's direction softening Charles into a nice against the white, to keep us in our place."
period, to which Schrader's wo[...]rs (1956). Four the character in Taxi Driver a dog" , Schrader[...]has said), Rolling Thunder now looks less like a Jake La Motta reci[...]film about a racist than a racist film. Malloy's famous speech: " You[...]had class. I could have been a contender." Both[...]redemption and who have a relationship with a
Yakuza takes from The Searchers the idea of a Taxi Driver is more uncompromising.[...]hemselves but
hero's quest in an alien world for a kidnapped It includes a tender scene between representing a desired vision of genteel woman[...]arvey Keitel) and the hood, a sense of softness in a hard world. Both
girl, a quest which is also a form of self-interro heroes have a love-hate relationship with their
gation. Howeve[...]Foster), which is the equivalent of a ought to have looked after them bet[...]ften imagined in The Searchers but
world to save a girl from what they perceive as never shown: the[...]erences between the two heroes
the lower depths: a rescue mission that is also a Brandon) and Debbie (Natalie Wood). Was it[...]ervy confrontations between
8. Donald Spoto, The A rt o f Alfred Hitchcock, W. H.[...]ot dis
Allen, London, 1977.

Three images o f "a blond heroine classier than themselves but representing a desired vision o f genteel womanhood, a sense o f softness in a hard world": Travis and Betsy (Cybill
She[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (120)[...]ront and their examination of an actual a critical essay on the changing fashions of reacti[...]reflecting horror, demonology and script). He did a first draft of Close Encounters
the essential ro[...]r so. Brando's hero
represents the confusions of a typical rebel of[...]the alienated anti-
hero of the '70s. Brando is a rebel without a[...]d Scorsese's floating yellow taxi
cause; De Niro a rebel without a brain.
Brando's solution to what he sees as corr[...]ily conventional part of it. Indeed, any critical history of Encounters) as the two most r[...]of the so-called Hollywood renaissance
challenge any attempt at identification or moral less fl[...]Scorsese's febrile Catholicism to
approval. (As a British critic observed, Raging figures o[...]e Palma to the Utopian
Hates Me." ) They reflect a contemporary for The Yakuza) and Tewkesbury (who gave a fantasies of Spielberg. Schrader looks like a
confusion and scepticism about heroism and[...]his achievement to date? Is there still

If a film such as Raging Bull can be read as a sense of a vacuum between the quality of his
Schrader's cri[...]A clue might be found in his creative method.
atmo[...]apparently, is: " Cultivate your neuroses: you
Tourneur. The film particularly recalls Marnie[...]introspection, of a neurosis indulged in more
Given Schrader's[...]alibre of
danovich's. He does not simply compose a
series of obsequious fan letters to his favorite[...]y. Thanks
ative. Obsession resurrects Vertigo as a film of[...]Searchers but also extends it
and recasts it for a new age, its racism and
ambivalent ideology now[...]something of a social document and not simply

514 -- D[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (121)[...]who, professing to be a clinical psychologist,[...]is greatest gift is precisely this dresses a retarded young man in his dead[...]sion, or whether an adult film about a yearning[...]whether it would work for anyone else. It is a a regular film critic and instead[...]wrote a screenplay. Schrader has[...]gift more appropriate to an imagist poet than a always been materially ambitious[...]development, and the willingly into a commercial straitjacket. He has[...]ormula (like, for example, the glib attribution a line in Obsession when the daughter,[...]live. " It's a little late for existential questions,
'cage'. T[...]Hardcore has a brilliant premise. George C. darling" , sh[...]money. Believe me, it'll help you to forget."
Scott's star persona as a crusader against the That is the question mar[...]t too late for him to return to the
the diary of a madman. Blue Collar also avoids[...]ur. translate these into a dramatically-convincing 1976 Obsession.[...]ient. This is mid-section, where VanDorn poses as a trendy Director
something which also disfi[...]nd fearfully unconvincing on any level.
Negroes, not to mention gay Negroes.[...]the new morality, the film looks like a porno 1982 Cat People.
he encoura[...]Town.
his life at that moment and then find a
dramatic metaphor that corresponds[...]diversion of a caper film plot. American Gigolo
to that emotion[...]tionship with the politician's wife.
metaphor of a taxi driver cut off from human Old Boyfriends has a promising concept

contact by the glass. It exp[...]der's -- the revaluation of one's present through a
characters seem to belong in a peculiar twilight direct encounter with one's pas[...]function in society rediscovery will result from a reunion with

(taxi driver, gigolo) and a symbolic function in former boyfriends rather tha[...]friends? (The obvious answer would be that it

a symbol of urban alienation, gigolo as icon[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (122)[...]to find government funding has not, as it has with others[...]There is a wealth of meanings and nuances.[...]get, usually on the basis that the filmmakers and any other personnel involved are[...]There is a certain irony, then, that what is described as in[...]t'. Without the private means not only to finance a film project
but beyond that to buy up a few cinemas in which to show the film, or at the very least a[...]ase of Tammer, the fact that he has operated with a measure of self-inflicted[...]n notions of film form. It is safe to say that as a result of[...]I would not count him as a `natural' filmmaker. His methods do not have any smooth[...]e. At their best and most effective, they rely on a sense of shock that[...]is always a frontal attack.[...]work to have a broad public impact mostly through extravagant pr[...]Overseas film festivals are now showing interest. A breakthrough[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (123)Above: Peter Tammer. Below, top to In the films you made through the You have called this form of work themselves the[...]Mallacoota 1960s and early 1970s there is a "portrait films" , making a distinc qualities they don't. T h at's[...]show at the pub; out one common thing is that you have mentary or `biogs'. How do you
swimming; Michelle and Larry in the motel chose[...]ion? Now, how much one pushes a
scene; Debbie (Debbie Conway) and her way e[...]ne of the do with the aims and purpose of a
dad (Tom Pye) discuss her leaving home. Eccentric is a bad word because aspects of documentary.[...]it is prejudicial; it has a feeling of loosely be called bio-pics or biog[...]somebody being a nut. I don't but the normal understa[...]or Reg Robinson that way. public note. You might get a film[...]Edith Sitwell or a documentary on sense of having a story to tell. He
The only time I have made a film the life and work of Orson Welles,[...]about a real oddball was Danny including an i[...]eccentric so much as a guy who[...]l
had a freaky unpredictability, to Now, mine[...]y portraits. things like, " Okay, let's set up a
which[...]ve elements of documenta scene now. I want you to talk[...]television documentary of your mates that you might know[...]ortraits, which always, to my from parade a couple of weeks ago[...]anny being in only one knowledge, include a narrator. and just down the trail two day[...]here are very few films in the bio- ago. I want you to live through[...]What attracts you to your selves. The filmmaker mo[...]I don't have a rule. I don't look[...]fifth
a person who has some remarkable brothers established a trust with takes.[...]lutely staggering, last take in the film, where Bill[...]example, I was very conscious absence of a voice of God dictating day before. In that sce[...]when making Here's to You Mr the sort of things that the audience one whole evening doing what is a
Robin[...]we were also making a portrait of left total freedom to pick u[...]d it. We That is true of Here's to You Mr I was scared of how far I was[...]commercial film establishment in a cinema verite school, and there has himself in a trance, which he
conventional sense. I am an inde been a lot of discussion about hadn't done in th[...]the your films, one suspects there is a approach with the Danny Boy[...]" Struttin' the Mutton" , for That was a oncer.[...]t outrageous performance going on You started making films literally[...]and not as part of a general[...]try scene. There is a great difference[...]with standards mance encouraged by me as a film the level that I want to make films[...]s.
1. A Woman of Our Time, Here's to You Ma[...]Robinson and Journey to the End of I take as a basic departure that most expensive film I hav[...]natural in front of a camera. They for 60 minutes. I put up $18,000[...]will not only reveal qualities about and got a $2000 Creative Develop[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (124)[...]down to home movies like So, yes, it was a conscious deci Kirsty (Kirsty Grant) in debate[...]at Swinburne, Kirsty Grant had a
Stampede dramatic[...]commercials but no other screen
life as a documentary? acting at that stag[...]Of course, Wanda and Michelle,
meant to be a mixture of styles. the two drag queens, ha[...]f doing it, or audience, but had never acted in a
a two-year-old kid pushing his film. She didn't know how to do
father off a sandbank in a canoe. things actors would know how to
Som[...]ond level was meant to measure and deliver a perfor
be a narrative structure in which mance, hit cue[...]ilm actors, I had to modify the
were written and a full cast was direction and performances t[...]problems, we didn't get as many tried to find the action as it was
scenes shot as we intended.[...]ing, hoping that there were
have completed it in a more not too many continuity errors.[...]n feature wanted the actors to get into a
length, had 1 money to go back wind-up[...]efore everyone Unless it was budget, why did you
disbanded. choose to film like that?

Then there was a third level, Partly because I like to make
where things were set up with the films that have[...]ne, with Wanda and Michelle, whether it is a documentary of
the drag queens, and Donny and[...]t is that
I just set up the camera and lights, a few people have asked me,
with Kit Guyatt doing[...]The intensity comes from its How do you expect people to react
penetration of Larry's em[...]d of an inexperienced actor
course, it also owes a lot to in Mallacoota Stampede would
Mic[...]. He is coming to the realiza
How much of it did you plan? tion that she has grown up and is[...]only introduced to me actor or is he just a person, and
on the day of my arrival at Malla where is the difference?
coota, by John Archer, the
p[...]of how people judge film acting
I took a punt down there and today . . .
tried them out with bits and pieces
to find out who had a personality I can answer that only by taking
suited to a certain character. It was the completely[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (125)[...]. every event that he takes you
believe I could still make my style[...]htness they want. audience, which is at a loss to that it hasn't changed too ra[...]haracters in the same style as Bill
Can there be a confusion between[...]those events been tested beyond the normal
you, naturally, and what a profes memorial was strictly fictional,[...]do by the nature though I regard it as having a fic and clarity, some have receded and[...]raining? tional quality. In a sense it is rep taken on a sort of misty quality. with it in different[...]d to Now, I see Job's way, the
inated if a professional actor were walking around the hou[...]What gives the film its interest is a both. But, then, all are similar at
able thing[...]at work some level. They are all basically
you as against what doesn't. What fictional, but they have a validity. where truth and reality and fiction asking, " What[...]in his mind. Even if getting up in you are probably right to call it a
the night has a representational portrait film . . . shit, this veil of tears?" They all
A war-time photograph o f Neave.[...]Bill Neave sets a charge during the war in Neave as seen in Journe[...]because he believed that God was a
of Night[...]new realities and any good film, more inclined towards Celine's[...]One is more documentary than any film that I respect, challenges atheism and h[...]told. I the other. The pills in the night is a me on a multiplicity of levels in this world tak[...]oncentrate on representational attempt to place a including the things you have just nightmares beyond comprehen
how i[...]rein does sion. They have no meaning, no
a number of dichotomies in this memorial was a fiction in a sense the power or truth of a film lie. justification.
film. First, you have to stop and because I don't believe Bill had
consider how much of what ever been to the memorial at night, Frances[...]According to Celine, we are
happens is a performance for the until that night. I ask[...]ance, have haunted me from going through a terrible existence
camera and how much of it is a it because I know that he has been the times I have seen them. In a which is difficult for us to ^under
deeply felt experience that you just unable to come to terms with 40[...]ars of insomnia and guilt. The made in a feature mode, but they honest about that and acknow
starts with a sequence which to me only way I could represe[...]tions. Why limit them and call
ness appears a man in his pyjamas, them either a feature film or a Someone like Bill takes the other
who[...]empting to rep documentary? They are a approach and says, " I can't unde[...]slowly the man starts reliving Is there a distinction in the film spersed througho[...]n
memories . . . between a sort of objective truth obviously provi[...]been
and a truth that comes out of this tary on Bil[...]ecreation of what Bill Neave has But do you see them as more than and become a murderer?" Celine
instantaneously relives the me[...]" It is normal, mate! It's just
ories. There is a scene with his wife[...]alking about putting bets The whole film is a recreation. They are meant to have a mul
on the races. Then it goes straight[...]tiple function. The first level was You would obviously reject the[...]out of his mind and we events into a separate relief. There the quotes are simply p[...]ve no idea about the truth of are, as you know, two separate sets pretentious . . .[...]from Celine's Journey to There has been a good string of[...]know what you think about it, we[...]them a view of relief from the story[...]that would throw it into a wider[...]context, a historical, universal per[...]a level of their own cultural exper[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (126)Chris Long

Where should film many[...]the start exhibition quota specified a minimum of[...]should be made with per program. A newsreel and a short could fill[...]Andrew Pike's excellent magnum opus, A us
tralian Film 1900-1977, might therefore be
work of a filmmaker without first more app[...]m 1900-1977 to emphasize this intentional
seeing a major part of the output? omission.

