The Death of Venus: Inside The Eye of the Storm (Fred Schepisi, 2011) David Melville February 2014 Key Moments in Australian Cinema Adapted from a 1973 novel by the Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm is a tale of disintegration. Of a family, of a culture, of an entire social and psychological way of life. An upper...
The Filmmaker as Adaptor: Fred Schepisi Takes on Patrick White in The Eye of the Storm Brian McFarlane October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier It needs real nerve to come out of a film based on a famous novel and declare unreservedly that you enjoyed the film much more than the book. I mean, books came first. Literature, as a study, preceded film by d...
Shooting Dialogue as Action: An Interview with Fred Schepisi Fincina Hopgood October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier Fred Schepisi has been writing, directing and producing films in Australia, America and Britain since the 1970s. Along with Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and Bruce Beresford, Schepisi was a key figure in the r...
Schepisi’s Celluloid Australia Daniel Eisenberg October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier Fred Schepisi has been labeled as a “major force in the Australian film industry” (1). Two of the three features he has made in Australia prior to this year – The Devil’s Playground (1976) and Evil Angels (aka ...
Across the Borderline Adrian Danks October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier Barbarosa (1982) was the first feature to be made in America by any of the key figures of the Australian film “renaissance” of the 1970s. It sits alongside the initial American films of Gillian Armstrong, Bruce...
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 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 has ...
People Make Papers Anna Daly October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier People Make Papers (1965 Australia 16 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Cinesound Productions Dir: Fred Schepisi Phot: Peter Purvis Ed: Brian Kavanagh The very fact this 16-minute documentary is cal...
ReViewing Jimmie: The Critical Reception of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Glen Donnar October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier The inclusion of Pauline Kael’s 1980 New Yorker review of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith in An Australian Film Reader (1) has been credited with rehabilitating the film’s reputation in Australia, prompting Susa...
People Make Papers Anna Daly April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film People Make Papers (1965 Australia 16 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Cinesound Productions Dir: Fred Schepisi Phot: Peter Purvis Ed: Brian Kavanagh The very fact this 16-minute documentary is...
A Cry in the Dark: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and the “New Australian Cinema” Adam Bingham April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978 Australia 124 mins) Source: NFSA Prod, Dir: Fred Schepisi Scr: Fred Schepisi, based on Thomas Keneally's novel Phot: Ian Baker Ed: Brian Kavanagh Prod Des: Wendy Dick...
