On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the action thriller 200 Degrees, and you can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Directed by Giorgio Serafini from a screenplay written by Garry Charles, 200 Degrees has the following synopsis: Ryan Hinds awakes inside a sealed industrial kiln. He is sent challenges by a voice with no face, pushed to the limits of human endurance as the temperature within the kiln begins to rise.
The film stars Eric Balfour, Ladon Drummond, Larry Wade Carrell, Joe Grisaffi, Kristin Cochell, Harold McCall, Johnny Sinclair, Julia Overby, Chris Palin, Jeff Runge, Rachel Potter, Wyatt Wright,...
Directed by Giorgio Serafini from a screenplay written by Garry Charles, 200 Degrees has the following synopsis: Ryan Hinds awakes inside a sealed industrial kiln. He is sent challenges by a voice with no face, pushed to the limits of human endurance as the temperature within the kiln begins to rise.
The film stars Eric Balfour, Ladon Drummond, Larry Wade Carrell, Joe Grisaffi, Kristin Cochell, Harold McCall, Johnny Sinclair, Julia Overby, Chris Palin, Jeff Runge, Rachel Potter, Wyatt Wright,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Questions of authenticity and authorship in cinema – who gets to tell what stories — are thorny ones. With his trilogy of films on the Aboriginal experience, The Tracker, Ten Canoes and Charlie’s Country, Dutch-born white Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer has managed to avoid charges of cultural appropriation. This is due in large part to de Heer’s obvious respect for Indigenous culture and traditions and to his working method, which involves deep collaboration with the communities involved, as well as the on-screen talent, most famously with the late, great Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil.
For his new film, The Survival of Kindness, De Heer again takes on the ugly legacy of racism and colonialism. The film, which premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, is the story of a Black woman (identified in the credits only as Black Woman) and her harrowing odyssey out of captivity. Shot entirely without intelligible dialogue,...
For his new film, The Survival of Kindness, De Heer again takes on the ugly legacy of racism and colonialism. The film, which premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, is the story of a Black woman (identified in the credits only as Black Woman) and her harrowing odyssey out of captivity. Shot entirely without intelligible dialogue,...
- 2/19/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In his films The Tracker, Ten Canoes and Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer has mixed lyrical allegory with naturalism and genre conventions, ethnographic docudrama with morality tale and Aboriginal storytelling traditions to reclaim the dignity of Indigenous Australians and decry the injustices of white colonization. The collaborative spirit of those projects — notably with the great Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil, who died in 2021 — has enabled the Dutch-born writer-director to avoid charges of cultural appropriation.
His new film, The Survival of Kindness, returns to the theme of racism, this time as a minimalist tone poem entirely without intelligible dialogue, its key characters identified in the credits only as BlackWoman, BrownGirl and BrownBoy. The dystopian vision is set against harshly beautiful landscapes that are recognizably Australian yet distinctly abstract in their depiction of place and time.
The degree to which this lament for humanity connects with any audience will vary wildly. Some will...
His new film, The Survival of Kindness, returns to the theme of racism, this time as a minimalist tone poem entirely without intelligible dialogue, its key characters identified in the credits only as BlackWoman, BrownGirl and BrownBoy. The dystopian vision is set against harshly beautiful landscapes that are recognizably Australian yet distinctly abstract in their depiction of place and time.
The degree to which this lament for humanity connects with any audience will vary wildly. Some will...
- 2/17/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The American film and television landscape may have exhausted its share of vampire slayer stories, clearing a path for refreshing twists on the subgenre to tread. Enter the new AMC+ series “Firebite,” which shakes up the mythology by setting its yarn in the Outback. It introduces fans of Blade, Buffy, and even Abraham Lincoln, to Tyson (Rob Collins) and Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan), two Indigenous hunters on a quest to eradicate the last outpost of vampires in the middle of their south Australian desert town. The series’ originality stems primarily from its backdrop and the barbarous colonial past that informs it — although “Firebite” isn’t a history lesson as much as a celebration of Aboriginal agency, telling an entertaining story of a human battle against literal bloodsucking parasites, in a biting take on manifest destiny.
Co-creators Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher reimagine the arrival of the “First Fleet” on Australia’s...
Co-creators Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher reimagine the arrival of the “First Fleet” on Australia’s...
- 12/17/2021
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Veteran Australian director Rolf De Heer (“Ten Canoes”) is shooting a new film titled “The Mountain,” for which Italy’s Fandango Sales is launching sales at the online AFM.