Director Raymond Longford provides a P robably the largest body of undocu[...]Efftee Film Studios in Melbourne.
and a part of Margaret Catchpole (1911)[...]ities. It was the most active period of sound
A newcomer to film history research was fil[...]In its totality, the Efftee collection provides a
By many accounts, the best of the[...]alkie Two Minutes' Silence (1933). Like so a unique situation.
much of Australia's film heritage, Two
Minutes' Silence is a `lost' film. Not only is
judgment of its value o[...]ected which was made at the Efftee Studio,
by E. A. Diettrich-Derrick and Gregan McMahon.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (127)[...]each film. In several cases, during a search[...]ma is quite possible that a thorough investigation[...]of the cans of Efftee nitrate could reveal a
phobic, seldom moving outdoors.[...]occasionally is Until a thorough documentation of Austra
value as record[...]documentaries and shorts, any analysis of the
matic quality, a high technical and artistic " sussos" scratching[...]most of the films -- and particu Ballarat, or by a brief shot of a Fascist march in the films themsel[...]ese are derived from censorship records. In
with a modern audience. Noel M[...]ures, already published in Cooper and Pike's
are a home-grown equivalent of Hollywood's partnership[...]934), of porized by Monkman. Even today, they are a[...]ck O'Hagan, the Efftee material are all too often a sad[...]A Co-respondent's Course
Keith Desmond, Athol Tier[...](44 mins, rel. 6/11/31) P.C.: Efftee. Dir.: E. A. Diettrich-
and Harry Jacobs' Orchestra. Efftee[...]Minchin, Donalda Warne.
provided a convenient means for cinema prints have impeccabl[...]ularly true in Regent Theatre Orchestra short has a virtually The Haunted Barn

country areas, where cinema patrons had little unlistenable soundtrack[...](43 mins, rel. 28/11/31) P.C.: Efftee. Dir.: E. A. Diettrich-

opportunity to attend good legitim[...]und films were

Their survival alone makes them a priceless and shot to a square frame, or pre-Academy

unique record of[...]re badly

on their cinematic excellence to draw a crowd, cropped at top and bottom, destroying

t[...]o

Hanna's films are particularly difficult for a `modified silent format' reduction specifica

m[...]held by the NFA, so the job
tends to be lost on a modern audience. Collo should not entail any technical difficulty.
quialisms, then familiar,[...]words of another war, and deteriorated except for a little shrinkage.
have faded even further in the[...]of these four shorts.

Efftee films all reflect a rather naive With the acquisition of se[...]asnt Apollo Granforte operatic item,

dreams of a better life in Clara Gibbings and have not been c[...]ns con

escapist element is evident, presenting a taining the original nitrates are mostly l[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (128)[...]r " Dr. Mac" ,
Talkie adaptation of C. J. Dennis poem, starring Cecil Riff Song" and " On[...]sings " That's My Idea Of A Lady" .
Scott and Ray Fisher. N.B.: the NFA has[...]1931) Pioneer broadcaster O'Hagan sings a (4 mins, 1932) A character actress in panto and
His Royal Highnes[...]ng " Carry Gilbert & Sullivan, and later a classical singer of[...]d To through these shorts. It is a great puzzle that Thring
Lavish musical comedy o[...]lms. She sings
who dreams that he is the king of a small European[...]piano playing a selection of ballads and light (4 m[...]) (3 mins, 1932) Bornstein plays a selection of classical items,[...]1931) Desmond recites the poem On The Stairs in with Henri Penn pro[...]1931) This short exists at the NFA only as a picture issue of Everyone's, March 1932.
starring Pat Hanna. A sequel to Diggers. ne[...]Wallace as a star comic for his later features. F[...]the early 1930s, giving acting classes. Later
A Ticket In Tatts[...]Herme Barton leads a corps-de-ballet of dancing roles in[...]ght 1932) Sings " I Never Forget I'm A Lady" with
(unfinished feature, in production at end of 1933) P.C.: To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" .[...]bs' Orchestra.
Efftee. Dir.: F. W. Thring. About a third of this film was
completed before producti[...]singing " A Couple Of Ducks" and Maurice (28) Wi[...]Maurice Chevalier singing " You Brought A New Conducted by Wando Aldrovandi.[...]s produced on stage by Thring at the end of 1933. A (15) The Sundowners -- Harmony Quartette[...]J. C. Williamson 1932
production was suspended. A six-minute sound test of 3LO with[...]Aldrovandi.
While The Stars Are Shining" , with a spoken introduction Told Her, She Hasn'[...]empt at an Australian
equivalent of The Birth Of A Nation. Stars Peggy
Maguire and Franklyn[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (129) Liliana Cavani, like compatriot Lina Wertmuller, is a controversial director.
N ot only have he[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (130)After graduating with a degree in because we were dealing with Saint[...]cs at the University of Francis. I chose a modern young story of a woman who had been
Bologna, you attended the Centro man who didn't fit in w[...]hat of every these people, the asylum becomes a
courses were properly designed young per[...]m and that of Now they have closed down a lot
very stupid in the years around my ge[...]t young people in Galileo grew out of a co-produc open the gates.
successive years were deprived of a tion between a private network and
school. It was the only one[...]and Tibetan poet, Milarepa, which I
there is a cinema section, but not in studios in Sofia. The[...]nt to show it because it con the story of a young person who
courses in the performing arts,[...]There were a lot of problems
The Centro Sperimentale was[...]doing Galileo I had to Sometimes reading a book does
very practical: at the end of the depict Galileo against the church this to you: it is like experiencing
first year you did a 15-minute film, and the church against Galileo.[...]g itself, or being
at the end of the second year a Remember that only three years taken on a voyage. I simply wanted
30-minute film and so on. You ago they took his books off the t[...]to use lenses, to edit, etc. black list. But I find the polemics experience with a different culture[...]I made it for television on a low
destroyed, and hopefully they will[...]works with projects like this. They
Do you think you would have gone The Cannibals was someth[...]ivate
was a desire to modify and above networks clearly[...]uch films; they cost more than
worthless, unless you want to things -- a search for the meaning they make. So I did it with the
make a career in the public service of existence. The Cannibals was a RAI.
or as a functionary. No one has version, shall we say, of Antigone,
ever asked me about my degree. set in a contemporary ambience -- Galileo, The. Gu[...]and Milarepa were filmed on
I applied for a post as a func departure.[...]results are superior. I cannot bear
them on a freelance basis. One was Italian problem, but terrorism is a when people use 16mm and blow it
The Story of[...]newspapers are full of them and It is a swindle; it is not right.[...]rom there, I went on to do cinema, unless you have certain It is fair enough to say t[...]L 'ospite (The Guest, has to be a minimum of profes
that interested me and about t[...]the Host) ization. You can't just rely on the
did a story about Stalinism, and an moral content; you also have to
inquiry about urbanization. I was The Guest, the Host is a film I produce something that is well
very i[...]had made
worked on many programs of this a great impression on me. I went The techn[...]emely
nature until 1965. for a week to observe and make important to me,[...]notes. I wanted to do a story about cinema has lagged behind in this
Francesco d*Assisi a woman who lived there for many area. For th[...]ey In those days, the asylums were you have to go through death
wanted to do it in the[...]" No, I want to sarily raving mad, but who were a done properly. Advanced tech
do it on 16mm[...]it nutty and an annoyance for the niques cost a lot of money; you
the street, not professional actors family. S[...]Often they could not
this because I already had a adapt to life, perhaps because they[...]ers; Max and Lucia; Lucia. Liliana
I did have a bit of trouble[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (131) In Italy, the critics don't help at
all. The more `poor' a film is, the
more they go for it; it is ludicrou[...]For example, if you make a film
about the war, you have to talk
There was one woman who said[...]o Dachau, two films which talk about war,
where she had been a prisoner, for
her holidays. This made a strong The Night Porter and The Skin,[...]on me. I would prefer which treat it in a manner contrary
to go on holidays to Hawaii,[...]nly not Dachau. But she enjoy giving a history lesson along
experienced very intense se[...]ering. I something, I want to do so in a
don't know. The human psyche is diffe[...]way, you come to understand them
There was another wom[...]lan, who, when she returned
home after surviving a camp, was I grew up in the post-war[...]ening to what people said then,
treated her like a poor wretch. It you would ask yourself: well who
got to the stage where she couldn't was a Fascist in Italy? Nobody!
stand her friends and[...]e depths spaceships, back into the sky. You
of human nature. We always think ask yourself: how is this possible?
of this as a positive thing, because
we look for the better side. In fact, you were not allowed to
However, she ascertained wha[...]thers. She said, " The of them had rolled a big rock over
physical suffering passes; this it. And then you come to discover
won't ever go away." certain things, s[...]Italians -- in fact, nearly all
A story slowly evolved from all
this, a story of the things that Italians -- ha[...]ally happened. War does not just Fascism. You start to see things as
occur, it changes people.[...]d of people to feel had been told to you. My genera
important, to feel that they are[...]n some way. So the moment he
can be developed to a maximum or can put on a black uniform and
remain at a minimum. The ordi
nary filmgoer understood this[...]he found something in it He feels like a big man.
which, to an extent, he lives.[...]the critics are used to seeing, those who had a problem. To
and love to see, things with which
they are familiar. And, if it is a make a career in the university, for
woman who has made the film,
and she has presented things in a example, you had to be a card-
manner to which they are not[...]as had
Dominique Sanda and Robert Powell
during a break in filming o f Beyond Good all the[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (132)suddenly there was a mass of them. homosexuals in the head, even i[...]en and the children
Did things become easier for you wouldn't encounter any more who put things back together
aft[...]ted.
when you look around, you see
Indubitably. The film was very there[...]d of never asked if it wants the war or
A l di la del bene e del State, but n[...]yond Good and Americans all talk a lot but they Sure, there are lots of other s[...]t was
are a bunch of fops. important to me[...]women have a more difficult life far more educational.[...]is born prac -- especially in the north, where I
tically all modern challenging and come fr[...]y modern: Lou men are capable of killing a Camorra [Neapolitan Mafia] was
was the blonde creature of which woman if she has a lover. But you involved and it was practically like
he had[...]have to understand the context. It a war breaking out. Last year
pendent. She no longer had that is part of a game. I am not saying alone, there were 187 deaths from
1800 type of female behaviour; that you should kill -- on the con this `civil war', much more than
more than a feminist, she was trary -- but it is imp[...]ready simply herself. He pushes the thing as a whole. Naples. So why should we[...]is worse?
Your heroines are similar: Lucia a very provocative way and with
(Charlotte Ramplin[...]negative preconceptions, in order Do you always collaborate on a
Night Porter" and Lou (Domi to speak[...]eyond Good she got there, she understood a lot
and Evil" are slim, self-assured of things, much of which was con If I were offered a screenplay[...]s to stop at their
am not interested in relating a own experience. One can say, " I[...]one films
story about the dolly-like heroine. find it annoying that a man based on stories written by me or
I don't find these women physi pinches me on the bum" , and of with a collaborator or, as in the
cally interesting, ei[...]erfectly right. It is case of The Skin, based on a story
an awful, masculine, roosterish taken from a book, but again with
Actually, the Italian ce[...]ove. You have been quoted as saying
It was the first film[...]that the images are more important
any rate -- with `her' on top and[...]occupation of Naples. I think that thing you can without words. The
have to wait until it is[...][author of La pelle], not literature.
being a woman influenced your like everybody else, was a Fascist
career? and then became a Communist. Of course, dialogue can be[...]extremely important. But I believe
are any better for women in the it is better that a scene has as little
U.S. than they are in Italy.[...]ogue as possible. Naturally, if
contrary, due to a strange cultural you are making a film about a trial
contradiction, in the Latin then there has to be a lot of
countries women are more res[...]important.

Sure in Italy when a woman[...]ive an impression.
bum in the U.S., but there is a
greater hatred of women among[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (133)[...]E

several, good-sized shelves in any performing arts
ibookshop. Twenty ye[...]nd
Shaftesbury Avenue, from Tallulah Bankhead to A. E. Matthews, were
trying to persuade us that th[...]have the enthralling saga of your life take its
place on the shelf with all those other lives has become a tacit admission
of not having made it. Mere decent reticence in the face of a dull life
stops no one, nor does even merer unim[...]r's anecdotage1 run to more
than 400 pages) and, a still more disquieting sign, there is a new trend
towards stopping mid-career. Presumabl[...]ticipation for Volume Two. This is
indeed making a little go a long way, since the off-screen lives of th[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (134)[...]Toland catching the upturned face in a way that tion has provoked both nostalgia and the urge
reason, you k n o w . . . " soft[...]es such as publishers,
Film stars are so much a phenomenon of a On the basis of the nearly 20 vol[...]ered away my youth in recent
producer recognizes a saleable commodity, months, I would find it hard to adduce evidence The[...]ns to market it, stars for no reason, you know. They're stars public, now[...]It seems to me that the public still reaches
to any given star apart from a seductive the chief recurring elements of these works is out to any actor who is even half-way towards
physical pres[...]creen than on the point of being offered any role in a film Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty o[...]ich is at once more exposed to the takes a degree of persistence allied crucially to a cess of On Golden Pond suggests, towar[...]screen Having achieved not merely any role but the But the passing of[...]way of, say, intelligence, under to be a star -- it is equally clear that an[...]into play new role as part of a business deal; a decreasing
much harder to assess and to attribut[...]to sustain that privileged position. Even a pro willingness of newer actors t[...]ves gratifica private lives (even a diluted or sugared version)
This being so, it[...]never gone anywhere else since" (p. 57). A the public which both make a cult of old stars
sensitivity we have admired as[...]el, her way to the roles that made her a star, and, these are a few guesses about the reasons for the
belong els[...]imposing, seeking turn out for a Star Wars but not for a star turn.
1. Stewart Granger, Sparks Fly Upwa[...]Before I Forget, Hamish Hamilton, To know you are a film star is, presumably,
1981.[...]world want to watch you both being recog
3. Shelley Winters, Shelley --[...]81. called film acting. It is a heady thought no[...]families, education, religion or any other of the here have notched up s[...]are encouraged by those with a financial abruptly, `and I[...], spouses and others striking a moral pose about this -- is markedly[...]universal an icon as a film star is makes prepos marriage[...]Jess Barker, " The son of a bitch hit me" , to the[...]aspect of cinema) is a product of a more or less weren't going to b[...]makes a star, the public knows one when it sees easy to write about a succession of liaisons,
one.6 At the moment there aren't many to see: with and without t[...]etc., and one something of a bind here: on the one hand, they[...]woman -- Streisand). This is a black night may wish to present their subjects as a moral'
indeed when you think of how many stars m[...]glittered on the mid-'40s payroll of any one of Calcutta; on the other, they are aware that a[...]breath -- or better, a gust -- of scandal will[...]5. Charles Higham, Bette: A Biography o f Bette Davis, 9. Henry Fond[...]ment Award 10. Christopher P. Anderson, A Star, Is a Star, Is a Star![...]public -- knew exactly who was to get a standing The Life and Loves[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (135)[...]y Winters has
decided to let it all hang out and a very
repulsive spectacle it makes; James Mason has
opted for such discretion that it comes as a
surprise to find him named as a co-respondent

