The digitally remastered print of 1927 classic Australian silent comedy The Kid Stakes is being screened for AFI-aacta members in Sydney next month.
But the credits don.t acknowledge that the film could have been lost to posterity but for the rescue efforts by the Sydney University Film Group including John Morris in 1953.
That omission dismays film activist David Donaldson, a member of the group who later became the inaugural director of the Sydney Film Festival.
Directed and written by Tal Ordell, the film is a faithful adaptation of Syd Nicholls. Fatty Finn comic strip, chronicling the adventures of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo.
The National Film and Sound Archive restored the film as a Dcp (Digital Cinema Package), which was screened at its Arc cinema in Canberra in June with a new score composed and played by Jan Preston.
A donor, borrower, critic and advocate of the Archive and...
But the credits don.t acknowledge that the film could have been lost to posterity but for the rescue efforts by the Sydney University Film Group including John Morris in 1953.
That omission dismays film activist David Donaldson, a member of the group who later became the inaugural director of the Sydney Film Festival.
Directed and written by Tal Ordell, the film is a faithful adaptation of Syd Nicholls. Fatty Finn comic strip, chronicling the adventures of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo.
The National Film and Sound Archive restored the film as a Dcp (Digital Cinema Package), which was screened at its Arc cinema in Canberra in June with a new score composed and played by Jan Preston.
A donor, borrower, critic and advocate of the Archive and...
- 7/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Taxpayer-Funded Screen Australia Backs Anti-Murdoch Project Rupert Murdoch seems unlikely to be bothered that unabashed left-wing writer Bob Ellis is co-writing a movie about the publisher entitled The News of the World. Murdoch might, however, ask why Australian taxpayers’ money is being spent to develop the project. Funding agency Screen Australia is giving money to Ellis and his co-writer Stephen Ramsey to support development. No Australian distributor is involved yet. Ellis told Mumbrella the biopic will trace Murdoch’s career from his purchase of the Sydney Daily Telegraph in the 1960s to his buying the now-defunct The News of the World and becoming a U.S. citizen so News Corp could own U.S. TV stations. Ellis’ blog regularly accuses Murdoch of using his media outlets to champion his causes. After penning the screenplay of Newsfront in 1978, Ellis had a burgeoning career in the 1980s with films such as Fatty Finn,...
- 8/30/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Screen Australia has provided funding development for "The News of the World", a telemovie and potential 14-part miniseries follow-up which would explore the early career and rise of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Political commentator, speech writer, journalist and filmmaker Bob Ellis is co-writing the script with Stephen Ramsay. The famously left-wing Ellis has worked a lot on film and television, penning such features as "Newsfront," "The Nostradamus Kid," "Goodbye Paradise" and "Fatty Finn". He also hit controversy last year for heavily criticising current Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard while simultaneously gushing praise over conservative Opposition leader Tony Abbott.
Ellis tells Mumbrella: "What we have done starts at 1960 with his early career when he bought the Daily Telegraph off Packer and then to when he bought News of the World and how he burst on the world of America and became a friend of Nixon and got a license as a foreigner media owner.
Political commentator, speech writer, journalist and filmmaker Bob Ellis is co-writing the script with Stephen Ramsay. The famously left-wing Ellis has worked a lot on film and television, penning such features as "Newsfront," "The Nostradamus Kid," "Goodbye Paradise" and "Fatty Finn". He also hit controversy last year for heavily criticising current Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard while simultaneously gushing praise over conservative Opposition leader Tony Abbott.
Ellis tells Mumbrella: "What we have done starts at 1960 with his early career when he bought the Daily Telegraph off Packer and then to when he bought News of the World and how he burst on the world of America and became a friend of Nixon and got a license as a foreigner media owner.
- 8/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Caught Inside, director Adam Blaiklock.s feature debut, is a film about one man.s dominance over a group. The tagline for the film ..anyone is a weapon if you twist them right . echoes the director.s concept. .I liked the idea of making a genre film where the violence and the threat comes from one man.s physical and psychological abuse rather than from who.s holding the gun or who.s holding the knife at any one point,. Blaiklock tells If, adding that he aimed to avoid the stereotypes associated with this type of genre film, and make something .that had the right amount of tension without having to resort to gratuitous violence.. The man in question is Bull, played by Fatty Finn star Ben Oxenbould.....
- 10/5/2011
- by Danii Logue
- IF.com.au
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