“The Mountain” (pictured above in a first-look image) tells the story of a central character named BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert. Following her escape from the cage, “she walks through pestilence and persecution, from desert to mountain to city, to find … more captivity,” reads the film’s synopsis.
“BlackWoman walks and walks, past ruins and dunes until she finds boots, and skeletons and skulls, a wrecked world where few survive and your newly gained boots can get stolen at the point of a gun.”
“Those responsible are reluctant to release their privilege, and BlackWoman, escaping once more, must find solace in her beginnings,” it adds. The film stars Mwajemi Hussein, Deepthi Sharma, and Darsan Sharma.
“The Mountain” (pictured above in a first-look image) tells the story of a central character named BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert. Following her escape from the cage, “she walks through pestilence and persecution, from desert to mountain to city, to find … more captivity,” reads the film’s synopsis.
“BlackWoman walks and walks, past ruins and dunes until she finds boots, and skeletons and skulls, a wrecked world where few survive and your newly gained boots can get stolen at the point of a gun.”
“Those responsible are reluctant to release their privilege, and BlackWoman, escaping once more, must find solace in her beginnings,” it adds. The film stars Mwajemi Hussein, Deepthi Sharma, and Darsan Sharma.
- 11/2/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Grant Page accepts the Screen Nsw Award from George Miller..
Screen Nsw has gifted its inaugural annual award to legendary stuntman Grant Page, who has coordinated stunts for the likes of Mel Gibson and Jackie Chan.
Page was presented the $10,000 award, designed to .honour an individual to whom both screen audiences and the industry owe a significant debt., by George Miller. The director first worked with Page on the original Mad Max, as well as Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
.Working, under fierce and extraordinary circumstances, on the first Mad Max,.I came to know the calibre of Grant Page. A masterful and innovative stuntman, he has a deep and elegant intelligence. He taught me a lot about filmmaking but even more about life. Inspirations which have sustained me ever since. Grant is heroic in every sense of the word,. said Miller.
Courtney Gibson, CEO of Screen Nsw, said: .When the director yells .action. on set,...
Screen Nsw has gifted its inaugural annual award to legendary stuntman Grant Page, who has coordinated stunts for the likes of Mel Gibson and Jackie Chan.
Page was presented the $10,000 award, designed to .honour an individual to whom both screen audiences and the industry owe a significant debt., by George Miller. The director first worked with Page on the original Mad Max, as well as Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
.Working, under fierce and extraordinary circumstances, on the first Mad Max,.I came to know the calibre of Grant Page. A masterful and innovative stuntman, he has a deep and elegant intelligence. He taught me a lot about filmmaking but even more about life. Inspirations which have sustained me ever since. Grant is heroic in every sense of the word,. said Miller.
Courtney Gibson, CEO of Screen Nsw, said: .When the director yells .action. on set,...
- 12/5/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
David Gulpilil in Charlie's Country.
Feature film Charlie.s Country, feature documentary Another Country, and online installation Still our Country will screen together at Acmi from July 3-10..
The projects were all shot in the Arnhem Land Aboriginal community of Ramingining, and will screen at Acmi to coincide with Naidoc week in July..
Directors Rolf de Heer (Charlie's Country).and Molly Reynolds (Another Country).will be in attendance to present their collab.Still Our Country on Sunday July 3.
Doco Another Country is narrated by David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee, Australia, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Tracker), who tells the story of his culture and its interruption by white settlemt.
Online project Still Our Country documents the swiftly morphing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory, while feature Charlie's Country, written and directed by de Heer, stars Gulpilil as Charlie, in a role that won him...
Feature film Charlie.s Country, feature documentary Another Country, and online installation Still our Country will screen together at Acmi from July 3-10..
The projects were all shot in the Arnhem Land Aboriginal community of Ramingining, and will screen at Acmi to coincide with Naidoc week in July..
Directors Rolf de Heer (Charlie's Country).and Molly Reynolds (Another Country).will be in attendance to present their collab.Still Our Country on Sunday July 3.
Doco Another Country is narrated by David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee, Australia, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Tracker), who tells the story of his culture and its interruption by white settlemt.
Online project Still Our Country documents the swiftly morphing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory, while feature Charlie's Country, written and directed by de Heer, stars Gulpilil as Charlie, in a role that won him...
- 6/27/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
David Gulpilil in Charlie's Country.
Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds. three collaborations - feature film Charlie.s Country, feature documentary Another Country, and online installation Still our Country - will screen together at Acmi from July 3-10..
