Author Archives for Robin Page
Monsoon Wedding
STARS: NASEERUDDIN SHAH, LILLETE DUBEY, SHEFALI SHETTY, VIJAY RAAZ, TILOTAMA SHOME, VASUNDHARA DAS AND KULBUSHAN KHARBANDA
DIRECTED: MIRA NAIR
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Five days leading up to an arranged contemporary Indian (Punjabi) wedding with the various tensions and expectations of the impending marriage mirrored by the approaching monsoon. The film is set almost entirely in the bride’s home where the […]
Under The Sand
STARS: CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, BRUNO CREMER & JACQUES NOLOT
DIRECTED: FRANCOIS OZON
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The film opens with Marie (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband of many years, Jean (Bruno Cremer), driving out of Paris to their seaside holiday home. The drive and their quiet meal together after arriving at the cottage gives an insight into the personalities of this couple […]
Australian Rules
STARS: NATHAN PHILLIPS, LUKE CARROLL, LISA FLANAGAN, TOM BUDGE, SIMON WESTAWAY, CELIA IRELAND & KEVIN HARRINGTON
DIRECTED: Paul Goldman
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Based on the novel “Deadly, Unna?” by Phillip Gwynne who wrote the screenplay in conjunction with Paul Goldman. The story covers the few days in the life of young footballer Gary Black, “Blackie” (Nathan Phillips) his family and […]
Film Australia’s Outback
Documentary - The Outback Real and Imagined
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This offering from Film Australia and the ABC comprises a selection of some of the best of archived material, presented as 14 different films ranging in length from 3 to 15 minutes. The films, the earlier of which are in black and white, were made over a period spanning […]
Leunig Animated - Collector’s Edition - 2 Disc set
STARS: Michael Leunig’s Quirky Characters
PRODUCED: BRYAN BROWN AND VOICED SAM NEILL
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Michael Leunig is equally Australia’s most loved cartoonist. In saying this I must add that the term “cartoonist” is severely understating his talents as he is far far more than this and would be better described as an “artist” who works through the medium of […]
Amadeus
STARS: F MURRAY ABRAHAM, TOM HULCE, ELIZABETH BERRIDGE, SIMON CALLOW, ROY DOTRICE, CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, JEFFREY JONES, CHARLES KAY & KENNETH McMILLAN.
DIRECTED: MILOS FORMAN
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This epic tale follows the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from his childhood to his death at the age of 35 and centres on the period he spent around the Court of the […]
The Best of Dad’s Army Vol. 2
STARS: ARTHUR LOWE, JOHN LE MESURIER, CLIVE DUNN, JOHN LAURIE,
JAMES BECK, ARNOLD RIDLEY AND IAN LAVENDER
WRITTEN: JIMMY PERRY AND DAVID CROFT
DIRECTED: HAROLD SNOAD AND DAVID CROFT
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In the early and darkest days of World War II Britain was in dire straits HAVING lost a large proportion of her army in France and very aware that […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: SE
STARS: JACK NICHOLSON, LOUISE FLETCHER, WILLIAM REDFIELD, DANNY DE VITO, CHRISTOPHER LLOYD.DIRECTED: MILOS FORMANA cinematic icon and winner of five Academy Awards in 1975 for - Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Adapted Screenplay.The fractious behaviour of small time petty criminal Randle P Mc Murphy (Jack Nicholson) has prison authorities baffled and he is admitted […]
La Spagnola
STARS: LOLA MARCELI, ALICE ANSARD & ALEX DIMITRIADESDIRECTED: STEVEN JACOBSLucia (Ansar), a fourteen year old schoolgirl, watches in silence from a distance as her father leaves home for another woman. Her mother, the tempestuous but frigid La Spagnola (Marceli), is distraught and does everything possible to prevent this final departure. What follows examines in detail […]
The Closet (le Placard)
STARS: DANIEL AUTUIL, GERARD DEPARDIEU, MICHELLE LAROQUE, THIERRY LHERMITTE, JEAN ROCHEFORT & ALEXANDRA VANDERNOOT. DIRECTED: FRANCIS VEBERPignon, played by Autuil, the French cinema’s version of Dustin Hoffman, is given notice by his employer, a condom manufacturer. With this blow, and still grieving from a two year old divorce and the alienation of his teenage son, […]