For those of us who weren’t lucky enough to attend a Beatles concert in the 1960s, Ron Howard’s Eight Days a Week just might be the next best thing. The 2016 documentary traces the band’s rise from a cramped and dank cellar in Liverpool to record breaking television appearances, jam packed stadiums, and—ultimately—rock immortality. Lovingly assembled through rare and often unseen fan home movie footage, Howard’s film also draws on more familiar material—restored to the highest echelons of HD— and new interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. All told, it’s a joyous...
- 11/21/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
John Clarke..
Renowned satirist, writer and actor John Clarke, died Sunday, aged 68..
New Zealand-born Clarke and comedy partner Bryan Dawe sent up Aussie politics in mock interviews on the ABC.s 7.30 Report.and before that on Nine.s A Current Affair.
Clarke created and starred in mockumentary series The Games. His screenwriting credits include Lonely Hearts with Paul Cox, the original screenplay Billy Connolly's.The Man Who Sued God, and mini-series Anzacs.
As an actor he appeared in features such as.Death of Brunswick opposite Sam Neill, and more recently in Matthew Saville.s A Month of Sundays and the ABC.s The Ex-pm..
He died of natural causes while on a hike in the Grampians National Park, Victoria. He is survived by his wife Helen, daughters Lorin and Lucia and grandchildren Claudia and Charles.
A statement from his family said: .John died doing one of the things he...
Renowned satirist, writer and actor John Clarke, died Sunday, aged 68..
New Zealand-born Clarke and comedy partner Bryan Dawe sent up Aussie politics in mock interviews on the ABC.s 7.30 Report.and before that on Nine.s A Current Affair.
Clarke created and starred in mockumentary series The Games. His screenwriting credits include Lonely Hearts with Paul Cox, the original screenplay Billy Connolly's.The Man Who Sued God, and mini-series Anzacs.
As an actor he appeared in features such as.Death of Brunswick opposite Sam Neill, and more recently in Matthew Saville.s A Month of Sundays and the ABC.s The Ex-pm..
He died of natural causes while on a hike in the Grampians National Park, Victoria. He is survived by his wife Helen, daughters Lorin and Lucia and grandchildren Claudia and Charles.
A statement from his family said: .John died doing one of the things he...
- 4/10/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Australian filmmaker Paul Cox, whose films Lonely Hearts and Man of Flowers earned him acclaim as the father of Australia’s indie cinema, has died. His passing was confirmed by the Australian Directors Guild. Though no cause of death was given, Cox had long battled cancer and underwent a liver transplant in 2009. Cox’s cinematic breakthrough came in 1981 with Lonely Hearts, a romantic comedy starring Wendy Hughes and Norman Kaye that won the AFI Award for best film. A…...
- 6/19/2016
- Deadline
Terminal cancer has not prevented the father of Australian indie cinema from making more films. The experience inspired his new work, Force of Destiny
Dutch-born film-maker Paul Cox is known as the father of independent cinema in Australia. An influential voice since the 1970s, Cox rose to acclaim in the 80s with thoughtful, humanistic, often semi-improvisational films such as Lonely Hearts, Man of Flowers and My First Wife.
Related: Lonely Hearts rewatched – endearing misfits find love on their own terms
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Dutch-born film-maker Paul Cox is known as the father of independent cinema in Australia. An influential voice since the 1970s, Cox rose to acclaim in the 80s with thoughtful, humanistic, often semi-improvisational films such as Lonely Hearts, Man of Flowers and My First Wife.
Related: Lonely Hearts rewatched – endearing misfits find love on their own terms
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- 9/24/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Wendy Hughes and Norman Kaye star as the odd but appealing couple in Paul Cox’s early career-defining and AFI-award-winning film
The latest film from veteran Dutch-born writer/director Paul Cox, Force of Destiny, stars David Wenham as a lovesick artist who finds soul-revitalising romance late in life, after being diagnosed with liver cancer. Known for his naturalistic, character-oriented and occasionally improvisational style, Cox explored similar themes – albeit in softer and more humorous ways – in an early career-defining work: 1981’s deeply memorable romantic drama Lonely Hearts.
