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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (1)[...]dge —— he’s made
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I’ve got a very good relationship with Kodak.

Representatives come and see me at least twice a year
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always contact me. Then u[...]yd or David Gribble,
have tested the stock, I get a report from them on how
best it could be used.

I[...]can say is, its very smooth there’s just never
a problem.”

Pat Lovell, Producer

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quite recently, the Colorfilm executives had a suite of very
comfortable offices.

We finally j[...]. The very least we should do is provide you with a world class
theatre to view rushes and finished p[...]han we can, and will be only too
happy to run you a reel so you can see and hear the results o[...]

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (6)[...]ien: Interview
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Two Laws
John Avery

A Shifting Dreaming
Marcus Breen

David Mill[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (7)[...]nvelope as the voter's signed declara-
tion. Such a procedure may be an over-
sight, but nonetheless[...]fact, another
film which received only one vote, a
first preference, would be selected
before it —[...]sidered before
next year's Awards.

Greater Union A wards

The winners of the 1982 Greater
Union Awar[...]ddress,
Mathews said:

.. I have been conducting a
thorough review of the film situation
in Victoria[...]industry in Victoria. We felt,
however, that such a broad ration-
alization of resources could get in[...]film industry. 80 our current
study has included a review of the
amalgamation of the audio-visual

r[...]ria and of enhancing the role of
Film Victoria as a producer of quality
films.

“i am hopeful that[...]re all
produced elsewhere.

“i say this, not in a spirit of provin-
cial patriotism, but simply because a
large industrial centre, like Mel-
bourne, with a strong cultural tradi-
tion, has much to give in[...]g in Australia. We have had
remarkable success in a decade, but
we would be foolish to believe that
w[...]rged by some private oper-

ators (30 per cent of a budget and
more).

So far, the concept is only in[...]er, on its past
record, the VFC is suited to such a task
— especially one on a far larger scale
than its present operations.

Eq[...]g in
one body is of benefit to the industry.
Even a cursory glance of film activity in
the past years suggests it is not.

Melbourne Film Festival
A wards

Geoff Gardner, director of the Mel-
bourne[...]Diplomas of Merit

The Decision (Vera Neubauer), A

Most Attractive Man (Rivka Hart-

man), The Babysitter (Casper Ver-

brugge), Murder In a Mist (Lisa Gott-
lieb), Level (Christine F. Koeni[...]ibitors, applied for
censorship certification for a commer-
cial release of Pixote. Despite so[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (8)[...]d the
General Category Award at the Greater Union A wards.

chairman, Sir Richard Kingsland, pre-
pared a statement on Pixote's worth as
a film and the reasons why it should be
released (s[...]can't help feeling the
Censorship Board has taken a stub-
born, bureaucratic attitude to an issue
tha[...]to decide whether that is the
case and it is not a function which
resides with you.”

Cain also wr[...], suggests
that the Censorship Board is acting in a
somewhat cavalier and isolationist
fashion. It is[...]use
registration if, in the opinion of the
Board, a film contravenes the
Regulations.

In this instan[...]ration. On appeal, the
Films Board of Review took a different
view and directed that the film should[...]n to
question. The matter is to be dis-
cussed at a forthcoming meeting of
Commonwealth and State Min[...]Board of Review viewed
Pixote yesterday. This was a slightly
different version to the print viewed in[...]an earlier appeal to the
Board of Review. It has a new intro-
duction and deletes or reduces some
un[...]out that the roles are acted by
children who have a common back-
ground to that of those portrayed in the
film. This sharpens the impact of Pixote
as a film dealing responsibly with the
plight of underprivileged young people
in a corrupt society.

The Film Censorship Board rejec[...]able accuses me
of having dismissed the film with a
“terse statement”. He is wrong on two
points:

(a) I did not dismiss the film any
more than he did.[...]"

The actual statement, the opening
paragraph of a 17-paragraph review,
was: “The horses are good[...]vertising no longer
misquotes critics. It will be a pity if
critics themselves give the practice new[...]Sir,

Before I leave this country for what
may be a very long time, I wish to put on
record through your columns a few
brief words of tribute to Tim Burstall
and hi[...]able). The multiple
tensions, never slackened for a second
by quite brilliant direction, represent a
triumphant return to form for Burstall.

I will l[...]IIIIII
Dear Sir,

As the exclusive distributor of A
Most Attractive Man, we were de-
lighted t[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (9)[...]s that intentional?

It was circumstances really; a
combination of two things. I
haven’t done one or two films that
were offered, and, equally, a couple
I would have liked to have done
weren’t.[...]“Agatha”
in Britain. Then there was virtually
a two-year break before “A Town
Like Alice”. Did you mainly work
on stage?[...]n-
ning show at the Ensemble, which
was Rain, and a couple of short
plays at the Nimrod. The whole
ev[...],
including the new Australian play
of that name, a Samuel Beckett
piece called Not I and a little sketch
by Alex Buzo, called Vicky
Madison[...]offered many film roles at
that time?

There were a couple of things,
but I didn’t want to do them[...]Agatha”?

Very interesting. Essentially, it
was a political exercise, mainly
because of Vanessa Red[...]some extraordinary things. For
example, she wrote a six—page
expose of Agatha Christie, denoun-
cing her as a bourgeois romantic,
and gave it to the director.[...]on the film to the
Workers Revolutionary Party.

A lot of script rewriting went on
with that film. I[...]e script

lllliflllllll MAS

Helen Morse, one of A ustralia’s most highly-
regarded actresses, became known with her
performance as a country

schoolteacher in the
ABC’s “ll/Iario[...]75) and “Caddie” (1976). This was followed
by aA Town Like Alice”, “Silent Reach”
and John D[...]nating watching
Vanessa and Dustin work. I learnt
a lot and was able to observe first-
hand how a British production got
underway. It was British i[...]was First Artists, which
was Dustin’s.

It had a very large crew, but they
werejust like any Austr[...]m. One of
the few differences was that there
were a lot of American executives
around, and fairly eccentric charac-
ters like a producer called Jarvis
Astaire. He started as an[...]he cast. On Australian
films, I’ve always found a terrific
kind of mucking in.

Did you have other opportunities to
work overseas?

Aa play in London, but
that fell through because nei[...]ganize dates. I
was then fully committed to doing a
television series in Australia.

How do you feel[...]m very lucky, in that I have had
the chance to do a couple of really
terrific things, such as A Town Like
Alice and Silent Reach, with
Tom[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (10)[...]west Queens-
land last year, for about three-and-
a-half months. It is about the con-
flict between a mining company
and aa role?

A challenge. I guess that’s a
fairly general word to use, but I am
not sure I c[...]he selection process.
Obviously, you have to make a con-
nection with a project on some kind
of deep level. Then you can look at
it and analyze it. But in a way I
think it’s good to go with the initial
re[...]dis-
covered the script had in part been
based on a particular woman’s
experience — that of the Rosita
character, played by Raina
McKeon. But it was a tremendous
reinforcement of a decision I had
already made to do the part.

Your character has a French accent
and expressive facial gestures. How[...]-
scious, though I could have picked
them up from a friend of mine,
Francoise Villachom, who helped
me with the accent.

I was a bit doubtful at first, but
John thought it would[...]It all
seemed to come together. We
rehearsed for a couple ofweeks and
that helped a lot.

How do you see Jo’s character?
There seem[...]ve probably summed it up
totally.

Mason: We have a whole series
of ways ofexpressing that. One is in[...]se two sides of our-

personality.

There is also a fair amount of dis-
satisfaction in J 0 because s[...]ome of her erratic qual-
ities. Partly because of a certain
instability in her background, and
partly because of a certain lack of
values, Jo has difficulty in maki[...]s some kind of moral resolu-
tion.

After Jo wins a lot of money at a
poker game, her husband goes off to
do something politically ‘valuable’.
Jo’s reaction is to buy a batch of
paintings from a man in the street.
What’s the motivation of her[...]the Koala Klub. Peter has just
come from watching a group of
houses being torn down to make
way for aa need to be

committed. _
Now, Jo does care for Pe[...]iate it
to an extent, but she is not able to
make a strong commitment. At
times she wants to be part of his
reality, to be able to find a way to
sort of understand it and con-
tribute to[...]his need to
do good. At that moment, she is
being a do-gooder. But her actions
come from an emotional[...]world, but her act of
giving this man money means a lot
more to one person . . .

Morse: Yes,[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (11)[...]with the relationship with
Morgan, which happened a long
time ago, in the very unstable
environment of the last years of the
Vietnam war. Jo is drawn back into
a scene she knew, and yet which she
tried to and di[...]asablanca
there are three people, one ofwhom
runs a club, called Rick’s Bar, and
another who is an[...]: John and I paid tribute
to Casablanca, which is a favorite
film of ours. But Far East is 40
years l[...]iage of the other two at the
end . . .

Mason: In a sense, it is Jo who
saves it in Far East. It is h[...]within our personal
experience.

Jo’s dress is a very important facet
of her character. Did you ha[...]alked to Jan
Hurley, the costume designer who
had a lot to say about the clothes,
and to Ross Major, the art director,
as well as to John. Wejust pooled a
lot of different ideas.

What about that black an[...]you wear at that party?

Morse: Yes, that caused a bit of
a stir. John and Brian Probyn
[director of photogra[...]heir fears were
allayed, because I think it makes a
statement about Jo, though not
overtly.

By this[...]in the same
street. In that environment, Peter is
a respectedjournalist and his wife is
well-known fo[...]yan
Brown again after your success
together in “A Town Like Alice”?

Morse: That’s an interesti[...]antages in the fact that Alice
was successful and a lot of the pub-
licity for Alice was based on it being
a love story — two people who
eventually f[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (12)[...]gether again”. People
say to me, “God you are a clever
producer bringing Helen and Bryan
together.” I never thought of it like
itlhactlt — I’d be a clever producer ifl

a .

How did you find working with John
Duigan?

Morse: As a director, John is so
interested in, and caring of[...]d some of the pres-
sures, particularly if we had a diffi-
cult scene coming up. He would
make sure w[...]rehear-
sals. Having written the script,
John had a fairly firm grasp of what
it was about.

Mason: I thought the script
shifted a bit as you worked on it.

Morse: Very few lines w[...]’s intention.

Sometimes an actor comes up with
a line in a truly organic way from

an understanding of the character,
and the writer says keep it. That
happened a couple of times on Far
East. But generally I thin[...]the
script.

Are there advantages in working
with a writer-director?

Morse:
case.

Yes, certainly in this

What happens when a script is to be
directed by somebody else? Do you[...]arly if I haven’t
understood something. That is a
fantastic advantage. One can bring
a lot of one’s own subjectivity when

reading a script and, while that can
be very positive, it s[...]is
inaccurate, then it is of great value
to have a writer-director, parti-
cularly on a film like Far East
which works on several levels.[...]watching the
machinists making flowers. There is
a constant danger of them squash-
ing their fingers[...]rial
accident. Then later in the film, Jo
goes to a restaurant where there is a
dance with bamboo stalks, and there
is the same d[...]somebody else and they are not
being locked up in a factory to get a
certain number of products made.
It is a great freedom; it is also a
joyous moment. Those two very
graceful people are[...]seven
shooting days. But we don’t want to
make a drama of that, because we
think it is a virtue making films
very economically. Unfortunately,
a lot of people think it’s a negative
thing to make films economically.

But i[...]ng.

“Far East” was apparently com-
pleted in a rush to comply with the
tax concessions requireme[...]er.
So, we were right in front. Of
course, it was a bigger film.

The worst aspects of the June
compl[...]d Sound and the laboratories
are working 24 hours a day. They
have to bring in different crews,
equip[...]oking United
Sound for June next year — and
pay a deposit. Isn’t that incredible?
That’s[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (13)[...]idn’t feel com-
mitted to in some way. You need a
certain spark, you need to be
inspired. And if you can’t find a
reason that is of real value to you,
then don’t do it; you won’t do a
good job if you do. And that is
certainly of no v[...]ublic.

Mason: I look at it this way. I
have only a few more films to
make, and there is a limited
number of films and a limited
amount of energy. So, I am not
going to w[...]she
has just accepted: namely, that
money isn’t a motivation. Helen
could get an enormous amount of[...]feel embarrassed ifl
did. Money certainly isn’t a
priority. It is nice to have it; I
would be stupid to pretend other-
wise. But it is not a reason for doing
something, as far as I am con-
c[...]I worked as an usherette
at the State Theatre for a while —
until I was fired. It was funny being
t[...]didn’t hold my
torch properly. After I’d seen a film
a hundred times, I used to read
novels and forget to show people to
their seats. I did a few wrong
things.

I have also done waitressing and
jobs like that — including a stint as
an apprentice boutique salesgirl.

What[...]the
future?

Morse: At the moment I am
rehearsing a play called Duet for
One, by Tom Kempinski. It is a
terrific two-character piece, with
Don Reid playing the other role. It
is about a violinist and a psych-
iatrist. I go to six psychiatric
sessions[...]ally lost. He helps her begin to
realize there is a possibility of
finding an alternative.

I might b[...]’t been
written yet. So, I don’t know. It’s a
question mark. *

Ponch Hawks

Helen Morse[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (14)[...]y enough, The
Dangers of the Fisher-
man’s Life/A Drama at Sea
(Fiskerlivets farer/Et
drama paa havet) in 1908. A
father and son are out fishing
in a stormy sea. The son falls
into the sea. By the ti[...]board,
the son is dead. Man against
the elements a pretty

bleak tale.

Among the films of the fil[...]as Black Sea, directed by David Wingate,
based on a novel by Magnar Mikkelsen. A
science fiction tale, set in a barren North
Norway of the future, it again pits a fisherman
and his family against a harsh environment, this
time a sea emptied of its fish through the ruth-
less efficiency of large factory ships. Again, a
pretty bleak tale.

In the years between the two,[...]light of an outcast, an unusual
individual facing a hostile and prejudiced social
environment. Despite a substantial film produc-
tion for such a small country, Norway has
produced few directors[...]ocial realism of film production in the 1970s is a
fair mirror of a certain heaviness that hangs over
a hard-edged culture fostered on determination,
sense of duty and a guilty conscience. That same
stilling gloom nurtured a Henrik Ibsen, a Knut

Opposite: Nina Knapskog (top), and Renie T[...]Hamsun and an Edvard Munch. Not surpris-
ingly in a society that does not easily tolerate tall
poppie[...]e of the early
period is Walter Fyrst who reveals a strong
visual sense and respect for the black-white
image, and who created a sense of fairytale
mystery in Troll-elgen (The Tr[...]to control Norwegian film

production, initiated a form of subsidy

that gave a boost to the films in the
immediate post-war per[...]of
social problems (About Tilla).

The 1960s saw a reorganization of Norsk
Film A/S, which had been a focus for the film
activity already in the 1930s, and the setting up
ofTeam-film A/S, which has had a solid record
of continuous production since.

The[...]ringen), was shown in the Melbourne
Film Festival a few years ago.

Last year, Lokkeberg’s Loperjen[...]estival, Norway’s annual film
festival. It was a year of enough promise to
make film critic Per H[...]as an exceptionally dismal film harvest in
1980. A series of failures that happened to be
released a[...]r than
Denmark and Sweden. Although the basis for a
vital Norwegian film culture is still in the
making, there are signs of optimism and a con-
siderable effort to foster a more stimulating,
professional and less parochial[...]ed out the lack of support for the short film
as a training ground for feature filmmakers, the
lack of good scriptwriters, a virtual non-exis-
tence of script consulta[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (15)Norwegian Cinema

her a tall poppy in the small Norwegian film
milieu. In[...]mitting the unpardonable sin perhaps
of comparing a country that has suffered as
much from culture cr[...]re film last
year, Forfolgelsen (The Witch Hunt), a film in
the first person, based on an original manu-
script. The story is told from the point of view of
a woman, an outsider who is the victim of a
witch hunt in medieval Norway.

Where Breien is a perfectionist, very con-
cerned with the craft of filmmaking, Vibeke
Lokkeberg reveals a more unpredictably
emotional and intuitive touch as a director.
There is a highly sensual quality in both
women’s films o[...]ows of the snow-clad
landscape in Western Norway, a painterly sen-
suality. Breien herself comes across as a woman
of a great degree of professionalism and poise,
someon[...]film captures Bergen of the
post-war years and is a sensitive view of a child’s
experience: parents who fight and break[...], aggression and so on. From the
opening image of a girl feeling the silk on a
woman’s dress or seated beneath a table, peering
fascinated between the legs of a woman visitor,
there is a fine tension in the film that is
maintained throughout.

Where Breien is a technical perfectionist,
Lokkeberg is technically[...]oor sound and
sometimes soft focus, the latter in a curious way
used to advantage. Because of the obv[...]It was produced by Terje
Kristiansen for As Film A/S.

he third woman director to have a
film in last year’s batch was Laila
Mikkelsen,[...]vest), was shown at the Me]-
bourne Film Festival a few years ago.
Again the subject is a child’s experience — this
time of the war. Liten Ida sees the effect of war
on a little girl whose mother works for the
Germans and is a mistress to a German officer.
The child suffers social ostracis[...]18 — August CINEMA PAPERS

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without fully understanding why, and[...]subject and, although competent and handled
with a sense ofauthenticity, the film suffers from
aa film about adults as
seen by chil ren, received critical acclaim and a
good audience response, judging by the
comments o[...]lom’s Solvmunn
(Silver Mouth) was realized from a script by
Martin Asphaug that won a competition in 1980
for best children’s film sc[...]children’s film produc-
tion. Again it tells of a child’s experience of a
split between parents and a change in partners.

This sudden flowering of films for or about
children may be the first fruits of a public debate
on children’s film with demands f[...]ctors.

As far as film funding goes, Norway is in a
fairly favorable position at present, compared to[...], or even Sweden, where
competition is stiffer in a larger film milieu. The
Ministry of Church and Ed[...]roduction costs. These loans are then
sought from a Norwegian bank. The guarantees
are allocated, on application, as advised by a
seven-member committee appointed by the
Ministry.[...]35mm film, of
at least 2000m in length, receives a subsidy of 55

Forfolgelsen (The Witch Hunt), Anj[...]Bernt Lindekleiv in Laila Mikkelsen 's
Liten Ida: a child '5 experience of war.

per cent (or 45 per[...]es first.

The film production company Norsk Film
A/ S, which is two-thirds owned by the Ministry
and[...]ript development for feature

film (anything from a mere

‘encouragement’ of around $1000 up

to[...]he
Study Section (Studieavdelingen) of Norsk Film
A/S, operating independently and now also
physicall[...]rsk Film to the centrally-located Oslo
Filmhouse, a building only opened last year. It
now houses, am[...]easily

Per Blom’s Solvmunn (Silver Mouth): a child’s involvement
in a parental split.

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (16)[...]ast year, will provide new venues that may
foster a more vital film culture.

The Study Section of Norsk Film A/S, set up
in 1973, provides funding for research and script
development, and acts as a supervisory umbrella
organization for the product[...]avel. The
annual budget is around NKr. 2,000,000 (a little
more than $300,000). Usually, grants are given
out twice a year in doses of about $1500 for a
period of three months, not precluding that the
r[...]tion, Andrew
Szepesy, its function is to serve as a research and
development centre, as well as a production unit.
He feels it has to function inde[...]wants to use it
“to demonstrate that Norsk Film A/S is a very
bad producer”.

In answer to the much debated question of
whether Norway needs a film school, he replies,
“Of course! Not necessarily a film school, but
rather a screen studies centre.”

The leader of the Study Section is clearly a

controversial figure in Norwegian film, not only
by virtue of being a foreigner in an influential
position. On the one hand, he brings a much
needed sharpness of critical judgment and th[...]ing on promises that
may or may not be fulfilled. A new generation of
neurotic filmmakers may be in the making in
Os 0. .
So far there seems to be a doubling up in the
functions of training between[...]brary activities also has
courses and seminars of a more practical nature
throughout the year, drawin[...]ges.

The Study Section was intended primarily as
a training ground for potential feature film
direct[...]erne (The Sm'pers).' the
conflicting loyalties of a soldier.

An area that seems to be sadly neglecte[...]is the experi-
mental film that explores film as a visual art
form and is concerned with the image as such.
Consciousness of such film seems to me at a very
low level. Perhaps it is a reflection of a culture
where everything has to be spelled out, a[...]dcasts can also be
seen in some parts of Norway.

A bright spot in the development of a vital
film culture and a venue for short film is
provided by the annual Sh[...]estival staff, and there was talk of moving it to a
larger city. Aside from a visiting Polish con-
tingent and films from Oberh[...]elopments.

With around 10 feature films produced a year
in aa team that managed to get

Solve Skagen and Malte[...]to blow them up to 35mm for theatrical
release as a two-hour program. The first film
concerns a protracted strike in support of an
unfairly sacke[...]s government-funded
production unit, Filmgruppe 1 A/S, to work on
a major documentary on the post-war period,
entitle[...]ve spent much
time researching archival footage.

A phenomenon in a class of its own is the
spate of films produced b[...]label Mefistofilm.
When they first hit the screen a few years ago,
young audiences responded extremel[...]rker than
the Night); points are driven home with a sledge-
hammer.

But their films marked a welcome departure
from the literariness that marred much film in
the 1970s, and had a strong visual and theatrical
sense at their best. There is a punk quality in
their demonic humor which clearly[...], Across the
Fjord (Kjarleikens ferjereiser), was a fine debut
in 1980, is now working on a second feature, The
Snipers (Krypskytterne), shot[...]to deal with issues of
conflicting loyalties for a soldier.

From a culture with a strong tradition of
individualism and an adventur[...]great vision. There is another
side to the coin: a certain preachiness that has
been dogging much of Norwegian film in the
1970s — that, and perhaps also a complacent
streak, where things are expected to sort
themselves out.

If backed up by a vigorous and critical film
milieu, now in the making, and a stronger
theoretical framework for thinking about[...]N

Solve Skagen and Malte Wadmanis Bravo! Bravol, a black
comedy about oil.

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (17)[...]y
choice?

Well, it often ends up that way —
as a choice. But my feeling was that
there had to be a[...]rl that makes her afraid of
throwing herself into a passiqnate
love relationship. And it is some-
thi[...]an’t just explain in
terms of wanting to become a
writer or whatever. That same fear
is in a lot of people.

I do believe, though, that many
love relationships can ruin women’s
careers. Ours is a society that
creates such a situation, and it
becomes a personal conflict. But
that conflict is still an artificial one.

In what sense?

It is as if a woman is supposed to
go into a kind of puritanism in
order to contribute anythin[...]question of career versus love. I
imagine you are a bit sick of that
type of question . . .[...]tween men and women. I got the
impression you had a very definite
attitude to work relationships . . .

Yes. I was very moralistic, which
is something I have a tendency to
become. It was also because I found
t[...]ctor quite an enormous one,
like going from being a sex object
to a boss, in a way, which is com-
pletely absurd. On that score, we
have a long way to go.

I often say that I don’t have great
problems being a woman director,

and I don’t think I do. I have[...]can handle the

job, at least to some extent. But a

female director is automatically
thought of as b[...]r
director . . .

Yes, Per Blom.

Did you feel it a risk stepping into
someone else’s project?

No, I found it a very good
experience.

Would you have made the fi[...]ve. At the same
time, I feel Hjalmar Soderberg is a
great author, and I enjoyed
working with his mate[...]ho
are unable to throw themselves
completely into a love relationship,
who are constantly taking two[...]-
ience is that that dread of total
commitment is a relevant issue. But
it was expected that I would make a
film with a woman as the main
character because women’s issues
have become very in lately. It is a
portrait of a man in that film, and
that is something one should be
allowed to make as a female
director.

Do certain expectations hang over
you as a legacy from “Wives”?

Yes, absolutely — a feminist
director, and so on. I don’t see it as
a burden, but I do register that it
takes place.

W[...].

Is the project you are working on
now based on a work by another
author?

No, I have writte[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (18)[...]one in mind for the
main female role?

It will be a Norwegian-Swedish
co-production, so I am going to
Sweden today to look at a screen
test of an actress. She has to be
someone[...]lm be in Norwegian?

Well, really Danish; we were a
part of Denmark at that time.
There will be some[...]raditional beliefs and Christianity?

Yes, it was a period of transition
and conflict, when they tried to
adopt Christian beliefs. But a lot of
things that had to do with the old
beliefs[...]rites, for instance,
demons might have to cut up a
body as a necessary transition to a
new stage. The demons were not
automatically evil. With Chris-
tianity, it is a totally different
matter.

But that’s not exact[...]lled The
Witch Hunt. I feel that we are living
in a time of much persecution. It is
a part of the climate of our times.
It’s dangerous to mean anything.
There has been a lot of political
persecution.

Here in Norway?

N[...]But I am perhaps rationalizing. I
get an idea for a film and think I
can say something about today
th[...]n
with the landscape. I felt I would
like to make a film there, on the
West Coast, a film that is much
more visual than what I have made
so far.

We easily end up with a lot of
naturalistic ‘talk dramas’ in
Norway.[...]this once and for all. I
am going to try to make aa post-

Breien‘s Forfalgelsen ( The Witch Hunt): “We are living in a time of much persecution. "

card. It is a matter of trying to find
visual solutions for eve[...]say; not let them be spoken
out. I want to go in a completely
new direction.

In Norwegian films, we[...]“Next of Kin” as well?

Yes, I consider that a natural-
istic drama. So now I’ll have to do
so[...]e but for which
you feel an affinity?

Yes, I was a scriptgirl on
Hunger, which Henning Carlsen
made. It was a very different type
of film.

When it comes to an[...]e influenced me, in the
last few years I have had a regular

phone Contact with Ingmar
Bergman. That has been a
tremendous support.

Has “The Witch Hunt” bee[...]?

No, I wouldn’t dare — though I
think it is a fantastic film. Mine will
probably be very differ[...]such
as Egedius and Astrup, and perhaps
Kittelsen a bit.

Have you wanted to approach film-
making in a more visual way before
but felt constrained?

Yes[...]orted in Next of Kin.

confidence to dare to make a break.
If you make a film every second
year, you are risking two years[...]e responsible for so
much money . . .

Yes. It is a very inorganic means
of expression, in one way, com-
pared to being a painter, for
instance. You end up not taking
chances because it is so expensive.
In the case of a man like Fass-
binder, films literally came pour[...]uld have been able to do that in
Norway. You need a lot of the right
people around you.

How do you f[...]s one of the easier
countries in the world to get a
chance to make films. I know a lot
of people will disagree and say it’s
just e[...]t on the whole, it is easier.
There is relatively a lot of money
around for the size of the film
milieu. It’s still not enough,
however.

That is a development over the past
few years, isn’t it?[...]particularly for
women, it is much harder to get a
chance to make films in the bigger
countries, whe[...]t that the Government
has recognized that film is a
cultural responsibility. They have a
lot less money for filmmaking in
Denmark. Sweden has a lot, but
there are so many filmmakers in
Sweden.[...]too many people who only
make one film. There is a problem
with continuity. We need artistic
adviser[...]case for everyone, but, once you
have established a form of contact,
he is a tremendous teacher. He
recognizes things right away.

Now, however, I have started
to protect myself a bit. He wanted
to read the manuscript of Next of[...]burn my house before I
die!”‘ Actually, I got a very positive
reception from him.

Conclud[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (19)[...]meeting
place of business and art, but in writing a
festival report which will appear months
later, i[...]wave. However, it merely
proved that Newsfront is a hard act to
follow. Although the all-too obvious[...]live up to the expectations raised by his
first.

A foreign audience found that there
was far too muc[...]he climax wipes off all the
strands of mystery in a flurry of gunshots
and confusion. Besides, even apart from
Crombie’s film, the whole story, of a
battle between “the people" and the
wicked barons of development, carries a
sense of deja-vu.

For a fresh outlook, or even just a new
ambience, there was Sam Pi|Isbury’s The
Sca[...]hreshold of adolescence are placed on
the edge of a murder mystery which is
set up skilfully, from many small details
which create tension, beginning when a
weird and mysterious stranger (John
Carradine) arrives in a small country
town.

Of course, it is possible that at a
festival such as Cannes one over-
estimates the h[...]e nursed
Neil's talent along, and I think this is a
marvellous film", Boorman remarked
before the scr[...]the memory in spite of
all odds.

Angel is about a saxophonist in an
itinerant group whose casual ro[...]te
piping by the roadside, hidden from
view, when a carload of masked men
arrive. They kill the bandl[...]322 — August CINEMA PAPERS

and taken to a hospital, where the police
start to question him.[...]film it begins
to appear that the saxophonist is a
Catholic, and the killers were probably
Ulstermen[...]r, an artist com-
mitted to nothing but music, to a vengeful
killer. It is not that he goes mad and t[...]ay
Anderson . . . To set the tone, perhaps to
set a high standard, the opening cere-
mony was the out-of-competition
presentation of a new, and somewhat
vulgarly tinted print of D. W.[...]i's The Night of San Lorenzo: last days of war in a small corner of

Tuscany.

again during its tw[...]l-
berg's E.T. The Extra Terrestial which,
though a long way from High Art, is made
with more cinemat[...]orenzo (The Night of San
Lorenzo), and Ettore Sco|a's La nuit de
Varennes (The Night of Varennes) -
Varennes being a small place, but the
scene of an important event:[...]ant perfor-
mance as the aged Casanova is lost on a
generation dulled by the crass inter-
pretation i[...]lgarizing conception of
the man.

All in all, Sco|a's drama may look like a
costume-drama without action: there are
no battles, and not even a duel. Love
scenes are avoided with courteous apol[...]ing judged
the best film in Competition. There is a
tradition, emphasized by awards in

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (20)trump \\\ v

Taking a ship across a mountain to a nearby tributary: Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.

recent years, of making the Palm d'Or a
political statement, rather than an artistic
cate[...]cording to his instructions) who has
escaped from a Turkish prison into poli-
tical exile; and Costa-[...]t its political and moral standpoint
necessitates a simple division of the
audience's sympathy.

Compared to either, the Taviani
brothers could create a series of almost
overlapping viewpoints, explore a wide
range of characters and describe not just
the last days of war in a small corner of
Tuscany, but also the layers of m[...]lien to the spirit of the people; politics
may be a mess in Britain or in Australia,
but it was Italy[...]r, about communism) all
show that there is always a ruling elite,
who can be and have been corrupted by
power, with lackeys (or a police force, or
an army) whom they can buy, corr[...]ower.

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are the sons
of a rich industrialist, and World War 2
was their bap[...]hat the people,
especially the poorest, possessed a
strength which socialism could perhaps

tap, but[...]invalided out of
the jungle. Ftobards was to have a
partner-companion, played by Mick
Jagger, but by the time Herzog found a
replacement for his hero, Jagger's other
commitments intervened. It took nearly a
year for Herzog to find an actor: in the
end, it[...]og notwithstanding, he is hope-
lessly miscast as a loony Irishman. And
Claudia Cardinale, decorative as she is,
has little to offer in a conventional part as
a brothel-owner in love with Kinski:
whatever the p[...]or Mick
Jagger may have been, it would have
added aa film from its central charac-
ters and, as Kinski[...]mlins that beset it. As it is, it has
turned into a director’s film; the com-
bination of staggerin[...]g
Indian tribes complete with ethno-
graphic bric-a-brac, sunrises and
sunsets teeters between the br[...]intentionally funny: its bad press
may be due to a wilful refusal to see
Kinski as a comedian.

As for Wenders’ Hammett, I found its[...]e-known directors. Douce
enquete sur la violence (A Gentle Inquiry
Into Violence), by Gerard Guerin,[...]wake-
fulness failed altogether. It may have
made a better impression, had there not
been an instance[...]on concerned is the passion
for work, embodied by a tele-feature
director (Jerzy Radzivilowicz) and a
factory owner (Michel Piccoli). They
reflect the[...]y irrational sequences; so that
after an hour and a half of his film, and as
long again as his theori[...]Invitation au voyage
(Invitation to 2: Voyage) is aa record cover. (The
same could be said of Alan Par[...]s, record
covers are in this year.) Invitation to a

Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon in Costa-Gav[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (21)[...]n and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman: “there is nothing as deep as an empty

British political organization".

Voyage is a variation on the thief-and-
hooker, or buddy-budd[...]g man’s companion is his sister's
corpse. it is a chic film, but even in its
minor key and sombre h[...]Smith-
ereens, directed by Susan Seidelman,
with a combination of a steady, well-
meaning, innocent boy and prom-
iscuous, restless, quasi-criminal girl
giving a new twist on the increasingly
fashionable theme o[...]erzy Skolimo wski's British film, Moonlighting, "a nightmare allegory . . . on

characters and the c[...]turnal existence like young, sinewy
sewer-rats.

A few years ago, films like Smith-
ereens, Invitation to a Voyage and par-
ticularly Aa fresh approach used to make their
mark. But the f[...]censored information . . . and all other tools of a dictatorship".

324 — August CINEMA PAPERS[...]t and the Third World, seems to cut
investment to a minimum and reduce the
lavish grandeur. Besides,[...]irectorate had asked
for Elmer Klimov’s Agonia, a grand and
spectacular drama about Rasputin, in th[...]l refused in turn. On the Soviet
stand. there was a timetable of films
showing in the Market, listing[...]ever, it concentrates on
the hostile prurience of a ma|e-domi-
nated society, and the lesbian heroine’s
mad dash across the firing lines at a
heavily-guarded border post reaffirms
the deviati[...]sually-paced
films as Girlfriends.

This sense of a static, museum-piece
quality dominated many of th[...]d arrogant for
satirizing his contemporaries from a
rigidly moral standpoint, assuming that
as men wh[...]litary coup in December
1981, who came to rebuild a house for
their corrupt boss. Only their foreman
(Jeremy Irons, giving a performance
which should have won the Best Actor[...]with
meticulous realism, it gradually turns into
a nightmarish allegory (got unlike Grot-
owski’s[...]censored information, on
forcing labor to fulfil a timed plan, and all
the other tools. of a dictatorship. As
Jeremy Irons lies, steals and cheats for a
dubious goal, his mates turn against him
while the outside world has disappeared
behind a curtain of non-communication.

Communication, rel[...]ldentificazione d’una donna
(Identification of a Woman) cannot be
ignored, especially as it won the fanciest
prize, a tribute awarded to celebrate the
35 years of the[...]is
actually the identification of two women:
one a rich bitch who escapes from the
exceedingly borin[...]hat there is
nothing as deep as an empty well. ‘A

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (22)[...]graphy, We of the Never Never is
directed by Igor A uzins, from a screenplay by Peter Schreck, for producer
Greg Tepper.

