(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...
“‘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...
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....
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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.
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...
The Quiet American Rose Capp January 2003 Australian Cinema Issue 24 Noyce's latest film fails to deliver bold aesthetic and political convictions.
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.
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.