in Roy and Pamela Kellino's divorce or to find,
100 pages later, that he and Pamela are parting[...]this is to suggest that very rarely
indeed does a star emerge from one of these
biographical skirm[...]them; discretion can make them sound dull;
and a flair for the salacious may lose respect
even as sales thrive. It is not just a matter of
sexual behaviour; revealing other aspe[...]ition and selfishness that, she
believes, played a part in her career. So, too, is
Flora Robson who[...]sometimes leads biographers into whipping up
a spurious sense of drama where none exists.
For women stars this usually means[...]lesser people, they could very usefully tell us a
great deal that would be worth knowing about
th[...]ticular stars; the greater the responsibility
on a star for a film's success or failure, the
more powerful bec[...]the
making of the film. If stars could not sell a bad
or unattractive film to the public (cf. Gabl[...]he lady's own account seems to
have offered just a carefully preserved public

11. Claire B[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (136)[...]ing to the star century. But, with the backing of a shrewd and

crisp honesty and common sense. Hig[...]years
dramatizing, obsessively ambitious and, " a
woman whose brilliance and , aggression[...]rked on us, in the guise of, (1936-42), he became a household word in a

prevented her from achieving fulfilment in a variously, Mildred, Regina Giddons or Marg[...]was ruling the maintenance of a star career was getting
Farnsworth and Gary Merr[...]TYRONE POW ER was possibly a more sophisticated public awareness.

fighting[...]sexual ambidexterity, is in fact a surprisingly publicity but which parts the contract

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (137)[...]T op left: L ee M a rvin a n d D o r o th y L a m o u r in Jo h n F o r d 's[...]D o n o v a n 's R eef. L e ft: p u b lic ity s till f o r H en ry H a th a w a y 's
could do anything false, he's incapable. As a Spawn o f the N orth (book caption reads: "I f you had
performer, as a man, he's pure" , Sidney Lumet sm e lle d th a t seal, y o u w o u ld n 't lo o k to o h a p p y e ith e r").
claimed, and if it sounds an[...]Sextette (1978), in which she plays the bride of a
Fonda. He has always seemed like one's ideal[...]hes as if they were the
mann, there is more than a little correspon M ae W est (centre).[...]ose '30s gags
in some of his chief relationships a stubborn (" Bet[...]quote a good number of them. For the rest, he[...]is left with an enigma: a star who became the
If Henry Fonda made a career out of target of a ferocious purity campaign, a woman
persuading us to take him seriousl[...]e would almost certainly have
whether in a humid jury room or[...]-- appeared on A nother star who scarcely seemed to
scree[...]seriously was
not sex or men, and especially not any of the[...]'30s, in films like Jungle
Cashin's slim volume (a happy change from the[...]it and probably no a nicely deflating sense of humor that worked
one[...]tion in a volume of artless maunderings
And yet, if Cas[...]de o f the Road, " as told to Dick
life truth is a good deal less amusing and less
glittering than[...]" .14
might have suggested. In fact, Mae West is a One doesn't doubt that Dorothy Lamour was
somewhat sad story of a creature who purveyed
lubricity in public, first on stage and then on a cheerful, pleasant woman but there just aren't
screen, and perhaps never knew anything about[...]g With whip up a spurious narrative interest: " Being
date of bir[...]is not her
have mattered to anyone in over half a major st[...]I knew I could never make it in
happened, it was ever consummated, and[...]they all made it, so that suspense is at a
West's 1930s films are now camp classics, a premium. This be[...]____________ Continued on p. 580
quickly secured a powerful position at Para
mount. Her first scree[...]th e R o a d , Robson Books, 1981.
diamonds" , was the immo[...]th with the young Cary Grant, established
her as a major star.

If none of the remaining six fi[...]with W. C.
Fields in My Little Chickadee was not a happy
occasion (" They were, in turn, suspicious[...]ove
curiously immiscible.

It was, however, a triumph of subtlety, wit
and taste, compared wit[...]er career: Mike Same's Myra Breckinridge
(1970), a Hollywood sex farce from below the
bottom[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (138)[...]Maude (directed by
Hal Ashby) was the basis o f a continuously-popular cult film .
Subsequently he[...]st Little Whore
house in Texas. While serving as a jury member at the 1982
Montreal Film Festival,[...]fellow jury member
David Stratton.

Apparently you grew up in Sydney old Chalmers St office; I ha[...]nford, and eventually What sort of films did you make at
father from San Francisco. They got my B.A. majoring in Creative UCLA?
had met while she was a passenger How did you become interested in Writing. While at coll[...]an actor, playing I made two: Opus One was a
Chief Purser. It was a shipboard[...]At first I wanted to be an actor. spent a year and a half in a an anti-war statement. Then I sub
In fact, I lost a scholarship to Stan dreadful sex farce called Once mitted as my thesis a feature
After Pearl Harbor, my father ford[...]visited Expo'67 I had answered an ad in the L .A .
brother. In 1945, we lived in San Actors Stu[...]in Montreal, and went to many of Times, A couple wanted a part-
Francisco for a while but soon acting jobs. So I became a page at the programs at the Montreal Film[...]n I decided I clean out their swimming pool in
where I stayed until 1957. We had lost hope and volun[...]was accepted return for free lodging in the
a house in Hunters Hill and I went Army. I was sent to Germany, and into Film School at UCLA, where chauffeur's quarters.
to school at Riverview. became a reporter on the army one of my fellow st[...]same time George I was very lucky. It was a pretty
I got my first part-time job in was d[...]at generation has become out to be owned by a film pro-[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (139)[...]uch later. In the meantime, I How did you get back into movies?
produced several of John F[...]keen for me to direct. However, he offer from a couple of friends, Well, by now H[...]in May and Grand gave me, $7000 to do a director's ran a television film company. become something of a cult film
Prix.] Ed was kind enough to take test. They had sold a " Movie of the internationally. I s[...]ipt and he liked it. Ed, who was making a film at a title, The Devil's Daughter. But way to do that was to find pro
Colum[...]nd Shelley Winters and Joseph idea for a script, which was Silver[...]Daniel Cotten starred in it. It was just a Streak, in the hope that if, by using
It came from seeing a dolly Fapp shot it for me and we did[...]another director, we could make a
crane for rental in a film equip three scenes from the film, all[...]Then out of the blue I received a a chance to direct the next one.
make an exercise[...]d Silver Streak to Para
nically. So I worked out a situation liked it, but not enough. So Maude was a success there, that he mount, but they[...]t and had thought of
that became the first scene where ing it myself and Hal Ashby was turning it into a play for the
the mother discovers Harold[...]flattered. I went to
Then I thought, this is a bit grue came out great; Paramount was Paris, adapted the screenplay into
some, why not make a joke of it? high on it, too. Then, fate took a a theatre piece and then worked
So it became a fake suicide. And hand. It was the e[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (140)[...]that to write anything is a kind of They are three very different kinds[...]How did you come to do "9 to 5" ? Yes indeed. Jane is very de[...]about a year. The premise was that before and hardly knew[...]director; I know it was then a pro libs were scripted, I was very[...]ject for Herbert Ross. impressed. Any time an actor fools[...]on it, I went to Cleveland to a Your next project was "The Best[...]office workers. I asked, as a dis

cussion point, if any of them had

ever thought of killing their boss. It was another tro[...]to get the women in such a stressful tion was put back about nine[...]humorous ways.

treats the script with a great deal of Above top:Doralee (Dolly Parton),[...]mlin) and Judy (Jane Fonda) tell
would have been a bit less faithful their chauvinist boss (Dab[...]r Hiller's Silver Streak. Right
them easier when you directed bottom: Chevy Chase in Colin[...]What attracts you to comedy?

Yes. Goldie Hawn is a joy to I have great satisfaction in[...]process I like
I like to work, which is to base a most: writing, directing or post
situation[...]ut. I wrote the when the piece is finished and you
script for Goldie, but it was a fight sit in the theatre and hear the audi
to[...]ce. Comedy comes
his style was very different -- a very naturally to me.
television style of establishing a
rapport with the audience on the Do you find writing easy?
other side of the television camera.
Of course, you don't do that in I would not say " easy" . It is get
movies; you let the camera come in ting easier because I am more
and discover you. At that time he experienced and more cons[...]at the processes are. Writers
acting. But he did a very good job. have to create an imaginary w[...]ore, of course, was report on it. It is a very schizo
terrific, too. I like actors and I l[...]g when I couldn't get into
What visual style did you go for? that meditative state, or whatever[...]it is, which enables you to create;
I wanted a crisp, bright, well-lit now when that s[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (141)[...]It is a slight story about a simple[...]The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
about a sheriff who was 65 years that. I understand why some
old and a madam about 45, who I am very proud of[...]it is it better. It is interesting to specu
had a relationship about 20 years sequence. We did i[...]late what it might have been like if
before, a one-night stand in Austin; it is not a set. And there is[...]Keaton did some of his song. Maybe we have to find a new
house. great s[...]Now that " Whorehouse" is a big
distanc[...]success, presumably you can pick
Considering how expensive it is to fe[...]and choose your next project . . .
do a musical, which means you out the day before we shot it, so we
have to aim for the widest possible had a whole day in which to I can, as you say, get finance
audience, the film is surprisin[...], and I would like to
in, for example, the scene where get everyone -- camera operator,[...]excellent actors and actresses you
I think it should be naughty, in Do you think there is a problem[...]find the Australian accent delight
wouldn't even prin[...]ful!
word " whorehouse" . But if you ideas for an ending. In one we had
are making a film with " whore Dolly get into her car an[...]Are your future projects
house" in the title, you can't be into his, the helicopter lift up with[...]Probably. I have a couple of
Many American critics have figured we needed a happy ending.[...]very part as comedy. He
I cast Charles. He is a very ences applaud when he sweeps her[...]getting a laugh in the first ten
started out as a dancer years ago.[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (142)[...]nd updated.

The Yearbook again takes a detailed look at what has
been happening[...]edia,
censorship and awards.

A s in the past, all entrants in Australia's most[...]new categories have been added.

A new series o f profiles has been compiled and wil[...]Brian May and actor Mel Gibson.

A new feature in the 1983 edition is an extensive[...]nancing, special
effects, censorship, and a survey o f the impact our film s

are ha[...]The Melbourne Herald and always find it to be full of interesting and[...]read
"The Australian Motion Picture Yearbook is a "May I congratulate you on your Australian and the format is set out in such a way that
great asset to the film industry in this country. Motion Picture Yearbook. It is a splendidly information is easy to find. I consider the
We at Kodak find it invaluable as a reference useful publication to us, and[...]" Papers team, and essential as a desk-top
which has gone into the yearbook[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (143)[...]on the A ustralian film revival[...]In this major w ork on the A ustralian f i l m industry }s dramatic rebirth, 1[...]leading f i l m writers combine to provide a lively and entertaining critique.[...]$14.95

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I iv in g D a n g e r o u s ly

Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), an[...]ng
Service journalist, arrives in Jakarta during a time o fpolitical
upheaval. There he is befriend[...]iving Dangerously is directed by Peter Weir, from a
screenplay by David Williamson (based on[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (145)[...]true that the film's
Lincoln High is a dingily-depressed school, that its central gang
is sometimes a variation on Alex and his Clockwork Droogs,[...]ircular-saw slashin
are alarmingly gruesome. But a case can be made for Class of 1984.

The film p[...]ing as Mr in g punk gang attacks a black student. Mark L. Lester's Fingers suggest[...]film, has been shown on television. In a
These signal sentimentality. It also[...]Bulletin review of Truckstop
presents a punk gang that suggests is very strong.[...]wn Mark L. Lester's films have usually had a "Truckstop Women carves its way j[...]n Australia. Distributors have through a great deal of B-feature territory,
vandalize and[...]with the teacher and drive-in audiences like any other exploiter. The exploiter with st[...]tention of
massacring anyone, but there had been a real
catharsis.