The projects were all shot in the Arnhem Land Aboriginal community of Ramingining, and will screen at Acmi to coincide with Naidoc week in July..
De Heer and Reynolds will be in attendance to present Still Our Country on Sunday July 3.
Doco Another Country is narrated by David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee, Australia, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Tracker), who tells the story of his culture and its interruption by white settlemt.
Online project Still Our Country documents the swiftly morphing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory, while feature Charlie's Country, written and directed by de Heer, stars Gulpilil as Charlie, in a role that won...
Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds. three collaborations - feature film Charlie.s Country, feature documentary Another Country, and online installation Still our Country - will screen together at Acmi from July 3-10..
The projects were all shot in the Arnhem Land Aboriginal community of Ramingining, and will screen at Acmi to coincide with Naidoc week in July..
De Heer and Reynolds will be in attendance to present Still Our Country on Sunday July 3.
Doco Another Country is narrated by David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee, Australia, Rabbit Proof Fence, The Tracker), who tells the story of his culture and its interruption by white settlemt.
Online project Still Our Country documents the swiftly morphing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory, while feature Charlie's Country, written and directed by de Heer, stars Gulpilil as Charlie, in a role that won...
- 6/27/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
David Gulpilil in Another Country.
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Another Country, which has just been selected to screen at Cannes Film Festival, came about in part from a visit the film.s producer Rolf de heer made to David Gulpilil while he was in prison.
De heer arrived at 9am at the Berrimah low-security unit and Gulpilil, weighing just 39kgs at the time, was wearing khaki shorts, thongs and an olive green t-shirt.
A long-time friend of Gulpilil, de heer wanted to help.
..He (de heer) went to visit David and had a conversation about what David was going to do post-prison and David said .I don.t know, I think I want to make a film, I think I want to make a film with you Rolf,.. Another Country director Molly Reynolds tells If.
The next morning, in stifling heat, de heer pitched a rough idea for a film which would become Charlie...
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Another Country, which has just been selected to screen at Cannes Film Festival, came about in part from a visit the film.s producer Rolf de heer made to David Gulpilil while he was in prison.
De heer arrived at 9am at the Berrimah low-security unit and Gulpilil, weighing just 39kgs at the time, was wearing khaki shorts, thongs and an olive green t-shirt.
A long-time friend of Gulpilil, de heer wanted to help.
..He (de heer) went to visit David and had a conversation about what David was going to do post-prison and David said .I don.t know, I think I want to make a film, I think I want to make a film with you Rolf,.. Another Country director Molly Reynolds tells If.
The next morning, in stifling heat, de heer pitched a rough idea for a film which would become Charlie...
- 5/5/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
David Gulpilil in Another Country.
Australian documentary Another Country has been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The film, directed by Molly Reynolds and starring David Gulpilil, will screen as part of Cannes Cinéphiles, one of four sidebar sections of the festival along with Critic.s Week and Director.s Fortnight, in the Cinéma des Antipodes strand programmed by Bernard Bories.
The selection comes two years after David Gulpilil won Best Actor (Un Certain Regard) at the festival for Charlie.s Country, a film from the same suite of projects.
Gulpilil is also a writer on the film along with Reynolds and Rolf de Heer.
Cannes Cinéphiles is an event organised by Cannes Cinéma and the Festival de Cannes to provide public screenings from the Official Selection, as well as films from the parallel sections.
In Another Country, Gulpilil (Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee, Australia, Rabbit Proof Fence,...
Australian documentary Another Country has been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The film, directed by Molly Reynolds and starring David Gulpilil, will screen as part of Cannes Cinéphiles, one of four sidebar sections of the festival along with Critic.s Week and Director.s Fortnight, in the Cinéma des Antipodes strand programmed by Bernard Bories.
The selection comes two years after David Gulpilil won Best Actor (Un Certain Regard) at the festival for Charlie.s Country, a film from the same suite of projects.
Gulpilil is also a writer on the film along with Reynolds and Rolf de Heer.
Cannes Cinéphiles is an event organised by Cannes Cinéma and the Festival de Cannes to provide public screenings from the Official Selection, as well as films from the parallel sections.
In Another Country, Gulpilil (Walkabout, Storm Boy, Crocodile Dundee, Australia, Rabbit Proof Fence,...
- 4/29/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
That Sugar Film director Damon Gameau is set to headline Tropfest Roughcut for 2015.
