Do: check the instructions (Wild)
This month sees the release of Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir about her solo hike along the gruelling 1,000 mile Pacific Crest Trail. Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) certainly doesn't make it easy for herself, buying the wrong type of gas cylinder for her stove and thus being forced to subsist on a diet of "cold mush."
Don't: give up (Touching The Void)
Consider the obstacles that Joe Simpson faced during his calamitous attempt to climb Peruvian mountain Siula Grande: a broken leg; a fall into a crevasse; and zero hope of rescue after partner Simon Yates left him for dead. And yet, as recounted in classic documentary Touching The Void, Simpson gritted his teeth and dragged himself through hell to reach safety.
Do: stay calm (Life Of Pi)
Travel is unpredictable. One minute, like Indian teenager Pi (Suraj Sharma), you're emigrating to Canada aboard a freighter.
This month sees the release of Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir about her solo hike along the gruelling 1,000 mile Pacific Crest Trail. Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) certainly doesn't make it easy for herself, buying the wrong type of gas cylinder for her stove and thus being forced to subsist on a diet of "cold mush."
Don't: give up (Touching The Void)
Consider the obstacles that Joe Simpson faced during his calamitous attempt to climb Peruvian mountain Siula Grande: a broken leg; a fall into a crevasse; and zero hope of rescue after partner Simon Yates left him for dead. And yet, as recounted in classic documentary Touching The Void, Simpson gritted his teeth and dragged himself through hell to reach safety.
Do: stay calm (Life Of Pi)
Travel is unpredictable. One minute, like Indian teenager Pi (Suraj Sharma), you're emigrating to Canada aboard a freighter.
- 1/16/2015
- Digital Spy
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
This week has been trailer week: the biggest things around, film-wise, have been a clutch of snappy little promos teeing up very different films. First we had the new Scorsese: The Wolf of Wall Street, with Leo DiCaprio doing a Goodfellas-style job on the trading-floor fatcat.
That was followed by Frozen, Disney's Christmas cartoon; it's a (very loose) adaptation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. Then, biggest of all, the return of Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: The Legend Continues. We said it was kind of a big deal, and it is.
In the news
Star Wars: Episode VII – casting wishlist revealed
Edward Snowden story on way to the big screen
Films made in 3D are a marketing gimmick, says director Alan Parker
3D movie improves man's vision after lifetime of impairment
Russell Crowe...
The big story
This week has been trailer week: the biggest things around, film-wise, have been a clutch of snappy little promos teeing up very different films. First we had the new Scorsese: The Wolf of Wall Street, with Leo DiCaprio doing a Goodfellas-style job on the trading-floor fatcat.
That was followed by Frozen, Disney's Christmas cartoon; it's a (very loose) adaptation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. Then, biggest of all, the return of Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: The Legend Continues. We said it was kind of a big deal, and it is.
In the news
Star Wars: Episode VII – casting wishlist revealed
Edward Snowden story on way to the big screen
Films made in 3D are a marketing gimmick, says director Alan Parker
3D movie improves man's vision after lifetime of impairment
Russell Crowe...
- 6/20/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2002 she starred in a classic Australian film. In a rare – and shocking – interview, the actor explains what happened next
Rabbit-Proof Fence was the film that brought one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history to the attention of the world. "Not since the last shots of Schindler's List have I been so overcome with the realisation that real people, in recent historical times, had to undergo such inhumanity," wrote the late, revered American film writer Roger Ebert of the acclaimed picture.
At its centre was a single performance by an 11-year-old Aboriginal girl, an untrained actor from the Kimberley. Everlyn Sampi played Molly Craig, who was mercilessly stolen from her mother in 1931 and removed to a mission. Craig escaped with her sister and cousin following the fence, which bisected Australia, for 2,400km, to return home.
Critics lauded her. "Sampi rarely faces the camera; her gaze eludes us, but...
Rabbit-Proof Fence was the film that brought one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history to the attention of the world. "Not since the last shots of Schindler's List have I been so overcome with the realisation that real people, in recent historical times, had to undergo such inhumanity," wrote the late, revered American film writer Roger Ebert of the acclaimed picture.
