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Author Rose Capp

Rose Capp

Rose Capp is Vice-President of the Film Critics Circle of Australia and a freelance writer on film.

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(Life and) Death in Brunswick: Ian Pringle’s The Legend Maker

Rose Capp
July 2014
2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier
Issue 71
The central character in The Legend Maker (Ian Pringle, 2014) is an avuncular crook, a criminal type familiar to contemporary audiences from the recent Hollywood hit American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013) to...
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“‘Pathetic Little Perv’: Patrick Rises Again”

Rose Capp
July 2013
Uncategorized
Issue 67
In Mark Hartley’s Not Quite Hollywood (Mark Hartley, 2008), the writer/director explores a substantial group of underappreciated Australian genre films produced in the 1970s and 1980s. The genteel...
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Seriously Funny: History and Humour in The Sapphires and Other Indigenous Comedies

Rose Capp
July 2012
2012 MIFF Dossier
Issue 63
The Sapphires (Wayne Blair, 2012) opens in an idyllic rural setting. A group of young Aboriginal girls run home across the paddocks in the fading evening light to sing for a gathering of family and friends....
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It Runs in the Family: Sons, Sins and Structural Complexity in Fred Schepisi’s Six Degrees of Separation

Rose Capp
October 2011
Fred Schepisi Dossier
Issue 60
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) sits precisely mid-career in Fred Schepisi’s filmography. The third in a series of stage adaptations the filmmaker undertook in this period (Plenty and Roxanne ), the film...
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Chicks Don’t Surf: Puberty Blues (Bruce Beresford, 1981)

Rose Capp
March 2011
Key Moments in Australian Cinema
Issue 58
The penultimate scene in Puberty Blues is for most viewers including this writer, the defining moment in the film. Over the course of the narrative, schoolgirls Sue Knight (Jad Capelja) and Debbie Vickers...
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“Blood and Ink”: Fuller and the Fourth Estate in Park Row

Rose Capp
February 2007
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 42 Issue 42
Park Row (1952 USA 83 mins) Prod Co: Samuel Fuller Productions Prod, Dir, Scr: Samuel Fuller Phot: Jack Russell Ed: Philip Cahn Prod Des: Theobold Holsopple Mus: Paul Dunlap Cast: Gene Evans, Mary...
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Dead Man Walking in Frank Borzage’s Moonrise

Rose Capp
April 2004
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 31
Moonrise (1948 USA 85 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Republic Prod: Charles Haas Dir: Frank Borzage Scr: Charles Haas, based on the novel by Theodore Strauss Phot: John L. Russell Ed: Harry Keller Art...
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Breaking the Waves: Flawed Fatherhood and Fraternal Rivalries in Russell Mulcahy’s Swimming Upstream

Rose Capp
March 2003
Contemporary Australia
Issue 25
Australian cinema's recent instalment into the study of domestic ties, fraught masculinity, and coming-of-age.
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First is First and Second is Nobody: Hoodlums and Heroines in Joseph H. Lewis’ The Big Combo

Rose Capp
March 2003
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 25
The Big Combo (1955 USA 88mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Allied Artists, Security Pictures, Theodora Productions Prod: Sidney Harmon Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Scr: Philip Yordan Phot: John Alton Ed: Robert...
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The Quiet American

Rose Capp
January 2003
Australian Cinema
Issue 24
Noyce's latest film fails to deliver bold aesthetic and political convictions.
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Interview with Jan Chapman

Rose Capp
December 2002
Women at Work: Interviews with Australian Filmmakers
Issue 23
Jan Chapman, one of Australia's pre-eminent film producers, speaks with Rose Capp about life, film and her brilliant career.
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Interview with Mandy Walker

Rose Capp
December 2002
Women at Work: Interviews with Australian Filmmakers
Issue 23
Mandy Walker, one of Australia's leading cinematographers, talks about the long hours and many satisfactions of working behind the camera.
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