Shot on location in the Northern Territory on a budget of $3.2 million, We of
the Never Ne[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (23)[...]t), Elsey station hands;
Jeannie is pulled across a flooded river en route to Elsey; Dan
(Mar[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (24)[...]s deeply engraved upon white

Australian culture. A deliberate

forgetfulness about the history of

w[...]ty of
Aboriginal lives by tying their identity to a few
selected criteria.

Two Laws, a two-hour film in four parts,
opened a season at the Sydney Opera House on
May 3. It cha[...]lllllllllllll

Aboriginal people from Borroloola, a small
township in the Northern Territory Gulf of[...]of their own world, even if it
is intersected by a European world whose centre
and rationality lies[...]iginal people (We Stop Here, Protected and
Ningla-a-na). Their aim as been to give the
Aboriginal peo[...]ntrol in
direction and expression.

Two Laws goes a deal further in this direction
than their earlier[...]e highly-decentralized Borro-
loola community and a smoother film, in
cinematic terms, would have di[...]which had been
decided by the Aboriginal people.

A wide-angle lens is used throughout the film.
The[...]nt the audience from
forgetting that it is seeing a selection from a
reality, and not the reality itself. The audience[...]n which the film was made. This is

as important a message as the more explicitly-
informative parts of the film.

The first part of the film deals with a police
patrol to the east of Borroloola in[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (25)[...]ple taking the parts
as if she were teaching them a new dance or a
ritual. They know the story already, but their
fu[...]t
humor, takes the constable’s part in flogging a
tree, which represents himself:

“You been eati[...]yself.”

Fifty years before this police patrol, a bloody
battle between the Karrawa Aboriginals and[...]g cattle.

The police sergeant at Borroloola sent a con-
stable and a tracker out on patrol as it had been
done years a[...]tal treatment was
meted out to Dolly; she died as a result ofit. She
had been arrested because she was living with a
white man.

few of the white men —— small pas[...]ers, prospectors: all

battlers — had agreed to a com-

promise with the Aboriginals in the

area. Their activities were on a scale
compatible with the Aboriginal use of the l[...]semi-Aboriginal lifestyle. Bill Harney, who
wrote a number of books about the combo life,
was the mos[...]ied against him, yet he was acquitted.
Combos had a role in the resistance to an

attempt by the Comm[...]ch to move the Aboriginal people
at Borroloola to a proposed reserve about 100
km east of the town. T[...]d to maintain an orderly community at
Borroloola. A great deal of their power came
from the role in d[...]ed with the mission-
aries, who tried to exercise a harsh moralism in
the affairs of the Aboriginals.[...]fluence ofthe combos. Borro-
loola has never been a mission or government
settlement capable of exclu[...]the Northern Territory’s
legendary figures and a combo. A letter was sent
to Darwin appealing against the r[...]to the Borro-
loola Aboriginals has its roots in a pattern of
foreign contact which preceded the Eur[...]l-
lected over the year. In return, they received a
variety of Macassan goods: rice, molasses,[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (26)i

A SHIFTING

DHEA MING

A Dramatized Documentary

Marcus Breen

ocumentary filmmakers inevitably
confront a wide range of dilemmas
when considering any aspec[...]d reinforces this
point, insofar as what began as a documentary
about Aboriginals was transformed into a
fully-fledged, realist drama by Aboriginals. But[...]rns too few Australians
and is now the subject of a forthcoming tele-
vision documentary is land righ[...]ring Aboriginal land
rights claims is, therefore, a matter of major
importance, not only to filmmaker[...]Australians,
themselves included, and established a film
company, Imago Australia, which will attempt[...]t of
their efforts is the television documentary,
A Shifting Dreaming, which will go to air
sometime[...]ugust CINEMA PAPERS

ob Plasto, who began work as a

journalist with the ABC in 1968 and

was for six years a producer,

director and,writer of the ABC

series A Big Country, became
aware of the importance of Ab[...]ve penin-
sula. That was in 1969, when Plasto was a
young journalist based in the Northern
Territory.[...]raditional
land to Aboriginals and, consequently, a
movement began that now takes on
momentous proportions. It was a movement
that surpassed any superficial expectati[...]it is now clear that
land rights claims represent a major develop-
ment in Australia’s recent histo[...]ional
owners.

But the real motivation for making a docu-
mentary about Aboriginal land rights
develo[...]ps
each year to the Northern Territory:

“I saw a remarkable shift in the relationship

between bla[...]ines were finding voice, with strong

demands for a return of their lands. I felt

Australia was in t[...], and black and white

were confused. I felt that a land rights

inquiry would provide the essence of[...]ut them. Indeed, it is the realiza-
tion that, as a European, a filmmaker is
excluded from participating in Aboriginal
culture that is a persistent limitation of any
documentary effort. The only approach can be
that of a sympathetic and compassionate
white, who s[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (27)[...]e change”.

evolution is, of course, too strong a

word for the land rights claims.

Rather, reform[...]the conflict between the Aboriginal

claims for a radical reversal of the
mechanisms that have robb[...]of the Northern Territory
forms the foundation of A Shifting Dreaming
and will have far-reaching impl[...]t’s

what I think anyway. It’s going to shake a lot

of people and bring to the screen what we
al[...]saw.”

What the filmmakers saw and filmed was
unique in Australian documentary history: the

proceedin[...]: Cul Cullen (centre) and Gerard Kennedy rehearse a
sequence.

land rights claims of the Warlpiri peo[...]of the
project and of the feeling Plasto had that a
change in Aboriginal-white relations was
underway[...]espected Plasto’s concern and,
furthermore, had a feeling for what Plasto was
trying to achieve.

I[...]ly should be argued that
this sort of approach to a matter of implicit
concern to Aboriginals ~ was s[...]project was rolling and, of
course, obstacles of a logistical and personal
nature developed that wer[...]g recorded. Plasto recalls his experience:

“At a land rights claim your emotions

change every day[...]nniston massacre which left few
arguments. It was a massive emotional
experience. And it all happened[...]he claims for the whites
as well. Also, there was a lot of dignity in the
way the claims were made wi[...]o in that way we
think we will be able to present a fair story.”

ilming Aboriginal people led to other

conflicts of a different kind. Plasto

notes, for example, that[...]aims in the
Northern Territory, it is likely that a further
groundswell of support for Aborigi[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (28)[...]The joint participant in Imago Australia and
A Shifting Dreaming” is David Millikan.
Recently,[...]ore involving himself in filmmaking,
Millikan was a theologian, writer and publicist
for the Zadok Centre in Canberra, a facility
established by Christian organizations t[...]originals and white

Q .

Australians.

Was there a particular situation or
experience that directed[...]to go to the Northern Territory ——

and film a land claim, which is
something that hadn’t been[...]ack to the Aboriginals, and that is
going to have a long-term effect on
the way our culture perceives itself
in the future.

There were a lot of issues that
were unresolved in my mind, and
the documentary seemed a superb

way of looking into them in some ._

dept[...]ched this docu-
mentary?

We are trying to strike a balance
between the role of an observer and
that[...]roach of the Americans.
Rather, we are aiming for a view
which in itself has a certain depth
and which doesn’t avoid the deepe[...]uppose one thing that may be
distinctive, but not unique, about
the way we have approached it is
that we have a certain interest in
what dilemmas the situation p[...]ould be whether or not we
find ourselves adopting a partisan
view in support of the Aboriginals
in their fight for land rights. Every-
one in the centre has a view on that.
People farther south and east tend[...]e matter. But we
have been in the thick of it for a
number of months.

Still, there are a lot of issues in
relation to the Aboriginal land[...]stood the Aboriginals
more than most, said, after a life-
time of study, he didn’t understand
a lot of things. I am very suspicious
of people who[...]ng the Aboriginal
position on this. We are taking a
position of European outsiders who
are int[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (29)[...]ts and Abori-
ginals generally?

It happened over a period of
some time. I probably became first
awa[...]when I was living in Los
Angeles. I used to spend a bit of
time bushwalking in the High
Sierras — i[...]who had lived here for
40,000 years and developed a
culture that was finely tuned to life
in this pa[...]als have to say.

So, they would be recognized as a
major force, if not the major force,
in how this[...]e going to be the major force
because we now have a population
of 15 million in this country and the
Aboriginals are a minority. But
they have a perception which has
not been understood or recognized,

and which must. They have a lot to
say about what the experience of
beauty, the experience of meaning,
the experience of selfhood as a
nation is.

Does that mean you see yourselves
becoming part of a political move-
ment representing Aboriginal
politics, or is it more distant than
that?

No, it is at a step further back
than that. Other people may
assume that approach. We have
assumed a different approach. We
are trying to look at what[...]riginals are struggling to
reassert themselves as a viable cul-
tural identity in certain places. I
don’t think they have ever lost their
cultural identity in a lot of places,
but in some places they have. The
re—emergence of a vital Aboriginal

So you can see it as an act of[...]they have
wreaked on the Aboriginals,
burdened by a sense of conscience
and are now throwing back stuff to
ease their conscience. In a sense,
you can see it as the final act ofcon-
qu[...]Wrong
Side of the Road”, who started out
making a documentary but realized
they were doing the wron[...]the major issues in this

We were able to unearth a tran-
script of the incident — in fact, that
se[...]we looked into
the incident we were looking into a
matter of quite profound implica-
tions in terms of the way we, as a
people, had dealt with something
quite devastatin[...]at 31
Aboriginals had been shot in the
process of a police party searching
for the murderers of a white dingo
trapper. We have since found that
the[...]e to terms with that. I
knew nothing about it and a lot
of other people have never heard of
it.

Inquiry chairman, A. H. 0’Ke/ly (Martin Vaughan), and Police Inspector Giles ( Victor Kazan). A Shifiing Dreaming.

culture is something that is going to
be very important to Australia. We
are at a point in this documentary
where we are seeing tha[...]act of sur-
vival, that the Aboriginals have, in
a sense, clawed their way back from
almost total de[...]and got it back.

documentary is that it includes a
large section of drama. This was an
evolution. We[...]lked, the more we
realized they were dealing with a
reality which they were still
struggling w[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (30)[...]provided the 1982 Mel-
bourne Film Festival with a notable
media event, it revealed an interesting
c[...]tion of representative democracy, Brazil
is still aa consider-
able achievement by any measure —
pol[...]apparently
rested upon the fact that in the film a 10-
year-old boy watches a couple copulate.
Yet one also sees him kill three people,
shooting two men and knifing a woman in
the stomach. He also witnesses the pack
rape of a boy not much older than him-
self in a Sao Paulo reformatory.

Gamines like Pixote and his teenage
comrades are a disturbing fact of life on
the streets of virtual[...]n is largely one of benign
neglect, epitomized in a curious law that
precludes anyone under 18 from being
prosecuted for a criminal offence. This
neither keeps minors away[...]ch
Babenco courageously depicts in action
against a group of street urchins).

A brief prologue to Pixote states that
50 per cent[...]he inmates. Thus we meet little
Pixote (played by a wide-eyed prodigy
named Fernando Ramos da Silva),[...]e and
Babenco spares the audience nothing,
before a boy is beaten to death by
warders and Pixote joins a mass break-
out.

Under the leadership of a teenage
transvestite, he and three others make
ou[...]ons about
the film's “detachment”.

Pixote is a harrowing, remorseless
and saddening social docum[...]r effect, but also,
one suspects, in deference to a prevail-
ing official climate that permits only a
certain degree of social observation.

Another fi[...]1-year-old Japanese
boy befriends the children of a prosti-
tute and has his view of the adult world[...]east part of
the director's task easier, portrays a child
in a far happier situation than Pixote. His

loving parents run a working-man's.

restaurant on the Osaka riverfron[...]ilt-ridden war-veteran
father (Takahiro Tamura).

A remarkably sure-handed first
feature, Muddy River[...]t and Up the Junction), Looks and
smiles presents a bleak view of the lot of
school-leavers in Britai[...]ore to cope with than the
unequal task of finding a satisfactoryjob.
Not only is he constantly disapp[...]ost of his life about
the importance of “having a trade"), Mick
finds society coolly unhelpful in o[...]er and off-hand talk of fallen
comrades.

Through aa final freeze-frame, Mick
stares accusingiy into t[...]stivalgoer had
trouble covering them all, because a
number of the most important were
screening at th[...]ch, James B.
Brown’s The Weavers: wasn’t That a
Time, shared a plum slot at the main
venue. (I rank it slightly ahead of the
highly enjoyable A Personal History of
the Australian Surf, reviewed[...]y mindful of contemporary realities.
in picturing a Weavers reunion and final
concert before the death of bass baritone
Lee Hays, he strikes a nice balance
between past and present, indulging[...]ithout
losing sight of the dialectical verities.

A bigger, and stronger-voiced, Ronnie

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (31)[...]enelik Shabazz'Burning an Illusion.

Gilbert adds a coda to their inevitable
Spanish civil war song, “Venga Jaleo”,
with a moving rendition of “Hay Una
Mujer”, Holy Nea[...]res that fell
into three approximate categories: (a)
films about women who want to be
people; (b) vig[...]Duckworth and June
Rock's Une histoire de femmes (A
Wives’ Tale) and Rosa von Praunheim's
Rote liebe (Red Love).

Maeve, a British Film Institute pro-
duction set in modern[...]the
Catholic women of this milieu. The return
of a 20-year-old exile, feminist and free-
thinker, Maeve Sweeney (Mary Jack-
son), for a weeks holiday with her family
in beleaguered Belf[...]with girl-
friends (when she runs the gauntlet of a
fire-fight between unseen antagonists).
Maeve’s[...]plied
reproach of this omission carries over
into a sequence in which three Irish
women — Maeve, her mother and her
sister — flee from a dofty old man
bellowing about |reland’s lost wi[...]achieve.

Thematically, The Subjective Factor
has a lot in common with Maeve. A long,
demanding (but engrossing) auto-
biographical account of a West German
sociaIist’s painful journey into ra[...]o, points out how women
are repressed even within a movement
devoted to “liberation”.

Most of th[...]urchill
were permitted to shoot long sequences
at a U8. army camp which show girl
recruits being hara[...]ed by incredibly
overbearing drill sergeants (one a
woman).

Their 80-minute film follows the mis-
fortunes of three young volunteers
among a squad of 50 during basic
training at Fort Gordon,[...]ies
inflicted upon the girl soldiers. Perhaps,
in a period of rising unemployment, the
army has all the recruits it can handle!

Soldier Girls goes quite a bit deeper,
however, than its horrifying account[...]f the sergeants that Vietnam had
destroyed him as a human being.

A Wives’ Tale takes up one of the
themes of Barba[...]SA — the politicization of
strikers’ wives by a prolonged industrial
struggle. The three Canadian[...]an Kopple, but give themselves
scope to pursue it a good deal further.

Though their locale (Sudbury, site of
the world’s largest nickel deposit) is a
bigger and more sophisticated place
than the Kent[...]ury wives had been held responsible for
defeating a similar long strike and also
help explain the mod[...]inist,
with the still highly-active Helga Goetze,
a German sexual liberationist.

After Kollontai eme[...]amid
the “shocking" rhetoric) with scenes
from a Kollontai novel illustrating how
sexual standards[...]rd Petrick’s The Case of the Leg-
less Veteran, a caustic account of the
senseless McCarthyist persecution of a
maimed ex-soldier because he was a
member of a Trotskyite (and, therefore,
fiercely anti—Stali[...]Live and Who Shall Die?, handled
explosive themes a mite gingerly.

Else interestingly outline[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (32)[...]n’t make his task
any easier by insisting, like a latter-day
Eric von Stroheim, upon shooting in one
of the world’s most inaccessible
locations and hauling a steamer over a
steep hill — commands, struggles,
pleads and raves. One could under-
stand Blank’s answer to a question that
the experience had both enhanced hi[...]ght Pierre Granier Deferre's
Une etrange affaire (A Strange Affair), a
wickedly fey tale of modern business
take-overs t[...]legory
on French politics today, and _ Ettore
Sco|a’s Passione d’amore (Passion of
Love), an oper[...]gia’s La festa perduta (The Party’s
Over), is a very uneven critique of
political terrorism from[...]e the malaise
in Marxist movements while cleaning a
lavatory) but the young leftists’ growing
accep[...]re convinc-
ingly — in the well-worn context of a
fatalistic road movie. Comerford follows
two inarticulate gypsy newlyweds on a
cross-border smuggling trip through a
still-beautiful, unappreciated, land-
scape that[...]Sch|on-
dorff's Die falschung (Circle of Deceit),
a 1981 German-French co-production.
Concerning a West German journalist
sent to Lebanon in 1975, it moves
forward with a purposiveness rare in the
Festival’s films. The[...]tary
situation in Lebanon, is established
through a compelling juxtaposition of
images (denoting the personal and the
larger conflicts) and a powerfully
sustained emotional rhythm.

Laschen ([...]wife
Greta (Gila von Weitershausen) have
reached a stalemate in their marriage
when he is sent to co[...]o works in the German
embassy and is the widow of a Leban-
ese. As this relationship grows, Georg
rec[...]ai Herrmann)
somewhat surprisingly refuses to see a
lasting liaison between Georg and Ariane
growing[...]kes just as much and that
Georg is only there for a few days,
whereas Lebanon is now her life.

Arian[...]bserver". He has not secured
Ariane, but there is a clear sense of an
integrity shakily and movingly[...]eployed by Schlondorff with
unflagging energy and a sure control of
his films parallel and converging con-
cerns. The footage which creates a city
under conditions of civil war is horrify-
in[...]layed by Polish director
Jerzy Skolimowski) poses a bunch of tri-
umphant soldiers, the camera cuts t[...]e: Joe Comerford’s
Irish feature, Traveller — a ‘fatalistic road movie Above: Ettore Sco[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (33)[...]osure to the
horrors of war, Schlondorff has made a
film on a large scale. Large enough, that
is, for some mino[...]tter much — and large enough,
I hope, to secure a healthy commercial
release.

War, omnipresent in[...]stubborn Mule). Directed
by Franz Antel, this is a more or less
engaging account of a Vienna butcher,
Karl Bockerer (Karl Merkatz), who[...]urse, be done, as Leo Mccarey
showed in Once Upon a Honeymoon, for
instance, but here one is aware of[...]n of families
divided and friendships sundered by a
repulsive ideology. That is to say, the
films pow[...]er than, Merkatz to one side,
in its treatment as a film.

Perhaps expecting less, or perhaps
having[...]o in
this respect). Nevertheless, this is clearly
a film made by someone who loves films,
and whose a[...]erprise.

Allegedly based on the fading career
of a former UFA star, Sybille Schmidtz, a
favorite of Goebbels and wartime
Germany, and red[...]melodramas. As Fassbinder records the
efforts of a sports reporter Krohn (Hilmer
Thate) to find Vero[...]what happened to her and her career, he
offers us a full-throated, sometimes
overwrought, picture of a life out of
control. initially claiming that “a[...]atient Veronika now is. She is in
fact trapped by a gang of drug
racketeers led by Dr Katz and there[...]of old Hollywood about
all this. Dr Katz exhibits a fine line in
enigmatic threat that recalls, say,[...]pired to tragedy in this
film. Film stars work in a fantasy world
and their work involves the creatio[...]agination, in satisfying its
dreams of glamor, is a subject for melo-
drama. Fassbinder, recognizing[...]our — filmgoing
memories and the result evokes a world
of light and shadow with much panache
and even a little poignancy.

If I had no special expectatio[...]In the 19605, Michel-
angelo Antonioni staked out a crucial
piece of cinematic territory: simplis-
ti[...]n Jean Cocteau’s
interminable, yappy play about a revolu-
tionary young poet, Sebastian (Franco
Branciaroli), sent to assassinate a
widowed queen (Vitti) whose late
husband he resem[...]disrupt the
workings of society.").

There is not a shred of humor in this
high-flown nonsense and its preten-
sions are underlined by a lot of peculiarly
ugly, obtrusive and puerile cam[...]". The inner
sanctuary of the castle is bathed in a soft
orange glow, except when the Chief of
Police (Paolo Bonacelli) is there eccen-
trically lit by a pale mauve wash. When
the lovers move outside, for a bravura
ride on white horses over brilliant green[...]at the camera and Antonioni are up to
without for a moment approving or
caring. The Queen has told Se[...]"has never lived”, that she “was
taught to be a Queen”, that she “has
never been a woman” — until now, one
assumes, the colors g[...]creeping through the birch
forest and the deer in a death struggle
evoke a world of muffled violence. The
figure crawling up the castle wall (pale
blue light by now) is caught in a recog-
nizably Antonioniesque image of man
dwarfe[...]uty now coarsened so
that she sometimes resembles a weak-
willed Martita Hunt), she is a tedious
cipher, a clattering symbol, bearing no
recognizable link w[...]rewell in Duel in the Sun:
there, however, it was a fitting climax to
King Vidor's pyrotechnics; here[...]ents who, to everyone's
surprise, himself becomes a father after
accepting an invitation to share a bed
with a big-breasted American lady; she

Concluded[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (34)[...]in was taken
out of it.

Brideshead Revisited was a nos-
talgic excursion. Waugh wrote it, as
he said, “in a time of Spam and
austerity”. He poured out his heart.
He had been a firm Catholic
convert since I930.

Are you a Catholic?

No, my young director [Charles
Sturrid[...]augh suddenly come
back into favor? He was really a
phenomenon of the 19305 . . .

Waugh is a master. and one of

the great writers of the 20th[...]one forgets about Decline
and Fall is that it is a daring book. I
had remembered how funny it was,
b[...]ed.

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family and has a terrible journey
from the station. They all assume
that he is drunk because he is a
journalist. And every time the wine
is passed, he gets a chilling cascade
of water.

The descriptive bits of all those
books are wonderful.

As a producer, do you think about
the wider, social co[...]atriotic blood back into the
nation’s veins. In a way, Waugh
comments on that just as he did
when h[...]hink you
can legislate for topicality. Wejust
hit a lucky streak. We were
fortunate in our delays, fo[...]actually feeling
much poorer, and there is always a
reaction. In a time of affluence,
everyone is in jeans and sweat[...]he
girls and boys are starting to dress
up. It is a kind of defiance against
the times.

The analogy[...]white sofas.

It must please you tremendously, as
a producer, to have made something
that fit[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (35)[...]strange, difficult and
interesting. One could put a lot into
it.

You were asking whether one
should[...]t doesn’t
matter. If you are successful, it’s a
kind of bonus, and it should come
out of the blue like a coconut falling
on your head.

In a funny way, we made some-
thing which really broke[...]were
working full-time on Brideshead.
We amassed a great deal of
research and photographic
material. There was a lot to do. We
had to turn over every country
hous[...]r: David
Plowright and Dennis Foreman.
But it was a concerted effort within
the whole organization.[...]We started filming on May 1,
1979, and did quite a bit — all the
African scenes and bits and piece[...], and went on to January 4,
1981.

That’s quite aa
disastrous moment, because we lost
everything —[...]dge, who took on this extra-
ordinary burden with a week’s
notice.

Left: Derek Granger, pro[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (36)[...]are aware of that
detail. They are also absorbing a lot
more than they actually realize,
which pays o[...]ul. “lt’s
wonderful to see something going
at a natural pace rather than being
dramatized in a superficial way”,
Phyllis said.

In Charles Rid[...]tion in the 1920
edition.” But somehow it gives a
kind of feel. The actors get it and I
think the a[...]conceptions so one is in fact doing
something in a new way.

One has to trust one’s taste . . .

Yes, though obviously one is not
such a total fool as to be com-
pletely unaware of the a[...]s watching the preview yester-
day and it came to a moment I have
always been very worried about: the[...]if he gets entangled with
the Marchmains, who are a bizarre
family of “peculiar awfulness”.

That[...]Still too
long, Charles; still too long. Must
get a bit more out of it.” And
Charles said, “No, i[...].

Yes. He was in my production
training course.

A heavy burden to lay on young
shoulders . . .

Good Catholic boy, you see.
Educated Stony House. One of a
family of seven. Not a good
Catholic — a lapsed Catholic
[laughter]. Made him even better,[...]John Mortimer scripted it at six
hours, which was a lunatic mis-
calculation as it turned out [the
pr[...]n, and from the time
we began shooting, there was a
great deal of expansion and re-
writing. We had d[...]ave him to
provide the dramatic structure?

I had a fairly heavy involvement
in the script, but John laid down a
basis, which was fine, and we
worked from that. O[...]the book
itself.

You said earlier that you took a
different approach. What was new
in the program a[...]c. I think people like
making the effort of doing a little
translation themselves.

We were do[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (37)[...]al Film Archive,
London

it June 1981, as part of a visit to Aus-

tralia to present a retrospective program

of rare archive films at[...]end some days with Ray Edmondson and his
staff on a consultative basis. Visits to colleague
film arc[...]heritage: its recognition
of the value of film as a primary research tool in
the study of 20th-Centur[...]s
records); its desire for public recognition and a
clear identity; its awareness of the importance o[...]e peculiar to its situation in Aus-
tralia. It is a difficult, but worthwhile, act to
sustain, and on[...]itional shortcomings if Aus-
tralia is to develop a serious, healthy and
respected national film arch[...]rts —
namely, the lack of recognition offilm as a fully-
fledged art beyond limited cultural circles.

Because it was a child of technology, began
life in the fairground[...]trol of philis—
tine entrepreneurs, appealed to a mass audience
and is costly to create, cinema has[...]tolerant countries like France, the U.S. and, to a
lesser degree, Britain, where film has at least
b[...]ur cultural heri-
tage not to have made more than a token effort
to put matters right, since the means to do so
were established, is a cause for justifiable
concern and anger on the pa[...]—out” assets; in commercial terms,
films have a shelf—life beyond which it makes no
sense but t[...]joyed potential
commercial revival), it is simply a fact that the
film industry accepts no brief for[...]e.g., by legislation towards
statutory deposit in a state archive).

‘fa kt thoroughly righ[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (38)[...]oftheir films, this has often been no more
than a passive act of storage leading to the ulti-
mate[...], and success in that regard, iron-
ically, means a greater financial burden for the
archive.

All this is by way of arguing that any nation
which has a genuine commitment to the rescue
and survival of[...]ably, it should give comparably more:

0 film is a fragile as well as a costly medium,
constantly put at risk by changing[...]et in
1981 was, I understand, $140,000, which for a
state-funded film archive charged with a
national responsibility seems an almost risible
s[...]institutions. How much, for example, is spent in
a year on the acquisition of books for the
National[...]paintings? It might even be instruc-
tive to draw a comparison with the amount of
subsidy, direct or[...]signed
and well-maintained storage facilities and a
couple of willing hands to look after them; it also
employs a qualified and dedicated technical
officer. Yet,[...]ile supervising occasional
projects farmed out to a commercial laboratory.

342 — August CINEMA PAP[...]h is
attempting to recreate the master version of a
unique film.

Film restoration work is often similar to[...]heir own technicians, at least to the point where
a restored film can be safely entrusted to a lab-
oratory. The basic requirements for this, as[...]at least two
staff trained in manual restoration, a tester to
inspect nitrate film for signs of instability, a
printer/inspector to duplicate shrunk film and
o[...]-
tions. In fact, even this seems to me too small a
complement for the potential task in hand, but it
might be regarded as a realistic minimum for
starting aa step-
printer for copying shrunk nitrate film, a[...]d transfer machines —
together, of course, with a specialist video-
examiner capable of developing[...]chnology. for that matter) will
inevitably become a museum of nostalgic
cinema and little more, and,[...]images.

In the end, I believe every archive with a com-
prehensive preservation program will have to
consider equipping itself with a full laboratory
operation to cover all aspects of[...]house facilities,
and can no longer be tackled by a system of hit-
and-miss amateur boffinry coupled[...]-miss efforts of com-
mercial agencies which have a different set of
priorities to consider.

This mi[...]Natural Life. Under the circum-
stances, this was a remarkable achievement,
comparable in impact to t[...]e for archival public rela-
tions in the space of a few months than all the
hidden hard work of the p[...]ol to link to an appeal for preserva-
tion funds. A shrewd ublicity point could even
be made out of i[...]very archive which fails to

embrace it and adopt a high standard

of preservation work, a commen-
surately heavier burden is thrown on thos[...]on. The NFA
has, in my experience, always adopted a
vigorous acquisition policy, at home and abroad,[...]wise remain unavail-
able in Australia.

Recently a well-publicized film search was
launched to fill gaps in the Australian collec-
tion, which denotes a proper sense of priorities
and has stimulated the[...]e same. All this has been done, it seems,
without a full-time acquisitions officer: at
present, this[...]work.

I would not, incidentally, recommend that a
formal selection procedure, employing com-
mittee[...]actice, whereas the
NFA seems to have established a satisfactory
selection policy and one which can b[...]lm and television material being
considered makes a formal committee system
more necessary, but it is better avoided if
possible. A general advisory committee, on the
other h[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (39)[...]ave been properly
catalogued, and is supported by a computer
system which few other archives enjoy an[...]than one actually needs. However, cataloguing is
a vital element in film archiving despite being
ard[...]er of
staff in each area to prevent this becoming a
more serious omission in the future.

come to a point now which, on the

surface, may appear triv[...]larly unfortunate that the
NFA was established as a minor adjunct of a
much larger and, on the whole, unrelated public
i[...]the
NLA-NFA relationship.

There has always been a temptation in civil
service minds to regard films in a film archive as
documents no different from book[...]ance, their preservation and availability
require a different set of conditions and policies
from books and papers. They are also related to
a totally different cultural and commercial
sector[...]ndustries. It seems to me quite inappropriate
for a film archive to be housed in, and have its
destiny controlled by, a book library.

In the case of the Australian NFA[...]allocation of space and
resources appears to come a miserable second to
the more monolithic needs of[...]y banner.

This confusion of purposes and lack of a
separate identity can be very destructive for an[...]sting that autonomy, inde-
pendence and acquiring a recognizable identity
would necessarily make the NFA better off, but
I feel it would have a greater chance to make its
needs felt, would acquire a distinctive reputa-
tion of its own and would be[...]luded on p. 389

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CINEMA PAPERS August — 343

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (40)[...]"O|d Mel-
bourne with Flinders Street station for a
tap number under the clocks, Richmond
lanes for a barbershop quartet or a soft-
shoe shoot-out or even a flamenco
Spanish flu, and the Yarra Bank for a
song about My Moll Doll. There is a high-
kicking routine in a lamp-lit alley, but it is
too late. It occurs under the closing
credits, as a flicker of the musical that
might have been.

Muc[...]bes the subject of U.S. bases in Aus-
tralia with a wealth of surprising footage,
some of it old and[...]ace's captives of Care
deals with the struggle of a group of hos-
pitalized spastics to win recogniti[...]unflinching observation of
them forces us beyond a vague
sympathy towards an informed concern.
it is[...]n, two narrative lines work in counter-
point — a nurse's story which proceeds
from its beginning and a story of the
patients’ rebellion which starts near its
end — until they join in a confrontation
with hospital staff.

if the film d[...]l’ people. The
patients act themselves and have a
degree of authenticity that the hospital
staff, p[...]not) match.
The juxtaposition puts the actors at a dis-
advantage in terms of conviction. Their
cred[...]and baddies.

Perhaps this is inevitable in such a
context, or it might be a deliberate and
legitimate propaganda ploy aimed
([...]from Wol-
longong, which fashions its fiction in a
documentary mode with such ease that
the line bet[...]ces and touchingly convey
what it is like to live a jobless, peripheral
life. Both films make importa[...]phen Wallace's Captives of Care: "the struggle of a group of hospitalized spastics to win
recognition[...].

The ironic “greetings" in the title are
from a city that is not as pretty as a post-
card and from a Coca—Cola, commercial
radio generation that is not having a
wonderful time. Gallagher's account of
them is sh[...]day from dawn to dusk, within which
she organizes a large number of short
scenes, each appropriately casual and
deceptively random, and each with a
precise grasp of its useful length, into a
cumulative impression.

Gallagher seems to me to[...]ail, an ear for idiom, the
strength to throw away a line, a feel for
the ragged texture of days without hope,
and an instinct for her craft.

The Festival provided a timely glimpse
of what has been happening in New[...]John Laing’s Beyond Reasonable
Doubt considers a controversial murder
case and miscarriage of just[...]h the 19705. Mike
Newe|l’s Bad Blood deals with a multiple
murder and manhunt which occupied the
po[...]he
Scarecrow, Sam Pillsbury recalls
growing up in a small country town in the
1950s. And in Carry Me[...]their mums." (That opening
legend is followed by a shot of sheep
looking scared — a swift joke about
sexual mores.)

This looking back seems to signify a
sense of place rather than nostalgia. in
explorin[...]Girl,
says of his own work in Scotland, ‘‘If a
film isn't provincial, then it's from
nowhere.”[...]ans, Swedes and Czechoslo-
vakians know, can have a universal
relevance.

One hopes that serious New[...]David Hemmings in Beyond
Reasonable Doubt is but a temporary
divergence from a sound principle.

There are memorable features of[...]pastures, the chain of intense fire
imagery, and a tight, intimate scene
between Jack Thompson and C[...]s escaping briefly from
their paranoia to sing “A tisket, a tasket”
in the dark. Yet at times they are, I t[...]being more than the sum of their parts.
They have a strong coherence and a firm
control of their own dynamic. They show
conf[...]nor meant to be. It mixes two narratives:
one is a cheerful account of the mis-
adventures and Mintles moments of a
14-year-old boy and his family and
friends; the other relates the dark doings
of a sinister stranger (John Carradine)
who is bent up[...]n, family
comedy, Dad and Dave slapstick — with
a dash of Tom Sawyer and Peyton Place
thrown in.

A[...]e imagina-
tion (his own) of an adolescent fed on a
diet of films. It seems to float in all direc-
tions. but it is anchored in its evocation of
a time and place — the summer of 1952
in a country town — when it was Friday
night[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (41)[...]and refresh-
ingly sentimental. Fast cutting and a
rapid pace ensure that the film moves
with zest. its own enjoyment is infectious.

Carry Me Back is a farce about the
attempts of two brothers to smuggle their
father's corpse, locked in a wardrobe.
from Wellington to their farm in South[...]ed by unreli-
able transport, inquisitive police, a crafty
relative called Aunty Bird, and by the
bod[...]ot
always the same ones and not always
together.

