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TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN - FEATURE
A high concept, mass market Australian film (with big explosions) that isn’t
funded by a major Hollywood studio, Tomorrow When The War Began is intended as a
big, fun, roller coaster adventure, its director, Stuart Beattie, tells Andrew
L. Urban, who also talks to producer Andrew Mason and executive producer
(financier) Christopher Mapp.
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SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – PREVIEW
Describing its 2010 program as “brazen” the Sydney Underground Film Festival
opens with Oliver Stone’s controversial political doco shot across South
America, South of the Border (see below) and includes works by unequivocal
filmmakers such as Gaspar Noé of Irreversible fame … and a surprise appearance
by Aussie actor Noah Taylor (in Red, White and Blue).
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BOY - PAINFUL AND FUNNY
Like all films that touch us, Boy is filled with acute and often painful
reality – but reality is a multifaceted force that can be painful and funny all
at once, as New Zealand writer director Taika Waititi explains in his notes to
Boy, his first feature film
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BEN-HUR – FROM SCREEN TO STADIUM
Never mind 3D movies – the latest $15 million Ben-Hur ‘remake’ will be Live in
the Amphitheatre! (October 22, 23, ANZ Stadium, Sydney) narrated by Russell
Crowe, with a cast of 200, large scale music, big screens and a full 24 horse
chariot race. And in the audience will be a Sydney man called … Ben Hur.
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BEN-HUR – THE STORY
The story of Ben-Hur as adapted for the stadium show in Australia (October 22
& 23, 2010) by writer/director Robert Hossein, follows the 1880 novel by Lew
Wallace.
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NEAL, PATRICIA - A ROLLERCOASTER LIFE
Patricia Neal had a rollercoaster life and something similar in her movie
career, writes Geoff Gardner.
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THE OTHER FILM FESTIVAL 2010
From Eyeborg, the world’s first prosthetic eye-camera demo to director Niko von
Glasow’s Nobody’s Perfect in which he struggles to convince 11 other
fellow-Thalidomide affected people, that posing naked for a calendar would be a
good idea, The Other Film Festival (August 25 – 29, Melbourne Museum) offers an
intriguing program of unique films and seminars with local and international
guests, by, with and about people with a disability.
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RUSSIAN RESURRECTION 2010
The biggest showcase of Russian films outside Russia, this year’s program
features 29 films, including seven recent award-winning and box office hits that
range from historical epics to dramas, adventures, comedies and the first ever,
(and irresistible) 3D animation Russian feature film, plus a retrospective of
nine WWII films made between 1957 – 2002.
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HORSEMAN, THE - RIDING REVENGE TO SUCCESS
Steven Kastrissios writes about making his debut feature, The Horseman.
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MOVIES & TECHNOLOGY AFTER AVATAR
Avatar marks a watershed in the use of technology for filmmaking, and in its
aftermath, some of the world’s leading exponents of CGI are promising even more.
Software giant, Autodesk, is on a whirlwind ‘Blockbuster Tour’ taking in
Auckland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing, with a team of leading FX engineers
to look into the crystal ball of movie technology. Andrew L. Urban joined the
Tour in Sydney to file this report.
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GONE WITH THE WIND – 70TH ANNIVERSARY
Winner of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and still history’s all time
US domestic box-office champion (US$1.5 billion), Gone with the Wind has long
been considered the most celebrated motion picture of all time. Warner Home
Video honours the romantic epic with a restored and remastered version,
available for the first time on Blu-ray, as well as DVD.
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