‘The Cheaters’.
Critic David Stratton has curated a program of 10 “essential films” directed by Australian female filmmakers for the Sydney Film Festival and the National Film and Sound Archive (Nfsa).
Among them is 1930s silent melodrama The Cheaters, from Paulette McDonagh, digitally restored by the Nfsa, and which will screen with a score performed live by Jan Preston. There’s also Shirley Barrett’s Love Serenade, which won the Camera d’Or in 1996; Nadia Tass’ comedy Malcolm; Tracey Moffett’s Bedevil; Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide, Jackie McKimmie’s Waiting, and Jane Campion’s Sweetie.
Films from more recent years include Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook; Blessed from Ana Kokkinos, and Rachel Ward’s Beautiful Kate.
The films will screen as a retrospective program at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from June 5-10, as part of Sydney Film Festival which runs June 5-16. The retrospective will also screen...
Critic David Stratton has curated a program of 10 “essential films” directed by Australian female filmmakers for the Sydney Film Festival and the National Film and Sound Archive (Nfsa).
Among them is 1930s silent melodrama The Cheaters, from Paulette McDonagh, digitally restored by the Nfsa, and which will screen with a score performed live by Jan Preston. There’s also Shirley Barrett’s Love Serenade, which won the Camera d’Or in 1996; Nadia Tass’ comedy Malcolm; Tracey Moffett’s Bedevil; Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide, Jackie McKimmie’s Waiting, and Jane Campion’s Sweetie.
Films from more recent years include Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook; Blessed from Ana Kokkinos, and Rachel Ward’s Beautiful Kate.
The films will screen as a retrospective program at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from June 5-10, as part of Sydney Film Festival which runs June 5-16. The retrospective will also screen...
- 3/27/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The digitally remastered print of 1927 classic Australian silent comedy The Kid Stakes is being screened for AFI-aacta members in Sydney next month.
But the credits don.t acknowledge that the film could have been lost to posterity but for the rescue efforts by the Sydney University Film Group including John Morris in 1953.
That omission dismays film activist David Donaldson, a member of the group who later became the inaugural director of the Sydney Film Festival.
Directed and written by Tal Ordell, the film is a faithful adaptation of Syd Nicholls. Fatty Finn comic strip, chronicling the adventures of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo.
The National Film and Sound Archive restored the film as a Dcp (Digital Cinema Package), which was screened at its Arc cinema in Canberra in June with a new score composed and played by Jan Preston.
A donor, borrower, critic and advocate of the Archive and...
But the credits don.t acknowledge that the film could have been lost to posterity but for the rescue efforts by the Sydney University Film Group including John Morris in 1953.
That omission dismays film activist David Donaldson, a member of the group who later became the inaugural director of the Sydney Film Festival.
Directed and written by Tal Ordell, the film is a faithful adaptation of Syd Nicholls. Fatty Finn comic strip, chronicling the adventures of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo.
The National Film and Sound Archive restored the film as a Dcp (Digital Cinema Package), which was screened at its Arc cinema in Canberra in June with a new score composed and played by Jan Preston.
A donor, borrower, critic and advocate of the Archive and...
- 7/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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