A Festival program note says there are
visual allusions to Two Men and a Ward-
robe and to La lemme lnfidele. If this
impl[...]not the kind of
director to lean out of reach of a general
audience just to give a film-buff a
tingle. Given Joy Cow|ey’s original story,
it is inevitable that there are going to be
two men and a wardrobe in a variety of
positions and that sooner or later some-
body is going to stuff a body in the boot
of a car. Nor would it be helpful to offer
The Trouble[...]nce its tone of imperturbable calm in
the face of a macabre situation is
different. Anyway, John Reid[...]ories clearly
and concisely and how they maintain a
balance of humor and suspense.

In an interview,[...]he convenience of the story or the
convenience of a couple of good jokes.
He is prepared to slacken p[...]e about
foreigners and false teeth) to allow them
a certain human dignity.

When the brothers (Grant[...]-joints
and massage parlors in The Big City after
a rugby match, there is a satirical put-
down of the “Boys’ Own" ethic[...]ir
embarrassment is funny, yet it is viewed

with a touch of pity.

A waitress in a cafe (“We’re sort of
closing down”) has only a slight connec-
tion with the plot, but is nevertheless
given a curiously tender scene with the
boys’ father and a chance to escape from
her dead-end urban job. Even wily old
Aunty Bird (played a lot larger than life by
Dorothy McKegg) is released gener-
ously from caricature to a more human
dimension. At the end she shares the
c[...]of the family
inheritance now regained, there is a
sweet echo of a romance with the land.
For all its prior black comedy irrever-
ence towards death, Carry Me Back
expresses a regard for a quality of life,
and a regret at its passing.

This year, new work by es[...]Wedding) has been patronized by one
critic as “a tastefully-wrapped cultural

package”, which suggests a limited
response to this fusion of Federico
Garci[...]ny arrive in
their dressing-rooms and prepare for a
dress rehearsal of his ballet version of
Lorca’[...]ips and attach eye-
lashes and insert hairpins in a series of
close-up details which insist upon the[...]d hair. Gades,
while telling us how he came to be a
dancer, painstakingly blackens the flesh
around h[...]heymove
into the studio to practise some steps as
a warm-up, there is again a heightened
awareness of the physicality of feet a[...]reating illusion requires
such body discipline as a professional
skill. But lest the technical perfec[...]Even during the “performance” (tech-
nically a “rehearsal") they are seen to be
creatures of m[...]waiting for cues.
Then they move to the centre of a bare
floor to become, in an instant, “The
Bride[...]tificial. Sometimes the
camera takes the place of a mirror, and
they examine the audience as if to as[...]e see with
the imagination which, in turn, is but a
reflection of other ways of seeing. After
all, this film is a visualization of a choreo-
grapher’s version of a p|aywright's vision
of a journalist's view of an incident in
Almeria. The[...]icit love,
family feud and revenge became in form
a prose item in a newspaper, a poetic
play, a modern ballet and finally, in
Saura’s own phrase, “a document on
creation".

Gades strips Lorca’s se[...]cations of the Moon and
Death in the interests of a driving narra-
tive simplicity. He transmutes the[...]olvement required. Occa-
sionally, he contributes a framing or
bravura embellishment of his own to ad[...]ould be, which means it is more per-
suasive than a full shot. And the knife
fight is breathtaking (l[...]circled by
Saura’s camera.

This film poetry is a powerful equiv-
alent of Lorca’s final scene, which does
not show the knife fight. Instead, he uses
a Greek chorus report of it and lamenta-
tions of w[...]images of cutting, slicing
and blood-letting with a knife: a knife
“that slides in clean / Through the aston[...]/ The dark

Sydney Film Festival 1982

root of a scream”. That silent scream,
frozen in time, informs the closing image
of the film -— a frozen frame, sepia
colored, of a posed wedding group —
which, naturally, is a portrait of the
dancers.

Tinted family photograp[...]her new film
Dulces horas (Tender Hours) in which a
writer explores his own past, trying to
remember[...]ip with his mother, to
recreate it in the form of a play which is in
rehearsal. Another "document on[...]u to be? Characters search for an
author and,. in a rehearsal, one actor
(playing an actor) is so con[...]by an actor)
cries, “Everybody forgets this is a play."

in 1934, Pirandello wrote in his note-
bo[...]his own memories, it is impos-
sible to arrive at a truth. And if his past is
governed by shifting pe[...]d Wedding,

Top: John Reid'sfarce about smuggling a corpse in a wardrobe, Carry Me Back. Above: John
Laing's examination of a contra versial murder conviction, Beyond R[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (42)[...]ng. it moves in waltz time.

The film closes with a burst of delir-
iously-happy song from his now-pr[...]the final
Pirandellian joke: that we are to apply a
conversation in the film about the writer's
relat[...]s 23rd) in Die
sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, about a
bright star who falls into a drug-addicted
decline and death.

l am not sure h[...]reas in
Sunset Boulevard we share the feelings
of a weak-willed scriptwriter made
dependent by his pity and her spell, we
have a poor guide here in a sportswriter
who seems merely weak-witted, too su[...]d which by-
passes anything like the poignancy of a
similar scene in Francois Truffaut's La
nuit Amer[...]m model. And
because it denotes the act of making a
film.

Above all, Fassbinder wants us to
appreciate a film's surface, that which
“will but skin and film the viscerous
place" — a thin membrane on a screen of
dazzling black and white photographed
i[...]hadow,” says Veronika,
demanding candlelight in a restaurant,
"the two secrets of motion pictures."[...]the audience constantly that
they are looking at a shining surface by
the way he changes scenes: he[...]s the tight
theatrical structure of three acts of a
play, one each for morning, afternoon
and night, with a prologue and epilogue.
lt observes the theatrical[...]nd time, confining itself to the inter-
action of a group of characters during
one day in Paris, and[...]and the ending is left open.

It has elements of a detective story:
there is a sleuthing game and two
characters think a lot about how to play
it, wondering what Sherlock[...]ing it”.) There are also elements of
fairytale: a Sleeping Prince of a hero who
keeps nodding off; a would-be Sleeping
Princess who daydreams of a Prince
Charming to carry her away, pre-
sumably in an Air-France jet; and a Good
Fairy disguised as a schoolgirl (the
enchanting Anne-Laure Meury) who
helps out while waiting for life to become
magically a fiction. “Life", however, as
someone remarks, “is not a novel.'’

Ironically, Rohmer introduces prop-
e[...]f accident, chance meeting and
coincidence and in a great deal of
dialogue. The talk is no more literary
than one would expect from a post-office
sorter cum student, a secretary and a
schoolgirl, being the voicing of thoughts
about t[...]which are not only part of the parapher-
nalia of a novel but also a characteristic
of Rohmer’s film. It is meaningful that his
hero works in a post-office.

The plot is conceived in terms of l[...]ersect, an idea which is
brilliantly exploited in a scene in a park
where four characters pursue and
retreat, cross and re-cross, like a geo-
metric doodle. It is mathematical, too, in
i[...](the
aviator’s wife who is never seen except in
a photograph) be the unknown and
in trying to proce[...]ng duologues in which the
human beings adopt such a variety of
postures.

Playing off laws of mathema[...]detail, the early
and late moods and the feel of a day of
sunshine and rain. The color is attrac-
ti[...]narrow limits, his film is yet
“about” quite a lot, for as the proverb
states at the film[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (43)[...]new to us,
though this is his 15th feature. It is a
moving account of the efforts of a single,
working mother to prove to social welfare[...]although
one actress has her sensitive playing of a
scene undermined by a distracting lack
of continuity — her fur coat is on and off
her shoulders with a perverse will of its
own.

The film’s most impr[...]val. Like
Jutta Wachowiak in The Fiancee, she has
a plain face that becomes beautiful
through its expressiveness, especially so
in a |over’s rejection scene which is
treated as a long and demanding
medium close-up.

As the tough little battler on proba-
tion, determined to make a go of being
an adult against all odds, she makes[...]in which she pushes herself slowly back-
wards on a roundabout in a playground,
carries its meaning without strain.

A larger roundabout occupies David
Carradine’s time in his first feature,
Americana, and it carries a great deal of
symbolic significance not entirely without
strain.

A Vietnam veteran walks into a small
Kansas town in 1973 and, for no reason
that[...]can understand, sets
about repairing and renewing a broken-
down merry-go-round. To them he is a
fool, though some are drawn to help him
in his ta[...]o under-
stand that the madman is the sane one in
a sick society and that his task is their
spiritual regeneration.

it is a figurative narrative with its moral
meaning thinly veiled: the merry-go-
round acts as a metaphor for salvation,
or a state of grace, and the soldier has
similarities[...]nail jobs for
residents); the fisher of men (near a bait-

shop): an expulsion from a church hall; a
threefold denial (by a Hell's Angel
running a garage); and there is a kind of
Agony, an Ascension and a Resurrec-
tion, the details of which it would do[...]ges
and touches of laconic humor. It is, I
think, a sincere, personal statement.

As a table about human aspiration, it is
arguably more[...]with
the silly mechanics of an attempt to fly —
a sequence which would fit better into the
lunacy o[...]the strength to

hold on to his past to complete A la
recherche du temps perdue.

The film details t[...]nky, asthmatic, fussy
(“My skin cracks if I use a damp hand
towel twice“), dedicated to his great[...]rlus'
experiences in the male brothel. Invited
to a performance by a string quartet, she
hears what will become Marcel[...]where Celeste
waits patiently, sitting upright on a chair,
for his bell to ring.

This and other sequ[...]plication of
timelessness — the perpetuation of a

moment of time as in any painting of
movement, o[...]ce and Slow Time”) or Vinteul’s
phrase or, in a sense, Proust's prose.

Time lost is sought in me[...]ery of the
time spent with Proust, carefully cuts a
lock of his hair. One day, it could be her
madele[...]on to
extend time. Spare and immaculate, it
holds a mystery as intriguing as time
itself.

Similar in[...]V'

Top: Hermann Zschoche’s 0n Probation, about a single woman ’s attempt to convince the
authorities that she leads a responsible life. Above: Amalie R. Rothschild '5[...]unusual in its filmmaking response. For it
finds a method to approximate Hopper‘s
own. The narrato[...]f desk
separating them. Unnatural, of course,
but a respectful pastiche.

Whenever the paintings are on
display, there is hardly a sound to inter-
rupt the quiet. Of course, all pa[...].
And to emphasize this, there are
sequences like a long car journey from
New York to Truro, Cape God[...]d where there is no
sound of the car at all, only a breathing
silence of leaves and distant birds.
Un[...]ries. Lucid and well-shaped,
it shows how to make a subject com-
pletely accessible by using talking heads
in a way that we are rarely likely to see in
a television documentary.

Among other notable short films was
the highly-popular Murder in a Mist, in
which Lisa Gottlieb parodies the private-
eye genre with a female detective and a
flair for jargon (“the briny kiss off”) and
reverse sexist assessments (her male
helper is “hung like a horse”) and film in-
jokes (‘‘I thought of[...]gger than
anything Fay Wray ever saw") to achieve
a clever feminist comedy.

Among the films in the A[...]ssed, unfortunately, De atilte
rond Christine M. (A Question of
Silence) which was voted by Green sub-
scribers Best Feature at the Festival and
described as a film “of remarkable elo-
quence and quiet subve[...]n and Vlridana.

it is based upon the writings of a young
schizophrenic from an affluent middle-
clas[...]rlin
picking up men in whom she believes
she sees a reincarnation of Christ. One of
them, a Ghanaian with whom she has
bloody sex two days after an abortion,
she attempts to marry, as if to become a
bride of Christ.

Her full name is Veronika Chris[...]cus “of or belonging to
an image", was given to a cloth believed
to retain the image of the face of[...]the saint who
wiped His face with it, and also to a
woman who was cured of an issue of
blood; the sec[...]of an early Christian martyr and
associated with a saint who bore the
Christ-child across a river.

The film absorbs these references and
makes them work in a forceful and dis-
turbing way (and makes F[...]

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The Documentar

Documentary films occupy a special
place in the history and development of
A[...]today.

Contents

The History of the Documentary:
A World View

International landmarks, key figures,[...]The Development of the Documentary
in Australia

A general history of the evolution of the documenta[...]ntaries
made in Australia, and who produces them. A study of
government and independent production. T[...]e,
box—office performances and ratings.

Making a Documentary

A series of case studies’ examining the making of[...]rs and
directors.

Repositories and Preservation

A survey of the practices surrounding the storage a[...]isons of procedures here and abroad.

The Future

A look at the future for documentary films. The imp[...]t affects production, distribution
and marketing. A forward look at the marketplace and
the changing[...]documentary,

Producers and Directors Checklist

A checklist of documentary producers and dir[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (46)[...]nal

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We at Kodak find it invaluable as a reference
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David Wells
Koda[...]on your Australian
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The Yearbook again takes a detailed look at
what has been happening in all s[...]ntries, and many new categories
have been added.

A new series of profiles has been compiled and
will[...]art director David Copping and actor
Mel Gibson.

A new feature in the 1983 edition is an
extensive e[...]a,
including film financing, special effects, and a
survey of the impact our films are having[...]

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (53)[...]ntory of Movie-
cam products. The Moviecam 3N has a
virtually soundless movement and a
built-in microprocessor which controls
several fu[...]ng speed to be changed at
programmed rates during a shot. For
example, a pole vaulter can be shown at
normal speed running[...]ponent fails,
the Dicom will immediately indicate a
fault condition and identify the faulty
component by number. Supplied with a
set of circuit boards, this module enables
“in[...]s.

Moviecam 3N also incorporates pro-
vision for a video system. it is equipped
with a Newicon television pick-up tube
which provides a high contrast display of
the ground glass image,[...]ch is easily attached to
the camera. Videx houses a small 38mm
(11/2-inch) monitor which serves to ma[...]ixing studio at Atlab Australia.

Stereo F im Now A vilable it Ala

The increasing use of Dolby stere[...]evels and other information
relevant to cueing on a floppy disc
arrangement. This facility aids the
o[...]tape is then trans-
ferred to optical negative on a new
Westrex 9235 two-track, 35mm variable-
area r[...]inema Papers will interview Julian
Ellingworth in a later issue.)

New Mini Video from

Technicolor[...]e in the U.S. Unlike
VHS or Beta systems, it uses a 1/4-inch
(6.25mm) video-cassette tape, and is
only slightly larger than a normal audio
cassette.

According to Dynavision,[...]of the larger
tape formats, but allows the use of a
video-cassette recorder (VCR) con-
siderably smal[...]purposes.

Included in the Technicolor system is a
VCR comparable in size to a household
radio-cassette recorder and measuring
only 11cm x 25.5cm x 7cm, a Techni-
color video camera with power zoom
lens a[...], and an AC
adapter/charger.

The camera features a built-in preview
screen within the viewfinder. it[...]n
black and white but without sound. When
used as a portable unit, the se|f-con-
tained VCR receives[...]echarged in one hour. It may also be
operated off a normal 240-volt house-
hold outlet through the us[...]ng its ver-
satility, the VCR may be operated off a
12-volt car or boat battery via a cigarette
lighter socket.

The price for the enti[...]Metro Television
T

Metro Television is running a series
of public workshops that started in April
covering a whole range of aspects of
video production. It is[...]roduction; lighting workshop; video art;
planning a rock clip; acting/directing
workshop; shooting a rock clip; script-
writing for video; chor[...]

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ventional systems, the M-format system
combines a broadcast quality color video
camera and a videotape recorder in a

single hand-held unit. The size and
weight of th[...]ms, which eliminates connecting
wires, and allows a single cameraman to

have unrestricted access to program
materials.

Although the M-format system uses a
much narrower 1/2-inch tape and is more

compact[...]n 3/s-inch
video recording.

Miller ENG Tripod
T

A new tripod designed specifically for
ENG applicat[...]This non-tubular aluminium tripod,
which features a specially-designed and
extruded channel, provides[...]hat collect dust, etc.

The ENG tripod comes with a built-in
tripod spreader and claw-ball levelling[...]th is 1.5m.

9,

Technical and Scientific
Academy A wards

Due to the lack of space in the last
issue[...]onsolidated
Film Industries‘ Stroboscan device, a
unique pulsed Xenon light that enables
high speed print[...]dustrial Light and Magic received
their award for a sophisticated special
effects optical printer usi[...]morphic.
Industrial Light and Magic also received
a technical certificate for their Empire

Camera System, a servo-controlled,
computer-operated special effects
camera and a device called the Go
Motion Figure Mover that adds a slight
blur to specific frames to stop the
strobi[...]motion animation.

Eastman Kodak's development of a
rapid processing device, the Prostar pro-
cessor,[...]ontinental Camera
Systems pitching lens that uses a flex-
ible, optical-relay tube to allow a range of
prime lenses to be used, tilted 180
degr[...]ly smooth,
repeatable pan and drag action through
a range of three pre-set drag positions.
In additio[...]eads that are not locked.

The Miller 50 provides a choice of two
camera platforms, a quick-release plat-
form, and a sliding camera plate with
built-in quick-release.[...]s the VHS ‘/2-
inch videotape cassette, enables a
single-unit configuration of camera/VTR
combinati[...]e who was responsible for intro-
ducing lasers as a visual medium to
Australia.

Past clients in Aust[...]outdoor
displays, including the opening of
Sydney Tower at Centrepoint and
displays emanating from transm[...],
said the range of lamps was designed to
produce a spectrum of light similar to
daylight, at[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (56)[...]ed release .. . . . . . . ..March 1983

Synopsis: A horror film about a night watch-
man who spends his last shift in a depart-
ment store. Twelve hours later, two men a[...]ick,
that Teresa comes to understand her power
as a woman and emerges from obsession to
a real consciousness of sexuality and love.

THE MO[...]Flannery
Prod. manager . . . . . . . . . . ..Pau|a Gibbs
Prod. secretary . . . . . . . . .. Elizabet[...]writer ...Charles Stamp
Photography ..Phii Pike A.C.S.
Sound recordlst. . Don Connolly

Editor . .[...]t
Based on the original
idea by . . . . . . .. ...A|exander Stltt
Sound recordist .. . Brian Lawrence[...]. . . . ..Meredith Baer,
Hilary Henkln

Based on a story by . . . . . .. Meredith Baer
Photography .[...]ynopsis: Romeo and Juliet: R-rated and
updated to a New Zealand prison.[...]....Charies Stamp
Photography... . .....Phil Pike A.C.S.
Sound recordist .. Rowland McManis
Editor .[...]a
Lawrance (Sally Cooper).

Synopsis: Fluteman is a modern day Aus-
tralian version of the Pied Piper[...]ing Service journalist. arrives in
Jakarta during a time of political upheaval.
There he is be[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (57)[...]es are still charged
with emotion and futility in a small New
Zealand town as they try to escape the[...]Mrs Stoiiier),
Peter Coliingwood (Mr Hollisteri.

A DANGEROUS SUMMER

Prod. company . . . . ..McE|roy[...]per.(Saily), Jon Darling (Bob Henning).
Synopsis: A contemporary story of sexual
rivalry and obsession: of lost youth and
false manhood. A triangle which leads to
disaster.

DEAD EAS[...]d her search for the missing joey. Dot
meets with a hobo in her outback home
town, the hobo becomes Santa Claus,
and takes Dot on a wonderful adventure
witnessing various Christmas[...]secretaryll June Jago (Mrs
Coolidge).

Synopsis: A psychological thriller, its plot is
a mystery of manipulation and double-
dealing about[...]ane, successful
rnan-of-the-world husband, Peter, a
daunting, sensuous young man and Peter's
efficien[...]. . . . . .. Lee Larner
Lighting cameraman . ..,.A|ex McPhee
Focus puller . .. Brendan Ward
Clapper[...]spratt).
Will Kerr (Jim).

Synopsis: The story of a sheepdog in the
Australian outback, based on the[...]uel (Chris), Kit Taylor (Paul
Sloane).

Synopsis: A suburban community is bliss-
fully unaware that a killer stalks the streets.
A mother and her two sons survive in a dis-
integrating relationship. These two e[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (58)[...]briel (Moreland), Wyn
Roberts (Payne).

Synopsis: A remarkable relationship be-
tween a young teacher and a deeply-
disturbed 13 year-old boy. Tom is written
off as a delinquent by most adults until
John. the teacher[...]opsis’ She was all any old fool could ask
ior—a beautiful masochist with an Electra

Goodbye Paradise

complex. She knew her life was a great pre-
destined adventure, and. if it ended l[...]Thomas). John Ewart (The Train Driver).
synopsis: A period comedy drama set in
Sydney about two crime[...]oarlng 19205. playing. laughing
and fighting with a gusto the city has never
known since.

LADY, STAY[...]James Elliott (Patrolman Rex
Dunbar).

Synopsis: A young woman. looking after
her sisler‘s.house w[...]murderer
returns to kill the woman. and so begins a
battle of wits.

LONELY HEARTS[...]Blake (Pamela). Jonathon Hardy (Bruce).
synopsis: A tragi-comic love story about
Peter Thompson. a middle-aged bachelor.
and Patricia Curnow, a 30-year-old
spinster.

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (60)[...]is: Two turbulent adolescent weeks
in the life of a teenage migrant ltalian boy
living in Melbourne's[...]ty life, accept his Italian
background, and start a new kind of life,
hopefully one more step towards[...]dren cross the
harbor to explore Castle House — a
strange, unoccupied mansion — they en-
counter sinister baddles, a kidnapping and
a hilarious, eccentric lady. Btcitement,
mystery an[...]ooting stock Eastmancoior
cm: Jackie Kerin ( In a Stevens), John
Jarratt (Barney). Charles McCaIlum[...]), Virginia Hey (Girifrield).
Synopsis: Norman is a sensitive,
precocious 13 year~o|d preparing for h[...]ions of "Mazeltovl", but Norman's
response raises a preposterous question —
who is the father?

NOW[...]aughlin
Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Pat Nash
A531 grip Eric Pressley
Gaffer ....Rob Young
Best b[...]n
Standby props . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..A|an Ford
Scenic artist Ned McCann
Set constructio[...]ent), Henri Szeps
(York).

Synopsis: The story of a stylish Sydney
boutique owner and her husband, a
promising writer who has not as yet
achieved financial success. On the surface,
they appear to have a perfect relationship.
However, their marriage is shattered when
he is accused of rape after a casual indis~
cretion one afternoon with another[...]r . . . . . . . ..AIan Walker
Asst electrician ...A|an Walker

Boom operator .Andrew Duncan

Mak[...]Bernadette Hamilton
Helicopter pilot . . . . . ..A|an Edwards

Best boy .Al|eyn Mearns
Runner[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (61)[...]t and Sullivan songs,
and six new ones. Story has a con-
temporary beginning and end; most is a
long fantasy sequence.

THE PLAINS OF HEAVEN[...]be
(Soldier on train):

Synopsis: Two men work in a satellite relay
station on the Bogong High Plains[...]. Cabcharge
Unit cars . . . . . . .. Thrifty Rent A Car
Best boy . . . . . . . Paul Gantner
Runner .[...]Bluthai, Maggie
Dence, Norman Erskine.

synopsis: A madcap, musical comedy-
adventure where the flyin[...]ornelia Francis (Member for Southdown).
Synopsis: A young girl taking photographs
of her pet cockatoo is prevented from
leaving a lonely island by an illegal
immigrant, who fears deportation. After a
widespread search, she manages to escape
with the help of a boy scout. Sympathetic to
the immigrant’s probl[...], Shane Porteous.
Synopsis: The poignant story of a young
child, orphaned by war, and her struggle to[...]e suffer-
ing and hardships imposed by all wars.

A SLICE OF LIFE

Prod. company . . .[...]Carlie Deans (Aust.),
Dennis Davidson & Assoc. (L.A.)

Unit publicist ....Ben Mitchell
Catering . .[...]Synopsis: The year 1995 — the world is run
by a strict regime. if you step out of line you
are labelled a "Turkey”. Further failure to
conform means you are a candidate for the
“Turkey Shoot".

WE OF THE NE[...]. . . ..Adams Packer
Productions,
Film Corp. of W.A.
Producer , . . . . . . . . .. Greg Tepper
Direc[...]ackaroo), Donald
Blitner (Goggle Eye).

Synopsis: A story of the hardship faced by
newly-married Jean[...]mor of early
cattlemen and Aboriginal stockmen in a
harsh, but memorable Northern Territory
environme[...]. Marcia Hatfield
Photography . . . .. .Phil Pike A.C.S.
Sound recordist . . Rowland McManis
Editor .[...]fairs with
visiting Russian ballet dancer becomes a
matter of concern to the family when it has a
dramatic effect on several of the business[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (62)[...]ott Burgess, Tony
Barry, David Downer.

Synopsis: A dramatized reconstruction of
the trial, in Februa[...]. . . . . . . . . . ..Pre—production

Synopsis: A film about lovers who are
forced, out of trust, i[...]. . . . . ..Royden Irvine

Based on original idea a
by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]and altered through the medium of film to
create a dream symbolic of the mystery of
the unconscious.[...]ylan Hodda, Lucinda Powell, Alan Cinis.
Synopsis: A sensitive study of a neglected
child,

DOCUMENTARIES

FEATURES[...]luxury and squalor of the Philip-
pines following a group of West Australians
and speaking to profess[...]any . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..T.B.A.
Producers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Don Mc[...]ed . . . . ..June 1982

Silver Screen

Synopsis: A look at life on the road with
Circus Oz. Filmed d[...]ip between humans
and dolphins. The film examines a number
of cases where people have had exper-
ienc[...]th Wales, one in

1928 and the other in 1982, and a look at
how and why these tragedies occurred.

HARDY WILSON:
A Living Memory
(Working title)

Polak Productions[...]. . . . . . . . . .. Awaiting release

Synopsis: A re-enactment of the first scien-
tific crossing o[...]. . . . . . . . ..June, 1982
Melbourne

Synopsis: A documentary tracing the
history of Rembetika musi[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . .. July 1982

Synopsis‘ A look at the development of the
sport of windsurfi[...]rmula Pacific cars. the Malay-
sian Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur and the
Penang Grand Prix.

WINGS ACROSS THE CENT[...]le terrain of the
Northern Territory.

YANKS ON R a R
(Working title)

Prod. company . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . .. 1" videotape

Synopsis: A study of the workshop and
developing relationship[...]rl Schultz and the actors
in the Whitlam series.

A CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP — THE
ACTOR AND THE DIRECT[...]nette Curran, Deborah
Kennedy.

Synopsis: Tracing a segment of a feature
film from casting to the shoot, an[...]

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Pi'°d- °°”i[...]Nllllll ANIMATED MUSIC FILM prowess
sY“°P'i'5 A d°m°"'5"3“°“ °i "'3 '-'55 °i G3’-'99 ~ A - - - - - - -- ---~i6""”‘ Editor . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Denise Hunter Synopsis: A dramatized documentary
rhythm in iiirnrnai<in9- S[...]GARRETT 1 _ _ Lengt .... .. 20 mins Grahame Jack A I to Anniversary celebrations.
3aowN "'li°hk°¥[...]. . . . . .. Eric Halliday suMMEfiT|ME synopsis: A teaching film for the Depart- Exec. producer .. V[...]r the Vic- Rob Scott
use of the Steadicam unit in a number of Dlrector_.. . . . . . ..Rob Mccubbln pr[...]drian Tame
Soun recordlsts . . . . . . . . ..l_.l.a.r.rl(arrlATrt]:lr:hi|l. photography . _ r _ _ _ r[...]ss . . . . . . . .. ..Post—productlon Synopaln: A documentary on the urban
commission meeting. may[...]rratiy ..... .::_. lsnfroofili ’rif§3.“c8f3?a“rfi§lo; ::§;’i*’:2.%!..*::’;‘$ isnzsilsftrilezzlre -.5.-...a...‘.’.:‘:l=si.“;~‘:: :::?;.!"rl.:L i;:"[...]_’{ Unit nnanaoer -- -Corrie Soeterooek THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS
Pty Ltd); script development for 2n[...]ny - - - - . . - Fllrn _Vlctorla Dlsll company l A _ _ l _ ‘ _ I _ l V _ H Fllm Vlclorla
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Love on a Tourlet Vina — Jan Sharp; script Marshall (Boy[...]0 boarder ' . . - ~ - - - - v - - - - - - - - - - A l r . . .. ..
. . ). Danny Irwin (Danny). Sean Fi[...]Dln9 5 - -
M _ l H t Th M p t . , 9. . , ynopsia. A film for drama teachers about
C:3l‘":c,lplvfie[...]rrihter 1952 .
"" °‘' ° — '3 me .9 95- P as a motivational film lor use in schools. Gene Moire,[...]ard Vance; script G fl Gary Ph''.''pS 0' Consumer Aflalrs‘ A” P'°d”°"°”5 .393” "°m mesa have
developmem for lsl dram clnema lealure a ers . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . Bruce Galley.[...],l.0d_ company ' l_—lll.l.l Vlclolla developing a malor television series to be

additional 3rd dra[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Janina Craig ac |°n_a Ven ure orma __'g i9 ting t 3
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that literature can be a good deal more than

“i us! a story"!

Synopola: A true story of Annie, who
entered an institution a[...]years on the construction of a major
housing estate. Made for the Ministry of
Ho[...]n mini-

KOALAS 31 C0- l‘3',f,'l,lf§’;',‘°a"y " ' ' ' ' §‘l‘,f,',;l“Z'L“l (working[...].... ..AVRB Film Unit BETTY VIAZIM Asst producer. A ' ' ' ' A A ‘ . . . —.Gerry Letts ALCOHOL ABUSE) "i5i°"[...]. . . . . . . .. Elisabeth Knight Gauge, ' I ‘ A A I I H lssmm Dist. company _ , , _ _ , _ 4 _ , _ _ _ _ lzllrrl Vlotorla Thomaatown — a documentary on

Producer . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]r . . . . . ..Pam Ennor Shooting Si0Ci< - ~ - - - A « < ~ ~52/'7 Dlreclor _ _ _ ‘ _ H _ Michael or[...]se Jonas Sound recordist Leo Pollini 5¥n°P|i53 A Wide'5Ci€e” Piiiema Sh?" sound recordlstg tan[...]”i ‘he ’9i"3°e"“’”‘ °i "‘°.i’a”Y“'"° Editor ......... .. .David Hipkins
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (65)[...]ently laudable feature of
John Duigan’s work as a writer and a
director has been his skilful and com-
passionate social observation. A deli-
berate economy in the use of dramatic
incidents has been complemented by a
deft, naturalist style to highlight his
concern w[...]terates this funda-
mental theme, it also reveals a signifi-
cant alteration in style and a departure
from the familiar terrain of urban Aus-[...]n the
words of its writer-director, to provide
a glimpse of life behind the tourist
poster”. Sadly, this admirable inten-
tion is n[...]lexity of Winter of Our Dreams.

Far East depicts a country fractured
with polarities of wealth and depriva-
tion, and victimized by a brutal and
repressive military government. It
exposes a society where government
and industry are synonym[...]orruption, but
chooses to develop this theme with a
narrative structure popularized by
Hollywood film[...]in Casablanca. The resulting
combination produces a style so
dependent on narrative drama that it
con[...]and
Winter of Our Dreams, his films have
attained a level of complexity and
unobtrusive observation n[...]this film are omni-
present yet somehow nebulous. A
sadistic and corrupt army is identified,
as are t[...]they are overshadowed and
rendered simplistic by a desire to
recreate the type of love story that
si[...]sited. Outside the walls
of the Klub the world is a dangerous
and turbulent place. Within its confine[...](Bryan Brown) in Winter of
Our Dreams, has carved a niche from
which he can view the surrounding
world with ambivalence, and a distance
illustrated by the declaration that he
j[...]red from cynical
passivity by his love for Jo and a
memory of the relationship that they
shared while[...]nt to help Jo, by rescuing her
husband, activates a chain of events
that not only jeopardizes his bus[...]perils
and ultimately claims his life. He dies in
a barrage of slow-motion machine-gun
fire, loaded w[...]ltaneously suggesting the altru-
istic suicide of a man who has just seen
the woman he loves dutifull[...]eon) and expatriate Morgan
Keefe (Bryan Brown) in a tight situation.
Jolm Duigan ‘s Far East.

K[...]ees, and brusquely ignore
Nene’s pain, ascribes a type of callous-
ness and a dubious morality that seems
malevolent, except by the cosmetic con-
struction of a personal, if idiosyn-
cratic, moral code. The portrait of a
stoic spurred to participation in a poli-
tical struggle is stretched to unbeliev-
able limits by his single-handed assault
on a military safe house, and further
confused by ques[...]ratoriums
of Winter of Our Dreams, which
provided a background for Rob and
Lisa’s (Margie McRae) romance, the
past for Jo and Keefe denotes a time of
shared values and involvement that
necess[...]d constructed to reproduce
the type of female, in a triangular rela-
tionship, that both he and Duigan seem
to prefer.

Jo is in many respects a replication of
the female characters created by
H[...]d Ball of Fire. Her effortless
transition through a male world,
characterized by card games, d[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (66)[...]d
glamorous sexuality, whether she is
lounging on a loo or bluffing her way
through a poker hand. Finally,
however, forcing her to forf[...], flamboyant
adulteress Jo eschews. She may have a
conscience, but she has no cause until
Rosita and[...]ves,
and make her support for him and his
work as a journalist her primary
concern. It is a lukewarm resolution for
a character who has generated so much
electricity,[...]es not com-
bine easily or well with the image of a
wilful, independent female. For a
woman whose predilection is for tumul-
tuous envi[...]gambling and applaud her flir-
tatiousness, it is a form of repentant
self-sacrifice best left to Ing[...].

.Jo’s relationship with her husband
provides a useful insight, if not a suffi-
cient explanation, for the film’s con-
c[...]initially to
be discordant. Reeves, like Rob, is a
man who partially enjoys and simul-
taneously res[...], ultimately, it is an insufficient
rationale for a relationship totally
undermined by the sexual and[...]ersonal responsibility”. The tenuous
search for a balance between the two is
a recurrent theme in Duigan’s films and
most appa[...]ts intricacies, dominate the
film, yet it is also a depiction of a
society rife with the type of exploita-
tion that pervades every facet of exis-
tence. In a country where free speech is
tantamount to sediti[...]o function as the ornaments
of, and servants for, a thriving tourist
trade. The sweaty, suit—clad Australian

1[...]ences of their actions. Tourism
is viewed as both a welcome employer
and tawdry exploiter, willing to
consume anything appealing — beer,
women, souvenirs and a smattering of
traditional dancing: i.e., local cu[...]racious gusto and an absence
of selectivity.