At its centre was a single performance by an 11-year-old Aboriginal girl, an untrained actor from the Kimberley. Everlyn Sampi played Molly Craig, who was mercilessly stolen from her mother in 1931 and removed to a mission. Craig escaped with her sister and cousin following the fence, which bisected Australia, for 2,400km, to return home.
Critics lauded her. "Sampi rarely faces the camera; her gaze eludes us, but...
- 6/19/2013
- by Oliver Laughland
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2002 she starred in a classic Australian film. In a rare – and shocking – interview, the actor explains what happened next
Rabbit-Proof Fence was the film that brought one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history to the attention of the world. "Not since the last shots of Schindler's List have I been so overcome with the realisation that real people, in recent historical times, had to undergo such inhumanity," wrote the late, revered American film writer Roger Ebert of the acclaimed picture.
At its centre was a single performance by an 11-year-old Aboriginal girl, an untrained actor from the Kimberley. Everlyn Sampi played Molly Craig, who was mercilessly stolen from her mother in 1931 and removed to a mission. Craig escaped with her sister and cousin following the fence, which bisected Australia, for 2,400km, to return home.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence was the film that brought one of the most shameful episodes in Australia's history to the attention of the world. "Not since the last shots of Schindler's List have I been so overcome with the realisation that real people, in recent historical times, had to undergo such inhumanity," wrote the late, revered American film writer Roger Ebert of the acclaimed picture.
At its centre was a single performance by an 11-year-old Aboriginal girl, an untrained actor from the Kimberley. Everlyn Sampi played Molly Craig, who was mercilessly stolen from her mother in 1931 and removed to a mission. Craig escaped with her sister and cousin following the fence, which bisected Australia, for 2,400km, to return home.
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- 6/17/2013
- by Oliver Laughland
- The Guardian - Film News
'Rules' tops Aussie critics' noms
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The race-relations drama Australian Rules, which screened at Sundance earlier this year, leads the nominations list for the Australian Film Critics Circle Awards with eight, including a nom for best film. The winners will be announced at an Oct. 31 ceremony in Sydney. Other titles featured prominently in the AFC choices are fellow best film nominees Walking on Water and The Tracker (seven nominations each) and Rabbit-Proof Fence (six nominations). In the best actress category, Toni Collette (Dirty Deeds) is up against Danielle Hall (Beneath Clouds), Everlyn Sampi (Rabbit-Proof Fence) and Maria Theodorakis (Walking on Water), while the best actor contenders are Vince Colosimo (Walking on Water), David Gulpilil (The Tracker), Guy Pearce (The Hard Word) and Nathan Phillips (Australian Rules). Nominated for best director are Tony Ayres (Walking on Water), Rolf de Heer (The Tracker), Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence) and Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds). More than 50 critics are eligible to vote for the awards, which have become the curtain-raiser of Australia's awards season.
- 10/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rabbit-Proof Fence
"Rabbit-Proof Fence", from Australian director Phillip Noyce, tackles the issues of Aboriginal Australia head-on. Discussions rage here about the so-called "Stolen Generation" -- a cohort of Aboriginal Australians taken by the government from their families, "for their own good," to be integrated into white society through work as household domestics -- and the government's debt of apology to them. With this film, Noyce has walked into the middle of the fray; using his gifts as a creator of expertly crafted, highly accomplished commercial successes, he has made a movie as exciting and accessible as it is timely.
In Australia, films about the indigenous experience have an unfortunate track record of not communicating on a large scale with local audiences. Although such films as "Dead Heart", "Serenades" and "Yolngu Boy" often strike a chord with critics and art house audiences, recognition on a wider scale is usually lacking. That trend is about to get turned on its head.
Molly, Daisy and Gracie (played by extraordinary new finds Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Laura Monaghan, respectively) are Aboriginal girls who feel the sting of governmental interference when torn from their mother and sent to live at a remote mission. Here they will be taught the ways of white Christian Australia and how to work for upper-class families as domestics.
