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'The Sapphires' review: Deborah Mailman and Chris O'Dowd coat Aboriginal history in Motown soul
28 March 2013 6:52 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
"The Sapphires" is an unpolished gem of a musical, a dramedy with a familiar '60s girl-group-on-the-rise story pasted over a backdrop of Australian racism and America's long war in Vietnam.
It's a tribute to the filmmakers (director Wayne Blair, working from a Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson script) that this confection often manages to connect the jaunty, sassy musical elements to the serious comment on Australian history.
A prologue captures a group of Aboriginal girls singing for family and friends in the Outback of the 1950s. This was an era when Australia routinely "stole" light-skinned aboriginal children to be raised in institutions and taught "white ways." So that quartet, when we next see them 10 years later, is only a trio.
Gail, given a sneering fierceness by Deborah Mailman of "Bran Nue Day" and "Rabbit-Proof Fence," plays guitar and bosses sister Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) around. They're off to a town talent show, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Watch: Teaser Trailer For Phillip Noyce's HBO Film 'Mary And Martha' Starring Hilary Swank & Brenda Blethyn
19 March 2013 9:17 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Oh hey, Hilary Swank, remember her? The two-time Oscar winner, who hasn't really made a decent movie since "Million Dollar Baby" (though if we're being charitable, "Conviction" wasn't awful, just forgettable -- bet you didn't even remember that one) heads to HBO for her next effort, which looks like a definite improvement over her last few movies. Directed by Phillip Noyce ("Salt," "Rabbit-Proof Fence") and penned by Richard Curtis ("Love Actually," "War Horse"), "Mary And Martha" certainly has its bonafides, telling the story of two women who emerge from a traumatic family tragedy to form a unique bond while fighting for the eradication of malaria. So yes, it all looks Very Important, with some heroic people doing life-saving things. But this is also the kind of material could veer into the wrong kind of tone very quickly, but as long as Blethyn is in it, we have some faith it could possibly deliver. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Watch: Teaser Trailer For Phillip Noyce's HBO Film 'Mary And Martha' Starring Hilary Swank & Brenda Blethyn
19 March 2013 9:17 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Oh hey, Hilary Swank, remember her? The two-time Oscar winner, who hasn't really made a decent movie since "Million Dollar Baby" (though if we're being charitable, "Conviction" wasn't awful, just forgettable -- bet you didn't even remember that one) heads to HBO for her next effort, which looks like a definite improvement over her last few movies. Directed by Phillip Noyce ("Salt," "Rabbit-Proof Fence") and penned by Richard Curtis ("Love Actually," "War Horse"), "Mary And Martha" certainly has its bonafides, telling the story of two women who emerge from a traumatic family tragedy to form a unique bond while fighting for the eradication of malaria. So yes, it all looks Very Important, with some heroic people doing life-saving things. But this is also the kind of material could veer into the wrong kind of tone very quickly, but as long as Blethyn is in it, we have some faith it could possibly deliver. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Adaptations: Now a Major Motion Picture
25 February 2013 10:50 PM, PST | IF.com.au | See recent IF.com.au news »
The number of Australian film projects that are adaptations . that is, based on an existing novel, short story, stage play, musical or some other creative work . is declining, according to Screen Australia. Only 38 of the 200 Australian films produced between 1999 and 2008 were adaptations . compare that 19 per cent figure to the 1920s, when one-third of all Australian films were based on existing works.
And compare that figure to the current rate of adaptation in the Us where 50 per cent of all films are adaptations, and they account for 60-70 per cent of the box office take each year.
Why are adaptations important? The Australian Film Television and Radio school.s head of screenwriting, Ross Grayson Bell, believes these sorts of projects are vital for Australian producers. "Adaptations get better funding, and they do better at the box office," he says.
But Bell is concerned that the Australian film industry hasn't made the »
- Anthony Fordham
Veronika Jenet on the art of film editing
20 January 2013 5:55 PM, PST | IF.com.au | See recent IF.com.au news »
Veronika Jenet accepts an If Award for her work on Snowtown.
Veronika Jenet began her film career in the same place as many others, at film school. Unlike many others, she wasn.t enrolled there.
.At the time, film school was not as regimented . the place was basically open 24 hours. I was hanging around solidly all year and I wasn.t a student. The teachers kind of looked at me strangely but hey, I was there; I was doing work,. she says. .I.m sure I wouldn.t be able to do that now..
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs) played a pivotal role in Jenet.s life. It.s where she met director Ray Quint, now her husband and business partner, and director Jane Campion, with whom she has collaborated on five feature films.
Quint and Campion were both final year students at the school when Jenet »
- Anne Fullerton
Zero Dark Thirty: Jason Clarke confesses
18 January 2013 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Playing a ruthless CIA operative in Zero Dark Thirty has given Jason Clarke the biggest and most controversial role of his career. Hermione Hoby asks him to explain himself
The nastiest, hardest and most disturbing scenes you'll see this year are probably those that open Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's dogged and unremittingly tense account of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden. The film begins with a half-dead detainee being beaten, waterboarded, sexually humiliated and, finally, locked in a tiny box. The actor playing the perpetrator – the CIA's man on the ground in Islamabad – is Jason Clarke, an affable Australian who today is sharp-suited, lean, clean-shaven and picking at sliced strawberries in a plush Manhattan hotel suite.
It's a huge role for Clarke, his biggest to date, and his performance – one moment heartily brutish, the next bluff and likable – is an excellent foil to Jessica Chastain's taut anxiety. »
- Hermione Hoby
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