For a country caught between a need
for the dollar and an inability to make
qualitative choices through a represen-
tative government, the only source of
refuge is the church. It is represented as
a supportive yet impotent institution,
able to witn[...]probe the instigators of injustice and
produce “a protest against the treat-
ment of the poor and p[...]. Its convictions are con-
tinually undermined by a style and
structure that inhibit both the develop[...]irector. The marriage of
Duigan’s concerns with a Hollywood
love story results in an unconvincing
romance and a simplistic political
thriller. It is a liaison that does dis-
service to the intentions[...]Though it is his first for Hollywood,
Missing is a very characteristic Costa-
Gavras film. Tendentio[...]t-wing olitician
Lambrakis in Z and the kiling of a
U.S. police “adviser” by Uruguayan
urban guer[...]volving drama
out of the story of Charles Horman, a
U.S. citizen who is presumed to have
died at the[...]orman: An American Sacrifice.‘

Charles Horman, a 31-year-old
writer and filmmaker, who had been
living in Santiago for little more than a
year, disappeared — along with
100,000 Chileans[...]sands of Chileans died
because they had supported a freely-
elected and constitutionally-endorsed
gov[...]ng
reality with deft incursions into the
surreal: a riderless white horse gallops
down a deserted street, spurred on by
the volleys of trigger-happy soldiers; a
helicopter gunship threateningly buzzes
a resort hotel; patrons rush to a res-
taurant balcony to watch military rule
being[...]ce Jovanovitch, New York, 1978,

now published as a Penguin paperback under the
film's title.

Mor[...]tary takeover.)

As the Hormans move warily about a
city under aggressively-exercised
martial law, pe[...]lynch-law is still rampant
when Ed Horman arrives a fortnight
after Charles’ disappearance. In thei[...]imprisoned (and hundreds were
actually executed). A flashback
description of the arrest of two other[...]Szarabajka), shows prisoners being
forced to run a murderous gauntlet of
flailing clubs and rifle bu[...]resented, in typical Costa—Gavras
fashion, with a cold directness that
makes it all the more discon[...]g for being either
background or middle-ground to a
personal drama.

However, the search for one U.S.
citizen among a multitude of tyran-
nized Chileans is the dramatic focus of
the film —— a focus sharpened by the
performances of Lemmon and[...]through doubt and bewilderment to
reach, finally, a mood of contemp-
tuous anger towards the dissembl[...]eater concern for personality is his
depiction of a gradual flowering of
understanding between the tw[...]partment went to
extraordinary lengths in issuing a three-
page document denying the filrn’s[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (67)[...]-out of the coup itself. There is,
however, quite a bit of evidence that the
U.S. was indeed deeply i[...]erican
counterparts, the Chilean armed forces
had a reputation for respecting the
constitution and ke[...]tion of
the White House — urged them to
prepare a military takeover. And
generals like Pinochet (wh[...]e naively-inquisitive Charles
Horman was probably a marked man
from the time he stumbled upon
circums[...]ral days later, Horman
and Terry Simon were given a lift back
to Santiago by Captain Ray Davis,
head of the U.S. Military Group (a
similar character in the film is known
as Captain Tower, played by Charles
Cioffi).

In its document atta[...]cess to,
many relevant documents. (Thomas
Hauser, a lawyer, makes in his book a
strong circumstantial case that U.S.
officials, p[...]man’s arrest but
acquiesced in his execution.)

A prologue to the film, spoken by
Jack Lemmon, conc[...]: “I don’t
see why we need stand by and watch a

2.lnterview with Dan Yakir, Film Comment,
March-[...]y
Senator Frank Church) ofa U.S. desire
to incite a coup even before Allende
assumed office in 1970 (he had topped
the presidential poll with a 36 per cent
vote and had to be confirmed by the
Chilean Congress).

After Allende was duly installed by a
vote of 153 to 35, the U.S. had to bide
its time[...]anging empty
cooking pots filled the streets and a
strike of self-employed truck-drivers
disrupted t[...]d another eight seats.

That U.S. agencies played a major
role in “destabilising” Chile in the
ye[...]conflicting with all our
professed principles as a nation”.“

Leading elements in the armed
services had been preparing a coup for
months, possibly years. Aided and
advise[...]se of another U.S.
coup victim, Frank Teruggi, in a
Santiago morgue and that revelations
by former Ch[...]vras has said that he
believes in film serving as a mirror to
society and making people think —
aim[...]for mass-appeal cinema requires
craftsmanship of a high order and
that’s something this director h[...], visual precision
and resourceful imagination to a steady
commitment to the underdog, usually
the virtuous left-wing underdog (like the
victim in L’aveu, a good communist
fallen among Stalinists). H[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (68)[...]ictum that there
should be no discrepancy between a
film’s being serious and entertaining —
and t[...]ne, while his
second film Un homme de trop, about a
traitor in a French Resistance group,
doesn’t even identify[...]ts it depicts? Those who deplore the
overthrow of a freely-elected govern-
ment by a U.S.-backed-and-influenced
military putsch may we[...]storical or ideological
terms, it is nevertheless a powerful
reminder about what can happen in the
Americas to a people who vote
“irresponsibly” in a democratic
election. One suspects that the lesson[...](Terry), John
Shea (Charles). Charles Ciofii (Cpt Tower), David
Clennon (Phil), Richard Venture (U.S.
Amb[...]ey Grip
is an underwater shot of legs swimming
in a chlorinated pool. It is accompanied
by aa product of, its time
which is now a decade ago.

This is not really a major quibble
about the film. It is so exact abou[...]structed on the
string-of-beads principle. So are a lot of
quite entertaining novels, but in
Monkey G[...]got home”). In
spite of not being able to feel a flicker
of interest in or sympathy for any of
Ga[...]daughter Gracie, I still elt that
there might be a good film in it
somewhere. By “somewhere”, I meant
that a director sensitive to its social/
political setti[...]time, he
has unclamorously but surely put on
film a small inner suburban world of
streets and shops,[...]in preserving, and in doing so he has
established a mise-en-scene which helps
to explain the lives of[...]ivided view of their
emotional lives. It balances a clear
sense of rootless, itinerant camara-
derie,[...]at
feckless emotional life: without ever
becoming a knowing tot, she does
know what’s what. When No[...]” It’s not
censorious, or wise-childish; just a plain
answer to a difficult question.

And one of the sweetest mome[...]star have in fact con-
trived to give Monkey Grip a narrative
purposiveness it never began to have as
a novel. Where the novel is a tiresome
mood piece, its characters and
ambience[...]That is, Nora’s attachment to Javo
(played by a too-healthy-looking Colin
Friels) is not just a series of episodes
but the shaping force of the f[...]ing factor for everything else in
the film. It is a fine, unmannered
performance that makes us accept her
final comment about her life as “a
complicated dance to which the steps
hadn’t qui[...]a’s world. He en
Garner’s daughter, Alice, is a very
engaging presence, responding with
(d[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (69)[...]ization than in its persistent success in
evoking a locale and a time of year.
Cameron has created convincingly on[...]d by the
end of which emotional resources seem
at a low ebb.

The hundred minutes it takes to see
the[...]book, undoubtedly works
in’the film’s favor. A sin le shot in the
film can suggest so muc more about
the physical setting or the emotional
state of a character than the novel was
able to do in many p[...]en sharply discriminating: it has
understood that a film can dramatize
monotony and repetitiveness wi[...]ralia. l982.

Dark Times
Les Rabinowicz

There is a haunting moment at the
end of Die bleierne zeit ([...]years ago, abandoned him
and his father to become a terrorist.
Lampe compassionately reproaches the
child for having, a few moments earlier,
torn up a photo of his mother. She
insists that his mother[...]everything about her, only what she
knows.

It is a measure of director Marga-
rethe von Trotta’s honesty that she
chose to close Dark Times, a film about
the personal anguish surrounding
Juli[...]sister’s lives, with
this admission. And it is a measure of
the com lexity of her subject that her[...]o known in English by other titles:
Leaden Times (a reference to a line by
Holderlin: “I almost feel as ifin leade[...]tween von Trotta
and the sister of Gudrun Esslin, a
member of the Baader-Meinhof gang,
who was said t[...]d not kill herself, spent several years
preparing a book, setting out the
circumstances surrounding h[...]has, as she explained in
an interview, fashioned a film that
reflects her own preoccupations as
much[...]from
her meetings with Christiane.

The result is a film which, despite its
unashamedly left-wing and[...]about its characters.
What at first appears to be a slightly
predictable story about two sisters born[...]s to bring about
political change — the eldest, a prag-
matic and reformist road by becoming
ajournalist, and the other, the opposite
path, by becoming a terrorist —
quickly develops into a film of many
unexpected twists and turns.

The tw[...]the human costs involved.

Dark Times begins with a vexing
issue. A young boy is left with his aunt
Juliane by his fa[...]r sister Marianne (Barbara Sukowa)
force her into a lifestyle they have
rejected?

At the film’s en[...]ht by someone who
had learned that his mother was a
terrorist.

By now, his mother, who had advo-
cat[...]ue story
behind her sister’s “suicide” with a
single-mindedness similar to that with

which Mar[...]iane’s efforts, though, are to little
avail. In a chilling indictment of left-
wing journalism, an editor of a
prominent magazine recites the names
of the new,[...]sisters as they grew
out of adolescence. Through a number
of flashbacks evoking Juliane’s child-
h[...]ther’s favorite,
while Juliane was something of a dare-
devil and outlandish teenage radical.

In t[...]Night and Fog). As its
images are projected on to a screen in a
makeshift auditorium, they are given
added resona[...]ike the Esslin
sisters, they are the daughters of a
Protestant clergyman) hovers about the
projector.[...]r probing here. (Also the
flashbacks suffer from a certain clumsi-

Squizzy Taylor

ness due to the way in which they are
introduced: a childhood recollection is
set off by an imposing stone courtyard,
another by a cup of burnt milk ...)
And more seriously perhaps[...]he audience to interpret. Von
Trotta’s blend of a number of strategies
which eschew emotional ident[...]film’s scenes — invites the audience to
adopt a contemplative attitude toward

the film.

And it[...]opening credits to Squizzy
Taylor hardly suggest a factually-based
period film shackled by matters of
accuracy in an attempt to present a
cinematic account of a notorious 1920s
Melbourne criminal. Rather, the m[...]and out under
the well-publicized Squizzy logo to a
familiar-sounding, pleasant jazz score
carry with[...]s 0fSquizzy’s
character and associations create a
fractured impression of his career, with
lapses i[...]ther Squizzy’s notorious
reputation is valid or a mere media fab-
rication, and, particularly, his[...]ral concern is well-depicted and is
contrasted to a gentlemanly civil and
emotional dimension[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (70)[...]ime ofthe assault, pres-
sures him to help set up a competitor,
Whiting, by robbing ajeweller with hi[...]ca-
tions of such an offer: “Are you calling
me a fizz?” Stokes, however, appeals to
his baser priorities: “You stop Whiting,
and it‘s worth a hundred quid.”

The next shot shows Squizzy rob[...]ntly, Squizzy‘s ambi-
valence merely represents a patchily-
drawn character, rather than the
extreme ends of a character continuum.

After Murray’s capture, S[...]work, to which
she replies, “Some fellas expect a bit
extra.”

Squizzy then approaches her, blade[...]lm’s nostalgic touches, prances with
Dolly like a gent, breaking to knee one
of her rude johns in t[...]to Stokes and desire for
revenge seems to reflect a strong sense
of loss and emotional injury as he
e[...]h suffering damaged merchandise:
“Maybe she is [a moll], but no one does
that to me.”

This sudde[...]Dolly after
her assault, and her image of him as a
pillar of security are ignored.

When Squizzy fi[...]by what
means he acquires the position.

There is a point later in the film
where Brophy warns Squizz[...]ins ofhis operations
to Squizzy until his return, a dire
insufficiency in the depiction of this
transference of power exists. Stokes
saw Squizzy merely as a small-league,
petty thief, even disbelieving that[...]osition in the under-

.world, it remains largely a mystery as

to how he curbed the ambitions of any[...]uizzy jumps bail for stealing
liquor, he goes for a boat ride with
Harvey, reading him an article which,
the reporter assures, is front page
material. There is a sudden familiarity
between the reporter and the u[...]best of which I’ve written
myself. But I'm only a newspaper
hero.”

The extent of this manipulati[...]edia sensa-
tionalism of Squizzy’s exploits, as a
means of selling papers, is also rele-
gated to h[...]en. Piggott replies sarcastically that
Squizzy is a respected citizen, an asset
to the community, men[...]e children of un-
co-operative people, of keeping a pros-
titute in line by giving her a ‘rest’ with

Piggott (Michael Long) in[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (71)Squizzy Taylor

Southern Comfort

the broken end of a beer bottle neck.
Ida denies these accusations, t[...]ock irritation that, “This
is getting to become a habit”, despite it
being the first interaction[...]ay have been
more satisfactorily fulfilled, with a
stronger developmental coherence and

sustained v[...]hompson

Gumbo File with Blanks

Finally, here is a Walter Hill film
that didn’t shoot through the down-
town theatres faster than lard through a
goose — and one which reviewers took

"‘Th[...]than any other Hill
Special (cheap but deadly on a
Saturday night).

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Hey Sarge, Where Ar[...]oing or what sort
of place they are in. They talk a lot
about this. But they face another, more
puzzl[...]Phoenix looks
like the answer, but the film turns a
corner and surrenders its brief flirta-
tion with[...]o-operation. So,
the survivors decide they are in a
revisionist, unpretentious remake of
Deliverance, but the film doesn’t deliver
a city versus country structure or a
fixation on male sexual identities.
Just when it[...]eir way out of the meta-
swamp, they stumble into a Les Blank

film, complete with zydeco music, com-[...]of these
convergences. So, this review will take
a while before it gets to the film proper.
In fact,[...]activates.

War Games

Comfort proposes itself as a war film
of the type developed in American
cinema after World War 2. A small.
contentious military unit is cut off from[...]up actively rep-
resent various parts of society (a
reworking of an old literary conven-
tion: The Ca[...]ing to Get the Range
Twinned with the war grid is aa haven for

the damned.”

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ment Records SLP l8086, c. I967.

It’s both a swamp movie and a red-

neck movie. Comfort is virtually tem-
plated by “What’s Your l0-20?:

A haven ofthe damned": lost in a Louisiana
swamp. Walter Hill '5 Southern Comfort.[...]quite interested in transforming the
redneck into a star, but it is very inter-
ested in asking what[...]ecks and
under what conditions.

It is completely a swamp movie. The
swamp is the film’s enveloping[...]ator) or
destroyed by it (Ruby Gentry); nor is it
a place of potential Rousseauian grace
threatened b[...]na
Story). Comfort’s Guard helicopter
recurs as a beacon and a tantalizing
reminder of the non-swamp, but[...]

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (73)[...]de the
swamp (the Cajun’s brace ofpigs). (It is
a mark of Hill’s carefully—focused dis-
cipline that given a swamp full of
alligators he never shows or refers to
them. That’s resisting a mighty tempta-
tion.)

No indexation is offered t[...]ble/simul-
acrum of Vietnam. Comfort is more
like a cavalry Western than most war
films, in that the[...]suffi-
cient power in the national legislature, a
bill was passed barring the use of
Federal milita[...]comprised of
volunteer citizen soldiers who train a
few weeks each year and who are not

under nation[...]tself
invokes Vietnam. The Cajuns are seen
not as a military force, but as a native
people affronted, and they are indistin-
guishable: you can‘t tell a friendly from
a hostile. The film’s first sequence
enacts, wi[...]culture. And the impaling of
the black soldier on a bed of spikes is a
tip of the hat to John Wayne and Ray
Kellogg’s[...]t

We’ve been going in circles because
scribing a straight line through this
blue-green-brown-unsun[...]). Years ago, U.S. critic Manny
Farber called for a criticism of con-
noisseurship. That need escalat[...]eir richly-condensed laconic dialogue,
continuing a major tradition (see Law-
rence Alloway’s Viole[...]attention and respect. But
the riveting aspect of a Hill film is the
continuous and unpredictable te[...]ment through (or
around) them.

“Minimalism" is a word often used
to link these films with those of Monte
Hellman, but a distinction is needed
between the unremitting, ar[...]r on the railway
trestle; and Hardin’s knifing a Cajun in
the thigh after Spencer plays the final[...]first half of the film thinking
this is really a John Carpenter film,
what with its obsessive and[...]eter, Vol. 6. No. 7, August I978.
,... . , , _,,, A A’ ,

''I think genre films are the best kind[...]r at all —— they are gapped or
chopped, as in a Sam Fuller combat
sequence. This serves again to narra-
tivize abstract tensions and to create a
complex point of view system which is
strictly li[...]s Carolyn
Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini. It
is a feature-length documentary divided
into four part[...]able Gordon Stott rounded
up and chained together a large number
of Aboriginal people and herded them[...]sions of this deed. One
old woman, Dolly, died as a result of
this mistreatment on thejourney. Con-
s[...]illness.

This event is presented in Two Laws
as a simple re-enactment, rather than
an elaborate and[...]has the effect of placing the historical
event in a contemporary context, stress-
ing that the history of the Borroloola
people is a recalled and immediate
history, one that is lived[...]nes who were involved in the
event. It is not, as a reconstruction
would suggest, a series of events that
happened a long time ago and are
finished. As well as the m[...]en
they should be crying. The white man
who plays a reluctant Stott, and beats

CINEMA PAPERS[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (74)[...]tuckout bullock.
eatim whole lot meself.”) hits a tree
with a stick to demonstrate how it
happened. The re-enac[...]. The inter-
change between the two then involves a
bartering of promises to conform to
white ways in[...]ple and Aboriginals,
rather than trying to create a con-
vincing reconstruction.

The theme of dispos[...]foreign parts on the back
ofa truck as they sing a lament for their
lost land. These glimpses ofloss[...]thod of simple re-enact-
ments is also developed. A beautifully-
stylized, almost abstract, represent[...]scene is
staged outside and the participants
form a stark tableau against a vast
backdrop of orange sand. with just a
card table and maps depicting disputed
areas for props.

Dispensing with a realistic court
scene emphasizes the connection w[...]nd black law is highlighted by
the performance of a ceremonial Abori-
ginal song, gudjika. that tradi[...]urt. It
exists entirely outside it. This scene is a
pivotal point for the film, in that it
contains t[...]o contains footage ofa
spontaneous debate between a Borro-
loola man and a white immigrant after
the latter has chopped down[...], over who
has the right to the land. It involves a
discussion of leases, tangible proofs of
ownershi[...]s, that is the heart of
the film, is contained in a powerful

scene from Part Three. A Borroloola
man stands in front of a river explain-
ing that it is the Rainbow Serpent[...]f what is being
discussed. The earlier parts have a
fragility that reflects the position of
fear and[...]sing
contem orary conflicts, the people
speak rom a position of complete
knowledge of, and confidence[...]the sacred trees have been
chopped down, there is a follow-up of
discussion about what action can be[...]final scene of
Part Four — Living With Two Laws a
woman summarizes this change in atti-
tude and th[...]ing:

“When the land rights came in, it
made us a bit stronger and I think
we’ll get stronger sti[...]t like in those days. They
used to just put us on a truck and
take us somewhere else where we
don’t want to go. Now we’re not get-
ting on a government truck, we’re
getting off it and going where we
want to go."

Besides reflecting a historical change
from a position of weakness, repres-
sion and fear to on[...]edium. Part
Four -- Living With Two Laws
works in a broader panorama, showing
details of contemporary[...]ocess, Two
Laws is also exceptional in the use of a
wide-angle lens throughout the film.
This wide-an[...]saying about
land rights. At times when there is a
group shot. it is impossible to discern
the speaker. It really doesn’t matter, as
it is an expression of a group attitude
that is being recorded.

The use o[...]on of
land usage and ownership.

These shots give a timeless quality to
the land that stands outside[...]with their land. The photo-
graphy never becomes a mere scenic
ride through the landscape of[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (75)[...]just plain
dull. Despite her critics, she enjoys a
strong cult following in the U.S.

and Australia.[...]lar in her native Italy where her
detractors take a nationalistic stance
and condemn them for denigra[...]eared in The
End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a
Night Full of Rain. They also
appreciate her humo[...]a. Si sospettano
moventi politici (Blood Feud) is a film
that combines all the elements for
which peo[...]nes in some of her previous
films, such as Tutto a poste e niente in
ordine (All Screwed Up) and Tra[...]rked together as
what Wertmuller considered to be a

successful team in her first play, Two
and Two A[...]which for all
her acting career have ensured her a
position as one of the world’s most
popular sex symbols, guarantee a melo-
dramatic touch.

Loren comes from a poor Neapoli-
tan background and she has said that
she felt empathy with the role of Con-
cetta, a peasant woman from Sicily.
Loren is also a master of comedy and
farce, another two character[...]ing.

“We met in Pompeii in 10 AD. when

he was a chariot driver and I was

selling statuettes on t[...]esting
combination for this film.

Blood Feud is a film that uses poli-
tical realism rather than th[...]ed in the court.

Rosario Spallone (Mastroianni), a
socialist lawyer from Rome, comes to
town and, he[...]also keen to further his own career and
establish a reputation in the town. He
does not bargain on Co[...]y
her husband’s murderer, the local
mayor. With a loving picture of her
husband, similar to the rel[...]for him
develops.

Concurrent with the growth of a
tentative and improbable relationship
between the[...]bols of his material success
and cultural change: a brightly-colored
madonna for his native village, a
gramophone to play “il jazz”, plus an

amusin[...]and his mob. They
flee the village together. In a final con-
frontation at the port of Naples, Nick[...]archist in Seven Beauties, who
hurls himself into a tub of excrement
knowing he will be shot, rather[...]sely for the two
men involved with her, maintains a
rigorous religious and emotional, if not
finally[...]appropriate. Her nocturnal visits prove
to be of a different nature: giving
abortions to village wom[...]urdered
husband, three people simultaneously
—- a theme explored in the more
petulant character of[...]inds, Spal-
lone blunders about trying to live by a
lofty moral code that has vague intima-
tions of[...]ooders. The more she reviles him the
stronger his attraction to her and her
principled stance becomes.

For hi[...]will give his land
away. He uses it as stakes in a card
game with Nick. He tips a plate of
spaghetti on his mother’s hair to offe[...]m with
assurances of respect and affection. He
is a victim of an attack by fascists and
he drags hims[...]port as the fascists
claim, he gives himself like a lamb on a
sacrificial altar to their bullets. The act
highlights the sense that Spallone has
wanted to make himself a martyr to a
cause to prove the moral fibre that he
suspects[...]routine from the shore, his
gramophone resting in a tree. Nick
stays despite her protests and finall[...]ew prevents her films from
developing too strong a narrative sense.
As in many of her films, in par[...]er of the film,
peasants in Sicily, could provide a
welter of romanticism for a Bernardo
Bertolucci, but Wertmuller keeps the
lig[...]nditions of the poor
village where people scratch a living
from the dry earth. The gentlemen’s
club where Spallone offers his land as
stakes is not a glamorous retreat from
the village but a depressed and
decaying, physically as well as atmo-
spherically, bastion of Italian gentry.

While keeping a realistic camera,
Wertmuller is capable of creating
intriguing, at times almost abstract,
images — a difficult achievement in the
narrative film medium. Spallone’s first
encounter with Concetta is a
memorable one. He is motoring with
colleagues on rural roads. He carries a
camera. She approaches atop a lumber-
ing cart stacked high with the bundles
of sticks she collects daily. She forms a
bundle almost indistinguishable from
the sticks -— a mixture of eharcoals,
greys and browns in capacious trousers,
a skirt and cloak. The cart whirls by,
the troubled face of Concetta is
revealed for a moment, then moves on,
a strange form on the road.

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (77)[...]carbon copies of their originals is
at last dying a slow death. To cite a
recent example, critical reaction to
the film ve[...]le.

Fewer filmgoers are prepared to
countenance a more radical approach,
however, one best summed u[...]intelligent adapta-
tions could only result from a process of
re-interpretation, of regarding liter-[...]for essentially new works.

That the question is a complex one is
apparent when one cites, on the ot[...]view that true (rather than literal)
fidelity to a classic literary text was
invariably an easy option for a film-
maker. However, his advocacy of the
need f[...]major heresy of
many screen versions, represents a posi-
tion not many filmmakers are likely to
fin[...]he US. in
countless literature and film courses, a
phenomenon hardly found in Aus-
tralia, at least at tertiary level. The
volume, in a sense, both explains and
questions such a lacuna: explains,
because too many of the essays[...]both
mediums, and in the process merely
achieving a colorless sort of writing
which constantly hedges[...]he
editors’ claims that the essays illus-
trate a variety of critical approaches.
For instance, Ric[...]owing Roland Barthes) shows the
strategy of using a classless narrator to
be aimed at presenting the[...]m to be for him the most uncon-

genial of texts, a tribute to a bourgeois
hero, is shown to result in a subtle
critical commentary on Daniel Defoe,
a deconstruction rather than a trans-
lation.

Another fine essay is James Good[...]d, from the impenetrable jargon
which disfigures a good deal of recent
writing on cinema.

A valuable filmography of adapta-
tions is include[...]e done, it wasn’t worth it” -
applies only as a useful warning for film
adaptations (as Simon hi[...]and Unwin,
Sydney, 1982

Sam Rohdie

This is less a review of Australian
Cinema, still less a referendum
(good/bad) upon it, than a comment on
certain problems connected with Aus-
t[...]so much
to what is discussed in the book than to
a question why most studies of the
Australian cinem[...]alyses of this sort using narrative
theories over a wide range in relation to
specific Australian films (A Girl of the
Bush, The Hordern Mystery, The Man
fr[...]tralian cinema
which lends itself more to work of a
historical/sociological kind (not that
such work[...]mas
outside Australia which it surely is)
than to a structural, semiotic one.

I think the Aus[...]

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concerned with a transformation of the
cinema, with new directions, new possi-
bilities, a new consciousness of things,
the Australian cinema is without
interest. It is not simply a matter of
names and all they signify (no Jean-Luc[...]), but that
at best Australian films demonstrate a
skill and expertise in handling what is
only rath[...]nres (Cinema Papers‘ New Aus-
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these: epics, war films, historica[...]ans-
form, question, challenge, even inflect.

In a sense, what is of interest in the
Australian cine[...]in this way (and I doubt if he would
accept such a pose), the analyses he
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version) (a): Golden Harvest, W. Germany, 3589 m,
Fox Columbi[...]Reason for deletions: O(sexuaI activity involving a
minor)

Hot Times (b): L. Mishkin, U.S., 2210 rn,[...]1 min, 52 secs)

Reason for deletions: S(i-h-g)

(a) See also under “Films Board of Review".

(b) P[...]n in Peril (second reconstructed version)
(16mm) (a): Not shown, U.S., 623.50 m,14th Mandolin,
S(i-m-g), O(sexua/ violence)

(a) Previously shown on September 1981 list.

Films[...]F (German language, English sub-titled
version) (a): Golden Harvest. W. Germany, 3589 m,
Fox Columbi[...]hold the decision of the Film
Censorship Board.

(a) See also under

Eliminations".

(b) Previously s[...]80 in, Warner Bros (Aust.)

Napoleon (videotape): A. Gance, France, 232 mins,
Cooke Hayden Pri[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (82)PIBTURE PREVIEW

A tragi-comic love story about Peter Thompson (Norman
Kaye), a middle-aged bachelor, and Patricia Curnow ( Wendy
Hughes ), a 30-year-old spinster.

Lonely Hearts is directed by Paul Cox, for producer John B. Murray, from
a screenplay by John Clarke and Paul Cox.

Opposite[...]first meeting, after having been ‘paired’ by a dating service,
Bottom left: Patricia appeals to[...]er parents. Bottom right: Peter is interviewed by a detective (Chris
Haywood), right, after ha[...]

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (84)[...]ify his Veronika seem
glib) and extends them from a personal
to a larger relevance by relating the
terrible stressa[...]sickness and division of her country.
They share a death wish, and Berlin's
Wall and severed Germany are figured in
her slashed wrists and throat. A harsh
and shocking indictment of national
sicknes[...],
having seen it, voted it Best Film, was
Pixote, a lei do mals fracs (Pixote,
Survival of the Weakes[...]street kids who roam
the cities of Brazil, and to a law which
prevents anyone under 18 years from
bei[...]criminal acts? To
examine the spread of crime in a society
so corrupt that when one inmate of a
sadistically mismanaged, crime-
breeding reform school is offered a
chance to escape says, “I'm staying -
it’s wo[...]sequential flow and child perfor-
mances. It has a cumulative effect which
makes its two final scenes almost
unbearable: the first, in which Pixote
finds on a prostitutes breast the mother
he lost, and she th[...]e mentality of totalitarianism”. it is
patently a matter of great seriousness for
the Sydney Film F[...]osition — the security of
the Festival rests on a “deal” made in
1975 without solid legal sanct[...]he most unfortunate and
onerous characteristic of a film festival
audience is the expectation of an i[...]mmentary so bleak and
pessimistic in content that a lack of
inventiveness in style may be over-
looke[...]the State
Theatre and the glittering spectacle of a
gala opening herald an invitation for an
elite in[...]ms
like Bill Forsyth’s Gregory’s Girl, elicit a
response tantamount to condescension.
Description[...]lightful and

engaging abound, but barely conceal a
prevalent belief that optimism about the

human c[...]in the post-session coffee
queue is to recognize a vaguely-
concealed insult.

While Gregory’s Girl is indeed all of
the above, it is also a hilarious, subtle
and satirical glimpse of adolescence, in a
spirit that effectively topples many of the
tradi[...]d by the prospect of
redundancy, Gregory moves to a defen-
sive position and stands amiably by as
the[...]upheavals of life provides an admirable
basis for a valuable education.

Another comedy feature of th[...]and (Mary
Woronov) in the pursuit of their dream: a
restaurant in the country which they con-
sider c[...]and. As they murder
and pillage their way through a smorgas-
bord of sexual perverts and lecherous
sw[...]cts an ode to
life on the west coast of the U.S., a
Gomorrah where “the barrier between
food and sex has been totally dis-
solved.”

Shot on weekends, with a skeleton
crew and rented camera, the film com-
pe[...]cuisine American style and

swingers, it becomes a stylistic counter-

part to the acidity and black[...]ing Ducks.

The Hungarian satire, Peter Bacso’s A
tanu (The Witness), cast some equally
barbed, if[...]ermittent cuts to explanatory
notes, it resembles a fairytale, tracing the
ascent of Jozef Pelikan (F[...]ests that the occa-
sional lapses of integrity in a simple man
will be suspended when challenged by
s[...]Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce
fiafferty, is a documentation of the
naivete, ignorance and propa[...]s. its inter-
pretation of recent history is also a
chilling testimony to the power of the
media and[...]ty to convert any
phenomenon, even paranoia, into a
marketable commodity.

The film depicts the transformation of
post-war euphoria to atomic fever, a
fashionable title effectively used to sell
cockta[...]c. Hasty
preparation for Armageddon gave birth
to a host of cottage industries, from the
design of an[...]n of survival kits (with all the serious-
ness of a Sunday picnic), and the
furnishing and protection[...]what they
hear now.”‘ Indeed, the message of a
nation’s criminal ignorance and
flippancy, effe[...]techniques that necessitates biting the
head off a live chicken; and the ditch-
digging punis[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (85)[...]tival 1 982

Georg Laschen (Bruno Ganz) beside a terrorist in the war-torn Lebanon of 1975. Volker

Scl1l0r1d0rff's Circle of Deceit.

are unclear. There is a vague admission
that a uniform will enable them to “stand
talf" and ea[...]ouraged to
resent until the film's conclusion. As a
veteran of the Vietnam war, he privately
despairs that he has lost a part of his
soul. He is unable to cry or to share[...]his
ability to train others to do the same. it is
a penetrating glimpse of the function of
an army and a process of regimentation
that seems to necessitat[...]count of the indoctrina-
tion of an individual by a religious cult
reveals many similarities to the training
procedure depicted in Soldier Girls.

When a disillusioned David Kappel
(Nick Mancuso) arrives in California to
visit a friend, he is unwittingly lured into
the extended family provided by a cult.
The film traces his demise and eventual
red[...]g and chanting; the intensive,
exhaustive pace of a group that
emphasizes physical exercise, mental
d[...]duality and his sex drive on the road to
becoming a heavenly child. He becomes
a fictional counterpart to Sergeant Abing,
as his r[...]ramatic impact rather
than lucid investigation of a perplexing
phenomenon. its answers are too simple[...]cause ofsocial evils, rather than the
symptom of a more complicated
deficiency in the cultures that[...]ts
his lyrical black-and-white scenario pro-
duce a more complex, and ultimately
more potent, appreci[...]that govern social trends, without resort-
ing to a judgment of their validity.

Mick (Graham Green) conveys a sense
of powerlessness: the frustration of being[...]company enlistment in the
army. He is locked into a society with a
dearth of alternatives.

In a film punctuated by the image of
endless dole queues, Mick's aspiration
for a career as a motor mechanic seems
chimerical. It is as temptin[...]environment that crushes initia-
tive and imposes a maddening lack of
privacy, his escape is to the garage,
where he repairs a motor-bike that can
guarantee a limited freedom. The bike
assumes the significanc[...]d Karen
(Carolyn Nicholson).

Loach’s talent as a director is evident
in his ability to suggest and[...]f judgment. The
army, introduced at the outset by a
recruiting film, provides the only
immediate, leg[...]riend, who has
been stationed in Ireland, reveals a
transformation from an apolitical youth at
the crossroads to a soldier whose
primary emotions are vengeance, bitter-
ness and a barely-concealed racism,
which his enlistment has[...]uggests, it is
able to look at situations, create a per-
ceptive awareness of the factors that
create[...]hlondorff’s Die falschung
(Circle of Deceit) is a thankfully-rare
film, so consummately assured in[...]aws of its
content. While purporting to elucidate a
complex contemporary crisis, it suc-
ceeds only i[...]ts juxtaposition of sex and
violence, and invites a voyeurism molli-
fied by the reassurance of valid[...]hat alternate between fascination and
disgust, in a style that is characteristic of
pornography. The civil war in Lebanon
becomes a vehicle, a showcase, for
displaying atrocities and relishing[...]tise of their depiction.