" Unreal" , " explo[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (146)[...]iter-director Mark L. Lester . . . Lester is also a film-buff director. Allusions cannot be found to[...]him. The line is

has an astute eye and ear for a cliche, and or quotations can delight as well as[...]e actually do anything

knows better than Hawks ever did how to quick cross-references to themes and r[...]invert it to expose its absurdity. He also has a (both pro and con) to other films. Watching The f[...]school films. might be tempted for a while to identify with

approach to Class of 19[...]The kids assemble for classes in a style Stegman and his anti-establishment stances,[...]nfrontation echoing West Bikies interviewed after a 1979 preview of

strong emotional involvement and what keeps Side Story. The psychotic gang is a bizarre Mad Max told television reporters that th[...]the
Lester is linked with the B-budget genre of a Clockwork Orange future world. Circular-[...]rt prin
The filmmakers know that if they suggest a sions make ironic comment on Lincoln High[...]Corrigan (Roddy McDowall), the frustrated,
with a kind of automatic response which[...]ed on fact. But, eLneds,tebrecause he can't teach any more. The film

audience accepts the convention[...]ilm, then, could even be accused of

gives them a feeling of instant superiority to the violence, m[...]o

film. But even in the act of looking down on a mirror and as yet another film showing how are the good guys and how black are their foes.

convention, a critical audience acknowledges authority and law are inadequate: a headmaster, In fact, just as Death Wish appeals t[...]is film is definitely on the

depending whether you are for or against him) security guards to troubl[...]in

gut response before intellectual response. A way of self-protection or justice is in violence.[...]unts relied on the visual majorities. But because a large group in power school is made up of only fi[...]act of speed, risks, danger and deaths to upholds a view, it is a fallacy to assume that all (though they recruit a 14-year-old hit-and-stab

The gang prepares to[...]entiments that sound similar are man and a would-be call girl). The principal
in action. Stunts had the pluses of a murder endorsing the same political stances[...]is the disruptive
mystery and love story to gain a larger audience. argued that Norris is pursuing[...]en and Bobbie Jo and the the law and a sense of justice rather than
Outlaw (which villa[...]watching on television in Class of wanting to be a member of a private law- battling for what[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (147)lompumix III automation and Dolby Stereo-- a new era for the film producer
who is looking to a standard of pound mixing and optical track[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (148)[...]y. Oz. Mad Dog Mora. Gay Cinema. John Sam A rk o ff. Roman
Hail. Tariff Board Report. Film U nder A lle n d e. Brennan. Luis Bu
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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (151)[...]new Atlab mixing theatre.
fortunate to have had a tradition o f invention and a supply
o f creative technicians and audio-engine[...]exciting and a lot easier. You were able to
opening o f another stereo sound fi[...]do things that you would get frustrated
Sydney, Australia is now be[...]I was at Film Australia for a total of 10 trying to do when recording from 16mm.
production o f a quality that will allow it to present its[...]I left shortly after my long service
material at a standard equal to any in the world.[...]nd overseas on a study tour, I only got as far setting up the n[...]are also increasing the range o f subtleties that a as Pier St They[...]it was at It was a great experience working with cost a fortune, and ergonometrically was
the opening o[...]. He was doing things differ my idea of how a console should be laid
able to interview him and[...]x or seven
chartered accountancy, before getting a location to New Guinea and all around[...]Easy, The Pirate Movie and a few others.
sound department and in the animatio[...]lights to be set up or for people to
department where the tracers were. make up their minds[...]for a while as a mixer. At the same time, I
I became fairly in[...]applied for a Commonwealth Film Com
Lowry into getting me into it; he could see Julian Ellingworth, during a sound mix.[...]" Sure!" It wasn't a lot of money, just
The first job I had was as a director's[...]about $50 a day.
turers. It was about three young children,[...]of information and a lot of tricks about how
with Paul Bushby and lea[...]Did they welcome you?
ments and I was the first to go, being fairly[...]Yes. I was not allowed into a couple of
expendable.[...]films because the directors were a bit
I then worked for Les Kelroy, who had a[...]Hollywood, I was able to see quite a few
Nagra, for a while. People would ring him[...]I saw them do The Muppet
up and say they needed a sound[...]to come
back to work on it again.

I became a freelance recordist on the
strength of that. In[...]f

Peter Fenton [mixer at United Sound], I
had a Nagra and a roadmap and I was off
and running. I freelanced for a while and
eventually got a three-month contract at
Film Australia as a location recordist, a

contract which ran for about three year[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (152)[...]Rocky are completely music desks and, in any just giving us faders and equalizers,[...]t would have been useful to us. I 24, and mix a group of them, say 12. The
Portman was mixing Ri[...]was retro-fitted, which can be nasty. If you say thought, let's just redesignate things a[...]them to rewire some of the modules. until you get the balance right. Then add
Ordinary People. here, then a whole box of controls has to[...]e way Surely, that is the reason for having a will be the mixer. It will do what it is told
So I saw a lot of top people. It was to go.[...]h, with what we To my knowledge, Neve does a very Well, the Americans wouldn't entertain many times as you like.
do.[...]t that sort of console unless it was for a
n[...]favorable. We the ground and build a huge console.
could get a better deal from Quad-Eight in Todd-AO has[...]of the studios, which will remain Hollywood, where most film studios, or all to work in delib[...]ad custom-built Quad- huge buttons and you go to recorder 1, 2 already be equalized.[...]or 3. Our console does look like a music I have done, there has not been a huge
thing went wrong, they just tended to[...]board to most people. You can still assign amount of equalization. I don't usually
" goddamn" around for a few minutes. We came up with a proposal for Quad- to any of 24 outputs. equalize the dialogue tracks, just the
They would then wait until a tribe of thou Eight whereby we bought an off-[...]ign and modified sections of it to Do you have three or four people on the final mi[...]When you have a couple of four-tracks
would start again. It seemed to me that looks exactly like a Quad-Eight Coronado, Three or four usu[...]heir hands than but there have been quite a few changes. at two plus our computer. I could very and music, you can put them on group
they needed.[...]It started originally as a quadraphonic Stuffs up the union![...]k speaker channels.
Yes. Certainly there were a lot of guys I went over to the U.S. in Februa[...]nothing to it: there was just stereo music
and a vocal track. They played it to make
sure it was[...]of people who became
involved seemed to me to be a bit beyond
the pale. It would have been better t[...]tead of farting around for four
hours.

How do you stop that happening in
Australia?

Well tha[...]n the the Atlab sound theatre.
here. If there is a debate going on, we
would go on to something else because for a week and we reworked it so that it There are reasons, in my opinion, why don't you bring this in earlier" , you can
we just simply don't have the time not to.[...]t of information. The whole
They were looking at a six-week mix on a channels up the front. in Hollywood: a lot of mixers over there, thing is then on the disc and you can then
film which didn't need that long.[...]They wanted, once again, to tack on a years in some cases, and would not enter[...]e trip and learnt what I box and say, " For a film modification, tain the idea of PRO[...], it is replacing your memory,
thought was quite a lot -- a good ground what you need is this." I said, ting, and floppy discs. That is just not their freeing you from writing and revising
ing in Dolby stereo --[...]ng sound dubbing charts . . .
the point where I could really throw down " But, all this[...]et and say, " Yes, I can do it. I'm waste. If you want to change all those have to, or how they would be able to, And allowing you to rehearse as many
the man to bring it to this[...]o it. I am having difficulty and I am times as you would like, rather than
did come back thinking i[...]saying, " Let's go for a take." This way I
interesting and I did know mor[...]there." Do you have to program the computer exactly[...]n hour to get it right.
However, there wasn't a lot of work thing we wanted in the confin[...]are is supplied on floppy disc In Melbourne, where there is no decent
back. So I went and spoke to[...]ing we have as an add-on instructions. You put two identical discs in ferred at one place and mixed at
in September 1979. From that point[...]is formatted. another. What do you think about the
was a dream to build a bigger and better can be unplugged and give[...]ally
would do something eventually. It was just
a matter of where we did it and how.

We had a few problems building the
ideal studio because o[...]people saying it
would be that much better with a new
console. In February 1982, we made a
decision to buy a Quad-Eight Console.

The only choice was between a custom-
built Neve and a Quad-Eight console
modified to our system[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (153)[...]Products and Processes

sound recordist having a supervisory reversal medium years ag[...]endless loop sup is examined, cleaned at a speed of more[...]f the than 100 m per minute to remove all
a sound recordist on a job. There are movies![...]n times when it has caused enor Are there any technical reasons why a reels. This practice exaggerates the pro[...]d to suit
and has been convinced that there was a[...]ized, and the mixer has from having done a million films, but they[...]are predetermined to fall exactly
said, " Thank you but I'm mixing this film!" are probably going to take a hell of a lot Rank Film Laboratories, through its[...]. I guess we are more R & D Group, has found a method of over
Do you think there is anything positive enthusi[...]projection). Because this stage is
about having a sound supervisor? Dolby is here.[...]lls can be made up in
What there should be is a pre-[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (154)[...]A TRIUMPHANT
C O N N EC TIO N[...]ndustries. From a legend we'll always remember,[...]comes a story you'll never forget.
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (155)[...]L (L a n g u a g e ) ........... ........ /[...]hi 9
Australia, 767.90 m, A. Folland[...]n, U.S., 89 mins, VCL
Der schimmeireiter (16mm): A. Weidenmann, W. A'sian Dist. P/L, O fa d u lt c o n c e p ts )[...]605.85 m, Roadshow Dist. P/L, Lff-m -g), O fse xu a l Upright Action (reconstructed version) (16[...]mson Prods P/L, Australia, (a) Reduced by importer's cuts to qualify for lower[...]97 m, Samson Prods P/L, L(f-m -j), O fe m o tio n a l[...]Video W.A., Vff-m -g)
Filmways A'sian Dist. P/L[...]ted Exhibition (R) (a) Previously shown on January 1973 List.
E.T. The[...]The Bloody Fists (videotape) (reduced version) (a):
Dist. P/L[...]That the film will be exhibited only at
So That You Can Live (16mm): Cinema Action, Britain,[...]My Survival As A Deviant (Super 8): G. Lewis, Aus[...]m Corp., Hong Malanggan Lavarima -- A T ribute To Bukbuk (16mm):
1031.18 m, Hoole McCo[...]Partners: A. Russo, U.S., 2496.13 m, United Int'l[...]SKD Pictures, O fs e x u a l a llu sio n s) I Spit On[...]mins, Video Classics, O fse xu a l vio lence )
The Animals Film (16mm): V. Schonf[...]2257.00 m,
1437.00 m, Sharmill Films, O fa n im a I su ffe rin g ) P4W Prison For W[...]cs)
Columbia Rim Dist. P/L, Lfl-l-j), 0 (s e x u a l a llu sio n )[...]Embassy, S(i-l-j), V(i-l-j) A Question Of Silence: Sigma Films, Netherlands,[...]artz, U.S., 2203.15 m, Blake
Bom To Kill (16mm) (a): RKO, U.S., 1012.00 m,[...]ideotape) (c): C. Argento, Italy, 94 mins, (a): Tudor & Taylor, U.S., 504.62 m, 14th Mandolin P[...]es, O fa d u lt co n c e p ts ) A'sian Dist. P/L, Vfi-m-j), O fs e x u a l c o n c e p ts ) Videomania, Vff-m -g)[...]lt c o n ce p ts) Bitch Prods, U.S., 1645.80 m, A.Z. Assoc. Film Dist. U.S., 570.40 m, Landm[...]etions: 5.5 metres (30 secs)
2468.70 m, Filmways A'sian Dist P/L, Vff-l-g)[...]276.69 m, GUO Film Dist. P/L, Lfi-m -g), O fse xu a l[...]Reason for deletions: O fs e x u a l e x p lo ita tio n o f a m inor)
Comfort Rims Ent., O fs e x u a l a llu s io n ) Kong, 2318.00[...]Diamond Rims, U.S., 2276.00 m, A.Z. Assoc. Film Dist.
c o n c e p ts )[...](a) Previously shown on January 1982 List.
935.00[...]version) (16mm): T. Benson,
Rolls, Rolls I Love You: R. Shaw, Hong Kong,[...]2207.00 m, Filmways A'sian Dist. P/L, Sfi-h-g)
3103.00 m, Apollon Fil[...]2639.00 m, A.Z. Assoc. Film Dist. P/L, Sff-h-g)
1947.53 m, V[...]Pixote (English sub-titled version) (a): S. Naves, Brazil,
The Stranger And The Fog: N[...]3490.00 m, Consolidated Exhibitors, O fs e x u a l e x p lo ita
3840.20 m, Cine Action, Vfi-l-j[...]tion o f a m inor)
Tadelloeser und wolfe (16mm): E. Fechne[...]S cream For V e n g e a n c e : Manson Int' l, U.S.,
Germany, 2252.00 m[...]2558.00 m, Video Classics, Vfi-h-g), O fs e x u a l v io lence )[...]mins, Rahima Prods, O fs e x u a l vio lence )
Teenage Dreamers: Shaw Bros, Hong[...](a) See also under " Films Registered Without Elimina
2244.26 m, Joe Siu Int'l Film Co. P/L, Sfi-l-j)
(a) Reconstructed version registered " Suitable Only[...]Chopstix (reconstructed pre-censor cut version) (a): W.
Bloody Mission: Lui Wai Man, Hong Kong, 244[...]ld the decision of the Film
Conan The Barbarian (a) (reconstructed version): Dino[...]Rrebird Film P/L, Vfi-m -j), L(f-l-j), O fs e x u a l in n u e n d o )
The Decline of Western Civilisation: Manson Int'l,
U.S., 2743.00 m, Rlmways A'sian Dist. P/L, L(f-m -g),

V fi-m -j)[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (156) Here's why you should choose
GevacolorType682 negative film[...]with the
will positively enhance the creation of any processing employed by all Australian
masterp[...]aboratories.

