All articles by Frank Hatherley – Page 8
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Lantana
Dir: Ray Lawrence. Australia. 2001. 120 mins.Opening the 48th Sydney Film Festival, the world premiere of Lantana was received by a packed and celebrity-strewn audience with pin-drop intensity and warm regard. Ray Lawrence is an outstanding commercials director but this is his first feature since the highly regarded Bliss, the ...
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Mullet
Writer-director David Caesar's third feature, his first since the admired Idiot Box (1996), is a small-budget, small-scale character study surprisingly showing in widescreen 35mm and six-track Dolby. Though rich in Australian idiom and seldom exploited southern New South Wales coastal scenery, Mullet's theatrical ambitions seem overstretched. Its true home is ...
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Risk
Dir: Alan White. Australia. 2000. 90mins. Award-winning commercials and music video director AlanWhite made his 1999 feature debut with the grittily realistic ErskinevilleKings, set in a crumbling inner-suburban Sydney. With Risk he visitsthe top end of town - ritzy apartments, sleek corporate offices with powerfulcityscape views - but fails ...
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MallBoy
Dir: Vincent Giarrusso. Australia. 2000. 85 mins.The overlit candy-coloured shopping mall where 14 year old Shaun and his aimless school-skipping friends spend a large part of their days is so shockingly familiar it might be anywhere in the developed or semi-developed world, which gives this small-scale Australian movie a genuinely ...
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The Finder
Dir: Frank Shields. Australia. 2000. 90 mins.Long-time producer Phil Avalon's considerable achievement in raising enough private finance to make this Australian crime thriller from his own script would have been infinitely greater if the finished movie, launched during the American Film Market in LA, wasn't so lazily derivative.The concept is ...
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Chopper
Screening at Sundance (World Cinema). Dir: Andrew Dominik. Australia. 2000. 94mins.Writer-director Andrew Dominik spent a year working on commercials and music videos with producer Michele Bennett before the pair set to work on this, a haunting debut feature that depicts Australia's best known serial killer Mark 'Chopper' Read. A stylised ...
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Bootmen
Dir: Dein Perry. Australia. 2000. 96 mins.Prod co: Bootmen Productions. Worldwide dist: 20th Century Fox. Exec producer: Dein Perry. Producer: Hilary Linstead. Co-producer: Antonia Barnard. Scr: Steve Worland . DoP: Steve Mason. Prod des: Murray Picknett. Ed: Jane Moran. Composer: Cezary Skubiszewski. Main cast: Adam Garcia, Sam Worthington, Sophie Lee.Australian ...
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Better Than Sex
Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky. Australia. 2000. 85 mins.Prod cos: Better Than Pty Ltd. Int'l sales: President Films (+33 1 4562 8222). Dist (Australia): Newvision Films Distributors. Producers: Bruna Papandrea, Frank Cox. Scr: Jonathan Teplitzky. DoP: Garry Phillips. Prod des: Tara Kamath. Ed: Shawn Seet. Music: David Hirschfelder. Main cast: David Wenham, ...
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Chopper
Dir: Andrew Dominik. Australia. 2000. 94 mins. Prod cos: Pariah Films. Int'l sales: Beyond Films, tel (612) 9281 1266. Exec prods: Al Clark, Martin Fabinyi. Prod: Michele Bennett. Co-prod: Michael Gudinski. DoPs: Geoffrey Hall, Kevin Hayward. Prod des: Patrick Reardon. Ed: Ken Sallows. Original music: Mick Harvey. Main cast: Eric ...
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Innocence
Dir: Paul Cox. Australia-Belgium. 2000. 91mins.Prod cos: Strand/New OZ Productions and Showtime in assoc. with the South Australian Film Corp; Illumination Films in assoc. with Cinete. Worldwide sales: Cinemavault.com, tel: (1) 416 3636060. Producers: Cox, Mark Patterson. Scr: Cox. DoP: Tony Clark, Jan Vancaillie. Prod des: Tony Cronin. Ed: Simon ...
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Beware Of Greeks Bearing Guns
Dir: John Tatoulis. Australia. 2000. 90 mins.Prod cos: Media World Features. Worldwide sales: Trident Releasing. Producers: John Tatoulis, Colin J. South, Dionyssis Samiotis, Anastasios Vasiliou. Scr: Tom Galbraith. DoP: Peter Zakharov. Prod des: Stan Antoniades. Ed: Michael Collins. Music: Mikis Theodorakis. Main cast: Lakis Lazopoulos, Zoe Carides, John Bluthal, Claudia ...
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Cut
Dir: Kimble Rendall. Australia. 1999. 78 mins.Prod cos: Mushroom Pictures, Beyond Films, MBP (Germany). Int’l sales: Beyond Films (612) 9281 1266. Prods: Martin Fabinyi, Bill Bennett, Jennifer Bennett. Scr: Dave Warner. DoP: David Foreman. Prod des: Steven Jones-Evans. Ed: Harry Dangar. Music: Guy Gross. Main cast: Molly Ringwald, Jessica Napier, ...