Laschen (Bruno Ganz) is a foreign
correspondent who shares the director's
p[...]cognition, and their obscurity is seen to
justify a nihilism. While on assignment in
Beirut, his disillusionment with life —— a
crumbling marriage, a profession in
which he has littlefaith or commitment —
is temporarily allayed by a brief infatua-
tion with Ariane (Hanna Schygulla)[...]ivate not only sexual
desire in Laschen, but also a justifica-
tion of his own frustration and dis-
interest. For a while, she becomes his
preoccupation, his cause.[...]n (Jerzy Skolimowski) is
an uneasy liaison. It is a unity firmly
mired in the ideology that transport[...]ionals who
invade beleaguered countries, and with a
minimum of personal involvement profit

and thriv[...]mented by Laschen’s cynical belief that
he has a responsibility to alleviate
boredom in the lounge[...]film re-
sembles its soulless hero, purporting to a
substance and depth of conscience that
is nothing more than a facile pretence.
Laschen’s monotone narration t[...]s and his
self-doubt are no more than devices for a
circular process that can never pene-
trate its p[...]s tale
of disillusionment never penetrates
beyond a glossy recreation of the horrors
of war. Wars do[...]_sHon all
sides. What it supplies is no more than a
diversion whose achievement is based
solely on it[...]talls.

Comparing Jean-Jacques Beineix's
debut as a director in Diva to the stylish,
innovative thril[...]nd
complement them with an originality of
design, a fluidity of camerawork and an
aptitude for the cr[...].

Jules (Frederic Andrei) is an opera
lover with a passion for the work of
soprano Cynthia Hawkins ([...]ure her voice for his private
pleasure, he sneaks a Nagra into her
concert and produces the first hig[...]ext
day, his inadvertent presence at the
scene of a murder involves him in a
police investigation. As a result, Jules
becomes the unwitting target of the
police inquiries, the mob reprisal and a
blackmail attempt on his idol, the dive.
He has been hurled into a classic Hitch-
cock scenario; unable to rely on familiar
territory, forced into a situation where his
survival is dependent on his wits, he
becomes the resourceful protagonist of a
volatile world.

Happily, Beineix's concerns are[...]f business” and the suggestion
that everyone is a little guilty. He elevates
Paris from a glorious background to an
integral character, a technique equally
effective in Rohmer's La femme[...], evoking an atmo-
sphere so mercurial that it is a continual
delight.

The bevy of idiosyncratic characters is
as diverse as a black soprano, a Viet-
namese thief, a French detective with a
penchant for puzzles, a few sinister thugs
and a couple of Taiwanese black-

mailers. The visual feast, enhanced by
discriminating selection of music and a
host of ebullient characters, makes Diva
as stimu[...]k of Robert
Bresson, and an inspiration to create a

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (86)film in the style and mood of Pick-
pocket. It is a daunting standard to
impose on any film, but part[...]ved, written, financed and into
production within a month. Yet the
tension that highlights Moonlighti[...]ts with an almost im-
perceptible flicker make it a homage that
is to be appreciated for its influenc[...]its ironic political allegory.

As the leader of a group of Polish
tradesmen flown to London to reno[...]his boss (briefly glimpsed as
the director doing a Hitchcock), Jeremy
irons gives a taut and sensitive perform-
ance. His voice as th[...]mber of the group, he
learns through the media of a military
coup in Poland. Caught between a desire
to complete the project and a responsi-
bility to inform his co-workers, he pos[...]mpossibly-meagre

budget provided by the boss and a work.

schedule that resembles a five-year plan
reduced to a single, hellish month. The
budget problems are so[...]ne, following the comple-
tion of the project and a six-hour hike to
Heathrow.

The depiction of the[...]verishly laboring on an inadequate diet
to repair a house he can never enjoy, is
an apt allegory. Sko[...]so the theme that underlies
Claude Miller's Garde a vue (The In-
quisitor) and Michel Deville‘s Eau[...]ll three films
revolve around the construction of a
male protagonist, whose initial appear-
ance of ineptitude is gradually unmasked
to reveal a calculating murderer, or, in
the case of Garde a vue, a character that
the audience could accept as a
murderer.

As the agent of law enforcement in the[...]s public opinion of his
own buffoonery to conceal a series of
vendettas aimed at eliminating the town’s
trash. Ostensibly spurred by the vigor of
a neighboring police chief, he
systematically dispo[...]ier gradually persuades the
audience to formulate a portrait of
Cordier in accordance with the opinions
of the townsfolk. Having constructed a
character we believe to be a genial yet
irredeemably sluggish fool, he proceed[...]opinion, until the impact of
the final scene — a repetition of the film's
first shot — reveals the true nature of
Cordier as a devil figure.

Using his status as the reigning l[...]one of the
guilt. The "paradise" he has chosen is a
state of limbo, where there is no distinc-
tion b[...]in trips to and from Bourkassa
suggest that it is a place where time
stands still. The blind man on t[...]e
tone of Coup de torchon are further
enriched by a number of excellent per-
formances. Noiret’s ba[...]e adaptation of Patricia High-
smith’s story of a husband driven to
murder by his wife‘s promiscuity labors
under the weight of its.source. It is a film
so doggedly faithful in its translation that[...]depths of its central relationship. The
result is a film that suggests the exist-
ence of some fascin[...]results from their
respective abilities to create a visual
language as expressive in style as that of[...]reta-
tion that must accompany its translation
to a new medium.

Light Years Away is Alain Tanner's i[...]at 25, and,
though its language and location mark a
departure for Tanner, its concern with
the pursui[...]ic of his films.

Jonas (Mick Ford) is enticed to a
sanctum that civilization has literally by-

* pa[...]initially goads, and later guides, Jonas
through a spiritual journey that will
enable him to inherit[...]subside, and Yoshka subsequently
transforms from a brooding master to a
supportive mentor. Jonas’ growing
respect for and harmony with nature
enable a unity to develop, based on
mutual respect and und[...]encouraged to share his
wonder as Tanner creates a universe
resplendent with luminous mauve light,
s[...]e mechanical
wreckage that litters the year 2000, a
testimony and obituary for an industrial
age, is[...]and
appreciation of this beauty.

Light Years is a film that encourages
the pursuit of dreams, a theme shared by
Les Blank's Burden of Dreams, a docu-
mentary chronicling Werner Herzog’s
produ[...]etween depression and
exhilaration that accompany a venture as
defiantly ambitious as Herzog’s. Burden
of Dreams accomplishes an admirable
synthesis; a combination of Herzog’s
sensual imagery and Bla[...]l that delineates diverse
cultures. The result is a film that cele-
brates men like Fitzcarraldo and[...]he pursuit of
dreams and, in that quest, discover a
truth and purpose in their own exist-
ence.

Yet, it is simultaneously a film that
illuminates the preoccupations of pro-[...]'s technique of cut-
ting away from the action in a scene to
lingering shots of the extras. He con-
structs an acute awareness of a culture
imperilled by the onslaught of indus-
trialization. Finally, Burden of Dreams is
a fascinating documentary with an
admirable[...]

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A Personal History ofrlre Australian Surf.

Melb[...]ian production, Take
the Money and Beat It, takes a serious
subject — the cultural problems of an
A[...]grown up in different cul-
tures. It is apt to be a bit loose and
predictable as we observe teenagers[...]little to
do with its cinematic merits.

There is a sense of strained serious-
ness about the Swedish[...]of Berg-
man’s great repertory players. Against a
physical background of snow-covered
woods and mountains, a political back-
ground of a neutral country in a world at
war, and with a remarkably difficult
family for its emotional context, Thulin
unfolds, in a leisurely, disjointed way, the
growing up of 13-y[...]villages in which Thulin grew
up and they become a metaphor for
Erika’s ignorance of the wider wor[...]Thulin’s
narrative grasp is too shaky to ensure a

firm sense of continuity. What one gets
are scen[...]onships which
finally pushes her off on her own.

A different kind of growing up is cele-
brated in Michael B|akemore‘s A
Personal History of the Australian Surf,
the most sheerly enjoyable film of the
Festival. Blakemore, now a successful
stage director in London, recalls growing
up in Sydney in the 1940s. He was, he
says, a “straight poofter", a mother’s boy
who loved the movies and hated rou[...]he other main formative influence of
his youth is a witty, sardonic father who,
while not overtly opp[...]himself into his
“advantages”: he undertakes a medical
course (in the loosest sense of the term)[...]ouch and the wit of the narrator’s voice,
it is a serious film about the relative
shaping pressures on young people's
growth. There is a more obvious serious-
ness at work in the only ot[...]42. It does more than this though.
The method — a sort of “dramatized
documentary” — is not c[...]of
remembering. As Bill Neave recalls
“sticking a Jap with a bayonet”, he
comes to terms with the notion of himself
as a “murderer" and weeps to think of

Melbourne Fil[...]ow his father would have responded to
the idea of a son who had killed.

“We shall never be at peac[...]uy.
This particular quotation does indeed
provide a statement about the docu-
mentary’s procedures:[...]single

greatest performance in the Festival; in a

more teasing sense, it seems of course
scarcely a performance at all. By
collapsing past and present, Tammer
has created a remarkable sense of 40
years of one man's life. E[...]ty, but it seems
to be that it needs its hour and a quarter
to register not just the recollections bu[...]a, director
Jean-Jacques Beineix's first film and a
highly entertaining melodrama. It is
romantic, co[...]and exciting by
turns and sometimes all at once. A
resume of its complicated plot would not
merely t[...]two weeks after
viewing, but would scarcely give a sense
of its bold inventiveness. The incidents in[...]narrative
sources: his illicit tape recording of a
concert given by an operatic soprano
(played by t[...]ng possession of evidence of
underworld vice when a prostitute on the
run dumps a tape in his mailbag.

These two incidents are onl[...]way they
belong to Jules’ sense of his life as a
drama in which he is actively engaged
but chiefly[...]hase through the
Metro and the chilling climax in a
deserted warehouse all posit a sharp
edge of terror just beyond the well-lit
are[...]ror in the sequences I
have referred to.

Diva is a really stylish entertainment, a
film that seems to delight in being a film
without being the mere pyrotechnic
di[...]

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (90)[...]sedentary activities of the
National Library, but a film archive needs to be
where the action is: it[...]l sections
of the media (which in itself suggests a
burgeoning interest in film archiving work), and[...]position in FIAF. FIAF may
sometimes appear to be a ponderous, rather
restrictive organization, cloud[...]t its members bear their own
name and demonstrate a measure of autonomy
and financial self-sufficien[...]it
in fact makes sense if film archiving is to be a
truly collective worldwide effort as it should be.

Strictly speaking, many archives have a
dubious qualification to membership of FIAF
on th[...]information, so long as there
is central control, a clearly—defined program and
policy for each arc[...]particularly in the costly

In Britain, there are a number of regional or
specialist archives (the la[...]s is not the case in Australia, and that
there is a deal of competitiveness, overlapping
and ineffici[...]e position in the National Library.

I would make a final suggestion: that the
means be found to set up an independent
detailed study of the work of the NFA by a
qualified group (if this is not already the aim of
the present advisory committee) with a view to
making recommendations on its future deve[...]tralia be strongly (and financially) supported
as a possible key factor in gaining for the NFA
the na[...]Filmco,
O(aduIt concepts)

The Foreigner (16mm): A. Poe, U.S., 998 m, Aus-
tralian Film Institute, V[...].45 m, Roadshow Dlst., O(sexuai allusion)

Liar’a Moon: Hanna Prod., U.S., 2825.29 rn, GUO Film
Dis[...].71 rn, Norman Films, O(aduIt concept)

Once Upon a Time: Golden Harvest, Hong Kong,
2565.70 m, Grand[...]lm Enterprises, V(t—m—g)

Unmada Bode (16mm): A. Poe, U.S., 767.90 m, Aus-
tralian Film Institute[...]ricted Exhibition (R)

Au Pair Girls (videotape) (a): G. Coen, Britain, 81 mins,
G.L. Film Dist, S(i-[...]uelier W. Rubi, W. Germany, 2192.27 rn,
Filmways (A‘sia). S(f-m-g)

The Call of Duty: S. Chein. Tai[...]Love: Jurgenz, W. Germany,

1952.16 m, Filmways (A'slan) Dist., S(I-m-g)

(a) Previously passed “R" with eliminatlons (Septe[...]tivals and then exported.

Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyaaay (15mm):

Seven League Prods, U.S.,[...], 1190 m,
Melbourne Film Festival

The Artist was a Woman (16mm): The Artist Was A
Woman, Inc., U.S., 638 m, Melbourne Film Festival
Between Rock and a Hard Place (16mm): Blue Ridge
Mountain Films, U.S[...]ourne Film Festival

Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius (16mm):
Blackwood Prods, U.S., 1018 rn, Melbourne Film
Festival

Phil Gueton: A Life Lived (16mm): Blackwood Prods,
U.S., 682 m,[...]Germany.
960 rn, Melbourne Film Festival

Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy (16mm): Thread Cross
Films, Brit[...]bito Abe, Japan, 3678 m, Melbourne Film
Festival

A Wive'e Tale (Una hlatoire do lemmas) (16mm):
Atel[...]minations

For Mature Audiences (M)

Ghost story (a): B. Welssbourd. U.S., 2940.85 rn,
United lnt’l[...]7.8 m (17 secs)

Reason for deletions: S(i-h-g)

(a) Previously shown on February 1962 list. See also[...]fused Registration

The Bloody Flats (videotape) (a): Hong Nik, Hong
Kong, 90 mins, J & P Video Hire, V(i—h-g)

China Sisters (videotape); A Spinelii, U.S., 74 mins,
Blake Films Vic., S(i-h-g)

A Coming of Angels (videotape): J. Scott, U.S., 72[...]m. Sunn Classic Prods, O(sexua/ exploita-
tion of a minor)

Pussycat Ranch: Jack Rabbit Prod., U.S.,[...]ett, U.S.,
1816.80 rn, 14th Mandolin. V(i'-h-g)

(a) Previously shown on January 1973 list.

(b) Prev[...]t 1975 list.

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Cinema lnt’l[...]hold the decision of the Film
Censorship Board.

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Anja Breien
Continued from p. 32][...]orked with
Bergman?

No. He saw Wives and we have a
friend in common, and met. I have
kept in touch,[...]one has to make one’s own
mistakes.

It may be a bigger problem, in that
you have an interest in s[...]I see ours as two different worlds.
I think I’m a great moralist and am
very marked by moralistic
attitudes, but they are more a bour-
geois conditioning than a Christian
one. The only thing that has
bothered m[...]re [laughs]. That has
always haunted me. I am not a
totally unreligious person, but I
can’t see why[...]are working on now?

Yes, I hope so. It could be a
weakness as well in that I can’t live
myself into it. But it may be an
advantage to see it from a ‘heathen’
point of view.

Which would make it a very differ-
ent approach to that of Bergman,
with his background . . .

Yes. God, he’s a pastor’s son!
Bergman said that after The
Seven[...]at is preoccupying me. The
Seventh Seal is for me a work of
genius. I don’t have quite the same
for[...]tle of that around.

Here in Norway there is such a
Bohemia myth in the arts, and what
I am learning from Ingmar is that
film is a craft, a profession, one can
learn. There are, of course,[...]view the witch hunts as the paranoid reaction of a male society

x

against a female power. ’

I think it is very difficul[...]oo
little, notjust technically. It is, after
all, a poetic medium.

Do you think the cinema has becom[...]stag-
nate in the opposite direction. It
becomes a new moralism.

That film should reflect our lives[...]too. In the Nor-
wegian film industry we have had a
very important struggle to earn
professional salaries. To gain a
decent living, a lot ofpeople have to
prove that they know their job, and

it has resulted in a kind of com-
placency with people losing their
cu[...]verywhere else. And we are all
freelancers. I’m a freelancer, too. I
have social security, of course.
Those who work up at Jar for

Norsk Film A/S are fully
employed, but otherwise . . .

How do[...]instance
Sweden?

I found it easier in Sweden on a
purely professional level because of
the traditio[...]omething isn’t good enough, you
are not seen as a bitch but as
someone who wants to have the
best.[...]tion of the
film Forfolgelsen.

It is essentially a film about
intolerance, and fear of outsiders;
in[...]ery contem-
porary, Breien suggests. Rather

than a film about witchery or the
supernatural, it is essentially a love
story, about a woman who is not
afraid ofexpressing her feelings[...]She is careless, and suffers the
consequences. In a sense, one
might subtitle the film ‘How to
become a witch without really

999

trying .
As to the questions “Was she a

witch?” or “What is a witch?”,

Breien says,
“If I accept the conce[...]both Eli
Laupstad and myself. Why
should I accept a concept that
hits woman as a sexual being?
There is much fear of women in
the[...]view the witch hunts as the
paranoid reaction of a male
society against female power.”
As to her own work as a director,

and future projects, Breien says,
“O[...]the political.”
Breien is starting to think of a

contemporary project:
“Now I have to make up m[...]ound.”

Filmography

1967 Jostedalsrypa 36 mins
A short film, based on a medieval
legend, about a young girl in a Nor-
wegian valley at the time of the plague.
17 Mai, en film om ritualer 12 mins
A satirical documentary on the cele-
bration of the National Norwegian
holiday. Awarded a prize at Ober-
hausen festival.
Ansikter 8 mins
Paintings by Edvard Munch.
Voldtekt 96 mins
A young man, wrongly accused of a
crime. sees himself being ground down
by thejudic[...]Fortnight in Cannes.
Murer rundt fengslet 12 mins
A denunciation of the Norwegian
penal system.
Herbe[...]ves is about three former friends
who meet during a party and decide,
for a short time, to forget their
feminine ‘responsib[...]by John Cassavetes. Shown in
Chicago, and awarded a prize at the
Locarno festival.
1977 Den alvarsamma leken (Games of Love
and Loneliness) 106 mins
Based on a novel by Hjalmar Soder-
berg published in l9l2, this film was
made in Sweden. A Maupassant tone
for a love story upset by prejudice and
law. Awarded a prize at the Chicago
festival.
1979 Arven (Next of Kin) 95 mins
1980 Forfolgelsen (The Witch Hunt) ‘A

1969

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1972

1973

1975

197[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (93)[...]interest. In
essence, it must satisfy itself that a film
can be screened for general or
restricted au[...]by the
Board of Review to scenes in Pixote
where a child is in the presence of
people engaged in sex[...]association with persons
engaged in activities of a sexual nature
was not indecent, obscene, injuriou[...]cations Act. This Act prohibits
the appearance of a child in the
presence of a person engaged in an
activity of a sexual nature — appar-
ently even if the qualit[...]The Films Board of Review does not
consider that a decision applicable to
all states should be adjus[...]and,

Re: 1982 Melbourne Film Festival

I enclose a copy of a letter sent this
day to Senator, the Hon. P. D. D[...]t that part of the
foundation for your action was a pur-
ported sustainance of the Victorian
Police O[...]to
decide whether that is the case and it is
not a function which resides with you.

You will doubtl[...]Attorney-General,

Parliament House,

Canberra, A.C.T., 2600

Dear Attorney-General,

Re: 1982 Melb[...]by the Chief
Censon

Incidentally, I note that as a result of
the last Ministers’ meeting you were[...]’s intended actions. If
so, why was I not given a chance to
consider whether Victorian legislation[...]propose to take.

I enclose for your information a copy
of a letter I have sent to the Chief
Censor.

John Cai[...]al has been
formed in Victoria and will undertake a
10-city tour of that state in March, April
and Ma[...]who live outside
the Melbourne metropolitan area. Aa genuine variety of film,"
said Graham Davies, gen[...]rts in the country are gener-
ally suffering from a lack of funds
and a total lack of any diversity in film
presentations[...]program will be
variety and diversity."

Although a sponsor has been
secured and an application for g[...]o the movie
theatres that exist across the state. A
few have closed over the years and
the different programming format
offered by our Festival is seen as a
positive contribution to the local
community.”[...]tival

The Jung Society of Melbourne will
present a second Jungian Film Fes-
tival on September 18-19[...]of Sculp-
tor Steiner, Jean Cocteau’s Blood of a
Poet and Le testament d’Orphee,
Michael Lee's B[...]k-
about and Ingmar Bergman’s The
Magic Flute.

A panel of film critics will offer opin-
ions and r[...]k, 2
Devon St, Eaglemont, Vic., 3084. Tele-
phone A.H. (03) 459 3530.

Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout.[...]Jones.
The investment is to complete scripting
of a project funded to first-draft stage
by the Austra[...]ries) is an original
story by Stephanie McCarthy, a South
Australian writer‘ freelancing in the
chi[...]n's Television
Foundation has been established as a
non-profit-making company to encour-
age t[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (94)A Shifting Dreaming

David Millikan

A Shifting Dreaming
Continued from p. 33]

Territor[...]what is
happening in the Northern Territory.”

A Shifting Dreaming may have implica-
tions in an a[...]00 Aboriginals
were slaughtered. This massacre is a well—kept
secret of Australian historians and y[...]rank
Crow1ey’s general Australian history text, A
New History of A ustralia, the massacre gets no

mention, although[...]quiry into this massacre is being re—enacted
as a major part of the documentary to assist in
the po[...]o. Plasto saw the dramatization of the
inquiry as a means of going some way towards
coming to terms w[...]levision and elsewhere.

For Plasto, then, making A Shifting
Dreaming has been “an unbelievable human
experience”, that is, quite simply,

a historical document that had to be done.

It rema[...]ry Australia. The final
summation of the judge is a quite
extraordinary, even devastating,
statement.

So, you are making a documentary
that combines the issues of land
righ[...]mainly. it is the
Warlpiris.

Are you hoping that a documentary
about this sort of issue, or event, will
give people a better understanding of
the background of Aborigi[...]the long run it
matters for us.

I think there is a case for forget-
ting things, or perhaps a case for
moving on, but you only do that on
the b[...]e the

original owners, that they have
maintained a profound spiritual
affiliation with the land thro[...]and that they were dis-
possessed of the land in a violent
and destructive way. Their claims
on an e[...]found difficulties in
the business of maintaining a viable
lifestyle on the land because it is
margin[...]o that in itself, for me, is
enough. I feel we as a country are
enhanced by our capacity to recog-
nize their rights.

Would you say it is a measure of the
humanity of a nation to treat its
natives in that way?

It may be a measure ofthe sensi-
tivity of our conscience; it may be a
measure of our sense of guilt; it
may, if you put a better light on it,
be aa respect for
the underdog and a basic aware-
ness of the values that make the
lan[...]ject?

It is being financed by private
investors. A lot of them were
attracted to it because of the t[...]ion — the normal route
these days.

It has been a costly project
because it has been very expensive[...]t the
feeling of largeness and grandeur
and quite a deep mystery associ-
ated with it. Translating th[...]u see the potential
markets for the film?

It is a film that will be of great
interest to Australians because it
deals with a question that will
become more and more crucial as
the years go by. It is also a film that
will be crucial to countries dealing
wi[...]mericans, the Canadians. The
Germans seem to have a perennial
fascination with the Australian
Aborigi[...]rds any particu-
lar audience?

No. It is shot in a way that will
make it entertaining and interest-[...]f
doing this we have found ourselves
caught up in a fascinating and huge
set of issues. We may[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (95)[...]camera on the market (23db i idb).
These are only a few sound reasons for choosing AATON. Ther[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (96)[...]Because it was the first, it was contested from
a number of quarters not necessarily directly
inter[...]claimed by the
Aboriginals.

At the time, MIM was a foreign company and
these purchases required the[...]he Foreign Takeovers Act. One
basis for preventin a foreign takeover under
this Act was a con ict between domestic policy
and the takeover;[...]any’s purpose in buying these stations included
a desire to have control of the area. In particu-
lar, it wanted a basis for bargaining with the
Aboriginals in the[...]the claimed
land was that it wanted easements for a road,
powerlines, a pipeline and, possibly, a railway
through the Borroloola Town Common and ou[...]in the Pellew group. MIM
wanted Centre Island as a site for a port town
and power station. Southwest Island, wh[...]frequently
made to give evidence sitting alone in a _chair
before the whole court. This put the Abori[...]xperience of courts has always
been traumatic, at a terrible disadvantage. The
Aboriginal Land Commis[...]ining power at all.

Part three of Two Laws shows a dispossessed
Kurdanji man at a waterhole on McArthur
River Station. The place is a rainbow serpent
Dreaming, which is part of his tr[...]state.
He is standing on the concrete surrounding a
large pipe which, he explains, “goes right in t[...]ould
become angry and flatten all the miners with a
fiery cyclone. How he wishes this would happen![...]was cut down
on Manangoora Station. This is also a sacred
site, the legacy of a Dreaming shark whose song
cycle is chanted each y[...]acred
Aboriginal sites. Nonetheless, they allowed a
European staying at Manangoora to cut down
the trees, to make a new paddock. This was in
the interests of “deve[...]ren of
male owners.) The argument which ensues is a
parody of misunderstanding. It appears that the
European, a Yugoslav with a poor command of
English, believes that, at some t[...]stroy
the people connected with it. There is also a fear
that people from outside the Borroloola com-[...]curring more
frequently than ever. Photographs of a sacred
burial site in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands were
published in a book last year. One showed the
photographer’s wife peering at a skull in a sacred
log coffin. An Aboriginal, other than the[...]ss.

The author of the book explained that it was a
sacred and secret place of the Aboriginals at
Bor[...]oped the island
burial sites would one day become a museum.

Aboriginals at Borroloola are angry at t[...]four
of Two Laws. It opens with some scenes from a
mortuary ritual and follows with sections on set-[...]tstations, women’s role at Borroloola,
parts of a young man’s initiation ceremony, a
camp corroboree and the playful entertainment
with which women perform while on a day’s
hunting.

The work scenes from the outstation show a
yard being built from bush timber held together
w[...]most to contribute to the out-
stations, confront a choice: is it better for them
to leave the outsta[...]could possibly earn on their own
land?

There is a deep dislike of the social conditions
of wage lab[...]foreign goods which they valued and
it was always a two-way relationship. Even the
larger pastoralist[...]refer to work for someone with whom they can
have a reciprocal relationship, or the semblance
of one. And today, Borroloola Aboriginals, at
times, work with a European because he is a
“good old bloke”, even if they may not be
cer[...]to recognize his
obligations in some way, perhaps a lift in his car,
or some beef, beer or money when[...]NT) 1976 will
only be, as it is said in Two Laws, a “piece of
paper”.

Two Laws shows that[...]

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A nd that goes right down the line when you talk
to top color graders like A rthur Cambridge - he's made
no complaints.

IVe got a very good relationship with Kodak.
Representatives come and see me at least twice a year
and we discuss what my future requirements[...]irst class service.
If they're bringing out a new type of stock Kodak
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (101)[...]always utilised the
a t N eutral Bay of air ionisation is reflected
pr[...]It not only produces a clean, dust-
them to introduce the very[...]Clean a ir
N egative Ion[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (102)[...]ely below the site A I'<j
of the old Movietone theatrette, Les McKenz[...]/K:
quite recently, the Golorfilm executives had a suite of very
comfortable offices.[...]. The very least we should do is provide you with a world class
theatre to view rushes and finished[...]an we can, and will be only too
happy to run you a reel so you can see and hear the results o[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (103) A ustralian Film A wards resources branch of the Education ators (30 per cent of a budget and[...]y become the sole
c a te g o rie s in w h ic h th e y are[...]Film Victoria as a producer of quality agers, presumably most[...]record, the VFC is suited to such a task
projection in M[...]opportunity to say that, -- especially one on a far larger scale
tif[...]Even a cursory glance of film activity in[...]d declara
tion. Such a procedure may be an over " I say this, not in a spirit of provin Geoff Gardner, director of[...]cial patriotism, but simply because a bourne Film Festival, announced the[...]the regulations state that no bourne, with a strong cultural tradi the closing night o[...]film which received only one vote, a filmmaking in Australia. We have had[...]e outweighing 52. remarkable success in a decade, but Third Prize[...]Prize
Greater Union A wards wind', recapturin[...]were The Decision (Vera Neubauer), A
General Category[...]nal press sees the brugge), Murder In a Mist (Lisa Gott[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (104)[...]The Quarter
General Category A ward at the Greater Union A wards. empow[...]e. However, it is the func Wales).
pared a statement on Pixote's worth as tion of th[...]laiiBiiBBiiiaim
a film and the reasons why it should be[...]case and it is not a function which concern over the Censorshi[...]kland. of having dismissed the film with a
have been found to be at variance with ney-G[...]ar Sir, (a) I did not dismiss the film any
should be, the t[...]nts it made were much
Censorship Board has taken a stub violated, among others, the Victori[...]Police Offences A ct 1958. Con Festivals.[...]its that the Censorship Board is acting in a that they cannot ignore their statutory paragraph of a 17-paragraph review,[...]ion of the misquotes critics. It will be a pity if
Censorship Board is not the adjudi has been notable for its lack of direc Board, a film contravenes the critics th[...]al material; Films Board of Review took a different
June 15:[...]see it as appropriate that film may be a very long time, l wish to put on[...]ed from record through your columns a few[...]cussed at a forthcoming meeting of[...]tensions, never slackened for a second[...]by quite brilliant direction, represent a[...]Pixote yesterday. This was a slightly Dear Sir,[...]wed in As the exclusive distributor of A[...]Board of Review. It has a new intro Most Attractive Man, we we[...]children who have a common back[...]as a film dealing responsibly with the[...]in a corrupt society.[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (105)[...]hat intentional? performance as a country schoolteacher in the[...]e film ended up
It was circumstances really; a successful Australian features, "Stone" (19[...]ha Christie and the
were offered, and, equally, a couple by a stay in Britain where Morse starred in[...]and I have often had the oppor winning "A Town Like Alice", "Silent Reach"[...]a lot and was able to observe first
After^ "Caddi[...]r East", hand how a British production got
in Britain. Then there w[...]underway. It was British in terms of
a two-year break before "A Town produce Duigan's "Winter o f Our Dre[...]ning show at the Ensemble, which
was Rain, and a couple of short Producer Richard Mason an[...]en Morse on location for John Duigan's It had a very large crew, but they
plays at the Nimrod.[...]working on films, and worked very
of that name, a Samuel Beckett[...]great enthusiasm. One of
piece called Not I and a little sketch[...]were a lot of American executives
Madison Clocks Out. I[...]ters like a producer called Jarvis
called Visit with the Fam[...]Another big difference was that
There were a couple of things,[...]films, I've always found a terrific
How did you find working in Britain[...]work overseas?
was a political exercise, mainly
because of Vanessa Re[...]A couple of film scripts came my
influence on the[...]tunity to do a play in London, but
example, she wrote a six-page[...]people involved in setting that up
cing her as a bourgeois romantic,[...]was then fully committed to doing a
she had to do this before she could[...]am very lucky, in that I have had
A lot of script rewriting went on[...]the chance to do a couple of really
with that film. It was original[...]terrific things, such as A Town Like
written by Kathleen Tynan --[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (106)[...]three-and- between these two sides of o u r1
a-half months. It is about the con personality.
flict between a mining company
and a-young Aboriginal who fights There is also a fair amount of dis
for his land rights.[...]Morse: I suppose she was an i
you look for in a role? appendage to both of them, in a [
way. It is quite an interesting rela- |
A challenge. I guess that's a tionship she has with her husband j
fair[...]ion process. ities. Partly because of a certain
Obviously, you have to make a con instability in her background, and
nection with a project on some kind partly because of a certain lack of
of deep level. Then you can look[...]s difficulty in making
it and analyze it. But in a way I commitments. She vacillates. But
th[...]tion.

Far E a st After Jo wins a lot of money at a

poker[...]racted you to "Far East"? Jo's reaction is to buy a batch of
paintings from a man in the street.

I was greatly intrigued[...]tation -- not only in the poli come from watching a group of
tical sense, but within the charac hous[...]ke
ters and their relationships. It sort way for a Japanese cannery. He
of echoed the main theme, w[...]used to -- the good times, the flip being a do-gooder. But her actions Mason: The com[...]cript had in part been pancy, the absence of a need to be come from an em otional and Peter also can be seen as the one
based on a particular woman's committed.[...]equal and opposite reaction.
McKeon. But it was a tremendous to an extent, but she is not[...]o was able to do something that
reinforcement of a decision I had make a strong commitment. At Peter wasn't[...]the Koala Klub?
Your character has a French accent reality, to be able to find a way to giving this man money means a lot
and expressive facial gestures. How sor[...]cious, though I could have picked

them up from a friend of mine,

Francoise Villachom, who helped

me with the accent.

I was a bit doubtful at first, but

John thought it wou[...]l

seemed to come together. We

rehearsed for a couple of weeks and

that helped a lot.

How do you see Jo's character?
There see[...]bably summed it up
totally.