It's a film that passes with flying So if you've got the creative
colours as far as skin tones[...]way. Gevacolor Type 682.
It also offers a wide exposure latitude
that caters for even the[...]dney 8881444,
But, none-the-less, it gives a very Brisbane 3525522, Adelaide 42570[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (157)[...]Synopsis: A romantic comedy based on C.[...]J. Dennis' book of verse in which a rough-
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a real consciousness of sexuality and love.[...]Stuart Green
scenario unfolds around a ten-day concert[...]Bansgrove
tour during which they are exposed to a life[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (158)[...]cd.un..r.setetcote.LBarrbmn.rn...r..ay............a.tcdLnL..ta.n...h,iBac.par.t.d....t.dh.p.sut.....c[...]..sobp.,.aanet.o...i..Pn....sy.r.r.......r..ng....a...o..y.h..a.prha.e,ros.......t.Sc..........r..u.d.d.......i...e.r-r....o..n.nn.r....t.t...sT.........o.a....a.....c..vM.l....r..(l..s...yr'ny..ty.et.s.......a.r.......v....a.....m.....iP....e...zb.....t.TsH.aa......t....o..[...]...y(...ssh...p.........n..)...........r...s..e...a.y.....a.s.....a.....Mu...........F......R................,...p...[...]............r.....n...ta.s....d......n......ri..c.a..r....r.s..u.............ani.......h.u..y......bU.....a..n......f....a....y...s....h........O.s..r...................sw...n...d..h.......,....r....A..............c...v.....o....s.....w....o...y.n...[...]....i.........g.....t...................Sc.....t..a...sW.....c....i...i.o......,.....T......f..........iL........(ku....h..t..s.a.n..............h.....a............a.l....e......D...e.......Tn.m.t...e.tC............[...].e.....t...n.e....o)...th..............i..l...r...a.......i.....r..a....y..s..W..h....a..s...s.oti.....(........,...n.e...............w........t.l.e....CEhKfd....a.....e.............e....RM.....n.....f.........U..[...]dOnCP..so...l.........t.i.B...................ri..a........r......sr...s.........b.o........c.tmraw..9.......n.....bD......oT.oC.......(dn...g...a.........a....c.........p.P..ta....G....r.hoa........bGVJMo.[...]..3...........r..t.e.....iv..p....l.S.oe..)...h...a.o..n......u....B.Py....o.....nit........P..ntc...[...]..........0.c.....m...e...rhL...fi.....GaT..u.E...a.n.no..i.v.....i....c...lmr........H..n..n.......o[...].la....g.s...r.htthst...enn.d..I...r..tc....eee...a..y.i...Sh......i.M..PFDu.o...ou..tee..oo.....tAe.[...]r..m.e...rI.....(f.bler...okm.).1.elnn...hx.......a.us.o.........tt..l...ai.eMo...Sln..n.Q..hy.......[...].W.."d...eeBlt...aengG0i...NiL.k..e.r.....r.......a.lL.b.C.....Cmh..ked.tM..g.....u.ye.....t.e.7...l.Bw..mne.....eLee..F.ma0aroh.h.uc..a.eei.n..P....l...We.m..1.n.uo.....HMrAC..Ccel...di[...]p.isrrab.ogsdrcdetyy.iarstem'osououn..b.pip,aai./.a:emsi.snrtoreosiddo...aetccte.lrtdw.eletosm.vdptos[...]dro.eeltt.yisess..detpdcalap.en..rs.olir.poa.sipe.a.ipiiiu.cnuu..MesrMaig.r...irg..sesaei.ssra.sy.sdirrap....trogrturp....r.a.su.e.delee.rpa.W.l.dotMmhi....caa..r.n.u.a.a.sosero.eta.tt..t..--er.e..s,e....ad...r..r..ct.rnnsan.c..ara..et.a.s...e(.t.i.s..g..y..ups.n..s,s..ttrpn.r....,.d.ca[...]....,.an.is.....o.rh..i..o.r..t.....O.tc..oo...rs.a.rsn.e........c........rt...........eiM.n......e..aa............t.R..hi..t...a........r..any.r.yk....t.n..t.......ir.......n.t......r..........'......r........s.na.....o.....r.e..........s..a.n..n......i...N.............n.i.....,..n................e....I......n.........a............n..n...........n.....s..&......b...n..........e..r...S..S.....t..............te...........A......a.............eC....................we...i..t.............e..)..........d...................t............n.a.....:...k.............y................O........,[...].e..............................f.....n.N.c.......a.........e............n...................o.......[...]........E........e......q........u.......C........a..a._..r..RAiV...........a....G......e..CD....J...............s..........a......i..p........Lt.......M..........r...u.......[...]c..........u....t....e..s...............,d........a...e.0aa...aa....l...nrtFbi......VW.ea.......--...W.i..a..vD...S..i..cE.k.i.....iri..n....a..o.e...s........yd.i.l.....n....l.,m.zl..it.M...R[...]mm.gaM.y....ihc....Mng.b....n...ld.n.i..rn....SJa.a..ri..CDEa.e..Ri.K.vx.iata.e.G.....tu.n...r.rd.M.T[...]ti.eneYa....m..m.....ieliiea.i.lCiioo.BJC.ar...lT.a..aCrreriHr...o.aisHt.ci..creiCa..etJeas.deom.nec.oos.....eJ.naerrRali...ak.dr.y.s.nveD.grBWe.iee..nu..A....SkrakIne.mh...a.oe.or.wmhlwnaee.eNea.ntbem.cloo.rn..e..i.ve.eoti..yag...VrGI.a.naiahdn.ts.D..e.MiaIar9rl.lP.m..Has.au.aWGdndn.We[...]aer..l....Ga.ocoJi.ttadCMntuh.iinBy.o..MMnmaeoYa..a.ei.TDC.aouNBoveodhuuelciBonmu.Ce.Hi.aOPaKnA(d..no[...]e.cMg/tadiro.io..eiy-(ppn.t.ad...ricssr.rensomiuw.a.ss.dtl/tplo.enEK.d..eari...ss.nr..Peyio.tmcifdwn.[...]..ds.la.yereseatoTl..s.ae.r.oeopa...uhor.g..h.rer.a.....e...iaoesei.ao..uheetr.onr.....gdp.aTr......r.a.e...e..ra...sd.reh.t.t.t.io.oh.irr..rru....eraa...c.rd..a.yrkcH......ie....tr..s..srty.ta.rReap.en...cn.cr.[...]sd.gc.ts...yocs.ouf...ne....K.d.kp(....tn....g..t.a.dte.........n..t.i...r....t..nn..Rt...s.dt..Wc..r[...]..o...i.g.e.L..t.tsa.i.in.re..o....y....rca.or....a..o...o....seg..e..t.....y..nir......soy.oo.......[...]t.......ert.............Ns.......u.e.........e....a..r....ov,.......................ea.........o.....[...]y...........l...........il...............l.....s..a..................................a.....)..cKe..............TtW.......H........................................Za.......a....................I...m.........................[...]..p.....................f.....ii............R.....a......................r...u...............h......d.....l...d....g.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outskirts of a small country town in the Jonathon[...]Producer's a ssistant__ Margo McDonald[...]G a ffe r............................................[...]ompany ........................IMC-ISRAM W a rd rob e .................................[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (159)[...](Filmco)
Mixed a t ...............................................[...]ucer's assistant ....... Vanessa Brown
Synopsis: A love story in a combat zone. Assoc, p ro d u c e r...............[...].r..rir.c-.s.g.r.:nyui..oP.s.pkem.t..i..n..roer..(a.as....ld.T..saAc...rut..Ff.(..ie.r.r.sk.Ln.nl..e..oo...niT.e..i.ad...z..vrm.(..t...n.srt..Pe)os....A..o.e.,.ja.t...r..oa.et..wrl...).cnh..e...y.rm.,r.....t..eh..eg.xK..i.......o.eN.si.a...N(r.ael.....pn.Belo.o....ne.ar..i..Ao.-r.c.rr..[...].lorn..G.r..sde..i...)L..fl.dM..Jy.l.e,...e..aa.(.a.sa..wP.n..(ar..Jnt..t.yiG.L.he.eo.Erce.di....ol.o[...]..ro.skJ.se..Mt.rai.)er..eie.usaty.o..ti,.(mc.r.s.a.ea)nsc.J..n.F,...c..dnko.a...w.aa..r(Syna.3MHn..iNTtr.omAneP5Nta.clohFua.mai[...]a...rgoio.i.tn.e.obks..ol.io.eura..g.n.e...ucyt...a.tp.c..n....e..l..irt....p.s...gk..ss...P.r............h(...A......(.....u..J...C.m....C..y..........nJ..n..u.............u.....a.o..hd.....c...n............m......nur..he........[...].....oa..B...i..nS.........n............nn..c..r..a........ts.......u....).eG......'.....,..C..s....c[...].m....n...n..G.g.e..Se...P..aE.....r...s.oot..t...a.p.na...eeae....)...t.r.....ree.,d..htc.s.rS...y.e....Be.n.tet..(..ui$rm...C.CvRciWr..S.IS.z1l.)...aeleM.a.oLh.o,.yc.tG...nam.i.inlrtSh(rWKnuoM.GhCiroDKl.cs[...]G a ffe r............................................[...]Synopsis: A psychological thriller, its plot is[...]ures of Dot and the a mystery of manipulation and double[...]...h..r....E.....i.J....b.......v...u....rP.......a..o....l...i....r.n..a..o...o....sRVM..nkJSdY.Y.aioeu(r.aoo(y.EaFghrc.ln[...]ein.am.,tt..r.ep.hda.c.p...sS.tp..ar.eobe.h...eh..a.t.vn.ro-.e..iny....dno.fwy....u.ls......ityi..n..[...]...oh.....rFr.........e..Tu..K.e.u...r.......t.n..a.ulsYe...a....e......g.nrb.s...r...g..b.....ykt...a....r...am.a.......e....n...r.D...n..al..JAl.dD.e...taon....l,[...]otsagtoybyosttl.roii.gyc....g....in......sr.......a...e..t............p.r...............h............[...]...........................C......................a....................r...........E.l......i..M..e......lR........i........z..a.....o.M.D..A..aA..t.CUPc..t.ben..ahCtka.h.nelad.reayEPuD.hritP[...]Synopsis: A remarkable relationship be Shooting s to c k ....[...]tween a young teacner and a deeply- Scheduled release ..................... J[...]off as a delinquent by most adults until (Gregg, Trixie, t[...]to Verra Plevnik (Jane), Moira Maclaine-Cross

A d m in istra tio n ...................... Meg Row[...]ks well beguiled The heavy gate of night.
Scenic a r tis t....................................... Am[...].........JohnSeaSleweet friends, to bed."
Neg. m a tc h in g ............................... Margare[...]......................AndreaJordSalnoane).
Chief a nim a to r.......................Rby Nowland C asting..[...]............................... LeeLamSeyrnopsis: A suburban community is bliss[...]......................................TimLloyd

A n im a to rs .............................Paul McAdam, L[...].....................AlexMcPfhuellye unaware that a killer stalks the streets.[...]ocus puller .........................Brendan Ward A mother and her two sons survive in a dis[...].......................John Stuart, Prod, c o m p a n y ......... Petersham Pictures[...]Steve Lambeth
Asst a nim ator.........................................[...]........................... BobEllis,
Background a rtis t..............................AmberEllisSti[...]hy............................... BruceHaswell
P a in te rs ...............................Ruth Edel[...]W a rd rob e ........................................[...]Stunts co -o rd in a to r................................BobHickPsrod,[...]Brenda McKie, L a b o ra to ry.....................................[...]...................... 35mm Transport/
Animation a s s is ta n t........Robert Malherbe[...]Synopsis: The story of a sheepdog in the Exec, producer ..................[...]er .....................Russell Bacon
meets with a hobo in her outback home
town, the hobo becomes[...]graphy ............. Jan Kenny,
and takes Dot on a wonderful adventure[...]G a ffe r............................ Graham Rutherfo[...]k ...... ........Geraldine Royds