This year, the engaging and intimate film industry event will be held as two separate evening events, on the October 21 and November 5 at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs).
The event will also be free this year..
On October 21, Gameau will take part in a conversation about creativity and confidence with award-winning filmmaker and Head of Documentary at Aftrs, Rachel Landers..
The two will be exploring the idea of resilience and the importance of continuing to create in the face of challenges and criticism.
.The topic is particularly pertinent to Gameau, whose animated film Animal Beatbox won Tropfest 2011 and was the subject of lively debate..
For the director and actor, best known for his work in Balibo, The Tracker and Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the experience was a formative one.
Gameau said receiving...
This year, the engaging and intimate film industry event will be held as two separate evening events, on the October 21 and November 5 at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs).
The event will also be free this year..
On October 21, Gameau will take part in a conversation about creativity and confidence with award-winning filmmaker and Head of Documentary at Aftrs, Rachel Landers..
The two will be exploring the idea of resilience and the importance of continuing to create in the face of challenges and criticism.
.The topic is particularly pertinent to Gameau, whose animated film Animal Beatbox won Tropfest 2011 and was the subject of lively debate..
For the director and actor, best known for his work in Balibo, The Tracker and Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, the experience was a formative one.
Gameau said receiving...
- 10/7/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
When I saw Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby in an arthouse theatre back in the mid-90s, I was totally unprepared for such raw and nihilistic filmmaking. A violent and dark film, it was clear from that one film that de Heer was a massive, fearless talent. The director, born in The Netherlands but an emigrant to Australia at a young age, has delved deeper into Australian and Aboriginal lore over the years, working with famed actor David Gulpilil on a number of projects, including 2002's The Tracker and 2006's Ten Canoes. The latter film provided one of my most interesting film festival experiences; a tale told in the indigenous language, due to a logistical hiccup the version we saw had no subtitles. With a...
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- 8/14/2015
- Screen Anarchy
A quietly devastating film about the impact of colonialism and paternalism on Australia’s indigenous people via one man’s very personal journey. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Charlie’s country isn’t his anymore. He’s an Aboriginal, and his culture and his way of life have been destroyed by white man’s laws, “white man junk food,” and white man coming and building his houses on Charlie’s ancestral land. And still, he soldiers on. This is an eloquent portrait of Charlie as he struggles to find an authentic life even as his life is nearing its end, a task made almost impossible when most of what is meaningful to him has been taken away or corralled by rules he had no say in implementing. (The bush may be a “supermarket,” better...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Charlie’s country isn’t his anymore. He’s an Aboriginal, and his culture and his way of life have been destroyed by white man’s laws, “white man junk food,” and white man coming and building his houses on Charlie’s ancestral land. And still, he soldiers on. This is an eloquent portrait of Charlie as he struggles to find an authentic life even as his life is nearing its end, a task made almost impossible when most of what is meaningful to him has been taken away or corralled by rules he had no say in implementing. (The bush may be a “supermarket,” better...
- 6/5/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The special quality of Charlie’s Country is the profound camaraderie shared by its director, Rolf de Heer, and its star, David Gulpilil (Walkabout, The Last Wave). The two have worked together before (The Tracker, Ten Canoes), but the origins of Charlie’s Country are personal to an exceptional degree. In 2011, de Heer learned that Gulpilil had landed in jail; he got in touch with the washed-up performer, and the germ of a story — intrinsically inspired by Gulpilil’s drink-addled life experiences — blossomed.
Co-written by de Heer and Gulpilil, the movie has a bracing (if unsurprising) narrative of societal suppression: Northern Territory dweller Charlie (Gulpilil) finds his roaming Aboriginal lifesty...
Co-written by de Heer and Gulpilil, the movie has a bracing (if unsurprising) narrative of societal suppression: Northern Territory dweller Charlie (Gulpilil) finds his roaming Aboriginal lifesty...
- 6/3/2015
- Village Voice
Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country has been selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards®.
The entry is a tribute to the creative team and more broadly for the Australian film industry. If the film is nominated it would be the first official Australian entry to do so.
De Heer said, .David [Gulpilil] and I are delighted that Charlie.s Country is Australia.s nomination. For me, it.s a privilege; for David, it.s the crowning achievement in an extraordinary 44-year acting career..
Charlie.s Country was developed, written, produced and directed by de Heer, and co-developed by Gulpilil. The story centres on the character of Charlie (played by David Gulpilil) who decides to make a stand following the new invasion of his Aboriginal community. and finds he still has a long way to fall.