Co-written by Cox and comedian John Clarke and produced by Phillip Adams, the film is about two social misfits who connect via a dating service. Peter (Norman Kaye) is an oddball fellow, a piano tuner pushing 50 who has never married and walks around in a slight daze, belying a sometimes scheming personality. He wears a new Hong Kong-imported rug on his head, a flamboyant...
The latest film from veteran Dutch-born writer/director Paul Cox, Force of Destiny, stars David Wenham as a lovesick artist who finds soul-revitalising romance late in life, after being diagnosed with liver cancer. Known for his naturalistic, character-oriented and occasionally improvisational style, Cox explored similar themes – albeit in softer and more humorous ways – in an early career-defining work: 1981’s deeply memorable romantic drama Lonely Hearts.
Co-written by Cox and comedian John Clarke and produced by Phillip Adams, the film is about two social misfits who connect via a dating service. Peter (Norman Kaye) is an oddball fellow, a piano tuner pushing 50 who has never married and walks around in a slight daze, belying a sometimes scheming personality. He wears a new Hong Kong-imported rug on his head, a flamboyant...
- 9/6/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Phillip Adams today called on filmmakers, writers, painters and other creative types to rally to support the Australian film industry.
Delivering the Hector Crawford Memorial lecture, the ABC radio broadcaster and columnist for The Australian declared the industry.s advocates must not be .fooled into collaborating with the bureaucracies by arguing in their terms..
A former producer and chairman of the Australian Film Commission and the AFI, Adams told the Screen Forever conference, .It is time to form another Team Australia. Based not on dog whistle calls to bigotry but on expressing the sort of cultural and political idealism that was so exhilarating in the glory days of Whitlam.
.It is time to call upon the pantheon of Australia.s creative producers, filmmakers, writers, painters, pundits, public intellectuals and sympathetic pollies . anyone and everyone who can be recruited to the cause..
Adams recalled that the campaigns to properly finance and...
Delivering the Hector Crawford Memorial lecture, the ABC radio broadcaster and columnist for The Australian declared the industry.s advocates must not be .fooled into collaborating with the bureaucracies by arguing in their terms..
A former producer and chairman of the Australian Film Commission and the AFI, Adams told the Screen Forever conference, .It is time to form another Team Australia. Based not on dog whistle calls to bigotry but on expressing the sort of cultural and political idealism that was so exhilarating in the glory days of Whitlam.
.It is time to call upon the pantheon of Australia.s creative producers, filmmakers, writers, painters, pundits, public intellectuals and sympathetic pollies . anyone and everyone who can be recruited to the cause..
Adams recalled that the campaigns to properly finance and...
- 11/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Phillip Adams will deliver. the Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture at the Screen Forever conference at Melbourne.s Crown Conference Centre on Monday November 17..
For half a century Adams has been an imposing figure as a broadcaster, filmmaker, social commentator, satirist and author of more than 20 books.
Gough Whitlam once described him as Australia.s .most perceptive social critic... Some regard him as a godfather of the Australian film industry for his contributions to the renaissance of the industry in the 1970s and 80s.
His producing credits include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Don.s Party,. The Getting of Wisdom and Abra Cadabra, and he was Ep on Lonely Hearts and We of the Never Never.
Recognising Adams. 21 years as presenter of Radio National.s Late Night Live, Professor Robert Manne described him as .perhaps the most remarkable broadcaster in the history of this country..
Screen Producers Australia exec director Matt...
For half a century Adams has been an imposing figure as a broadcaster, filmmaker, social commentator, satirist and author of more than 20 books.
Gough Whitlam once described him as Australia.s .most perceptive social critic... Some regard him as a godfather of the Australian film industry for his contributions to the renaissance of the industry in the 1970s and 80s.
His producing credits include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Don.s Party,. The Getting of Wisdom and Abra Cadabra, and he was Ep on Lonely Hearts and We of the Never Never.
Recognising Adams. 21 years as presenter of Radio National.s Late Night Live, Professor Robert Manne described him as .perhaps the most remarkable broadcaster in the history of this country..
Screen Producers Australia exec director Matt...
- 10/29/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
There wil be a celebration of the life of actress Wendy Hughes in Melbourne on Sunday June 1.
The venue is the Melbourne Theatre Company, Southbank Theatre Foyer, 140 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank.
The event will begin at 3 pm..
