*contains spoilers The Real Macaw was made as a family follow-up to Andreacchio’s critical, and runaway financial success, with another family film he directed and co-wrote entitled Napoleon (1995). That film was about a golden retriever pup that escapes his city home and goes on a trek cross country with the help of a galah.…
Read more The Versatility of Director Mario Andreacchio (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Adelaide-based director Mario Andreacchio (1955-) was at the heart of the growth of the film industry in South Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. Part of a core group of directors in that state, he began with a series of varied short films and then moved on to features. The features he has…
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*contains spoilers The music in Wrong World is minimalist, almost experimental, with harmonica, strings and drums which are almost incoherent like the mind of Moir. Certainly the music doesn’t seem to belong, much like Moir. He runs across Kennedy again and says “a rich friend” is funding him, shouting her Chinese, when she’d prefer a…
Read more The Poetic Film Triptych of Director Ian Pringle (Part Two)
*contains spoilers When I say Ian Pringle’s films are poetic I don’t mean in terms of verse but rather their – of not imagination – but their sensitive emotions and their style of expression. There are unknown rhythms to his movies, reflections on nature both human and animal, there is a contrast of man and…
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*contains spoilers Director Robert Clouse (1928-97 kidney failure) is no great shakes when it comes to directing and his name isn’t up there with the greats. But he started off well in the early to mid-1960s when two of his short films were nominated for Oscars. He had one massive hit with Bruce Lee’s (1940-73…
Read more Enter the Hong Kong Action Trio of Director Robert Clouse (Part One)
*contains spoilers He is the head of Australian International Pictures, and it is no coincidence that it sounds like Roger Corman’s American International Pictures. Adelaide-based filmmaker Wayne Groom produced his first independent movie in the early 80s with a film on a microbudget which still sent him broke. It was unfortunate because what low-budget dreams…
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