Prod, c o m p a n y ............... Rychemond Film Sound recordis[...]........................JennyBrown
Dist. c o m p a n y ............................ (overseas[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (160) A brand new
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A double feature you should definitely make a point of seeing.[...]2113.
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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (161)Props a ssista n t.............................. Igor Nay[...]r .......................... Robert Grant
Scenic a rtis t.......................... Ned McCann Sound[...]licity ......... Brooks White Organization
Dog h a n d le r........................... Dennis Hunt 1[...].......................................... 35mm G a ffe r............................... 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Stephen Amezdroz, A Filmco Presentation Lab. lia ison ...............[...].ra.ue...o.e.o..er.d..o.....nd..c..r.r.pr.....it..a.s.tt..en...o....aeo.....t.........r.ag.o.....n.r..r.............a...trr....t..........o...a.........t..............o.r...p...................[...]....pa....K...TT..G.Pn.W...J..C.r......ool.c.y.h..a.aa.H.....o...ebbu.....isr.u..l...e.n..yMnyy.sl.i....s.i.u...a..s.pd.......c...k.SHru.P.PS.y......n.D.oW...l.C.c[...]snlzwnzceesyssrnluehedeeykrrllFHMMMPMoelccaoulaeC2A3P1PCCDCECGUPKFArrnslyrnrsserrxoaekrloasnoidlheoot[...]......as.t.......t..r..r.r.......t...n............a.................t..............n.....s...........[...]S..........D..........................M...p.......a...M.............S.y..CM...n...eCS......A.ir....nt...rrao...ah...uo.ivn.....y..ar...s...gi.[...]s Condello), Peter Sardi (Lino Condello),
Scenic a rtis ts .........................................[...]Synopsis: Two turbulent adolescent weeks
Neg. m a tch in g .................. Margaret Cardin Prod,[...]Jenny Day in the life of a teenage migrant Italian boy
Still photography...[...]nn Walton background, and start a new kind of life, Boom operat[...]osthetic M a k e -u p ........................................[...]..........S.K.H............ue....aCD....zn....r...a.hvi...eG..v.erH...ii...ysad.C..a...Mi...zll...MeH.e.Ha..MmJ.lwauawJearrresodornvyo[...]tyarsaubertpswtryseiusrses.aoic.trs.rts.p.tid...o/a..s.d.r..n.n..o.r.....e.t...b..s....s.....e.....s.[...]....o...............u...J.....R..S..i.o..s.....e..a..c.e.....n..n.k.D...Ke..Nd.B..iA..Megy..e.&.mnAbd[...]Andrew Plain
Synopsis: A period comedy drama set in[...]................ Peter Maxwell Construction m a nager.......... Ray Pattison Supervis[...].........................Bob Cogger
Prod, co m p a n y ....... Ryntare Productions[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (162)[...]Paul Marron, Ward, a s sistan t.................Melanie Velinos[...]..................................................A...n..n..i.e. MPuargraeyFranLcaibsoratory 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editor ...................Denise Hunter
G a ffe r..................................John Whitt[...]Anthony Bignall, Synopsis: A madcap, musical comedy-[...]Peter Kulesa, adventure where the flying super hero[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 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Kodak to be flooded by a government hydro-dam.
Sonkila, Chris Haywood, Da[...]cs of the country and with Jill Bryant, Synopsis: A mystical journey through the JULIE JULIE

Synopsis: A dramatized reconstruction of an English Embassy s[...]ert Cameron. the audience on a surreal adventure.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (164)A A T O N ... The Silent One

[A lw a y s s e e n b u t n e v e r h e a rd ][...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (165)[...]developing a major television series to be

Mechanic........[...]........................... Post-production Mixed a t...................[...].......................16mm A King of Shreds and Patches -- P.M.[...]gh Stuckey, Sue Woolfe; tele
Hill, so she bought a motorbike and left to Scheduled release... .....[...]........................... TroutFilmthse factory where he has been employed[...]g.
D ir e c to r.............................M...a..u..r..e..e..n....M...c..C. CarhtrhiysWawcrnriete[...]care. Her one little luxury is a The Umbrella Woman -- Margaret Kelly[...]Crow On A Barbed W ire Fence -- Edward
Scriptwriters......[...]Chic Stringer (NSW); Thomastown -- A documentary on Thomas-
Focus puller.............[...]has developed a method of treatment, giving[...]A Shifting Dreaming -- Imago Australia --[...]Synopsis: A training film on the technique of
baniotis (Vasi[...]Mixed a t...................................... Dubbs & C[...]r Tammer (Vic.); grant for Triptych --
Synopsis: A short drama about the conflicts[...]feature; for music concept -- $200
that a teenage boy from a Macedonian family Laboratory[...]G a u g e ...........................................[...]John Prescott (Qld); grant for Just a W hiff of[...]pany................Red Heart Pictures Synopsis: A humorous look at the role of the[...]Love on a Tourist Visa -- Jan Sharp;
Director.............[...]development, production and the
Synopsis: Utero, a Sydney medical multi Women's Film Fund.[...]A SAFE SOLUTION[...]...Bruce Hogan
resolve to sabotageUtero and make a[...]Wilkinson (NSW); script development Mixed a t.......................................Dubbs & C[...]..................................... EricHall$id7a0y00

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Keith Connolly a dogsbody eagerness to please just Patricia'[...]dy from his ailing
Paul Cox's Lonely Hearts is a neat mother to the local elderly citizens' bolic, but there is a little of Peter and
compendium of attainable vir[...]Patricia, only child of an over p ro b a b ility th a t m akes the
doubt appreciated this fact.[...]so telling. The two suffer various hesi
A sad little social comedy with fusspot m[...]parents. with a nice mixture of artifice and
somewhat implausibl[...]simplicity.
in a recognizably commonplace milieu. Free fo[...]ating to them the next step: they nervously seek a Peter's interfering and bossy sister and
or[...]Cox and Clarke concoct a small but
ludes, not at all in keeping with its[...]easy for shoplifting, to resolve the couple's
aren't as subversive of the whole as[...]dylike counterpart,
totally against the grain of a lifetime of
complaisance, accepts the lead role[...]e individuals are Peter Thomp
son (Norman Kaye), a 50-year-old
bachelor piano-tuner, and Patricia
Curnow (Wendy Hughes), a shy,
mousy, but younger, bank clerk. They
meet through a grasping introduction
service and the film charts the uneven
course of a diffident romance. It is a
less-than-novel subject, ripe for cari
cature, but Cox, maintaining a basical
ly humorous premise, invests it with
wa[...]eering sister (Julia
Blake) and others. There is a sugges[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (168)[...]Mattel Affair], to mention two), a Southern Italian family. He is a
protests of an other-directed Mr Nice humor of Lonely Hearts and even comes as a very positive surprise. teacher in a Naples reformatory for
Guy. lends Peter's more antic behaviour a[...]i's films were approached by the police to find out
Several of these incidents, such as made with a political perspective, which of the children have been
the blind-piano-tuner episode and a The Best Film award aside, the sig[...]at night, " stealing or
nervous assignation with a call-girl, nificance of Cox's achievement l[...]ni sulla citta doing something worse" , as a
rattle about rather loosely in the narra his[...]tive structure, giving the impression edy, a genre all but ignored by Aus Mattei Affair (1972) and Lucky
that a certain amount of post-produc trali[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (169)[...]rker who does not feel much tears, accompanied by a discreet and yard. The camera follows Rocco from follow -- offer a ravishment to the
sympathy for the establishment. As a almost silent sobbing, and it is Marta behind and[...]arguments tend to be very who asks him, " Why are you crying? head in the centre of the shot. Nicola, seems exciting. There is a quite
emotional. Raffaele believes that it is I[...]ing his job that grandfather dries his tears with a hand appears at the upper right of Rocco's foliage, swollen streams and distant
stops him from becoming a terrorist; kerchief saying, " I'm not crying, it'[...]es carry the what is going on. This was certainly a color photography, accompany the
police find the troublemakers among coffin to the funeral, an[...]definitely scotch the possibility of their man. A close-up of this gesture -- his The acting also is superb, parti where Aeneas is to take up the position
re-education,[...]ularly Charles Vanel's performance of manager. As a result, there is a pre
concern. Raffaele faces a similar symbol of the seed of life -- conveys as[...]increasingly aware of the inertness at
Rossa, a worker from Genoa, who was simple wisdom of an ol[...]symmetrical dreams of the three " He lent us all a sort of serenity. the heart of the narrative, so[...]ring filming he was like the stones was initially a visual excitement
terrorists to the authorities:[...]ts itself in getting the Gunns to
impossible for a crowd of witnesses himself going to bed with her.[...]leep while looking at the photo Three Brothers is a very special film dissipates its energy in a series of tab
to be murdered."
But Raffaele ack[...]talian directors who have not utterly to build to any sort of cumu
gunned down in a bus in Rome, and managed to produce any recent work lative power or meaning. The screen[...]gaol window bars, in a colorful, sur same time, it is a montage of poss When the rough foreman McLennan[...]ho has spoken with
about love: love for parents, a wife, New York's skyscrapers to Moscow's when put together, achieve a highly vigorous chauvinism about Jeannie's
a little girl; love for nature, for one's Kremlin,[...]is cheered by the crowd of children, in Nocella, A ntonio Macri. Screenplay: does -- and becomes her[...]e film and is linked directly to the crucified in a crossbow (in which Pasqualino De Santis. Editor:[...]of the Christ is the arrow); Rocco sets fire to M a stro ia n n i. A rt d irecto r: A ndrea hinges, Jeannie will first express[...]ss
reminiscences, his young wife loses her a rubbish pile, with a view of a canvas, recordist: Mario Bramonti. Cast: Phi[...]cola), Vittorio Mezzo dinner table will give place to the
parallel to that of Marta playing[...]film. But this time old Donato Crazy" ). A Neapolitan, Daniele is one 35 mm. I l l mi[...]the house and give Jeannie a new sense
own wedding ring.[...]d walk into the future.
Third Son is credited as a source of Daniele sings:
inspiration si[...]ions " In my life I want to live at least a As one of the few Australians alive[...]short story. The communal day like a lion Mrs Aeneas Gunn's[...]of open mind received was, in the main, a the term loosely -- the major narrative
beside her grandfather in his bed, a popular uprising in 17th Century sumpt[...]loved tion of town-bred Jeannie's pluck as
where his wife used to sleep. Naples ag[...]he rigors of outback
Most effective of all is a dialogue[...]directorial ineptitude.
he asks her, " Why are you crying?"
The girl answers, still crying, " We ar[...]idealism, his Utopia of a clean world: a
wo[...]money; a world of happiness.[...]t. Igor Auzins, the raised, carries any dramatic weight. In
1. It is im portant to note[...]mple but brilliantly- director, has opened on a close-up of fact, the word " relationship[...]the Red Brigade, and other extreme and hears a sound of sobbing coming gives way to a beautifully composed Jeannie, Angela Pu[...]st uneuphonious name
obtaining sympathy from a few dissatis towards the kitchen window and, f[...]ees both his brothers in the This in turn cuts to a vast, empty, virtually nothing to the role except[...]nt'anni da peccora" (" It is better to sented in a fast forward-tracking shot, those of Gilda[...]live a day like a lion than a hundred[...]e state by the majority of the years like a sheep" ). as the camera hones[...]passes a figure on horseback, before sense of cla[...]n mi deve condanare These shots -- and a great many that If the role of Mrs Gunn is to mea[...]anything, it must suggest a moral

2. Interview with Rosi, Sight & S[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (170)[...]asks only cliche responses of her and " you can't take her away from her[...]The stars are twinkling brightly in
or by a sense of inner conviction, to attempt to lift this sporadic interest to the night sky. In a secluded clearing of geist1, Spielberg has reach[...]the level of drama as she tries to save a redwood forest on the outskirts of heart and[...]s, an alien spacecraft sits, memories and made a film that is both
Dignam's intelligent brick-bui[...]dow. ronism, " Where did we go wrong?" encircling the craft[...]brown fingers gently uproot a small the lost animal, the stranger from a
awareness is most clearly seen in its plant, while a rabbit looks on strange land, the secr[...](Tony one spitefully inclined, the other a to the rim of the valley and gazes in must aid in any way they can, just as
Barry) before the final st[...]ising, underlying strength.
Jeannie is warned, " You must never misses its chances in the a[...]e Gertie must defy adult authority, take
to be a mate to him" , but the prom potential[...]of course worn down and it lacks even a good ear for a beings watch in stunned amazemen[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (171)[...]or some it will be deceptively simple plot in a film which tradition largely ignored since the
people would deal with it. In Polter a new experience after having been eschews narrative progression for a revival of the industry a decade ago. In
geist he set a graveyard of ghosts onto bombarded by mindles[...]ng metallic surfaces, well on occasions as a thriller. An
would have to be a hard heart indeed assorted machines, cars[...]nces. Ballinger persuades Jane (Kim
with a UFO while on the job; the for E.T. as[...]t the film. during his absence and attach a bug to[...]monitors that cover the entrance to
Island; and a man quietly travelling the high exhilaration. You will be glad that narrative would head in thi[...]dis
country roads of the Midwest is a film can move you so. Egerton would cut to the[...]acted and the killer arrives home to
attacked by a maniac driving a computer. find Jane trapped inside with the dis
decomposing tan[...]fantastic occurrences The Extraterrestrial, a film that is vir The plot is concerned wit[...]ral because the tually the cinema ideal; a film that machinations of an anonymous co[...]ches the audience, not with ment in a sensory computer, the 1-500, The important[...]ielberg. Producers: Steven project. When a car accident confines effect. The pity is th[...]ielberg, Kathleen Kennedy. Screenplay: him to a wheelchair he loses interest in tion with surface imagery and the
method of lighting -- where, for the Melissa Mathison. Director of pho[...]n Daviau. Editor: Carol Little his attention to a murder in a nearby tion of machine over man allows this[...]sic: John Williams. Sound: Gene Can- begins a cat-and-mouse game between ence involvemen[...]Thomas (Elliott), Peter Coyote (Keys), as ever), and Ballinger. It is always a somewhat presump
Star Wars veteran Dennis Muren[...]The early scenes in the film establish that a film incorporate neglected
creation of suburbia invaded by a Sean Frye (Steve), Tom Howell (Tyler),[...]rl), David O 'Dell obsession with his computer. A pre pointing to a number of missed oppor[...]aracter detail.
which the main star has not been a U.S. 1982. a video hook-up in the house,
person or an animal[...]counters, Scenario: the hero, confined to a argument also reveals the strain that[...]nstruct E.T. after wheelchair, discovers that a man, in an Ballinger's preoccupation with h[...]they are regarded as actants rather
with a loss of $700,000. The creature self, has mu[...]: the crippled, intelli
that Rambaldi devised is a fantastically becomes aware that our hero know[...]e understanding wife; the
complicated being with a rubber/poly- the crime, although nobody wil[...]ry corporation head; etc.
urethane skin covering a steel and isn't -- at least not in the h[...]ng. within the framework of the drama to
needed a dozen operators to handle via writers Linda[...]The computer detects the crime, and create a number of tensions between[...]d by the film.
E.T., at first, is something only a
mother could love, and that is indeed[...]It is pleasing to find an Australian
true. Soon after Elliott lured E.[...]film that acknowledges a narrative
his room and could be seen clearly fo[...]time, standing quietly in the
corner wrapped in a blanket, I heard a
young voice behind me in the theatre
whisper, " Isn't he beautiful." When a
filmmaker can imbue a pile of rubber,