Mason: We have a whole series
of ways of expressing that.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (107)[...]Jo's dress is a very important facet[...]had a lot to say about the clothes,[...]as well as to John. We just pooled a[...]I paid tribute Morse: Yes, that caused a bit of
Reeves (Helen Morse): together again. Far[...]a stir. John and Brian Probyn
East. Above: Morse a[...]to Casablanca, which is a favorite [director of photography] weren't[...]I think their fears were
Morgan, which happened a long[...]allayed, because I think it makes a
time ago, in the very unstable[...]sablanca blanca" is that the loner saves the
a scene she knew, and yet which she there ar[...]tried to and did leave. She is not runs a club, called Rick's Bar, and end. ..[...]fascist. They are Europeans in an Mason: In a sense, it is Jo who almost tripping back int[...]a respected journalist and his wife is[...]ause it is something you should together in "A Town Like Alice"?[...]was successful and a lot of the pub[...]a love story -- two people who[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (108)[...]Actually, I believe that unless reading a script and, while that can Was much of the fil[...]rate. And when it is
say to me, "God you are a clever gation, that something is inconsis[...]tent, then it is the actor's job to to have a writer-director, parti interiors in Suprem[...]realize the author's intention. cularly on a film like Far East Studios.
that -- I'd be a clever producer if I Sometimes an actor comes up[...]vels.
had. a line in a truly organic way from[...]make a drama of that, because we[...]think it is a virtue making films[...]a lot of people think it's a negative[...]pleted in a rush to comply with the[...]happened a couple of times on Far is the scene of Peter[...]So, we were right in front. Of
Morse: As a director, John is so East. But generally I thi[...]nists making flowers. There is course, it was a bigger film.
interested in, and caring of, actors. is to make work the intention of the a constant danger of them squash
Having been a[...]rement is that
sures, particularly if we had a diffi Are there advantages in working goes to a restaurant where there is a United Sound and the laboratories
cult scene coming up. He would with a writer-director? dance with bamboo stalks, and there are working 24 hours a day. They
make sure we had space and time.[...]What happens when a script is to be having great fun and are in co[...]about the role? being locked up in a factory to get a
John had a fairly firm grasp of what[...]Morse: I usually like to talk to It is a great freedom; it is also a another film this financial year and,[...]the script understood something. That is a graceful people are like symbols of to start thinking of booking United
shifted a bit as you worked on it. fantastic advantage.[...]- and
a lot of one's own subjectivity when pay a deposit. Isn't that incredible?
Morse: Ve[...]have all done -- except I always

314 - A ugust CINEMA PAPERS

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (109)[...]ingly in a society that does not easily tolerate tall Hauges[...]had to leave at some stage, not festival. It was a year of enough promise to
Norway was, app[...]signs of hope were by women directors
man's Life/A Drama at Sea tr[...]dismal film harvest in
drama paa havet) in 1908. A to go to Stockholm, London, Paris, Lodz . . . 1980. A series of failures that happened to be
father an[...]released at the same time were pounced on by
in a stormy sea. The son falls[...]th Norwegian films?", by then an
the elements -- a pretty Tvinde,[...]m ade in 1920) th a t revelled in ru ral appear from places where no[...]but, in an otherwise rather bleak Scan
based on a novel by Magnar Mikkelsen. A literary classics, and Tancre[...]cus of attention at
science fiction tale, set in a barren North Henrik), who directe[...]rather than
Norway of the future, it again pits a fisherman film, Den store barnedapen[...]risten Denmark and Sweden. Although the basis for a
and his family against a harsh environment, this ing) in 1931.[...]ital Norwegian film culture is still in the
time a sea emptied of its fish through the ruth[...]Hollywood making, there are signs of optimism and a con
less efficiency of large factory ships. Again, a and Sweden. Another notable name of the early siderable effort to foster a more stimulating,
pretty bleak tale.[...]period is Walter Fyrst who reveals a strong professional and less parochial film milie[...]uch as this -- image, and who created a sense of fairytale sked to put their[...]lem in interviews conducted by
individual facing a hostile and prejudiced social
environment. Despite a substantial film produc ronically, t[...]he film magazine, Filmavisa (which
tion for such a small country, Norway has the G[...]ture, the dogged production, initiated a form of subsidy as a training ground for feature filmmakers, the
social realism of film production in the 1970s is a that gave a boost to the films in the lack of good scriptwriters, a virtual non-exis
fair mirror of a certain heaviness that hangs over immedi[...]rcee of script consultants or creative producers
a hard-edged culture fostered on determination,[...]roblem that films are made for
sense of duty and a guilty conscience. That same those by[...]"we have to make film" ,
stifling gloom nurtured a Henrik Ibsen, a Knut Skouen later turned to sensitiv[...]in Vibeke Lokkeberg's Loperjenten The 1960s saw a reorganization of Norsk in the Australian scene o[...]l). Film A/S, which had been a focus for the film In an interview in the same ma[...]of Team-film A /S, which has had a solid record brightest hope in Norwegian[...]Film Festival a few years ago. enough to[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (110)Norwegian Cinema

her a tall poppy in the small Norwegian film

milieu.[...]ting the unpardonable sin perhaps

of comparing a country that has suffered as

much from culture[...]film last

year, Forfolgelsen (The Witch Hunt), a film in

the first person, based on an original[...]t. The story is told from the point of view of

a woman, an outsider who is the victim of a

witch hunt in medieval Norway.

Where Breien is a perfectionist, very con

cerned with the craft of filmmaking, Vibeke

Lokkeberg reveals a more unpredictably

emotional and intuitive touch as a director.

There is a highly sensual quality in both

women's films o[...]of the snow-clad

landscape in Western Norway, a painterly sen

suality. Breien herself comes across as a woman

of a great degree of professionalism and poise,

som[...]Liten Ida: a child's experience of war.
In Lokkeberg's Loperj[...]isual exploration of the textural quality of with a sense of authenticity, the film suffers from[...]interior images. The film captures Bergen of the a heavy-handed realism and not enough control[...]whichever comes first.

post-war years and is a sensitive view of a child's of performance. The dialogue becomes stil[...]A/S, which is two-thirds owned by the Ministry
exp[...]ssion and so on. From the Glomm's Zeppelin, again a film about adults as film (anything from a mere[...]couragement' of around $1000 up
opening image of a girl feeling the silk on a seen by children, received critical acclaim and a to $4000)[...]re very limited;
woman's dress or seated beneath a table, peering good audience response, judging by[...]s it is popularly
fascinated between the legs of a woman visitor, comments of children. Per Blom's S[...]favor straight documentary shorts of an
there is a fine tension in the film that is (Silver Mouth) was realized from a script by inform[...]Martin Asphaug that won a competition in 1980 There is ano[...]to develop their talents in the
Where Breien is a technical perfectionist, for best children's film[...]A/S, operating independently and now also
Lokkeber[...]wn up, has poor sound and tion, Again it tells of a child's experience of a Filmhouse, a building only opened last year. It[...]he Film Club
sometimes soft focus, the latter in a curious way split between parents and a change in partners. Assoc[...], passion and children may be the first fruits of a public debate

excellent child performance, as[...]ed by Terje directors.

Kristiansen for As Film A/S. As far as film funding goes, Norway is in a[...]weden, where

T he third woman director to have a competition is stiffer in a larger film milieu. The
film in last[...]to 90 per cent
bourne Film Festival a few years ago. of the production costs. These loans are then

Again the subject is a child's experienceso--ugthhtisfrom a Norwegian bank. The guarantees
time of[...]roef walalor cated, on application, as advised by a

on a little girl whose mother works for the seven-member committee appointed by the

Germans and is a mistress to a German officer. Ministry.

The child suffers so[...]ren and adults at least 2000m in length, receives a subsidy of 55

Vibeke Lokkeberg''s The Errand G[...]fth feature. Per Blom's Solvmunn (Silver Mouth): a child's involvement
award at the Haugesund Film[...]in a parental split.

318 - August CINEMA PAPERS

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (111)[...]o! to blow them up to 35mm for theatrical
foster a more vital film culture.[...]mental film that explores film as a visual art release as a two-hour program. The first film

The Study Section of Norsk Film A /S, set up form and is concerned with the image as such. concerns a protracted strike in support of an

in 1973, pr[...]script Consciousness of such film seems to me at a very unfairly sacked worker, and Bravo! Bravo! is an

development, and acts as a supervisory umbrella low level. Perhaps it is a reflection of a culture irreverent satire on the " oil fairy tale[...]ted on

annual budget is around NKr. 2,000,000 (a little highly conceptual.[...]there.

out twice a year in doses of about $1500 for a[...]he production unit, Filmgruppe 1 A /S, to work on
the present Head of the Study Sec[...]government-sponsored broad a major documentary on the post-war period,
Szepesy, its function is to serve as a research and casting station that[...]archival footage.
development centre, as well as a production unit. Norway's radio[...]A phenomenon in a class of its own is the
Norsk Film, and even sug[...]Svend Warn and

"to demonstrate that Norsk Film A /S is a very buys very little independent film. Chances f[...]mmakers of selling When they first hit the screen a few years ago,

In answer to the much debated q[...]ded extremely well to the

whether Norway needs a film school, he replies, television stations. The[...]y satire on Norway's
"Of course! Not necessarily a film school, but seen in some parts of Norway.[...]democratic hell" , which in their films

rather a screen studies centre." A bright spot in the development of a vital only seems to breed apathy and powerlessness,

The leader of the Study Section is clearly a film culture and a venue for short film is frustrated anger and viol[...]y. The characters are often

by virtue of being a foreigner in an influential far held in the old r[...]rker than

position. On the one hand, he brings a much of Roros (which has been used for several Nor the Night); points are driven home with a sledge

needed sharpness of critical judgment a[...]ne Day in the Life of Ivan But their films marked a welcome departure

film production, but, on the[...]ber 1981, attendance had grown the 1970s, and had a strong visual and theatrical

the money given o[...]the small town and sense at their best. There is a punk quality in

which may take years to bring[...]estival staff, and there was talk of moving it to a their demonic humor which clearly appealed to[...]pt or project development larger city. Aside from a visiting Polish con young audiences, but unfortun[...]ical Film forced.

may or may not be fulfilled. A new generation of Association also holds an annua[...]ll-town portrait, Across the

Oslo. -a it was held in O[...]an ambitious Fjord (Kjarleikens ferjereiser), was a Fine debut

So far there seems to be a doubling up in the program that included David and Judith in 1980, is now working on a second feature, The

functions of training betw[...]i's Two Laws and Oliver conflicting loyalties for a soldier.

from its archives and library activit[...]Sacred Ground. From a culture with a strong tradition of

courses and seminars of a more practical nature The development of regional[...]0,000 ($10,000), as well as the side to the coin: a certain preachiness that has

Report was issued[...]can get hands-on 1970s -- that, and perhaps also a complacent

fate is now uncertain. It suggested[...]With around 10 feature films produced a year If backed up by a vigorous and critical film

The Study Section was intended primarily as in a country of little more than four million milieu, now in the making, and a stronger

a training ground for potential feature film people[...]stival). Malte Wadman, a team that managed to get imagination to Norwegian[...]In Solve Skagen and Malte Wadman's Bravo! Bravo!, a black
conflicting loyalties of a soldier.[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (112)[...]Did you feel it a risk stepping into
choice?[...]No, I found it a very good
as a choice. But my feeling was that[...]in the dramatic structure,
throwing herself into a passionate[...]time, I feel Hjalmar Soderberg is a
terms of wanting to become a[...]working with his material. It is like
is in a lot of people.[...]m is one between two people who
careers. Ours is a society that[...]are unable to throw themselves
creates such a situation, and it[...]completely into a love relationship,
becomes a personal conflict. But[...]commitment is a relevant issue. But[...]it was expected that I would make a
It is as if a woman is supposed to[...]film with a woman as the main
go into a kind of puritanism in[...]have become very in lately. It is a
creative. Of course, it often turns[...]portrait of a man in that film, and
out that way -- that one h[...]allowed to make as a female
the case of the film] it was some[...]you as a legacy from "Wives"?
relationship as well. That[...]Yes, absolutely -- a feminist[...]ming of herfourth feature, Arven (Next o f Kin). a burden, but I do register that it
that question[...]takes place.
imagine you are a bit sick of that
type of question . . .[...]one. There is no impression you had a very definite ually shown that I can handle[...]nships . . . job, at least to some extent. But a Is the project you are working on[...]now based on a work by another[...]You said in an inter is something I have a tendency to thought of as being dominating,[...]thing that like going from being a sex object but they deprive the woman of it.[...]ry
created to a boss, in a way, which is com am speaking in cliches, b[...]be- have a long way to go.[...]problems being a woman director, and the female actr[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (113)[...]Forfolgelsen (The Witch Hunt): "We are living in a time of much persecution. " confidence to dare to make a break.
from Jostedalsrypa.[...]If you make a film every second
card. It is a matter of trying to find phone contact with Ingm[...]ons for everything I Bergman. That has been a your life. You are very[...]you have that very out. I want to go in a completely[...]Yes. It is a very inorganic means
snow and flowers.[...]'t dare -- though I pared to being a painter, for
Do you have anyone in mind for the None of my films would really fall think it is a fantastic film. Mine will instance. You[...]ial I'm working on In the case of a man like Fass
It will be a Norwegian-Swedish drama. They are construc[...]im. But I don't think he
Sweden today to look at a screen drama, but it is naturalism.[...]Norway. You need a lot of the right
someone who comes from outside[...]orwegian. Yes, I consider that a natural Yes. Some of the good things in[...]ne of the easier
Well, really Danish; we were a Have you worked with other re[...]countries in the world to get a
part of Denmark at that time. directo[...]such chance to make films. I know a lot
There will be some Danes, too. ent[...]you feel an affinity? Kittelsen a bit. just easier[...]tional beliefs and Christianity? Yes, I was a scriptgirl on Have you wanted to approach film- There is relatively a lot of money
Hunger, which Henning Carlsen making in a more visual way before around for the size of the film
Yes, it was a period of transition made. It was a very different type but felt constrained?[...]however.
adopt Christian beliefs. But a lot of[...]the high cost of making That is a development over the past
beliefs or the superst[...]e dangerous, were last few years I have had a regular
not simply evil. That is where[...]women, it is much harder to get a
old initiation rites, for instance,[...]films in the bigger
demons might have to cut up a[...]countries, whereas here we benefit
body as a necessary transition to a[...]has recognized that film is a
automatically evil. With Chris[...]cultural responsibility. They have a
tianity, it is a totally different[...]Denmark. Sweden has a lot, but[...]I think one problem here is that
in a time of much persecution. It is[...]there are too many people who only
a part of the climate of our times.[...]make one film. There is a problem
It's dangerous to mean anything.[...]with continuity. We need artistic
There has been a lot of political[...]have established a form of contact,
clear that thoughts are dangero[...]he is a tremendous teacher. He
Ideas have power. That's[...]to protect myself a bit. He wanted
get an idea for a film and think I[...]time that I felt I had to make my
like to make a film there, on the[...]own version. But he was the first to
West Coast, a film that is much[...]hat was his reaction?

We easily end up with a lot of[...]die!" 1Actually, I got a very positive
am going to try to make a film that[...]stedalsrypa was not
to make it look pretty, like a post[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (114)[...]ng textures to the film. The " New and taken to a hospital, where the police again during its t[...]nutes.
place of business and art, but in writing a[...]report which will appear months the edge of a murder mystery which is he takes advantag[...]tain's hint that he can go to places though a long way from High Art, is made
later, it is not[...]t probably which create tension, beginning when a[...]Carradine) arrives in a small country[...]r Of course, it is possible that at a[...]apart. Varennes being a small place, but the[...]nursed to appear that the saxophonist is a
pre-sold packages, will be neither the Neil's talent along, and I think this is a[...]com mance as the aged Casanova is lost on a
ai[...]mitted to nothing but music, to a vengeful generation dulled by the crass inter[...]ctors' Fortnight acquired Angel is about a saxophonist in an killer. It is not that[...]he All in all, Scola's drama may look like a
proved that Newsfront is a hard act to hail. One girl in particular,[...]no battles, and not even a duel. Love
parisons between Heatwave and Donald[...]view, when a carload of masked men beautifully act[...]ust The Night of San Lorenzo won the
A foreign audience found that there waiting[...]the best film in Competition. There is a
having set up the plot at conversational[...]much this year. There were
strands of mystery in a flurry of gunshots[...]rectors, but
Crombie's film, the whole story, of a[...]rd: Michel
wicked barons of development, carries a[...]W enders, the Tavianis, Lindsay
For a fresh outlook, or even just a new[...]set a high standard, the opening cere
ambience, there[...]presentation of a new, and somewhat
used Ronald Hugh Morrieson's n[...]s The Night o f San Lorenzo: last days o f war in a small corner of[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (115)[...]Cannes Film Festival 1982

Taking a ship across a mountain to a nearby tributary: Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.[...]fo u ".

recent years, of making the Palm d'Or a tap, but fascism would only pervert.[...]if not the decade, had enquete sur la violence (A Gentle Inquiry
Golden Palm between Yol, produce[...]ard since Pierrot le fou, and occa
escaped from a Turkish prison into poli Robards succumbed[...]was made the jungle. Robards was to have a sets. The sub-titles failed to keep[...]dramatic Jagger, but by the time Herzog found a fulness failed altogether. It may have[...]placement for his hero, Jagger's other made a better impression, had there not after an hour and a half of his film, and as[...]oes it commitments intervened. It took nearly a Swiss competition entry was Godard's[...]jungle, Klaus Kinski. for work, embodied by a tele-feature sion, such questions need not obtrude.
necessitates a simple division of the[...]director (Jerzy Radzivilowicz) and a Peter de Monte's Invitation au voyage
a[...]ner (Michel Piccoli). They (invitation to a Voyage) is a road movie,[...]bution" to the cameraman,
brothers could create a series of almost since then, the equally ob[...]ful integration
overlapping viewpoints, explore a wide Nosferatu and Woyzeck but, his loyal[...]atic lighting which made
the last days of war in a small corner of lessly miscast as a loony Irishman. And buy is as much fun as the creative effort every shot look like a record cover. (The
Tuscany, but also the layers[...]en at the time) can has little to offer in a conventional part as Isabelle Huppert, who tries[...]d
no longer disentangle from the emotion a brothel-owner in love with Kinski: Pic[...]hich covers are in this year.) invitation to a
ally-colored recollections of their w[...]added a bizarre note of sexual menace to her work,[...]lini, Andrzej Wajda, Grigori separate a film from its central charac[...]n countries where fascism is turned into a director's film; the com
alien to the spirit of the people; politics
may be a mess in Britain or in Australia, bination of[...]atter, about communism) all graphic bric-a-brac, sunrises and
show that there is always a ruling elite, sunsets teeters between the br[...]hilarious. However, the
power, with lackeys (or a police force, or German critics found it hard[...]into preserving their power. may be due to a wilful refusal to see
Kinski as a comedian.
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are the sons
of a rich industrialist, and World War 2 As f[...]shed directors
especially the poorest, possessed a
strength which socialism could perhaps[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (116)[...]n and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification o f a Woman: "there is nothing as deep as an empty[...]"
British political organization".

Voyage is a variation on the thief-and- characters and th[...], underground stations investment to a minimum and reduce the cates the only possible parallel, to the
corpse. It is a chic film, but even in its and empty building lo[...]satirizing his contemporaries from a
ereens, directed by Susan Seidelman,[...]rigidly moral standpoint, assuming that
with a combination of a steady, well- A few years ago, films like Smith[...]t boy and prom ereens, Invitation to a Voyage and par for Elmer Klimov's Agonia, a grand and is no difference between knaves and
iscuous, restless, quasi-criminal girl ticularly A Gentle Inquiry Into Violence spectacular drama about Rasputin, in the fools.
giving a new twist on the increasingly would have bee[...]fashionable theme of unbonded pairing. with a fresh approach used to make their stein[...]stand, there was a timetable of films 1981, who came to rebuild a house for
Jeremy Irons in Jerzy Skolimowski's Britishfilm, Moonlighting, "a nightmare allegory . . . on showing in the Marke[...]censored information . . . and all other tools of a dictatorship". the last day of the Festival; on the penul (Jeremy irons, giving a performance[...]Pecs, during the Hungarian Film Days. a nightmarish allegory (pot unlike Grot-[...]forcing labor to fulfil a timed plan, and all[...]tek (Embracing the other tools. of a dictatorship. As[...]Jeremy Irons lies, steals and cheats for a[...]ope which deals openly with homo behind a curtain of non-communication.[...]the hostile prurience of a male-domi Communication, relationship[...]mad dash across the firing lines at a Antonioni's Identificazione d'una donna[...]border post reaffirms (Identification of a Woman) cannot be[...]deviation-must-end-in-tragedy prize, a tribute awarded to celebrate the[...]seems to precede by several genera one a rich bitch who escapes from the[...]This sense of a static, museum-piece rather winsome[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (117)[...]the Never Never is
directed by Igor Auzins, from a screenplay by Peter Schreck, for producer
Greg Tepper.
Shot on location in the Northern Territory on a budget of $3.2 million, We of
the Never Never is[...]cond Chinese cook, Cheon (Cecil Parkee).

326 - A ugust CINEMA PAPERS

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (118)[...]Ningla-a-na). Their aim has been to give the[...]Two Laws goes a deal further in this direction[...]loola community and a smoother film, in[...]Aboriginal people from Borroloola, a small Filming started durin[...]ly erratic and
Australian culture. A deliberate and lives at present; they regard[...]A wide-angle lens is used throughout the film.[...]forgetting that it is seeing a selection from a[...]d people, the superstitious bar is intersected by a European world whose centre

barians or the peo[...]e.

Aboriginal lives by tying their identity to a few Alessandro Cavadini and Carolyn Strachan
sel[...]ited by the community to make the film
Two Laws, a two-hour film in four parts,

opened a season at the Sydney Opera House on Below:[...]as important a message as the more explicitly-[...]The first part of the film deals with a police[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (119)[...]were made to walk in chains and at Borroloola to a proposed reserve about 100
as if she were teaching them a new dance or a handcuffs, perhaps as far as 200 km on the trek k[...], with the driest meted out to Dolly; she died as a result of it. She they had to maintain a[...]hgaidngbeaen arrested because she was living with a Borroloola. A great deal of their power came
tree, which repre[...]battlers -- had agreed to a com aries, who tried to exercise a harsh moralism in
"You been tuckout bullock?"[...]ot area. Their activities were on a scale the Branch and the missionaries was also[...]. Borro

Fifty years before this police patrol, a bloody The Aboriginals were able to get supplies of the loola has never been a mission or government

battle between the Karra[...]losses by Aboriginal attacks and the wrote a number of books about the combo life, legendary figures and a combo. A letter was sent
outbreak of disease, and the per[...]loola Aboriginals has its roots in a pattern of[...]lected over the year. In return, they received a[...]cattle.

The police sergeant at Borroloola sent a con " boys" . The constable was charged with Commissioner under the Aboriginal Land
stable and a tracker out on patrol as it had been assaulting D[...]crowd. The aim was to arrest the ring Combos had a role in the resistance to an[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (120)A Dramatized Documentary Bob Plasto, who began work as a give the Australian and some se[...]was for six years a producer, the extent of the issues involve[...]series A Big Country, became the attempts to retur[...]g Aboriginal land

rights claims is, therefore, a matter of major

importance, not only to filmma[...]tralians,

themselves included, and established a film

company, Imago Australia, which will atte[...]their efforts is the television documentary,

A Shifting Dreaming, which will go to air[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (121)[...]arguments. It was a massive emotional
although the final step of act[...]as well. Also, there was a lot of dignity in the
use his valuable experienc[...]think we will be able to present a fair story."

And for the film- or documentary-[...]conflicts of a different kind. Plasto
act of bringing change to[...]ty of the

Revolution is, of course, too strong a project and of the feeling Plasto had that a
word for the land rights claims. ch[...]ed Plasto's concern and,
claims for a radical reversal of the furthermore, had a feeling for what Plasto was[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (122)[...]The joint participant in Imago Australia and

"A Shifting Dreaming" is David Millikan.

Recently, Millikan was seen on A B C television

as the presenter fo r the docum[...]volving him self in film m aking,

Millikan was a theologian, writer and publicist

fo r the Zadok Centre in Canberra, a facility

established by Christian organization[...]boriginals and white

Australians.

Was there a particular situation or[...]as?
us to go to the Northern Territory
and film a land claim, which is[...]find ourselves adopting a partisan
before. All this land is being given[...]their fight for land rights. Every
going to have a long-term effect on[...]one in the centre has a view on that.
the way our culture perceives itse[...]are not quite as strong in the way
There were a lot of issues that[...]have been in the thick of it for a[...]number of months.
the documentary seemed a superb
way of looking into them in some[...]Still, there are a lot of issues in
depth.[...]g to maintain an even
We are trying to strike a balance With that in mind, what style of a[...]you producing? Rather, we are aiming for a view ception of the problem and the
that of[...]yle, I suppose, is some- which in itself has a certain depth
involved in the issues, particular[...]more than most, said, after a life
want to present broad information menta[...]involved or sensational distinctive, but not unique, about a lot of things. I am very suspicious
as possible.[...]that we have a certain interest in So, we don't pretend to[...]ituation poses. position on this. We are taking a
Basically our own. In that sense,[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (123)[...]e we are Austra and which must. They have a lot to So you can see it as an act of We were able to unearth a tran
lians and it is our country. say[...]have you the experience of selfhood as a But, on the other side, you can th[...]ated by the the incident we were looking into a
Does tha[...]major part of the documen becoming part of a political move sioned by the destruction the[...]olitics, or is it more distant than burdened by a sense of conscience tions in terms of the way we, as a
at Warrabri, north-east of Alice that?[...]ease their conscience. In a sense, quite devastating in its implica
No, it is at a step further back you can see it as the final[...]was an extraordinary experience assumed a different approach. We That brings to mind the experience process of a police party searching
because the Aboriginals t[...]Road", who started out for the murderers of a white dingo
the history of their dislocation and reassert themselves as a viable cul making a documentary but realized trapper. We have s[...]an area where Abori cultural identity in a lot of places, say what they really wanted about[...]ith white people. There were re-emergence of a vital Aboriginal
people at that claim who are[...]knew nothing about it and a lot[...]and Abori
ginals generally?

It happened over a period of

some time. I probably became first[...]n I was living in Los

Angeles. I used to spend a bit of

time bushwalking in the High

Sierras[...]had lived here for

40,000 years and developed a

culture that was finely tuned to life

in th[...]e to say of their understanding Inquiry chairman, A. H. O'Kelly (Martin Vaughan), and Police Inspector Giles (Victor Kazan). A Shifting Dreaming.

of life here. We, as an Aus[...]that is going to documentary is that it includes a That means the children were aware
underst[...]n
ginals have to say. are at a point in this documentary evolution. We didn'[...]hites' side. Did
So, they would be recognized as a emergence. clai[...]an say we are wit realized they were dealing with a happen. Several of those who par[...]still alive. We
are going to be the major force a sense, clawed their way back from mous proportion[...]lso have letters from people
because we now have a population almost total destruction with quite de[...]that We have researched it thor
Aboriginals are a minority. But fight off the onslaught of the over[...]dent oughly to the point where we have
they have a perception which has whelmingly powerful c[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (124)[...]in modern Britain''.
bourne Film Festival with a notable
media event, it revealed an interesting[...]games played in the reform atory A remarkably sure-handed first plight. In a final freeze-frame, Mick
juvenile delinquency a[...]ical structure leaves some Pixote is a harrowing, remorseless Looks and Smiles c[...]nsibility for one suspects, in deference to a prevail Britain, focusing here upon unemplo[...]ing official climate that permits only a youth.[...]When it came to documentaries, even
is still a junta-controlled totalitarian state Another f[...]Looks and trouble covering them all, because a
be circumspect about such things.)[...]arcely have been more Smiles presents a bleak view of the lot of number of the most imp[...]e" features at the
aspire to be), but Pixote is a consider[...]ic -- and I find boy befriends the children of a prosti unequal task of finding a satisfactory job.
the lukewarm response[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (125)[...]ition o fIrish Catholics under Gilbert adds a coda to their inevitable Their 80-minute[...]among a squad of 50 during basic
Victor Romero, as Del,[...]Illusion. with a moving rendition of "Hay Una training a[...]some dry political observations (" I was in a period of rising unemployment, the[...]Soldier Girls goes quite a bit deeper,[...]into three approximate categories: (a) concedes some method behind the[...]os); and (c) inventive destroyed him as a human being.[...]A Wives' Tale takes up one of the[...]Churchill's Soldier Girls; strikers' wives by a prolonged industrial[...]Rock's Une histoire de femmes (A scope to pursue it a good deal further.[...]the world's largest nickel deposit) is a
Maeve, a British Film Institute pro bigger and more[...]of a 2 0 -year-old exile, feminist and free ment in[...]son), for a week's holiday with her family bury wives had[...]leaguered Belfast makes an effec defeating a similar long strike and also[...]friends (when she runs the gauntlet of a language almost in mid-sentence), they[...]reproach of this omission carries over a German sexual liberationist.[...]into a sequence in which three Irish[...]sister -- flee from a dotty old man from her tomb to brief us[...]onger sure what the Republican struggle from a Kollontai novel illustrating how[...]has a lot in common with Maeve. A long, Burning an Illusion, another BFI p[...]biographical account of a West German duction, falls into some simp[...]are repressed even within a movement bourgeois stereotypes, director[...]egalitarian and supportive less Veteran, a caustic account of the[...]f the senseless McCarthyist persecution of a[...]times un maimed ex-soldier because he was a[...]g, occasionally openly chauvinist) member of a Trotskyite (and, therefore,[...]at a U.S. army camp which show girl explosive themes a mite gingerly.[...]overbearing drill sergeants (one a[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (126)[...]me trailing Irishfeature, Traveller -- a "fatalistic road movie". Above: Ettore Scola's op[...]d vacilla absurd censorship controversy is a ptlo
tions about the Holocaust (U.S. Jewry in[...],
a 1981 German-French co-production.
This livel[...]umentary chronicles the enor Concerning a West German journalist
mous difficulties (some[...]red in the making of Herzog's forward with a purposiveness rare in the
latest feature, Fitzc[...]n also became involved in land-rights through a compelling juxtaposition of
struggles and inter[...]y essential. larger conflicts) and a powerfully[...]n't make his task
any easier by insisting, like a latter-day Laschen (Bruno Ganz) and his wif[...]orld's most inaccessible
locations and hauling a steamer over a reached a stalemate in their marriage
steep hill -- comma[...]lm explores his growing
stand Blank's answer to a question that sense of involvement in relati[...]n addition to those embassy and is the widow of a Leban
already mentioned, or reviewed by[...]s from his dying marriage,
Une etrange affaire (A Strange Affair), a held together only by bursts of sexual
wicked[...]n of somewhat surprisingly refuses to see a
Love), an operatically-melodramatic plot la[...]-political references, Georg is only there for a few days,
Peter del Monte's Piso Pisello begins[...]feeling the satisfaction of becoming
Over), is a very uneven critique of involved, he is[...]Ariane, but there is a clear sense of an[...]s amid which
in Marxist movements while cleaning a the private drama is enacted.
lavatory)[...]unflagging energy and a sure control of
Another BFI production with a[...]cerns. The footage which creates a city
locale, Joe C om erford's Traveller,[...]ore convinc
ingly -- in the well-worn context of a ingly vivid, but it points to the porno
f[...]of the film
two inarticulate gypsy newlyweds on a makers. The music seemed at first too
cross-border smuggling trip through a insistent, but later one became aware of
still-beautiful, unappreciated, land
scape th a t is s tiflin g in taw dry its making its[...]Jerzy Skolimowski) poses a bunch of tri[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (127)[...]interminable, yappy play about a revolu[...]Branciaroli), sent to assassinate a[...]There is not a shred of humor in this[...]sions are underlined by a lot of peculiarly[...]sanctuary of the castle is bathed in a soft[...]trically lit by a pale mauve wash. When[...]the lovers move outside, for a bravura[...]without for a moment approving or[...]taught to be a Queen" , that she " has

Bruno Ganz as Georg La[...]in 1975. Volker Schlondorffs Circle of never been a woman" -- until now, one
Deceit.[...]erizing sheen. With its forest and the deer in a death struggle[...]evoke a world of muffled violence. The
In dramatizin[...]ling whiteness blue light by now) is caught in a recog
private life and to his profession as bot[...]nside, the
horrors of war, Schlondorff has made a and some sense of the pain of families[...]een is victim of her duplicitous reader,
film on a large scale. Large enough, that divided and friendships sundered by a testimony to the remark someone makes[...], and now the anarchist poet,
I hope, to secure a healthy commercial subject matter than, Me[...]in its treatment as a film. the film's inter-scene pu[...]ms, is threatened by the
by Franz Antel, this is a more or less leagues in the daily press a[...]her -- by those nearest her
engaging account of a Vienna butcher, have. There is nothing v[...]of how changing film. Film stars work in a fantasy world those earlier characters she is[...]e
"The Fuhrer's brought us home into the a film made by someone who loves films, dreams of glamor, is a subject for melo remarkable beauty now coars[...]nizing this, has that she sometimes resembles a weak-
displays of Nazi military power, Bock[...]-- filmgoing willed Martita Hunt), she is a tedious
erer stubbornly rejects the messages.[...]terprise. memories and the result evokes a world cipher, a clattering symbol, bearing no
With equal stubbor[...]legedly based on the fading career and even a little poignancy. scene in which[...]resists the regime, but it takes his best of a former UFA star, Sybille Schmidtz, a[...]berwald (The Mystery there, however, it was a fitting climax to
It is Karl Merkatz's humane[...]set Boulevard angelo Antonioni staked out a crucial romanticism brought only titters.[...]r's tonal control is not equal to the efforts of a sports reporter Krohn (Hilmer su re s of the[...]se much for attention to go.
showed in Once Upon a Honeymoon, for offers us a full-throated, sometimes seeking relati[...]ne is aware of some overwrought, picture of a life out of their environment seemed to[...]ttitudes as the Nazis take fact trapped by a gang of drug back in Italy and ba[...]as unsubtly as the crude depic more than a whiff of old Hollywood about tedious films[...]elves. These, all this. Dr Katz exhibits a fine line in surprise, himself becomes a father after
recalling Henry Daniell, George Col[...]tor's fault. accepting an invitation to share a bed
and other Hollywood Nazis of the early[...]with a big-breasted American lady; she
1940s, ar[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (128)[...]s gone into English family and has a terrible journey much by accident. I don't t[...]ink that he is drunk because he is a hit a lucky streak. We were
personality -- that he got[...]The novels are is passed, he gets a chilling cascade came out at the right time, at[...]much poorer, and there is always a
out of it.[...]reaction. In a time of affluence,[...]What one forgets about Decline As a producer, do you think about everyone is in jeans and sweaters.
Brideshead Revisited was a nos and Fall is that it is a daring book. I the wider, social context[...]irls and boys are starting to dress
he said, "in a time of Spam and but not how surrealist. I[...]Britain today is reverting in some up. It is a kind of defiance against
austerity" . He poured[...]1930s sense of purpose. the times.
He had been a firm Catholic flight. It must be one o[...]nation's veins. In a way, Waugh sion of the 1930s when all the popu
Are you a Catholic? Waugh is one of t[...]they want to see
back into favor? He was really a[...]Manhattan on white sofas.