Following the international premiere at the...
The entry is a tribute to the creative team and more broadly for the Australian film industry. If the film is nominated it would be the first official Australian entry to do so.
De Heer said, .David [Gulpilil] and I are delighted that Charlie.s Country is Australia.s nomination. For me, it.s a privilege; for David, it.s the crowning achievement in an extraordinary 44-year acting career..
Charlie.s Country was developed, written, produced and directed by de Heer, and co-developed by Gulpilil. The story centres on the character of Charlie (played by David Gulpilil) who decides to make a stand following the new invasion of his Aboriginal community. and finds he still has a long way to fall.
Following the international premiere at the...
- 10/1/2014
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
When I saw Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby in an arthouse theatre back in the mid-90s, I was totally unprepared for such raw and nihilistic filmmaking. A violent and dark film, it was clear from that one film that de Heer was a massive, fearless talent. The director, born in The Netherlands but an emigrant to Australia at a young age, has delved deeper into Australian and Aboriginal lore over the years, working with famed actor David Gulpilil on a number of projects, including 2002's The Tracker and 2006's Ten Canoes. The latter film provided one of my most interesting film festival experiences - a tale told in the indigenous language, due to a logistical hiccup the version we saw had no subtitles....
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- 9/7/2014
- Screen Anarchy
★★★☆☆When Aborigine actor, dancer and activist David Gulpipil was just sixteen he starred in Nicolas Roeg's masterful Walkabout (1971), accompanying the director and his co-star Jenny Agutter to the Cannes Croisette for the film's world premiere. Unfortunately, tribal business meant that he was unable to attend the first showing of his new film, Charlie's Country (2013), for which he also won the Best Actor award in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. His third collaboration with Dutch-Australian director Rolf de Heer - the others being The Tracker (2002) and Ten Canoes (2006) - Gulpipil also co-wrote the script for Charlie's Country, basing the story partly on his own experiences of discrimination and hardship.
- 5/24/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
David Gulpilil gives a bravura performance in Rolf de Heer.s powerful new drama according to the first reviews of Charlie.s Country, which had its world premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes.
The Hollywood Reporter.s David Rooney hailed a .delicate but powerful film that functions as both a stinging depiction of marginalization and as a salute to the career of the remarkable actor who inhabits almost every frame..
Variety.s Eddie Cockrell lauded an .atmospheric and cautionary tale of a .Blackfella. caught between two cultures [which] has all the makings of a solid art house performer."
Co-written by the director and the actor while he was in jail and then in a drug and alcohol rehab centre, the semi-autobiographical film stars Gulpilil as an aging man who struggles to understand how he should define himself as an Aboriginal in modern Australia.
Entertainment One will launch the film produced by Nils Erik Nielsen,...
The Hollywood Reporter.s David Rooney hailed a .delicate but powerful film that functions as both a stinging depiction of marginalization and as a salute to the career of the remarkable actor who inhabits almost every frame..
Variety.s Eddie Cockrell lauded an .atmospheric and cautionary tale of a .Blackfella. caught between two cultures [which] has all the makings of a solid art house performer."
Co-written by the director and the actor while he was in jail and then in a drug and alcohol rehab centre, the semi-autobiographical film stars Gulpilil as an aging man who struggles to understand how he should define himself as an Aboriginal in modern Australia.
Entertainment One will launch the film produced by Nils Erik Nielsen,...
- 5/22/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Cannes – Ever since his indelible first appearance at age 16 in Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout, David Gulpilil to a large extent has been the defining face onscreen of the Indigenous Australian. Now 60, the Aboriginal actor and traditional dancer teams for the third time with director Rolf de Heer – following The Tracker and Ten Canoes – on Charlie's Country, inarguably the most personal project of their collaboration. Equal parts ethnographic and poetic, this eloquent drama's stirring soulfulness is laced with the sorrow of cultural dislocation but also with lovely ripples of humor and even joy. Gulpilil co-wrote the film
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- 5/22/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil's latest collaboration is a slow indictment of the colonialist relationship between white law and Indigenous people
Premiering at the Adelaide film festival, Charlie's Country is the third film in an informal trilogy of collaborations between writer/director Rolf de Heer and actor David Gulpilil. Ten Canoes (2006) showed Aboriginal culture before white settlement, and The Tracker (2002) explored the relationship between white and Aboriginal men in the early 20th century. Now Charlie's Country explores the ongoing repercussions in contemporary Australia.
