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Before silver passed her picture making palm in 1984 with the celebrated AFI Award winning feature Silver City, Sophia Turkiewicz, while still a student at AFTRS, started on a documentary about her mother, Helen.
The film was shelved for thirty …
In British playwright Lucy Prebble’s play THE EFFECT two game young people, psychology student Connie (Anna McGahan) and charming drifter Tristan (Mark Leonard Winter) are volunteers in the clinical trial of a new anti-depressant super drug. Forties something psychiatrist Dr …
Make no mistake. Thom Pain is not based on Thomas Paine, the great American political activist, theorist and revolutionary.
Thom Pain is based on nothing. It’s in the title. In parentheses. And besides, Thomas Paine spelt his name with an …
Famed as the producer of the smash hit feel good film THE FULL MONTY, Umberto Pasolini triple treats as writer, producer, director on the sublimely affecting, STILL LIFE.
The film begins with shots of several funerals where the only person …
Like Robert Altman in the early Eighties, Roman Polanski has turned his eye to filming intimate stage plays.
Like his previous film Carnage, VENUS IN FUR is based on a successful play, this time a two hander set in …
Iconographic and idiosyncratic, the indigenous performer David Gulpilil dominates every shot of CHARLIE’S COUNTRY, the latest collaboration between the actor and film maker Rolf De Heer.
Not strictly biographical, CHARLIE’S COUNTRY is “authentic” to Gulpilil’s experience of things and his …
Budding thespian book keeper, Ruth Hoch (Kate Fraser), is between Jesus freaks and a cheeses freak as she prepares to play Joan of Arc in Langford Wilson’s BOOK OF DAYS.
Similarly structured to Thornton Wilder’s celebrated stage play, Our Town…
Infertility leads to infidelity in the infinitely engaging EVERY SECOND, the new play by Vanessa Bates now playing at the Eternity Playhouse, Darlinghurst.
This spry, wry, and fly production is all about breeding, and the lengths modern couples go to …
Borrowing a title from the 1939 John Farrow film, FIVE CAME BACK is the extraordinary story of the wartime service of five of Hollywood’s top directors.
The home front isolationist policy disintegrated with the bombing of Pearl Harbour and picture …
Have you read J D Salinger? Very likely you have. Amazed at the precision, the million tiny strokes, the sparseness of the early stories, all of them hilarious and heartbreaking, rife with glowing, pulsing symbolism.
Before she went to work …