Waugh is a master, and one of[...]a producer, to have made something[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (129)[...]on for three months. It was a
are dead." 1979, when we started, to do all our That's quite a schedule . . . disastrous moment, because we[...]u- forever.
interesting. One could put a lot into working full-time on Brideshead. ' ten[...]t. We amassed a great deal of :May 19 until November 28, but he
re s e a rc h and p h o to g ra p h ic came back to us for[...]e asking whether one material. There was a lot to do. We ' From May till November, 1980, we[...]ordinary burden with a week's
a[...], it doesn't
matter. If you are successful, it's a Who makes the decision at Granada
kind of bonu[...]resources to that scale of
out of the blue like a coconut falling production?
on your head.[...]Basically, the managing director
In a funny way, we made some and the program c[...]ules of dramatic fiction. We knew But it was a concerted effort within
how we wanted to do it,[...]ired the rights in the 1979, and did quite a bit -- all the
autumn of 1977, and I went[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (130)[...]we began shooting, there was a[...]That dinner scene first ran for I had a fairly heavy involvement
but I think people are[...]t's now in the script, but John laid down a
detail. They are also absorbing a lot that? No audience is going to know down to[...]Bell's Civilization in the 1920 get a bit more out of it." And of the book. We[...]cult sounding vain edition." But somehow it gives a right." Every time I watch it I go,[...]" But it holds You said earlier that you took a[...]seem to be A heavy burden to lay on young television d[...]Educated Stony House. One of a we didn't know what all the things
I was[...]would like to do family of seven. Not a good meant and had to look them up.[...]Catholic -- a lapsed Catholic
met Phyllis, the very sweet wife[...]Oxford was called "commons" .
A dolf Green -- they are no years, which wouldn't j[...]hours, which was a lunatic mis part; we just felt it would m[...]a hours]. It was making the effort of doing a little
because it's more like reading than it in[...]reading. One gets absorbed in it and something in a new way.[...]ng going One has to trust one's taste . . .

at a natural pace rather than being

dramatized in a superficial way" , Yes, though obviously one is not

Phyllis said. such a total fool as to be com

In Charles Rider's roo[...]ct described in the novel: the day and it came to a moment I have

Polly Peacham figurine on the al[...]taurant

the poetry bookshops (which I'd w here A nthony Blanch tells

never thought we'd get); a[...]described, in their right the Marchmains, who are a bizarre

editions. That's being obsessiv[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (131)[...]tralia. It is a difficult, but worthwhile, act to[...]tralia is to develop a serious, healthy and[...]namely, the lack of recognition of film as a fully-[...]Because it was a child of technology, began[...]tine entrepreneurs, appealed to a mass audience[...]tolerant countries like France, the U.S. and, to a[...]survival.
In June 1981, as part of a visit to Aus The neglect of the cinema's end-product in the
tralia to present a retrospective program first 40 years of its exist[...]I was invited to tage not to have made more than a token effort
the National Fi[...]ays with Ray Edmondson andwheisre established, is a cause for justifiable
staff on a consultative basis. Visits to colleacgounecern an[...]ional cinema heritage; its recognition films have a shelf-life beyond which it makes no
of the value of film as a primary research tool in sense but to discard the[...]records); its desire for public recognition and a commercial revival), it is simply a fact that the
Da' clear identity; its a[...]all this) the very real and statutory deposit in a state archive).
thoroughly r[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (132)[...]Term of His Natural Life. Under the circum
than a passive act of storage leading to the ulti[...]experience have shown that film stances, this was a remarkable achievement,
mate deterioration of th[...]der films. They are nottigoenasreidn the space of a few months than all the

ically, means a greater financial burden for the to u[...]on which archives cannot afford to let
which has a genuine commitment to the rescue handle nitrate f[...]and attempting to recreate the master version of a it many times over, and it would seem an ideal
financial aid it gives to its other national lib unique film.[...]restoration work is often similar to tion funds. A shrewd publicity point could even
Arguabl[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (133)[...]ve been properly
catalogued, and is supported by a computer
system which few other archives enjoy a[...]than one actually needs. However, cataloguing is
a vital element in film archiving despite being
ar[...]r of
staff in each area to prevent this becoming a
more serious omission in the future.

Icome to a point now which, on the
surface, may app[...]arly unfortunate that the
NFA was established as a minor adjunct of a
much larger and, on the whole, unrelated public[...]NLA-NFA relationship.

There has always been a temptation in civil
service minds to regard films in a film archive as
documents no different from book[...]nce, their preservation and availability
require a different set of conditions and policies
from books and papers. They are also related to
a totally different cultural and commercial
sector[...]dustries. It seems to me quite inappropriate
for a film archive to be housed in, and have its
destiny controlled by, a book library.

In the case of the Australian[...]llocation of space and
resources appears to come a miserable second to
the more monolithic needs of[...]ner.

This confusion of purposes and lack of a
separate identity can be very destructive for an[...]sting that autonomy, inde
pendence and acquiring a recognizable identity
would necessarily make the NFA better off, but
I feel it would have a greater chance to make its
needs felt, would acquire a distinctive reputa
tion of its own and wo[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (134)[...]says of his own work in Scotland, " If a
doing, and yet the signs are there to say[...]vakians know, can have a universal[...]levance.
bourne with Flinders Street station for a[...]ments to make films in any other vein,
lanes for a barbershop quartet or a soft-[...]ered) presence of British
shoe shoot-out or even a flamenco[...]Reasonable Doubt is but a temporary
Spanish flu, and the Yarra Bank for a[...]divergence from a sound principle.

song about My Moll Doll. There is a high-[...]ories, like the establishment
kicking routine in a lamp-lit alley, but it is[...]ars (" No tinned pineapple. I reckon
credits, as a flicker of the musical that[...]imagery, and a tight, intimate scene
Much more energy and purpo[...]their paranoia to sing "A tisket, a tasket"[...]manhunt, they lose it.
tralia with a wealth of surprising footage,[...]They have a strong coherence and a firm
intelligently applied. His film clearly[...]mixes two narratives:
deals with the struggle of a group of hos[...]one is a cheerful account of the mis[...]adventures and Minties moments of a
pitalized spastics to win recognition of[...]of a sinister stranger (John Carradine)[...]f tone and sheer cheek, it
them forces us beyond a vague[...]a dash of Tom Sawyer and Peyton Place
It is boldly[...]able memoirs stem from the imagina
point -- a nurse's story which proceeds[...]tion (his own) of an adolescent fed on a[...]ems to float in all direc
from its beginning and a story of the[...]a time and place -- the summer of 1952
patients' r[...]in a country town -- when it was Friday[...]and the Saturday arvo
end -- until they join in a confrontation[...]' people. The

patients act themselves and have a Stephen Wallace's Captives o f Care: "the struggle o f a group o f hospitalized spastics to win
degree of[...]storical or
The juxtaposition puts the actors at a dis are placed in ugly and depressing parts ficti[...]people splashed and glowing with Doubt considers a controversial murder
and how much improvized I d[...]Newell's Bad Blood deals with a multiple
goodies and baddies.[...]cupied the
Perhaps this is inevitable in such a from a city that is not as pretty as a post police and the press in the 1940s. In The
context, or it might be a deliberate and card and from a Coca-Cola, commercial Scarecrow, Sam Pillsbury re[...]da ploy aimed radio generation that is not having a growing up in a small country town in the
(unnecessarily) at emo[...]she organizes a large number of short days / When blokes were blo[...]ar went to Mary deceptively random, and each with a legend is followed by a shot of sheep

Gallagher for Greetings from Wol precise grasp of its useful length, into a looking scared -- a swift joke about
longong, which fashions its fiction in a cumulative impression.[...]eye This looking back seems to signify a

the line between them is almost invisible. for[...]ch's Looks and Smiles, the strength to throw away a line, a feel for exploring their own past in terms of rur[...]ances and touchingly convey The Festival provided a timely glimpse these filmmakers are working within their
what it is like to live a jobless, peripheral of what has been happe[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (135)[...]re, between package" , which suggests a limited like the personifications of the Moon and root of a scream" . That silent scream,
brother and sister[...]of Federico Death in the interests of a driving narra frozen in time, informs the cl[...]ity. He transmutes the intense of the film -- a frozen frame, sepia
ingly sentimental. Fast cutting and a[...]colored, of a posed wedding group --[...]violence and sen which, naturally, is a portrait of the
rapid pace ensure that the film[...]nted fam ily photographs are
Carry Me Back is a farce about the[...]tar, of Dulces floras (Tender Hours) in which a
father's corpse, locked in a wardrobe, the dancers of Gades' company ar[...]South their dressing-rooms and prepare for a scraping effects and finger-snapping.[...]record the recreate it in the form of a play which is in
able transport, inquisitive police, a crafty lished that Saura is going to be[...]audience/author interpretation; and
A Festival program note says there are reality[...]nt transference.
visual allusions to Two Men and a Ward theatrical illusion. sionally, he contributes a framing or
robe and to La femme infidele. If thi[...]ch means it is more per author and,, in a rehearsal, one actor
director to lean out of reach of a general they outline their lips and attach eye suasive than a full shot. And the knife (playing an actor) is so consumed by his
audience just to give a film-buff a lashes and insert hairpins in a series of fight is breathtaking (literally s[...]cries, " Everybody forgets this is a play."
tingle! Given Joy Cowley's original story[...]going to be while telling us how he came to be a silence are the slow intake of breath b[...]n 1934, Pirandello wrote in his note
two men and a wardrobe in a variety of dancer, painstakingly blackens[...]lm's writer seeks to find
body is going to stuff a body in the boot muscles and fingers. And whe[...]himself in his own memories, it is impos
of a car. Nor would it be helpful to offer into the[...]sible to arrive at a truth. And if his past is
a warm-up, there is again a heightened This film poetry is a powerful equiv governed by shifting percep[...]t of Lorca's final scene, Which does
the face of a macabre situation is commands Gades. "[...]brows!" We are conscious of physical a Greek chorus report of it and lamenta beau[...]and blood-letting with a knife: a knife[...]gh the aston
and concisely and how they maintain a such body discipline as a professional ished flesh / And stops at t[...]per Top: John Reid'sfarce about smuggling a corpse in a wardrobe, Carry Me Back. Above: John
the impact[...]omen talk of Laing's examination of a controversial murder conviction, Beyond Reasonabl[...]same affectionate sympathy with the nically a " rehearsal" ) they are seen to be
characters, a[...]story or the Then they move to the centre of a bare
convenience of a couple of good jokes. floor to become, in[...]low them transformations which have been pre
a certain human dignity. ordai[...]nd no
and massage parlors in The Big City after
a rugby match, there is a satirical put- dialogue, stage or staging. O[...]knows that to explain the artifice and to
with a touch of pity. state the[...]role is not to diminish the mystery, but to
A waitress in a cafe ("We're sort of
closing down" ) has only a slight connec increase it.
tion with the pl[...]This paradox is extended by his use of
given a curiously tender scene with the
boys' father and a chance to escape from mirrors. The opening s[...]d on around mirrors, in which
Aunty Bird (played a lot larger than life by the dancers see themselv[...]tificial. Sometimes the
ously from caricature to a more human camera takes the place of a mirror, and
dimension. At the end she shares the[...]ror which has
inheritance now regained, there is a reflected the whole dance. It shows what[...]with the eye, not what we see with
sweet echo of a romance with the land. the imagination which, in turn, is but a
For all its prior black comedy irrever
ence tow[...]lection of other ways of seeing. After
expresses a regard for a quality of life, all, this film is a visualization of a choreo
grapher's version of a playwright's vision
and a regret at its passing. of a journalist's view of an incident in
This year[...]rm
Francesco Rosi, Mauro Bolognini, Ber a prose item in a newspaper, a poetic
play, a modern ballet and finally, in
nardo Bertolucci or Michelangelo Anto Saura's own phrase, "a document on
nioni, and I found this disappointin[...]down to their dramatic essence and
critic as "a tastefully-wrapped cultural omits the[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (136)[...]The film closes with a burst of delir- theatrical structure of three acts of a[...]the same actress), which and night, with a prologue and epilogue.[...]Pirandellian joke: that we are to apply a action of a group of characters during[...]ight you are (if you think It has elements of a detective story:[...]there is a sleuthing game and two[...]characters think a lot about how to play[...]sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, about a fairytale: a Sleeping Prince of a hero who[...]bright star who falls into a drug-addicted keeps nodding off; a wouid-be Sleeping[...]Princess who daydreams of a Prince[...]binder sumably in an Air-France jet; and a Good[...]care about this once Fairy disguised as a schoolgirl (the[...], but she does not wrench as does magically a fiction. " Life" , however, as[...]on the wane, someone remarks, " is not a novel."[...]of a weak-willed scriptwriter made erties o[...]have a poor guide here in a sportswriter coincidence and in a great deal of[...]e stunned than than one would expect from a post-office[...]sorter cum student, a secretary and a[...]lse to explain the cold, almost nalia of a novel but also a characteristic[...]pt, in which she cannot retain hero works in a post-office.[...]passes anything like the poignancy of a The plot is conceived in terms of lines,[...]brilliantly exploited in a scene in a park[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (137)[...]So if you've got the creative
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (139)[...]ning Herald The Yearbook again takes a detailed look at
past year . . . "[...]s.
"The Australian Motion Picture Yearbook is a and the format is set out in such a way that
great asset to the film industry in[...]lia's most
We at Kodak fin d it invaluable as a reference Yearbook to be an asset to[...]er good effort from the Cinema A new series of profiles has been compiled and[...]effort Papers team, and essential as a desk-top will highlight the ca[...]A new feature in the 1983 edition is an[...]including film financing, special effects, and a
"Anyone interested in Australian films, wheth[...]our Australian
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (140)[...]time

when television for most Australians was a

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (148)[...]Dist. c o m p a n y ....................................MGM DI[...]A ustralia.............................. 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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (149)[...]tors .....................Paul Maxwell, Animation a s s is ta n t___.Robert Malherbe G auge..........[...]............. Eastmancoior Synopsis: The story of a sheepdog in the

Ke[...]Rangi Nikora, A DANGEROUS SUMMER[...]Geoff Maine meets with a hobo in her outback home Prod, company ..........[...]..... Elizabeth Johnson and takes Dot on a wonderful adventure P[...]S a n g s te r), D iana D avid so n (M a rth a P ro du ce rs........................ Brian Kavan[...]Synopsis: A contemporary story of sexual[...]ydd'dsoiirirureae.en.csc.ct.tsta.too.ion.srr.rtt..a.n..M.....t.......a.........r........g.........Ma..H.....r...ioe.cV.S[...]false manhood. A triangle which leads to
Synopsis: Two brothers e[...]..... David Eggby

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Prod, c o -o rd in a to r.................... Trish Foley Sound editor[...]...................... Nene Morgan,

Producer's a ssista n t__ Margo McDonald[...]ck Ray Barrett (Webster), Norman Kaye (Percy

G a ffe r........................................Bria[...]ssy,

Di Biggs

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Focus puller .......[...]irector ............................ Richard Kent A n im a to rs ..............................Paul McAdam,[...]......................LeeLarnfuellry unaware that a killer stalks the streets.
Clapper/loader ......[...]ei, Lighting cam eram an............. Alex McPhee A mother and her two sons survive in a dis[...]props ...................Nick McCallum Background a r tis t..............................AmberEllis[...]Special effects ............... Conrad Rothman P a in ters.............................. .Ruth Edelm[...]L a b o ra to ry..............................[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (150)[...].................................. Ron Williams G a ffe r............................................[...]Camera g a ffe r ......................Conrad Slack

Exec,[...]Synopsis: A young woman, looking after
Boom operator .......[...]returns to kill the woman, and so begins a
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (153)[...]....................... 12 mins Synopsis: A look at life on the road with Neg. matching .....[...]create a dream symbolic of the mystery of[...]........................ George Gittoes Synopsis: A re-enactment of the first scien[...]......................... Lloyd James G a ffe r................................... Rick McM[...]..................... Dick Weight L a b o ra to ry.....................................[...]..................................Atlab Synopsis: A sensitive study of a neglected[...]Productions
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (154)[...]...........................Rob McCubbin Synopsis: A film for the Trade Union Release date............[...]...........................LouiseJonaTsra in in g A u th o rity a b o u t the C lyde Narrator......................[...]Synopsis: A short film for the Department of

Prod, company[...]Prod, c o -o rd in a to r.................Don Dennett

Camera assist[...]............................Production
Synopsis: A demonstration of the use of Gauge................[...]Synopsis: A dram atized docum entary

rhythm in filmmaking.[...]Synopsis: A documentary featuring[...]Release d a te .......................September[...]Synopsis: A teaching film for the Depart Exec, producer .....[...]Made for the Vic

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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (155)[...]Mouth to Mouth and Keefe (Bryan Brown) in a tight situation,
The consistently laudable fe[...]John Duigan's Far East.
John Duigan's work as a writer and a attained a level of complexity and
director has been his sk[...]ent suggests that
passionate social observation. A deli in Far East. The social and political[...]ry pursuit of
incidents has been complemented by a present yet somehow nebulous. A her attentions quite romantic. Yet hi[...]re overshadowed and Nene's pain, ascribes a type of callous
While Far East reiterates this funda rendered simplistic by a desire to ness and a dubious morality that seems
mental theme, it also reveals a signifi recreate the type of love story that[...]by the cosmetic con
cant alteration in style and a departure sizzled in 1942, but seems anachron struction of a personal, if idiosyn
from the familiar terrain o[...]cratic, moral code. The portrait of a
tralia. The depiction of an unidentified[...]stoic spurred to participation in a poli
country in South-east Asia aims, in the[...]able limits by his single-handed assault
"a glimpse of life behind the tourist (Bryan Brown) Koala Klub, with her on a military safe house, and further
poster" . Sadly[...]r of Our Dreams. of the Klub the world is a dangerous Perhaps by way of explanation[...]onale, the past assumes some
Far East depicts a country fractured Keefe is the arbitrator of[...]the Vietnam moratoriums
tion, and victimized by a brutal and Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Rob[...]regor (Bryan Brown) in Winter of provided a background for Rob and
exposes a society where government Our Dreams, has carved a niche from Lisa's (Margie McRae) romance,[...]rrounding past for Jo and Keefe denotes a time of
exploitation and corruption, but world with ambivalence, and a distance shared values and involvement that
chooses to develop this theme with a illustrated by the declaration that he[...]ities similarly exclude him
combination produces a style so[...]skills that passivity by his love for Jo and a from him by the use of nicknames,
have[...]the type of female, in a triangular rela
husband, activates a chain of events tionship, that both he and[...]but also imperils Jo is in many respects a replication of
able doubt on their validity, it[...]d by
fails to develop beyond the single a barrage of slow-motion machine-gun Hawks i[...]with the implications of transition through a male world,
development appears clumsy when[...]istic suicide of a man who has just seen[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (156)[...]Aronovich (the time, of course, is
lounging on a loo or bluffing her way Koala Klub, b[...]Lambrakis in Z and the killing of a spring) which tends to make the tragedy
through a poker hand. Finally, the m ult[...]tion of Rosita Cos is viewed as both a welcome employer Costa-Gavras makes[...]out of the story of Charles Horman, a Gavras as the location for Montevideo[...]of her character women, souvenirs and a smattering of died at the hands of[...]ent and fidelity, all charac For a country caught between a need scarcely needs to. It is adapted fairly As the Hormans move warily about a
teristics that the apolitical, flamboyant[...]y-exercised
adulteress Jo eschews. She may have a qualitative choices through a represen licence Costa-Gavras customa[...]Her sense of guilt at being with Keefe at a supportive yet impotent institution,[...]Charles Horman, a 31-year-old only dresses!"
and[...]Military lynch-law is still rampant
work as a journalist her primary Ultima[...]living in Santiago for little more than a
concern. It is a lukewarm resolution for probe the instiga[...]ong with when Ed Horman arrives a fortnight
a character who has generated so much produce "a protest against the treat 100,000 C[...]effective
bine easily or well with the image of a cohesion. Its convictions are con[...]Embassy staff),
wilful, independent female. For a tinually undermined by a style and Salvador Allende. Playe[...]r in flashback. actually executed). A flashback
tatiousness, it is a form of repentant Duigan's concerns with a Hollywood[...]romance and a simplistic political play co-writ[...]nship with her husband thriller. It is a liaison that does dis Costa-Gavras) is[...]Szarabajka), shows prisoners being
provides a useful insight, if not a suffi service to the intentions of both.[...]rch for Charles by his forced to run a murderous gauntlet of
cient explanation, for the[...]uad. This is
be discordant. Reeves, like Rob, is a Associate producer: John Mason. Scree[...]ey search, the more we fashion, with a cold directness that
taneously resents his wife'[...]r. Cast: Bryan Brown because they had supported a freely- background or middle-ground to a
its periodic clashes of character through[...]sk curfew. citizen among a multitude of tyran
comfortable balance of their[...]many sequences in which the film -- a focus sharpened by the
him, and the implications[...]L em m on's portrayal of the
rationale for a relationship totally surreal: a riderless white horse gallops conservati[...]Connolly down a deserted street, spurred on by man st[...]the volleys of trigger-happy soldiers; a experience is most persuasive. From his[...]Missing is a very characteristic Costa- a resort hotel; patrons rush to a res in the U.S. Embassy's ability and[...]s are glimpsed through reach, finally, a mood of contemp
Dreams.1He delineates an area of[...]Missing is brightly-colored and
search for a balance between the two is[...]As he leaves Santiago, Horman sen.
a recurrent theme in Duigan's films and[...]now published as a Penguin paperback under the real-life Ed Horman[...]ow Jo in Far East.
H ow ever, w hile the dilem m a is[...]itanism is summed up in one
film, yet it is also a depiction of a[...]in-law's salty language and sexual
tence. In a country where free speech is[...]rism (her faintly-yokelish
of, and servants for, a thriving tourist[...]depiction of a gradual flowering of[...]extraordinary lengths in issuing a three-[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (157)[...]d (except for military hardware),
however, quite a bit of evidence that the fare.[...]crisis, shortages of consumer goods and
had a reputation for respecting the was dismiss[...]sectors of the working class -- such as
A llende's election in 1970, U .S. U.S. le[...]ned. Senator Frank Church) of a U.S. desire
prepare a military takeover. And to incite a coup even before Allende enterprise.[...]the presidential poll with a 36 per cent cooking pots filled the streets and a
1973) needed little urging. cour[...]onal elections held only six
Horman was probably a marked man aware that the suit was inc[...]After Allende was duly installed by a months before the coup, Popular Unity
f[...]rry Simon (played in the film by Hauser, a lawyer, makes in his book a of success and popularity. Food pro That U.S. agencies played a major
Melanie Mayron), made an entirely[...]r
resort, which is adjacent to the Chilean A prologue to the film, spoken by[...]n't last -- professed principles as a nation" .4
Jack Lemmon, concedes that some p a r tic u la r ly after A lle n d e , in
Navy's Valparaiso headquarters an[...]i services had been preparing a coup for[...]urs, with Allende and
and Terry Simon were given a lift back It's not dramatic fiction. I take n a tion alization was also in the his[...]and armed force
head of the U.S. Military Group (a organize them dramatically, while[...]ization law unanimously, but all hell
as Captain Tower, played by Charles What, then, are the[...]n the film see why we need stand by and watch a Washington was heavily displease[...]coup victim, Frank Teruggi, in a[...]believes in film serving as a mirror to[...]craftsmanship of a high order and[...]and resourceful imagination to a steady[...]victim in L'aveu, a good communist[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (158)[...]ling relationships of people who and leave him a lo n e ." I t's not
should be no discrepancy between a 1960s/early '70s.[...]ill. censorious, or wise-childish; just a plain
film's being serious and entertaining --[...]answer to a difficult question.
and that is perhaps his mos[...]ring "solutions" -- and very much a product of, its time in a d eq u a te to them are the affectionate detail[...]nd Missing both reveal which is now a decade ago. uncommitted relations[...]selves. The
second film Un homme de trop, about a This is not really a major quibble endless talk along the lines o[...]d pain oT seeing one's child "taking
traitor in a French Resistance group, about the[...]l the time", he tells trived to give Monkey Grip a narrative
abandon their fundamental beliefs.[...]her and Gracie. a novel. Where the novel is a tiresome
An important question remains[...]tylistic elements work together to
overthrow of a freely-elected govern string-of-beads principle. So are a lot of becoming a knowing tot, she does strengthen the film's central narrative
ment by a U.S.-backed-and-influenced quite e[...](played by a too-healthy-looking Colin
Central America are b[...]Friels) is not just a series of episodes
put their trust in democratic processes. spite of not being able to feel a flicker[...]there might be a good film in it[...]ourse, Missing won't be the that a director sensitive to its social/[...]the film. It is a fine, unmannered
precious little else, apart fr[...]final comment about her life as "a
monumental trilogy La batalla de Chile[...]ted though Costa-Gavras' film film a small inner suburban world of[...]ore readiness to enter
terms, it is nevertheless a powerful grotty-to-comfortable ho[...]ught accurately the sort of Carlton
Americas to a people who vote that the Na[...]er performances in the film
" irresponsibly" in a dem ocratic in preserving, and[...]ating. established a mise-en-scene which helps[...]Garner's daughter, Alice, is a very
Missing: Directed by: Constantine Costa-Ga[...]ter Jamison. emotional lives. It balances a clear
Music: Vangelis. Sound: Daniel Brisseau,[...]ve aspect of
Shea (Charles), Charles Cioffi (Cpt Tower), David its drifting non-nuclear households,[...]Grip
is an underwater shot of legs swimming
in a chlorinated pool. It is accompanied
by a voice-over saying: " Looking back,
you se[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (159)[...]. world, it remains largely a mystery as
king). This strengthens Squizzy's ti[...]im outdo his offi revenge seems to reflect a strong sense neither convincing in regard to t[...]nly reverse to those compatible There is a point later in the film 1919 to 1921, cov[...]f-seeking amorality is again " Maybe she is [a moll], but no one does "only minding the store[...]on of attitude is to Squizzy until his return, a dire press, his media image, and the rivalry
sures him to help set up a competitor, incongruous because the persona[...]Brophy and Piggott. But the
Whiting, by robbing a jeweller with him repercussions of the rape,[...]nge with Dolly after saw Squizzy merely as a small-league, certainly uninteresting, he[...]ica her assault, and her image of him as a petty thief, even disbelieving that it was[...]firebombed the Cutmore happened.
me a fizz?" Stokes, however, appeals to[...]Squizzy jumps bail for stealing
and it's worth a hundred quid." establishment in `ret[...]liquor, he goes for a boat ride with[...]material. There is a sudden familiarity
soon after is apprehended (ag[...]olorful stories in the
valence merely represents a patchily- Squizzy's brothel. Squizzy is un[...]"the best of which I've written
extreme ends of a character continuum. prostitutes, and warns[...]myself. But I'm only a newspaper[...]rply with their
she replies, "Some fellas expect a bit thinly drawn for this remark to carry[...]tionalism of Squizzy's exploits, as a
in hand, growling, "Oh, do they?" , enc[...]When Squizzy is taken into custody
Dolly like a gent, breaking to knee one[...]Squizzy is a respected citizen, an asset[...]co-operative people, of keeping a pros[...]titute in line by giving her a `rest' with[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (160)[...]Southern Comfort

the broken end of a beer bottle neck. seriously. The us[...]comes increasingly Make Walker's Woods a haven for[...]bonding, it does so with much less a while before it gets to the film proper.
final d[...], this review isn't particularly It's both a swamp movie and a red
When Squizzy and Brophy meet to[...]Special (cheap but deadly on a[...]ck irritation that, "This

is getting to become a habit" , despite it

being the first interactio[...]have been

more satisfactorily fulfilled, with a

stronger developmental coherence and

sustai[...]interested in the film proper, but rather "A haven o f the damned": lost in a Louisiana
making those unsightly homages to the[...]ing or what sort Comfort proposes itself as a war film redneck into a star, but it is very inter
Roger Simpson. Screen[...]all. Editor: of place they are in. They talk a lot of the type developed in American[...]y face another, more cinema after World War 2. A small, under what conditions.
Brewer. M[...]he larger (mother) body It is completely a swamp movie. The
Weaver (Dolly), Kim Lewis (Ida)[...]out the resent various parts of society (a potency. The swamp is to the U.S. as
Me[...]entle Ben). The swamp is not
Finally, here is a Walter Hill film isn 't about allego[...]Twinned with the war grid is a second destroyed by it (Ruby Gentry); nor is it
town theatres faster than lard through a moments, Flight of the Phoenix looks formula which we might call "Sur a place of potential Rousseauian grace
goose -- an[...]like the answer, but the film turns a objective and at the same time toward[...]ival. Its rhythm is attrition. Its recurs as a beacon and a tantalizing
pronounce "Southern" down South.[...]the survivors decide they are in a[...]a city versus country structure or a[...]swamp, they stumble into a Les Blank[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (161)[...],
CREW, PRODUCTION
SUPERVISION A N D A
MILLION OTHER THINGS
THAT CAN DRIVE YO[...]ECK
W ITH THE LOCALS," THEY
SAY. WE'RE LOCALS A N D
USED TO FILMING UNDER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS.[...]or The Balance o f Happiness

MARY GAFFNEYa p r a

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (162)[...]moods. I feel that's not true chopped, as in a Sam Fuller combat[...]ed tivize abstract tensions and to create a
incomprehensible one. The platoon's out[...]continuing a major tradition (see Law the images.
catch[...]William J. Immerman. Screenplay: Michael Kane,
a mark of Hill's carefully-focused dis initial[...]avid Giler. Director of photo
cipline that given a swamp full of 1973" . If you were in the[...]ere to avoid being in the riveting aspect of a Hill film is the Production designer: John Vallone. Music: Ry
them. That's resisting a mighty tempta Vietnam.[...]lace is untouchable, beyond their not as a military force, but as a native " Minimalism" is a word often used (Casper), Peter Coyote (Poo[...]ive deterioration of guishable: you can't tell a friendly from Heilman, but a distinction is needed company: Twentieth C[...]tor:
clothing, no lengthening of beards, no a hostile. The film's first sequence between[...]the black soldier on a bed of spikes is a film (for instance, the two precise and
Men in[...]is a feature-length documentary divided
physically, w[...]no military trestle; and Hardin's knifing a Cajun in Times; Part Two -- Welfare Times;
Ta[...]inx-like, but they never indulge in scribing a straight line through this from general Hil[...]mphasized and less up and chained together a large number
opposite of overt). The effect from[...]ony. In Comfort, the Farber called for a criticism of con- come by." The Cop: "Depen[...]of the film thinking old woman, Dolly, died as a result of
proceed to make the reading. The ecol[...]lti-co-ordinate strategy of this is really a John Carpenter film, this mistreatment on t[...]return, not as words, but as continuing as a simple re-enactment, rather than
hell on them. T[...]has the effect of placing the historical
like a cavalry Western than most war[...]event in a contemporary context, stress
films, in that the[...]people is a recalled and immediate[...]event. It is not, as a reconstruction
nor Axis homeland. But this is no[...]would suggest, a series of events that
army; this is the National[...]happened a long time ago and are
distinction is essential f[...]ite man
cient power in the national legislature, a who plays a reluctant Stott, and beats
bill was passed barri[...]omprised of
volunteer citizen soldiers who train a
few weeks each year and who are not[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (163)[...]Laws is also exceptional in the use of a
bullock?" "N o." "You been tuckout coas[...]oughout the film.
eatim whole lot meself.") hits a tree the fishing industry. The court scene is discussed. The earlier parts have a This wide-angle lens is instrumental in
with a stick to demonstrate how it staged outsi[...]happened. The re-enactments lose form a stark tableau against a vast Borroloola people acted from when[...]is playing backdrop of orange sand, with just a first confronted by white demands.[...]nation of Aboriginal life Dispensing with a realistic court they obliged. The re-enac[...]ple land rights. At times when there is a
important as they establish, through scape also contrasts the complexity and speak from a position of complete
discussion with the woman w[...]d trees have been it is an expression of a group attitude
exactly what the welfare officer will say the performance of a ceremonial Abori chopped down, there is a follow-up of
and what her tone will be. During t[...]etimes used
change between the two then involves a The gudjika is equally as complex as Part Four -- Living With Two Laws a consciously by photographers for
barter[...]exists entirely outside it. This scene is a
pivo[...]ns the concerns of the film in made us a bit stronger and I think concerns of the f[...]f the land, such as
rather than trying to create a con Part Three also contains footage of a now. Not like in those days. They[...]n. spontaneous debate between a Borro used to just put us on a truck and contrast the scenes of spoilage.[...]loola man and a white immigrant after take us somewhere[...]at the order of his boss, over who ting on a government truck, we're land usage and ow[...]has the right to the land. It involves a getting off it and going where we
Borrolo[...]These shots give a timeless quality to[...]nd stresses the Besides reflecting a historical change tures of the law court and their legal
of a truck as they sing a lament for their impossibility of Aboriginal people from a position of weakness, repres systems. Th[...]reflects an increased graphy never becomes a mere scenic
concern.[...]simple re-enact the film, is contained in a powerful works in a broader panorama, showing
ments is also developed. A beautifully- scene from Part Three. A Borroloola details of contemporary life,[...]abstract, representa man stands in front of a river explain women's and men's cere[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (164)[...]his mob. They claim, he gives himself like a lamb on a
and how precisely and honestly it has[...]ms and flee the village together. In a final con highlights the sense that Spallone has[...]wanted to make himself a martyr to a
English, the fifth and most com[...]her acting career have ensured her a costs. Like Pedro (Giancarlo Giannini)[...]gramophone resting in a tree. Nick
hot work and tedious. Suddenly the[...]d the con popular sex symbols, guarantee a melo[...]h. hurls himself into a tub of excrement
and discussion is clarified.[...]will be shot, rather than W ertm u ller a lw ays uses an
Loren comes from a poor Neapoli play the commandant's humil[...]its insistent instruction and cetta, a peasant woman from Sicily. and who, more[...]men involved with her, maintains a point of view prevents her films from
pr[...]al, thumbing its nose at Loren is also a master of comedy and rigorous religious and emotional, if not developing too strong a narrative sense.
any theories of documentary obj[...]iders most peasants in Sicily, could provide a
dini. Director of photography: Alessandro Cava-[...]cturnal visits prove welter of romanticism for a Bernardo
dini. Sound: Carolyn Strachan, Linda Mc[...]e Alessandro Blaseti's Anatomy of to be of a different nature: giving Bertolucci, but W[...]r also encom village where people scratch a living
Blood Feud[...], three people simultaneously stakes is not a glamorous retreat from[...]the village but a depressed and
Lina Wertmuller's films have be[...]talks about her working relationship -- a theme explored in the more decaying, p[...]um's Heart
dull. Despite her critics, she enjoys a[...]While keeping a realistic camera,
"We met in Pompeii in 10 A.D. when Beat. The child she is pregnant wit[...]t following in the U.S. he was a chariot driver and I was[...]h man that it is his own, con images -- a difficult achievement in the
popular in her nati[...]ve film medium. Spallone's first
detractors take a nationalistic stance[...]encounter with C on cetta is a
and condemn them for denigrating[...]colleagues on rural roads. He carries a
enjoy the art direction of Enrico Job,[...]plaster of Paris camera. She approaches atop a lumber
and the choice of colorful, and some[...]if of sticks she collects daily. She forms a[...]hich appeared in The Blood Feud is a film that uses poli the sticks -- a mixture of charcoals,
End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a[...]al ism has necessitated the development of a skirt and cloak. The cart whirls by,[...]sful and secure his position in the revealed for a moment, then moves on,[...]pecking order. Realizing the threat of a strange form on the road.
Fatto di sangue fra[...]mages, and Wert
moventi politici (Blood Feud) is a film Black Shirts. Concetta Titiana's f[...]ro lone blunders about trying to live by a Blood Feud (Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per[...]Wertmuller. Producer: Harry
films, such as Tutto a poste e niente in[...]i da Rosario Spallone (Mastroianni), a ment. When Concetta spurns his offer[...]en to further his own career and stronger his attraction to her and her Giannini (Nick), Turi Ferro (V[...]establish a reputation in the town. He[...]bout him are away. He uses it as stakes in a card
nmi and Job first worked together as[...]game with Nick. He tips a plate of
what Wertmuller considered to be a swayed when he saves her from rape[...]mayor. With a loving picture of her[...]But she refuses to commit herself to is a victim of an attack by fascists and[...]Concurrent with the growth of a[...]and cultural change: a brightly-colored

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Mov[...]gical
a deconstruction rather than a trans punchline most evident in Bertrand and[...]adaptations of novels and plays ought and D r a c w /a /N o sfe r a tu (Bram tive analyses), is so eclectic (dizzying[...]ginous, "as so-and-so has said")

at last dying a slow death. To cite a among the best essays in the collection. and ofte[...]rary attitudes embellishing John which disfigures a good deal of recent of partial quotes which criti[...]n there are no

Fewer filmgoers are prepared to A valuable filmography of adapta directions for the reader, no map or

countenance a more radical approach, tions is included, togethe[...]intersections sug

tions could only result from a process of this collection echo their concern to[...]s of others, to films, to

That the question is a complex one is strate that John Simon's dictum co[...]nd that we respect their texts" . applies only as a useful warning for film tralian film industry in[...]industry, its relations to overseas
fidelity to a classic literary text was of the screen can match[...]capital interests,
invariably an easy option for a film novel.[...]lms deployed.

