Bob Ellis looks back at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
We are forbidden urination after a three-hour film and herded bursting out into the rain and pushed in front of speeding traffic by big Tongan guardians of the Red Carpet while inside, in the ever-gorgeous art-deco foyer, barmen and pie vendors gazed on its lovely emptiness planning their bankruptcies and other careers and cursing, like all of us, the Clare Stewart Effect on world cinema.
Audiences entering successive sessions without hellish incident these last 113 years have not educated this woman; clamour, ticketless offices, caffeine deprivation, pissed trousers and lack of a chance to chat between sessions (or even sit on the marble steps) have characterised her Cromwellian rule for years now and several deaths, I calculate, from the pelting rain and it is wrong for her to preen her ghastly dress sense in golden spotlight just because certain films...
We are forbidden urination after a three-hour film and herded bursting out into the rain and pushed in front of speeding traffic by big Tongan guardians of the Red Carpet while inside, in the ever-gorgeous art-deco foyer, barmen and pie vendors gazed on its lovely emptiness planning their bankruptcies and other careers and cursing, like all of us, the Clare Stewart Effect on world cinema.
Audiences entering successive sessions without hellish incident these last 113 years have not educated this woman; clamour, ticketless offices, caffeine deprivation, pissed trousers and lack of a chance to chat between sessions (or even sit on the marble steps) have characterised her Cromwellian rule for years now and several deaths, I calculate, from the pelting rain and it is wrong for her to preen her ghastly dress sense in golden spotlight just because certain films...
- 6/23/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
The Sydney Film Festival and the National Film and Sound Archive recently announced they have joined forces to support the call for an international search for one of Australia's great, lost feature films Cecil Holmes' Captain Thunderbolt. Shot by Holmes in 1951 in a number of locations across Nsw, Captain Thunderbolt was released in Sydney in 1955. The film tells the story of a country man who is forced into bushranging after being ill-treated by the nineteenth century justice system. Holmes used the film to portray numerous issues on class and social justice. Captain Thunderbolt was one of two feature films that Holmes directed along with a three-parter entitled Three in One - which looked at life in Australia during the 1950s - released in 1957.
- 5/7/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
The Sydney Film Festival and the National Film and Sound Archive recently announced they have joined forces to support the call for an international search for one of Australia's great, lost feature films Cecil Holmes' Captain Thunderbolt. Shot by Holmes in 1951 in a number of locations across Nsw, Captain Thunderbolt was released in Sydney in 1955. The film tells the story of a country man who is forced into bushranging after being ill-treated by the nineteenth century justice system. Holmes used the film to portray numerous issues on class and social justice. Captain Thunderbolt was one of two feature films that Holmes directed along with a three-parter entitled Three in One - which looked at life in Australia during the 1950s - released in 1957.
- 5/7/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
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