But the fiercely independent Molly is sickened by the repressive mission. She grabs Daisy and Gracie, and the three make their escape. Trailing the enormous rabbit-proof fence (built to save Australia from a crippling rabbit plague) that cuts across the nation, the girls begin a 1,500-mile journey home, pursued by authorities and the chief protector of Aborigines, Mr. A.O. Neville (played superbly by Kenneth Branagh, who adds depth and texture to a role that easily could have become a demonized stereotype).
Although it is a film steeped in politics, one of the finest aspects of "Fence" is its universality. This is a movie about innocence subsumed by outside forces and essentially children in danger, making it a visceral, instantly engrossing film that works from an emotional, rather than dryly intellectual, base.
Noyce puts you inside the plight of his central protagonists, taking the audience on an adrenalized ride that totally skirts the potential preaching a subject like this could have inspired.
Tightly made and richly rewarding (and to be distributed in America by Miramax, which excels with this kind of product), expect "Fence" to cross over to a mainstream audience. This is a powerful film that speaks in universal terms about an important issue while going straight for the heart.
RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
Miramax
Hanway and the Australian Film Corp.
A Rumbalara Films & Olsen Levy production
Producers: John Winter, Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen
Director: Phillip Noyce
Executive producers: David Elfick, Jeremy Thomas, Kathleen McLaughlin
Screenwriter: Christine Olsen
Based on the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" by: Doris Pilkington Garimara
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer/costume designer: Roger Ford
Editors: John Scott, Veronika Jenet
Color/stereo
Cast:
Molly: Everlyn Sampi
Daisy: Tianna Sansbury
Gracie: Laura Monaghan
Mr. A.O. Neville: Kenneth Branagh
Moodoo: David Gulpilil
Maude: Ningali Lawford
Mavis: Deborah Mailman
Constable Riggs: Jason Clarke
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
In Australia, films about the indigenous experience have an unfortunate track record of not communicating on a large scale with local audiences. Although such films as "Dead Heart", "Serenades" and "Yolngu Boy" often strike a chord with critics and art house audiences, recognition on a wider scale is usually lacking. That trend is about to get turned on its head.
Molly, Daisy and Gracie (played by extraordinary new finds Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Laura Monaghan, respectively) are Aboriginal girls who feel the sting of governmental interference when torn from their mother and sent to live at a remote mission. Here they will be taught the ways of white Christian Australia and how to work for upper-class families as domestics.
But the fiercely independent Molly is sickened by the repressive mission. She grabs Daisy and Gracie, and the three make their escape. Trailing the enormous rabbit-proof fence (built to save Australia from a crippling rabbit plague) that cuts across the nation, the girls begin a 1,500-mile journey home, pursued by authorities and the chief protector of Aborigines, Mr. A.O. Neville (played superbly by Kenneth Branagh, who adds depth and texture to a role that easily could have become a demonized stereotype).
Although it is a film steeped in politics, one of the finest aspects of "Fence" is its universality. This is a movie about innocence subsumed by outside forces and essentially children in danger, making it a visceral, instantly engrossing film that works from an emotional, rather than dryly intellectual, base.
Noyce puts you inside the plight of his central protagonists, taking the audience on an adrenalized ride that totally skirts the potential preaching a subject like this could have inspired.
Tightly made and richly rewarding (and to be distributed in America by Miramax, which excels with this kind of product), expect "Fence" to cross over to a mainstream audience. This is a powerful film that speaks in universal terms about an important issue while going straight for the heart.
RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
Miramax
Hanway and the Australian Film Corp.
A Rumbalara Films & Olsen Levy production
Producers: John Winter, Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen
Director: Phillip Noyce
Executive producers: David Elfick, Jeremy Thomas, Kathleen McLaughlin
Screenwriter: Christine Olsen
Based on the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" by: Doris Pilkington Garimara
Director of photography: Christopher Doyle
Production designer/costume designer: Roger Ford
Editors: John Scott, Veronika Jenet
Color/stereo
Cast:
Molly: Everlyn Sampi
Daisy: Tianna Sansbury
Gracie: Laura Monaghan
Mr. A.O. Neville: Kenneth Branagh
Moodoo: David Gulpilil
Maude: Ningali Lawford
Mavis: Deborah Mailman
Constable Riggs: Jason Clarke
Running time -- 100 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/21/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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