wires and servo-motors with t[...]T.
exhibits, then that filmmaker is
certainly a master of his medium. This
is obviously what Sp[...]ighted with
E.T. It has been far too long since a
film has completely captured and
made one fee[...]amed of or

forgotten. One recalls the loss of a pet
or a loved one during childhood years
and the reluct[...]if he is to live.
E.T. is purely and simply a joy to

watch. No sequence, scene or
individ[...]million by
the way -- one-third of the cost of a

Marlon Brando and with a lot more

personality).
The young[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (172)[...]ssary
for plot progression is Stollier, who
has a predilection for leather and
bondage. Without kn[...]stylish film
to look at and listen to. There are a
number of striking visual sequences
which readi[...]leading up
to the murder of Stollier's wife are a
prime example: the carefully-
composed image of[...]Production designer: Larry Mexicans got a saying -- what cannot course, Michael Cimin[...].
recordist: John Phillips. Cast: Gary Day " You haven't got enough ass in your the frontier[...]Production between the leads -- " I've killed a the Ugly American. A generation has photography Ian Baker and c[...]uctions. Dis man" , " That ain't no kind of a recom grown up unable to understand that[...]barosa keeping you entertained." music give a lift to their scenes. There[...]ebunk the is no question that Barbarosa is a
Barrie Pattison[...]oo is seduced by
Fred Schepisi's Barbarosa is a language convincing on film and Bar[...]eople Barbarosa as part of its maker's
area, where the U.S. army was based verbal set pieces. A local bandido tries were taking John Ford's Man[...]Libido, carried conviction. A naivety,
much modified decors for The Alamo.[...]which suggested that the death of a
Native Texans Willie Nelson and Gary fac[...]cking than des
Busey lead the cast as Barbarosa, a has shot. The villagers compose[...]touching nerves. It had the
community, and Karl, a German[...]he words for Karl, who is familiar with a variety of these exciting tudes, a quality that outweighs any
In the opening scenes, the teaming impatient till he finds a part of the set pieces: e.g., Don Braulio's[...]n, say, Craig's Wife,
up seems uneasy: Nelson as a grubby,[...], on the other hand, an established
together for a while, however, they wife, Josephina (Is[...]country's most respectable good cause
each with a likeable sense of humor.[...]again they are
stands apparently unperturbed as a[...]Mexican's bullet creases his cheek is a nice flourish. Once again,' one American states knows, there are a shifty and whoring, a representation
(great effect that, too). It is not until hears a different version much'later. host of region[...]Both end with Barbarosa blowing with a couple of Hollywood stars and a with that in films from the Mexican
tutor Karl in the business of being a[...]knee stylish and entertaining gloss, which
a man more nervous than to see a man with a shotgun. have sunk wit[...]Hearst's disputes with the Mexican
like a spotted ass ape." The film[...]e one who tells Tom Mix,
conspicuous features in a script by co The use of close-up insets is[...]red Schepisi who moved to am going to keel you" ; Chris Pin
wrote 10 years ago. Since then Witt[...]e script of The Black forces his way, with a jingle drop of[...]Mind you, Schepisi is not the first of[...]the home washing, flut and come back with a feature. That[...]Why then did a well-made, enter whose professionally nas[...]taining film pitched at a popular[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (173)[...]calling provides a bridge to these
ally. They have yet to find a film which complex film, which reveals a web of spirits and is a form of communica
Taiwanese cop more flak in fil[...]tion.
Lacking a lobby as effective as the Barbarosa: Directed by: Fred Schepisi. physical worlds of the people, and a This aspect of the magic is[...]a -- paddling out to meet the
decade, apart from a few minor items Busey (Karl), Gilbert Rolan[...]ce of prow of the boat, at close range, with a[...]shark-calling in the context of a belief camera that is amazingly steady, even[...]pattern and its rituals. It is more than a shark caught in his hoop, clubs it and
et al. It does, however, emphasize a In The Sharkcallers of Kontu, method of catching fish: it is a form of brings it into the canoe. They have a
problem very evident in the Australian Denni[...]c and de-dramatizes magic, an expression of a relationship fluous commentary.[...]it to focus on the spiritual meaning with a spiritual world and with the
to subsidy) of comm[...]ted them to respond only to the trusive way: a very low-key narration
pressure.[...]its the pressures of change. The result is a calling of the shark-catchers, who had he[...]ave some spiritual force Later, there are a few instances of
with Don Braulio. There is the[...]t in this narration. In
notion of the pursuit as a crusade[...]knowing that the person behind the
you Luis Bu
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (174)[...]A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

the dramatics of[...]brought about by the imposition of A Midsummer Night's Sex The f[...]rehension about why other values are, in a sense, didactic Comedy[...]`counter-magic' of a church service, or turned to fairy-floss. In A Midsummer liberated and a woman of the future;
In this film, the content may have its any other Western ritual (such as the Night's[...]hday), makes the film fighting edge of a pioneer who the faithful friend to Andrew and a
attempt to impose an external mak[...]well's friend for
film in order to build towards a These points are often made with[...]thos, but in the final who can cope with any emergency.
the main point. The relationship[...]isk being slick. One sees, for scenes of A Midsummer Night's Sex
between the shark-caller,[...]house, their dreams take on a reality
the relationship between the shark- O'Rourke then cuts to a church[...]n to an old man who The film begs a question: where do
traditional magic) and a culture under defends his beliefs against the new you go when you have stopped As in Shakespeare's A Midsummer
constant economic, educational and[...]into the past. But, on the other as if under a spell. No one wants the[...]scapades in
It is an immense pleasure to see a conclusion, stated by one of the elders[...]tary that does not sacrifice in answer to a question about the when we are all variations on our past begotten that life becomes a dizzy
idea content, where it is important, to survival of the tradition[...]Andrew Hobbs (Woody Allen) and Ariel
that a close-up tells us more than the new religion[...]Weymouth (Mia Farrow): "sex alleviates
words of a person. So much of tele[...]The film's focus on the spiritual sig peare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.
does this, leavin[...]f the shark and not on the on its head as a starting point. If one
the overt and visual exp[...]rs are given to the cinema grappling with a sense of aren't posing as if for some Manet or
good to see that there is no com the villagers. The fin has a special sig oneself. One was amused, but it[...]ancestors. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy floating d[...]six characters in search of an flowers and a host of other chocolate-[...](Woody box goodies. It all makes for a marvel
The film might be described as their traditional place and offered to Allen), the Renaissance man[...]the film.
`closed' to the extent that it takes a for friends in Hong Kong and Singa[...]ry of duel for word space, there is rarely a
Frontline and Angels of War), the film in the last shot to the scene where the an illicit affaire. They live in a rustic kind shot of them. But Allen's persona[...]supply two tons of shark fins, century, where Andrew concentrates pathetically. He mus[...]he children of Kontu then he can give them a world market on his inventions to the de[...]ve. and leaves a final suggestion that the[...]books about imposed on the society.
cowboys, not fishermen. They are
subtly conditioned, by[...]tance of repetition in a documentary
food and luxuries and to reject the[...]ro, tapioca and life and belief patterns of a society. It
sweet potato in what is to some extent is not always sufficient to state a point
still a subsistence economy. The once and proc[...]earlier film about the
coming of television to a small Pacific The Sharkcallers of Kontu ha[...]and so on. In the earlier humor, and gives a sense of a more
film, advertisements for American[...]alienation of edly transparent structure in a very
a people from their culture. The fine fi[...]es of American soap operas
were contrasted with a lone guitar Sharkcallers of Kontu: Dire[...]o himself on the
fringe of the living quarters, where he O 'Rourke. Producer: Dennis O 'Rourke.[...]to score, but in YAP they are in the
context of a look at U.S. imperialism Owen. Editor: Ste[...]pologist: Elizabeth Brouwer. Contributing
a strong sensitivity to the sounds that[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (175)[...]by Simon Wincer, fo r producer John Sexton,
from a screenplay by David Williamson.

Clockwisefrom top: Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson) rides Phar Lap during a morning
training run, film ed by a Movietone crew; early morning preparation[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (176)[...]omissions, almost inevitable in such a
Marketplace 1982-[...]Corporation/Film Victoria? It is a reviewed in Variety from January 1,[...]Next is a complete listing of all the[...]1980, including quite a few Australian
Hardback, 814 pp., A$45 programs, from A Big Country to
I[...]final section is simply an inter Young Ramsay; a list of all the Emmy[...]Shot J.R.?); all
A Screen International makers an[...]ency, Monahan Dayman of Patrick White's A Cheery Soul to
G.[...]siness paper, Variety, has been on. It is a seemingly arbitrary from the beginning[...]latest venture. It is divided into three a valuable handbook. The price, given nominees[...]stantial sections. The first, " The that it is a paperback, is prohibitive. 1958 to 1979, as we[...]to 1980; and,
of a little more than 100 countries. The two o[...]ubject to current biographies at the outset, a
another alphabeti[...]datingly so. In a sense, it is a commem this book -- no, monumental tome --[...]The Australian entries are fairly versary, a distillation from the back simply, it is an[...]files of what is claimed to be " the for any library resource centre con[...]st single source of information nected with any branch of show
without saying that it is not a patch on about the entertainment industry[...]There are mis-spellings, than " to provide a single source of Variety's third recent[...]rs, actresses, hand, this latter work has a massive[...]singers, songwriters and writers ever[...]
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Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (181)[...]like that. present a point of view that may be[...]can help you to understand certain[...]or games of a director; it is like th[...]ing others; for me, a film or a play
rubble because of the incredibly[...]ce bread, always has a significance.
high cost.[...]F ilm ograph y
You have to make certain[...]don't save us from atom bombs
choices; you have a measure for[...]1961 Incontro notturno*
giving an impression of a given[...]things. But they are a prime mover
you can spend. We don't have all[...]Short films produced for a diploma
those millions for making a film[...]1963 Storia del III Reich
Are you one who is compelled to[...]A documentary for Italian television.
impart a message?[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (182)[...]ward's story in response to her attorney's (not a " technicolour blockbuster" as Anderson[...]wrongly claims, but a modestly charming rural[...]Ray's The Lusty Men. But whatever the role,
" If you can't say something nice about a though more explicit in some details than '40s[...]lowed. worked like a dog to give it conviction.
dating Joan Collins t[...]arker but discovered in bed means perhaps a dozen of the 60-odd films she[...]emerges from Anderson's
Dorothy Lamour's was not a major career biography earning our respect -- res[...]was GREGORY PECK, who,
but it provided a good deal of innocent is, for the way she worked[...]iwithout ever being especially
pleasure. To give her -- or Mr[...]interesting, has remained a star
in her films. She has either a good memory or handed, and for an unillusioned ap[...]figure so many of the less lurid roles but I have a special affection for he appeared in two and in[...]studio,
about the films, even if this remains on a pretty wavering between admirers (not at all a received much more rapid exposure (e.[...]iety of roles
early marriage to Herbie Kaye, was a model of her), in Jacques Tourneur's beautiful western pushed at them gave them a chance to find their[...]ssion of being very
most beautiful man [she] had ever seen, in or carefully moulded around a limited range of[...]Peck is a star of the same kind as John
A nice girl" is probably not the[...]same calibre. Like them, he is essentially a
tells her story (published by t[...]With Peck, what you get is what you see.
way of drama), she was a real fighter -- tough,[...]Michael Freedland's biography posits a real-life
demanding, humourless, loving sparely[...]usual screen persona of a liberal American --
struggle with cancer. When[...]and the resulting book is a bit dull, like its
her doctor marvelled, " Nothi[...]but he can't help sounding rather a pill from
like it" (p. 258).[...]" Stop knocking everything --
It sounds like any number of the characters[...]and's book
not wisely but too well" -- there was a lot of[...]with a few exceptions like A Gentleman's
(1949); Jane Froman, overcoming disa[...]e Gunfighter, Twelve O'Clock
entertain troops in a walking machine, in With High and To Kill a Mockingbird. Those are all
a Song in My Heart (1952); beating the booze[...]ned to play
bottle! Filmed on location -- inside a woman's[...]but his is scarcely a comic performance, and in
Graham, perhaps wrongl[...]e she
was now -- had been since the late 1940s --a
true star and was now unimaginable as
anything[...]that had hitherto eluded her. It

eluded her in a big way during her marriage to

minor actor Jess Barker, a stormy liaison even
by Hollywood standards, a schism growing

mainly out of her professional superiority and

leading to a scandalous and acrimonious

580 -- D ece[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (183)[...]stardom in Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951).