Hughes, who passed away in Sydney in March, aged 61, won the AFI award for best actress for Careful, He Might Hear You in 1983 and was nominated on six other occasions, for Newsfront, My Brilliant Career, Lonely Hearts, My First Wife, Echoes of Paradise and Boundaries of the Heart.
The venue is the Melbourne Theatre Company, Southbank Theatre Foyer, 140 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank.
The event will begin at 3 pm..
Hughes, who passed away in Sydney in March, aged 61, won the AFI award for best actress for Careful, He Might Hear You in 1983 and was nominated on six other occasions, for Newsfront, My Brilliant Career, Lonely Hearts, My First Wife, Echoes of Paradise and Boundaries of the Heart.
- 5/18/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Australian actress Wendy Hughes dead at 61 (photo: Wendy Hughes in ‘Newsfront’) Australian film, television, and stage actress Wendy Hughes, best known internationally for the big-screen dramas My Brilliant Career and Careful, He Might Hear You, died of cancer early today, March 8, 2014, in Sydney. Hughes (born on July 29, 1952, in Melbourne) was 61. Wendy Hughes’ film career kicked off in the mid-’70s, with Tim Burstall’s psychological drama ‘Jock’ Petersen / Petersen (1974), in which she plays the wife of a college professor who becomes romantically involved with a married student (Jack Thompson). "I spent a lot of the time naked and doing sex scenes," Hughes would later recall about her work in ‘Jock’ Petersen, "because in the seventies you all had to do that." In 1979, Hughes landed a key supporting role in the international arthouse hit My Brilliant Career, Gillian Armstrong’s late 19th-century-set tale of an independent-minded young woman (a Katharine Hepburn...
- 3/9/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Wendy Hughes, who has died in Sydney aged 61, will be remembered by her peers as one of the finest actors of her generation.
Hughes won the AFI award for best actress for Careful, He Might Hear You in 1983 and was nominated on six other occasions, for Newsfront, My Brilliant Career, Lonely Hearts, My First Wife, Echoes of Paradise and Boundaries of the Heart.
.She was a brilliant actress who set the standard and was pioneering for her era,. filmmaker Philippe Mora, who was a close friend in the 1980s and early 1990s, told If.
.In my opinion without Wendy there would have been no Judy Davis, no Nicole Kidman and no Cate Blanchett. If timing had been different she would have been a major international star. As it is she leaves a legacy of perfect performances as one of Australia's greatest actresses..
Mora wanted to cast Hughes as the female...
Hughes won the AFI award for best actress for Careful, He Might Hear You in 1983 and was nominated on six other occasions, for Newsfront, My Brilliant Career, Lonely Hearts, My First Wife, Echoes of Paradise and Boundaries of the Heart.
.She was a brilliant actress who set the standard and was pioneering for her era,. filmmaker Philippe Mora, who was a close friend in the 1980s and early 1990s, told If.
.In my opinion without Wendy there would have been no Judy Davis, no Nicole Kidman and no Cate Blanchett. If timing had been different she would have been a major international star. As it is she leaves a legacy of perfect performances as one of Australia's greatest actresses..
Mora wanted to cast Hughes as the female...
- 3/8/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Paul Cox, a retrospective of whose films is a part of the 2012 edition of Iffk, is a familiar name to Indian viewers. Virtually every film of his has been shown at some Indian festival or the other. Besides, prior to his advent as a filmmaker, he had spent some time in Calcutta, a fact that he makes much of whenever he is in this country.
Paul Cox. Image Courtesy: onborrowedtime.com.au
Cox is one of the handful of people responsible for Australian cinema coming of age in the 1980s. This old-world romantic with his roots in The Netherlands and now in his early seventies, first visited Australia in 1963 as an exchange student and returned to settle there two years later. He started out as a photographer, which explains for the obvious care that goes into the visual aspect of his films; the tone, the depth, the composition, etc. He...
Paul Cox. Image Courtesy: onborrowedtime.com.au
Cox is one of the handful of people responsible for Australian cinema coming of age in the 1980s. This old-world romantic with his roots in The Netherlands and now in his early seventies, first visited Australia in 1963 as an exchange student and returned to settle there two years later. He started out as a photographer, which explains for the obvious care that goes into the visual aspect of his films; the tone, the depth, the composition, etc. He...
- 12/12/2012
- by Vidyarthy Chatterjee
- DearCinema.com
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