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the day of th[...]s such as Screen, Camera

tion. It grows out of a long tradition of[...], Metz,

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trate a variety of critical approaches. Sydney, 1982[...]which lends itself more to work of a

excellent essay on The Time Machine Sam Rohdie[...]eras, and to myths and archetypes, This is less a review of Australian outside Australia which it surely is)

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Fore[...](a) Reduced by producer's cuts from 3374 m (Sep[...]l Chanel Solitaire (reduced version) (a): L. Spangler, tember 1981 list).[...](16mm) (a): Not shown, U.S., 623.50 m, 14th Mandolin,
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Fernsehen[...]rary of Australia Der starke ferdinand (16mm): A. Kluge, W. Germany, City of Sin (pre-c[...]Last Drive-in Movie (16mm): A. Pickersgill, Australia, ship Board.
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innuendo)[...]uts: Filmway Pictures, Hong Kong, 2300 m, A Man of Immortality (16mm): Central Motion Picture[...]version) (a): Golden Harvest, W. Germany, 3589 m, Bri[...]U.S., 2565.70 m, Filmways (A'sian) Dist., Ofadult[...]d Killer: Kim Mah Film,
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H ughes), a 30-year-old spinster.[...]d by Paul Cox, for producer John B. Murray, from
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B ottom left: P atric ia appeals[...]producer, G eorge (Jo n Finlayson), left, in an
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (172)[...]engaging abound, but barely conceal a Top: Lindsay Anderson's "crude swiping",[...]g impression is that
glib) and extends them from a personal tial courses. To overhear the adjective ness of a Sunday picnic), and the the scepticism and critical analysis that
to a larger relevance by relating the[...]The animated television campaign
They share a death wish, and Berlin's queue is to recognize a vaguely- instructing children to "[...]the U.S. army. It
her slashed wrists and throat. A harsh[...]ch harder than the above, it is also a hilarious, subtle right and look to the left[...]and satirical glimpse of adolescence, in a cross the street, and an equivalent per[...]head off a live chicken; and the ditch
The film everyon[...]ut it is impossible to respond with any
Pixote, a lei do mais fracs (Pixote, Sinclair, i[...]hear now." 1 Indeed, the message of a women chanting " Kill, maim, rape,
ban it[...]vision of the " modern" woman, who jogs n a tio n 's crim ina l ignorance and pillage"[...]see an attack redundancy, Gregory moves to a defen some in 1982.[...]ts eloquent eye for
the cities of Brazil, and to a law which courtship. The boys devote thei[...]omen reveal their
examine the spread of crime in a society[...]nation in per
so corrupt that when one inmate of a nuts and the more passive, voyeuristi[...]mmitting them
breeding reform school is offered a through windows.[...]gory's genial receptivity to the
mances. It has a cumulative effect which upheavals of life[...]s two final scenes almost basis for a valuable education.
unbearable: the first, in which Pixote
finds on a prostitute's breast the mother Another[...]Woronov) in the pursuit of their dream: a
monster has this society spawned?[...]ited tele and pillage their way through a smorgas
gram from Hector Babenco, director of[...]e called life on the west coast of the U.S., a
"the mentality of totalitarianism" . It is Gomorrah where "the barrier between
patently a matter of great seriousness for
the Sydney Film[...]the Chief Shot on weekends, with a skeleton
Censor, Janet Strickland, has retired[...]h an injection of bizarre
the Festival rests on a "deal" made in
1975 without solid legal sanctio[...].swingers, it becomes a stylistic counter
Should the unthinkable eve[...]The Hungarian satire, Peter Bacso's A

John Fox[...]onic depiction of the
onerous characteristic of a film festival corruption rampant in Stalini[...]mmentary so bleak and notes, it resembles a fairytale, tracing the
pessimistic in content that a lack of ascent of Jozef Pelikan[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (173)[...]estival 1982

Georg Laschen (Bruno Ganz) beside a terrorist in the war-torn Lebanon o f 1975. Volke[...]cial independence and the
are unclear. There is a vague admission function in the group.[...]mented by Laschen's cynical belief that
that a uniform will enable them to "stand[...]d accompany enlistment in the he has a responsibility to alleviate
talf' and earn the[...]ven provides an army. He is locked into a society with a boredom in the loungeroom s of[...]than lucid investigation of a perplexing In a film punctuated by the image of
moment in the f[...]sembles its soulless hero, purporting to a
training techniques one is encouraged to cast of squeaky-clean devotees chant for a career as a motor mechanic seems substance and depth of conscience that
resent until the film's conclusion. As a and pray their way through the film with[...]as tempting as the linger is nothing more than a facile pretence.
veteran of the Vietnam war, he privately uncanny similarity to the extras in a[...]otone narration teases
despairs that he has lost a part of his Coca-Cola commercial. Yet the[...]seif-doubt are no more than devices for a
ability to train others to do the same. It is[...]initia circular process that can never pene
a penetrating glimpse of the function of soci[...]he function they fulfil is not tive and imposes a maddening lack of trate its perspective and the rut of his
an army and a process of regimentation simply ignored,[...]poses that public aware where he repairs a motor-bike that can
tion of an element of the hu[...]action against cults, in the form guarantee a limited freedom. The bike The film's e[...]ch's Kes. It becomes not only the beyond a glossy recreation of the horrors
Ralph Thoma[...]usions to confusion and
tion of an individual by a religious cult and cause ofsocial evils, rat[...]many similarities to the training symptom of a more complicated (Carolyn Nich[...]Loach's talent as a director is evident
When a disillusioned David Kappel spawn[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (174)[...]enders in capturing the essence of
pocket. It is a daunting standard to[...]of the town respective abilities to create a visual
audience to formulate a portrait of[...]ources. In the absence of this
production within a month. Yet the of the townsfolk. Having constructed a grant them the vision to realize that the[...]character we believe to be a genial yet impressions have been systemati[...]aces that convey the the final scene -- a repetition of the film's[...]The subtle and intelligent shifts in the to a new medium.
perceptible flicker make it a homage that Cordier as a devil figure. tone of Coup de[...]enriched by a number of excellent per Light Years A[...]though its language and location mark a
As the leader of a group of Polish "save the innocent" but a[...]eristically energetic perform
the director doing a Hitchcock), Jeremy guilt. The " paradise" he has chosen is a ance by Huppert, as Cordier's amoral[...]city is characteristic of his films.
Irons gives a taut and sensitive perform state of limbo, w[...]d in her Jonas (Mick Ford) is enticed to a
ance. His voice as the narrator affords ti[...](Trevor Howard). As
learns through the media of a military reading" . smith's story of a husband driven to Yoshka pursues his ambition to fly by
coup in Poland. Caught between a desire[...]wisdom of birds, he
to complete the project and a responsi The train trips to and from Bourkassa under the weight of its.source. It is a film
bility to inform his co-workers, he post suggest that it is a place where time[...]ggedly faithful in its translation that through a spiritual journey that will
ambiguity of motivat[...]result is a film that suggests the exist and periodic o[...]fascinating motivations transforms from a brooding master to a
trated and risk delay or cancellation of[...]enable a unity to develop, based on
compounded by the imp[...]d understanding.
budget provided by the boss and a work,
schedule that resembles a five-year plan[...]One is encouraged to share his
reduced to a single, hellish month. The[...]wonder as Tanner creates a universe
budget problems are solved by petty[...]wreckage that litters the year 2000, a[...]Light Years is a film that encourages
detection. His secrecy and[...]the pursuit of dreams, a theme shared by
impositions of authority breed r[...]Les Blank's Burden of Dreams, a docu
ment and his relationship to the men[...]arizes his audience. The
tion of the project and a six-hour hike to[...]achievements.
to repair a house he can never enjoy, is
an apt allegory. Sk[...]exhilaration that accompany a venture as[...]synthesis; a combination of Herzog's
Coup de torchon (Clean S[...]cultures. The result is a film that cele
enables people to " reveal their[...]dreams and, in that quest, discover a
Claude Miller's Garde a vue (The In[...]l three films
revolve around the construction of a[...]Yet, it is simultaneously a film that
male protagonist, whose initial appear[...]ducer-director-cameraman Les Blank.
to reveal a calculating murderer, or, in[...]to elucidate the elements that
the case of Garde a vue, a character that[...]ate and distinguish
the audience could accept as a[...]Peruvian Indians, out
own buffoonery to conceal a series of[...]lined in the film 's n a rra tio n , is
vendettas aimed at eliminating th[...]ting away from the action in a scene to
a n e ig h b o rin g p o lic e c h ie f, he[...]structs an acute awareness of a culture
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mis[...]a fascinating documentary with an
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acceptance of parenthoo[...], says his mother). There is a sense of strained serious about youthful t[...]man's great repertory players. Against a would take some of the burden off the[...]lian ideal of mother woods and mountains, a political back somewhat irresponsively t[...]family life, about respon ground of a neutral country in a world at network of ugly relationships which[...]individuality. It is persistently war, and with a remarkably difficult[...]greatest performance in the Festival; in a
good-natured, often witty at the expense[...]ypes and, in the end, without unfolds, in a leisurely, disjointed way, the A different kind of growing up is cele more te[...]scarcely a performance at all. By[...]m's central brated in Michael Blakemore's A collapsing past and present, Tamme[...]History of the Australian Surf, has created a remarkable sense of 40
the Money and Beat It, takes a serious meant to have motivated and held[...]internecine family Festival. Blakemore, now a successful there is some uncertainty as[...]brisk, business-like mother, and the says, a "straight poofter" , a mother's boy down and dying" or whether the we[...]eep the footballing bully
tures. It is apt to be a bit loose and[...]observe teenagers up and they become a metaphor for developed partly by his[...]to be that it needs its hour and a quarter
Aissa, the returning teenagers, are frus[...]narrative grasp is too shaky to ensure a his youth is a witty, sardonic father who, unscheduled scree[...]s Jean-Jacques Beineix's first film and a[...]nto his turns and sometimes all at once. A[...]"advantages" : he undertakes a medical resume of its complicated plot wo[...]in the viewing, but would scarcely give a sense[...]sources: his illicit tape recording of a[...]even to mention it. It is underworld vice when a prostitute on the[...]upporting program material, or, run dumps a tape in his mailbag.[...]belong to Jules' sense of his life as a[...]it is a serious film about the relative the verge[...]growth. There is a more obvious serious shoplifter and the me[...]Metro and the chilling climax in a[...]mory of it -- is deserted warehouse all posit a sharp[...]Diva is a really stylish entertainment, a[...]The method -- a sort of "dramatized film that seems to delight in being a film[...]"sticking a Jap with a bayonet" , he[...]as a " murderer" and weeps to think of[...]
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N atio n al L ibrary, bu t a film archive needs to be organiza[...]th ere is a deal o f com petitiveness, overlapping
w h ere th e a c tio n is: it m u st be close to th e film in fact m ak es sense if film archiving is to be a[...]give proper recognition to th e N F A , plus the
w ith w hich it requires to be in co[...]Strictly speaking, m any archives have a[...]an d to e n su re th a t it re m a in s A u s tr a lia 's o fficial
film student and the film m ake[...]tions w ith film and tele
viewed m any tim es in A u stralia, by all sections flex[...]vision o rg an izatio n s and in in te rn a tio n a l
o f th e m edia (w hich in itself suggests a w o u ld su g g est th a t th e A u s tra lia n N F A 's lack o f archiving m atters. A gain, I do not see this
bu rg eo n in g in teres[...]n ate position in th e N atio n al L ibrary.
N F A w as inaccessibly tucked aw ay in C an b erra.[...]I would m ake a final suggestion: th at the
I f it is co n stitu tio n a lly possible, I w ould u rge another A ustralian problem , th at o f its p ro[...]for the sake of its future grow th th at the N F A be life ra tio n o f a rch iv es. A u s tr a lia 's size, g o v e rn detailed study of the work of the N F A by a
m ade an autonom ous body, be properly[...]the present advisory com m ittee) w ith a view to[...]ns on its future develop
T h e n o tio n o f a u to n o m y is re lated to a n o th e r T his is not necessarily alarm ing,[...]and sta tu s. I w ould also
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som etim es appear to be a ponderous, rather tions[...]A ustralia be strongly (and financially) supported[...]in ra tio n is cen tral co n tro l, a clearly-defined p ro g ram and as a possible key facto r in gaining for th e N F A
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Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (180)[...]th an a film about w itchery or the
Continuedfrom p. 321[...]s u p e rn a tu ra l, it is essen tially a love
Have you ever worked with
Bergman?[...]sto ry , a b o u t a w om an w ho is n o t

N o . H e saw Wives a n d w e h a v e a[...]oundaries. Breien adds,
o f him , to p u t it th a t w ay. I t is th is
independence I have.[...]consequences. In a sense, one
by him?[...]w to
Y es. I am n ot alw ays good
en o u g h a t p ro te c tin g m yself. H e is[...]becom e a witch w ithout really
very careful about that, but I think
o n e h as to m a k e o n e 's ow n[...]As to the questions " W as she a
It may be a bigger problem, in that[...]w itch?" o r " W h a t is a w itch?" ,
you have an interest in similar
subj[...]Breien says,

Yes, th a t too. B ut I experience it The Witch H[...]view the witch hunts as the paranoid reaction o f a male society " If I accept th[...]rently. against a female power. "[...]ery difficu lt to m ak e it has resulted in a kind o f co m
I th in k I 'm a g r e a t m o r a lis t a n d am film and I feel I know very little.[...]out w hat they are
attitudes, but they are m ore a bour because they equate professio[...]now it all. I should I accept a concept that
geois conditioning than a C hristian ism w ith `e s ta b lis h m e n t' a n d re a c feel like saying, " W ell, if you know
one. T he only thing th a t has tio n a r y th in g s, an d th a t isn 't rig h t. y o u r jo b , w e c a n 't w o rk to g e th e r, hits w om an as a sexual being?
b o th e re d m e a b o u t C h ristia n ity is T he m edium has been explored too b e c a u se I h a v e n 't le a rn t m in e y et.
th at G od should be w atching[...]after I 'm still in th e p ro c e ss o f le a rn in g ." T h e re is m uch fear o f w om[...]here [laughs]. T h at has all, a poetic m edium .
alw ays haunted me. I am not a[...]ma has become people in film?
c a n 't see w hy C h ris tia n ity sh o u ld be t[...]id it is very lite ra ry everyw here else. A nd we are all to be unden[...]tio n . I am fre e la n c e rs. I 'm a fre e la n c e r, to o . I
more distance to the[...]has to do with the N o rsk F ilm A /S are fu lly paranoid reaction of a m ale
Yes, I hope so. It could be a strong tradition of social realism, em ployed, but otherw ise . . .
w e a k n e ss as w ell in th a t I c a n 't live that is dominating in film and[...]How do you find working here com
a d v a n ta g e to see it fro m a `h e a th e n ' be social criticism in some way?[...]e As to her own w ork as a director,
p o int of view.[...]uture projects, Breien says,
Which would make it a very differ th e d ic k e n s c a n 't o n e h a v e so cial I found it easier in Sw eden on a
ent approach to that of Bergman,[...]ithout privatizing the
Y es. G o d , h e 's a p a s to r 's son! O ne often confuses form and are not seen as a bitch but as[...]conflicts of society. M ost in ter
B e r g m a n s a id t h a t a f t e r The[...]g on th at
Seventh Seal his tre m e n d o u s fe a r o f th e g re y e v ery d ay are g rey .[...]g esting o f all is often th a t p o in t of[...]things hap p en in g in N o rw eg ian
d e a th left h im . I t 's n o t th e s o rt o f th e re a c tio n a g a in s t a r t fo r a r t 's film is as g re a t as in S w eden. I intersect[...]really think things could start
th in g th a t is p re o c c u p y in g m e. The the m om e[...]and the political."
Seventh Seal is fo r m e a w o rk o f nate in the opposite dir[...]becom es a new m oralism . Postscri[...]B reien is sta rtin g to th in k o f a
g e n iu s. I d o n 't h a v e q u ite th e sa m e
form at, but I adm ire h[...]contem porary project:
ously as an a rtist, an d he is fa n ta s situation . . .
tic a lly in sp irin g . H e 's over 60 a n d[...]I have to m ake up my
h e is still b u rn in g . A n d th e re is so Yes, which I think it s[...]h. They m ost in them selves" , A nja Breien m ind and be m or[...]fter the com pletion of the
H e re in N o rw a y th e re is such a w egian film industry we have had a[...]film Forfolgelsen.
I am learn in g from In g m a r is th a t[...]and m ore personal than before.
film is a c ra ft, a p ro fessio n , one can professional salaries. To gain a It is essentially a film a b o u t
learn. T here are, of course, certain decent living, a lot o f people have to intolerance, a[...]at they know their job, and in th a t sense it is very c o n te m
t h a t y o u c a n 't c a lc u la te a n d[...]A short film, based on a medieval
People edit their own film s and so[...]legend, about a young girl in a Nor
on.[...]A satirical documentary on the cele[...]holiday. Awarded a prize at Ober-[...]A young man, wrongly accused of a[...]A denunciation of the Norwegian[...]who meet during a party and decide,[...]for a short time, to forget their[...]Chicago, and awarded a prize at the[...]Based on a novel by Hjalmar Soder-[...]made in Sweden. A Maupassant tone[...]for a love story upset by prejudice and[...]law. Awarded a prize at the Chicago[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (181)[...]uld be interested to know phone A.H. (03) 459 3530.
Board of Review has specific r[...]so, why was I not given a chance to
indecent, obscene; injurious to morali[...]val? In any
essence, it must satisfy itself that a film Senator the Hon. P. D. Durack, Q.C.,[...]I enclose for your information a copy said
Particular attention was paid by the Canberra, A.C.T., 2600 of a letter I have sent to the Chief
Board of Review[...]" The investments in the script
where a child is in the presence of[...]formed in Victoria and will undertake a Scrap Iron Kid ($20,105, tele
accou[...]The Travelling Film Festival will of a project funded to first-draft stage
munity attit[...]blicity. the Melbourne metropolitan area. A ducers, Kate W hite and Peter
com[...]n that children must be tunity to see a genuine variety of film," became lost for[...]re gener story by Stephanie McCarthy, a South
child's brief association with persons[...]to have pre ally suffering from a lack of funds Australian writer' freelancing in the
engaged in activities of a sexual nature judged the application of that law. and a total lack of any diversity in film children[...]Although a sponsor has been Mayne. Smart[...]g The Wallace Stegner Creative
the appearance of a child in the the Censor has taken uni[...]Writing Fellowship and The Age Short
presence of a person engaged in an precedented action[...]ulations. Story Award.
activity of a sexual nature -- appar attempt to bring t[...]ject Foundation has been established as a
the context are unexceptionable. Sho[...]ission of quality Australian child
consider that a decision applicable to screening. The film[...]theatres that exist across the state. A
Chief Censor, and[...]offered by our Festival Is seen as a
222 Pitt Street,[...]immense harm to the international
I enclose a copy of a letter sent this reputation of the Melbourne F[...]. It is not too extreme to suggest present a second Jungian Film Fes
whom I understand is the[...], and included in
foundation for your action was a pur ment is strongly of the view that the[...]tor Steiner, Jean Cocteau's Blood of a
low[...]t, films for Festivals should never A panel of film critics will offer opin
not a function which resides with you. have to be[...]Films Act Incidentally, I note that as a result of[...]
Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (182)A Shifting Dreaming[...]David Millikan

A Shifting Dreaming m e n tio n , a lth o u g h R a d i's c h a p te r m e n tio n s a n investors, but every actor w ho was approach[...]nam es nor th e details of th e event. A nd this having th e n atu re o f th e project explained to
T errito ry has given A borigines hope in tex t has be[...]ed in one o f th e best casts
other states of A ustralia, and because the graduate university A ustralians since the m id- in A ustralia at any tim e w orking to g eth er to
re la tio n sh ip b e tw e e n blacks a n d w h ites is 1970s.)[...]m assacre form s an on. A s one person involved in th e project
happeni[...]." essential background for th e A boriginal land n o ted ,[...]cally partly because o f th e im portance o f
A Shifting Dreaming m a y h a v e im p lic a m en t th e W arlpiri and o th er[...]q u iry in to th is m assacre is b ein g re -e n a cte d surpass m any of the dem ands m[...]realm o f providing m o m en tu m as a m ajor part of th e docum entary to assist in[...]ls in television and elsew here^
and support for A boriginal groups in other th[...]official w hite attitu d es tow ards
p arts o f A u stralia. T h e re a so n fo r th is is th e A boriginals in A ustralia ju st m ore th an 50 F o r P la s to , t h e n , m a k in g A Shifting
u se o f evidence to support th e land[...]ization o f the Dreaming h a s b e e n " a n u n b e lie v a b le h u m a n
claim th a t m ay w ell stu n th e consciences o f th e inquiry as a m eans o f going som e way tow ards
A ustralian public and m any historians. M ost[...]" a historical d o cu m en t th at had to be done.
e[...]ght thing on the
1928, in w hich m ore th an 100 A boriginals It is u n d e rs ta n d a b le , th e re fo re , th a t P lasto is sc re e n . W e d o n 't w a n t to lo se sig h t o f th e
w ere sla u g h te re d . T h is m assacre is a w ell-k ep t enthusiastic about the project an[...]that no one has seen this before. W e
secret o f A ustralian historians and yet still eats[...]B ut it will really
C ro w le y 's g e n e ra l A u stra lia n h isto ry te x t, A to support th e docum entary from private[...]change perspectives. I really believe th a t.'*
New History o f Australia, th e m a ssa c re g ets n o

David Millikan[...]n som e way. W e can pre Would you say it is a measure of the Where do you see t[...]nd that it never happened; they humanity of a nation to treat its markets fo[...]It is a film that will be o f great
been able to reconst[...]sn't matter, because it does for It may be a measure o f the sensi interest to[...]run it tivity of our conscience; it may be a deals with a question that will
central A ustralia, and it turns out matters for us.[...]may, if you put a better light on it, the years go by. It is also a film that
20th Century Australia. The final I think there is a case for forget be a measure of our generosity and w[...]o countries dealing
sum m ation o f the judge is a quite ting things, or perhaps a case for magnanimity. I don't know. I think[...]o f the issues involved. In A us It's an extraordinary thing that has Germans seem to have a perennial
So, you are making a documentary tralia, we can't claim we h[...]matter N o. It is shot in a way that will
whereby they make their claim[...]erage Australian viewers.
Aboriginal land rights A ct is that they get it. They established m[...]ers, that they have the Australian spirit a respect for expect?
their land. The single most devasta maintained a profound spiritual the underdog and a basic aware
ting event in the history o f their[...]be was dis possessed o f the land in a violent so viable.[...]investors. A lot of them were people to[...]nize and perhaps learn from.
Are you hoping that a documentary the sphere of practical life[...]can resolve them on the It has been a costly project And do something about it?
give people a better understanding of moral plane. I think[...]the business of maintaining a viable shoot the country in that area with[...]system. And yet, at the same time, and quite a deep mystery associ relation[...]They see k as an caught up in a fascinating and huge
massacre resolved. It has t[...]enough. I feel we as a country are intensity. Our vision tra[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (183)[...]A boriginals had to negotiate w ith M IM and the la[...]N o rth ern T errito ry governm ent. A ll they had to ing the desecration o f sites in t[...]ere the rights to the land w hich T erritory.

a num ber of quarters not necessarily directly the A boriginal L and C om m issioner recom

interes[...]ning pow er at all. T loola A boriginals is an indication of
w h ich h o ld le[...]about 60 km south P a r t th re e o f Two Laws show s a d isp o ssessed integr[...]K urdanji m an at a w aterhole on M cA rthur[...]R iver S tatio n . T h e place is a rain b o w serp en t

1 T h e leases fall w ith in th e M c A rth u r R iver D ream in g , w hich is p a rt o f his tra d itio n a l estate. and o f w ork and play. T his em erges in p a rt four

S ta tio n p a s to r a l le a se a n d th e y a c q u ire d th is in H e is s ta n d in g on th e c o n c re te su rro u n d in g a o f Two Laws. I t o p e n s w ith so m e scenes fro m a

1976. T his statio n h ad long been sought by[...]ritual and follows w ith sections on set

re m a in in g K u rd a n ji p e o p le w h o w e re d e c im a te d s n a k e 's m o u th " . H is d e s p a ir is c le a r b u t q u iet. tin g u p o u ts ta tio n s , w o m e n 's ro le a t B o rro lo o la ,

in th e 1880s w h en th e[...]as firs t se t up. T h e re is n o th in g h e c a n d o . T h is m a n o n ce p a rts o f a y o u n g m a n 's in itia tio n c e re m o n y , a

W prophesied that the rainbow serpent would[...]ul entertainm ent
hile th e A boriginal L and C o m becom e angry and flatten all the m iners w ith a w ith w hich w om en p erfo rm w hile on a d a y 's[...]ry cy clo n e. H o w h e w ishes th is w o u ld h a p p e n ![...]The work scenes from the outstation show a
desk of the then M inister[...]are branded and horses are
A b o rig in al A ffairs, Ia n V iner, on M a n a n g o o ra S ta tio n . T his is also a sacred b ro k en in. T h e w ork is very h a rd , b u t th e re is[...]u n t Isa M ines bought Bing site, the legacy of a D ream ing shark w hose song[...]T h e re is very little p ro sp e c t th a t a tte m p ts to
B o n g a n d T a w a lla h . W ith th e se tchyreclee pisa sctohraanlte d ea c h y e a r a t th e in itia tio n o f

le a se s, th e c o m p a n y c o n tro lle d m ocset rotafinth eyloaunndg A b o rig in a l m en . T h e e x p lo re r[...]th e B o rro lo o la T oLwund wCiogm mL eoinc h h a rd t c a m p e d a t th is p la c e in

w hich w as p a r t o f th e c la im e d la n d1.84B5i,nagn Bd ohneg d e sc rib e d th e m a n n e r in w h ich th e set up m in i-c a ttle sta tio n s , re m in isc e n t o f th e[...]tial cash incom e. U ndercapitalized, w orking

A boriginals.[...]ith outm oded m ethods and rem ote from tran s

A t the tim e, M IM was a foreign com pany and descendants of stable com bo[...]capital-

operated under the Foreign T akeovers A ct. O ne loola A boriginal people through their m other. intensive[...]ns down the road. But the

basis for preventing a foreign takeover under L ike their father, they t[...]hey rely on store-bought goods, for which

this A ct was a conflict betw een dom estic policy pastoral activities with A boriginal uses of the they have to pay m ore than[...]ote

an d th e tak eo v er; la n d rig h ts for A b o rig in als lan d and, in th e p ast, they have p ro tected sacred co u n te rp a rts, th e m o re th eir la b o r is ev alu ated i[...]A boriginal sites. N onetheless, they allowed a term s of the m arket.

T he A boriginal Land Fund C om m ission, E uropean stay[...]ontrol o f the M inister for the trees, to m ak e a new paddock. This was in who have the m ost to co n trib u te to the o u t

A boriginal A ffairs, as well as th e D ep artm en t of the int[...]statio n s, co n fro n t a choice: is it b e tte r for th em

A boriginal A ffairs, had been notified of the[...]leave the outstations and go to w ork for E uro
A boriginal in terest in acquiring Bing Bong and
M[...]w ho will p ay th em m o re in
m in in g c o m p a n y 's ta k e o v e r bid. between an A boriginal m anager of the wages than they could p[...]site and this European. (M anagers of land?
p a n y 's p u rp o s e in b u y in g th e se s ta tio n s in clu d ed
a desire to have control of the area. In particu[...]ale T h ere is a deep dislike o f th e social conditions[...]m a le o w n ers.) T h e a rg u m e n t w h ich en suimesp eisrsao n a lity . T h is is c o m m o n to E u ro p e a n s

lar, it w anted a basis for bargaining with the p a ro d y o f m isu n d e rsta n d in g . I t a p p e a rs tahnadt thAe b o r i g i n a l s a l i k e . T h e B o r r o l o o l a

A boriginals in th e event th a t the land claim was E uropean, a Y ugoslav with a poor com m and of A boriginals had been relatively free o f it until[...]od. W orking w ith the

T h e m in in g c o m p a n y 's in te re s t in th e c la im e d th e A b o rig in a ls so ld th e ir la n d to th e g o v e rn M a c a s s a n s a n d th e c o m b o s g av e th e m access to

lan d w as th a t it w anted easem en ts for a ro ad , m en t w hich in tu rn leased it to th e[...]eign goods w hich they valued and

pow erlines, a pipeline and, possibly, a railw ay H e asks the A boriginal m anager to prove th a t it was alw ays a tw o-w ay relationship. Even the

th ro u g h t[...]larger pastoralists know th at the A boriginals

to C en tre Island in the Pellew group. M IM It is h a rd for w hite A u stra lia n s to ap p re c ia te p refer to w or[...]h w hom they can

w an ted C e n tre Islan d as a site for a p o rt tow n w h at th e effect o f d a m a g e to sacred sites is h av e a recip ro cal relatio n sh ip , o r th e sem b lan[...]o n . S outhw est Island, w hich lies w ithin the A boriginal com m unity. T h e people of one. A nd today, B o rroloola A boriginals, at

betw een C e n tre Islan d an d th e co ast, is needed say th a t th ese places are th eir m em o ry o f th e tim es, w ork w ith a E u ro p ean b ecau se he is a

for easem ents.[...]ood old bloke" , even if they m ay not be

T he A boriginal L and C om m issioner disputed alive an[...]to recognize his

T hough he found tra d itio n a l ow nership estab S h o rtly after th e trees w ere destroyed, th e obligations in som e w ay, p erh ap s a lift in his car,

lished for C entre Island and[...]e people co n n ected w ith it. T h e re is also a fear It is lik ely th a t th e B o rro lo o la A b o rig in a ls

granted to the claim ants. th a t people from outside th e B o rro lo o la co m[...]ed to these sites by possible to m ain tain . T h a t is, if they w ere forced

One of the weakness[...]sonable, now th at governm ents
A boriginals. They were required to[...]have recognized the A boriginals' claim s to land,
gi[...]frequently than ever. Photographs of a sacred th at they are able[...]th e Aboriginal Land Rights A ct (NT) 1976 will
E u ro p e a n s . T h e y h a d to re a d m a p s ppinunbelidshoend in a b o o k la st y e a r. O n e sh o w ed th e

w alls r a th e r th a n o rie n te d in th e a p p r o p r ia te p h o to g r a p h e r 's w ife p e e rin g a t a sk u ll in a sa c re d o n ly be, as it is sa id in Two Laws, a " p iece o f

direction on the horizontal plane, and they had log coffin. A n A boriginal, other than the senior paper" .

to r[...]Two Laws show s th a t A b o rig in a l p e o p le a re

m ade to give evidence sitting alone in a chair T he au th o r of the book explained th at it was a not cultural isolationists or purists. T he B orro

before the w hole court. T his put the A boriginal sacred and secret place of the A boriginals at loola people show them selves willi[...]ns w hich they determ ine.

been traum atic, at a terrible disadvantage. The m ining com pany hassl[...]They are striving to understand the rationale

A boriginal L and C om m issioner changed all this burial sites w ould one day becom e a m useum . behind the values of w hite A ustralian society,

in la te r claim s. A boriginals at B orroloola are angry at the[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (184) In a busy production schedule we still have some spare[...]reen room. Our set construction

department has a comprehensive collection of props and[...]a[...]

Cinema Papers no. 39 August 1982 (185) r ideal zuovld you t v
print and process a
complete film in one i[...]1P li lIItLmL l JTc. ni i1J^VaJ I c i L U lvi it ^a oo

North Orbital Road, Denham, Uxbridge[...]

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