Lewt in Duel in the Sun, fo[...]f

Kingdom -- but somehow it is all suffused in a[...]in The

and this adequately written account by a[...]unappetizing life-story to a halt with Robert[...]husbands, Vittorio Gassman. A threatening
sparodically, lik[...]ope . . . "
ELIZABETH TAYLOR began her career as a[...]Known as Shirley except that it is a wholly

Gregory Peck, but her real stardom belo[...]unworthy account of (half of) a lively career?

the '50s -- that is, give or ta[...]none of her star-studded (if you'll excuse the

like a star; she seems not quite able to take[...]hips is relentlessly vulgar, each new adven

As a teenager, from National Velvet (1945),[...]ture cutting at the crucial moment to " A fire

through adolescent fluff like Cynthia (19[...]roaring in the fireplace, Waves pounding a

and A Date with Judy (1948) to Father of the[...]love-of-life, she reveals a shoddy set of values

The apotheosis of her bea[...]ging coarseness. Her ego

Stevens' still moving A Place in the Sun (1951).[...]where the high spots were (A Double Life, A

beauty that would bring all a man ever Place in the Sun), but the telling is so riddled

dre[...]about what took place in which year . . ." : this

gomery Clift] would kill for a place in the sun[...]mistakes that derive from a lazy failure to check

Stevens, that is, seems[...]from a wilful blurring of time in her first 20

taking[...]how she was " about 21" when she made A

Kelley has a sure grasp of the high-spots of Kelley's book is subtitled " The Last Star" . Place in the Sun (" about 21" in the sense, that
Taylo[...]vet, Sun, Giant (1956) and Surely not the last in any sense -- others have is, of being 29) or the blit[...]downhill all the the most recent nor the last in a line. Is she Arthur" whose contract with Columbia[...]ly she has thrown herself into even, one wonders, a star? As the looks that in 1944, almost coincidin[...]lay bit parts. Her sense of her own
records with a nicely sardonic edge how " The took more pains wi[...]I don't believe it.

146). She became, in fact, a bore about her mixed reviews. At the end of Kelle[...]she " often asked [Stanley] Donen why he based on a certain likeability and survivorship. American Tr[...]e directed" ; she claims she co-starred in The

find: apart from a certain generosity and cheery seems really foul-m[...]n Monroe
sexual appetite and that, of course, is a matter indulgent[...]Faye for some kind of a decent part" in 1951,
restricted. Beating by two[...]r is poised she has Monroe cast as a schoolteacher in River
about the church door] .[...]re for have been made a real star instead Interspersed among all this sloppiness are
Taylor), her sexual adventures comprise a of just a famous commodity, and numbing moments of se[...]oked merely baercahamico.vie star; I wanted to be a fine actress, a
are a sorry lot, though she is perennially gushy SHELLEY WINTERS, spanning the same responsible citizen and a mother" ) and dim

and hopeful about them, even[...]st published memoirs I have climate better. After a brief starlethood at know that at any given moment in life one has
promised myself as a special treat not to read. Columbia, she was thor[...]Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star, Michael Cukor's A Double Life (1948) as the doomed To be co[...]waitress. She then starred in half a dozen[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (184)[...]Maloney, M.L.A. (born 1854, died c. 1940) gives his ([...]atler newsreels have accompanied by a rolling caption written by Thring,
One Ac[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (185)[...]A M id s u m m e r N i g h t 's S e x C o m e d y[...]Lou Vernon -- " That's My Idea Of A Lady" (short 17)
Stage Shows Produced by[...](3) Now You're Talking (Film Australia, 1978) Compila
Efftee[...]tions.

C ollit's Inn (1933) -- also planned as a film Non-stop Vari[...]" Ting A Ling And His Rattling Good Din-copaters" ) (short[...]Paper
Streets o f London (1933) -- also made as a film Moon & Ray -- "[...]sity, 1978
Clara Gibbings (1933) -- also made as a film second half only, followed by a clip from short 10)[...]industry magazine, various issues
These were a re-arrangement of the Efftee[...]I Find Australia, W. Hatfield, Oxford University Press,[...]l Monkman, Angus
Ada Reeve in I Never Forget I'm A Lady (short 24)[...]probably lost, was made during a tour of Fox studios,[...]while Thring was finalizing a big film distribution deal[...]Survey Synopsis: A dramatized film about juvenile Camera[...]m p. 559 crime. Sam, a 13-year-old from a good back G affer....................[...]ground, is incited to steal by a couple of his Make-up....................[...]school mates. He finds it a traumatic Wardrobe/props........[...]G a u g e ...........................................[...]. ...................... TFC Synopsis: A cartoon-style comedy which[...]............................... 12 mins Synopsis: A comedy about a day in the life
....[...]..........................................16mm of a woman principal. She knows that on this
Dist. co[...]many of the all the others. Designed primarily as a dis
Length............. .............. 1[...]ment of Tasmania. A"

Film Reviews[...]of love" ; about previous films into a situation of sub Perhaps one of[...]Hopefully, having got A Mid
causes it" ; and about the nature of[...]where he tackled not only one's sense
In one wonder[...]and nature, which "to live a decent life amidst all the[...]A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy:
and knew one anoth[...]fray, and eventually turns do you keep from selling out?"
They felt the sticks and[...]cted by the elements in general. The A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy much a cross for the cinema audience.[...]In other ways, A Midsummer wrote in Cine[...]Night's Sex Comedy can be seen as a itself with more than the fail[...]eopold, who adopt the film is a lighter version of ambition[...]e, Maxwell and this sense is a departure from the self A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (186)[...]V There's a new boy on the block ;[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (187)[...]elp its release begging and grovelling for a trying.[...](which they have so For which projects have you
understood from the very start that The d[...]approached the funding bodies?
we were making a film and that Jury Prize at the 1982 Aus[...]s through their Lib John Ruane and I have a script
inaction, was an act of interpreta i[...]I also received in rary, even to the level of a quarter that is currently in the first-draft
tion. the mail a standard letter from the of the hire the same films were stage, Trial By Order, about a
A F I's V incent L ibrary. It achieving while they were in the mass murderer and a boy who gets
I was really quite worried about[...]g the past couple of years. What films have you in prepara of the Creative Development
that your face is a mirror of every This is despite the fact that[...]Branch of the Australian Film
thing you have been through, but organization helped[...]Commission said that he would
how terrifying a face you would Melbourne Co-op out of existence,[...]for assessment
have to have to reflect all that you taking over the films from the Co stages[...]The AFI then proceeded to One is a feature film script, Have you that word for word?
seemed to understand it, as[...]which I wrote with
beyond him and being as much a had been getting from the same J[...]t the Co-op and autocrati though we haven't any actors for " Dear Peter,
the faces we[...]accepted for assessment by the
Why did you reject the idea of further promote our f[...]FI has admitted its The fourth script is a very been presented in screenplay
Ca[...]arde plot which moves all to accept such a project as a
intercut into that story. It would your films to any reasonable level over the place, and characters who viable competitor for[...]oked like comic relief. The of hiring, would you please take change roles all the time. The[...]it is a crime and that he is searching known in advance of your inten
you some money to promote This has had a very serious for an answer to his guilt.[...]ly I would have been
"Journey" . What plans have you effect on me and, I am sure, upon able to warn you of the
for it? m[...]" Congratulations on your
has not offered any reasonable tion which is set up for, owes its Catherine Dalton, which gives a successes at this year's Mel
season a[...]Bogle and Chandler, and Holt and won a special award on opening
Hawthorn Town Hall and[...]in promoting Calwell era. I would like to do a night for Journey to the End of
film th[...]xhibitor, prefers to show overseas rather than a film specifically " Yours sincerely,[...]as in far greater about Bogle and Chandler, or a " Murray Brown,
dialogue, I feel we[...]lms. film about the book. It would be a " Creative Development Branch,
and find another way of showing[...]ey are not the only ones who
Pat Longmore has a plan to dis me the Jury Award, I am also[...]have reacted to it like that. It is a
tribute the film throughout Aus[...]gruesome story, but how can you
tralia basing the marketing on the[...]make a film about a mass
network of RSL clubs and other[...]anything that deviates from a very[...]mould.
not have to be a loss to the film
maker or production company,[...]| Filmography (all 16mm)
unless you get yourself into the
hands of the conventional[...]Shall Rise Again 13 mins
butors and exhibitors, where for[...]1971 Flux 40 mins
hire through Cineaction to any 1971 Journey to a Broken Heart 50 mins
interested organizations, s[...]1972 A Woman of Our Time 28 mins, col.
clubs or college[...]75 Struttin' the Mutton 17 mins, col.
would make a wonderful special[...]1976 Here's To You Mr Robinson co
feature for Anzac Day.[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (188)[...]8 WALKER o
A&J Casting Agency[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (189)Igor A u zin s[...]oratory. Berserk, he teaches by pulling a gun on the soldier at the end of Apocalypse Now.[...]nt graffiti on cars and then correctly. This gets a laugh from the audience so not depend merely on s[...]- context of the film but rather on the standards a[...]lly violent and murderous. They are pre help when you can, stay strong in attitude even end of the dram[...]ted, take stances and, when all goes occurring in a set of circumstances which deter
made to feel th[...]ctions on how the film works they had in mind for you.
make one realize that, if taken at too realistic a In fact, the film is not advocating either possi There is a long tradition of stylized, `myth
level, the fil[...]ultimately not an answer; indicate the crises of a society and its ability or
genre films do, throu[...]level of eruption purges us of terror, anger, and a religious interpretation of fate, guilt and[...]o responsibility. Shakespearian tragedies reflect a
myth. be massacred by a teacher who sees Class of belief in order in the[...]d in poetic

lass of 1984 may be seen as a contrived 1984 -- even though there might have been a justice. But Shakespeare also had his Titus
Cst[...]executing their Divine Right King a century and
adults, between groups with different lass of 1984 raises the question of how a half before the French Revolution. Our con
Csake[...]temporary melodramas reflect a confused,
powers, between differing moral[...]High and the Response to visual violence is often a matter of The value of films like Class of 1984, rather

city are a `not-yet' world like that of A Clock sensibility.[...]om New York. The school itself is an of an eye in a training film for ophthalmic its `shadow': the po[...]the bopper Grease schools; the surgeons is valid. A raven pecking an eye in a easy to ignore and gloss over for respectability'[...]ene for its own sake (leaving ing to know one has a sense of frustration and[...]t -- as in the western, the follow) or as part of a cumulative effect. One those whose life is, to a large extent, based on
gangster film, and the po[...]tralian Commonwealth censor. It is a different middle-class, professional adults -- and it
happens -- with more than a vengeance.
Two possibilities are suggested: Corr[...]Yes. Gary Hansen [director of characters a little more effectively.
work. You are supposed to have a photography] and I had consider One doesn't use a long take when it
Continued from p. 509[...]and were going to assume we wanted to have a feeling of the
o f the Never Never and The Little on the station, there would have horizon, a feeling of the size of the But long takes do seem to be a
Black Princess, which is a been some different answers, but[...]hough it is not an mark of your technique as a
children's book written by Jeannie that jus[...]at I
iginals and the little Aboriginal girl was a moment of progress where wide-angle lenses to accentuate h[...]the wrong. One of the white stockmen You seem to prefer a mobile single
whole year.[...]esponsible for what happened, action, to a static wide-shot and prepare the scene in as genuine a
We have used Bett-Bett as a and another said, yes, they were.[...]dvance our story of That small statement is a huge step determine a method of getting the
black-white interaction. She is a forward for them. It may have[...]camera into the correct observa
device and a character useful in taken 90 minutes to ge[...]lish
white. on, a different sense of interaction cut, the close-[...]are remnants, probably, of tele- Are you happy with the final
Jeannie's unsuccessful atte[...]ork in " Never pace of the film when you tend to responses I have heard to the film,[...]ate: the use of the crane, the heli cutting? Do you risk a detachment of the emotional or racial lines are
That's right. You are supposed copter shots, the long trackin[...]ough. I think there is
to have the response that any sort shots. Was the intention to accen[...]ng of distance? probably draws you into the never entirely happy with
work. You are supposed to have[...]

Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (190)[...]es for
tripods and camera support any situation and period.
equipment[...]W e are also able to offer a complete range of vehicles for
R.E. MILLE[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (191)FU JI IN TR O D UCES
A V E R Y BR IGHT ID EA.[...]
Cinema Papers no. 41 December 1982 (192) ideal world you would

. Ranl&HIm L ab oratori[...]

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