Charlie (Gulpilil) lives in a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, where he and the other men of the community struggle with cultural ties in world dominated by white law and both deliberate and incidental racism. With the primarily white police force, Charlie is congenial, fooling them into thinking he is an expert tracker. He uses cultural misunderstandings to his advantage, but then is obligated...
Premiering at the Adelaide film festival, Charlie's Country is the third film in an informal trilogy of collaborations between writer/director Rolf de Heer and actor David Gulpilil. Ten Canoes (2006) showed Aboriginal culture before white settlement, and The Tracker (2002) explored the relationship between white and Aboriginal men in the early 20th century. Now Charlie's Country explores the ongoing repercussions in contemporary Australia.
Charlie (Gulpilil) lives in a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, where he and the other men of the community struggle with cultural ties in world dominated by white law and both deliberate and incidental racism. With the primarily white police force, Charlie is congenial, fooling them into thinking he is an expert tracker. He uses cultural misunderstandings to his advantage, but then is obligated...
- 10/15/2013
- by Jane Howard
- The Guardian - Film News
The 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival has just been voted Best Film Festival Ever!……..maybe……if it hasn’t it should because this year’s fest has provided a breathtaking variety of docs, dramas, foreign flix, comedies, shorts, and….you name it!
Sliff.s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University.s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University.s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 16th
Alter Egos
Alter Egos plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre – Read The Wamg Review By Dana Jung Here
In the alternative world of Ârdizes an important mission with he discovers his...
Sliff.s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University.s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University.s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 16th
Alter Egos
Alter Egos plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre – Read The Wamg Review By Dana Jung Here
In the alternative world of Ârdizes an important mission with he discovers his...
- 11/16/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
- 11/2/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Screen Australia plans to invest $5.5 million in three new feature projects: the Spierig brothers' Predestination, Rolf de Heer.s Charlie.s Country and Greg McLean's Wolf Creek 2.
Predestination is a film-noir, science-fiction, crime-thriller from writer/directors Michael and Peter Spierig (Daybreakers) while indigenous tragi-comedy Charlie's Country will once again pair director Rolf de Heer with Australian actor David Gulpilil (The Tracker).
Screen Australia also re-confirmed its previous commitment to the horror feature Wolf Creek 2, from director Greg McLean, after the film was delayed following a disagreement with major financier Geoffrey Edelsten.
.These three diverse feature projects supported by Screen Australia today come from some of the most exciting filmmaking teams in Australia,. said Screen Australia.s chief executive Ruth Harley in a statement.
.Predestination is a strong script which will be executed by a proven and talented team passionate about the sci-fi genre. Charlie.s Country continues...
Predestination is a film-noir, science-fiction, crime-thriller from writer/directors Michael and Peter Spierig (Daybreakers) while indigenous tragi-comedy Charlie's Country will once again pair director Rolf de Heer with Australian actor David Gulpilil (The Tracker).
Screen Australia also re-confirmed its previous commitment to the horror feature Wolf Creek 2, from director Greg McLean, after the film was delayed following a disagreement with major financier Geoffrey Edelsten.
.These three diverse feature projects supported by Screen Australia today come from some of the most exciting filmmaking teams in Australia,. said Screen Australia.s chief executive Ruth Harley in a statement.
.Predestination is a strong script which will be executed by a proven and talented team passionate about the sci-fi genre. Charlie.s Country continues...
- 9/7/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Being on good terms with your neighbours is one thing, using their house to shoot a movie something else entirely. Rolf de Heer must be especially convincing, or just have the best neighbours in the world considering the film in question involved putting a hole in the fence, loudly playing bad rap music, growing the grass out wildly, and putting shopping trolleys in the front yard.
Using his own house and the two neighbouring ones as the main setting for The King Is Dead!, writer and director Rolf de Heer (Ten Canoes, The Tracker) saw moving house and his good relationship with his neighbours as the perfect opportunity to film a script he.d written a few years earlier. .An opportunity came up that seemed to me to be too good to refuse,. he told If Magazine.
.I knew I was going to move my residence from where I lived...
Using his own house and the two neighbouring ones as the main setting for The King Is Dead!, writer and director Rolf de Heer (Ten Canoes, The Tracker) saw moving house and his good relationship with his neighbours as the perfect opportunity to film a script he.d written a few years earlier. .An opportunity came up that seemed to me to be too good to refuse,. he told If Magazine.
.I knew I was going to move my residence from where I lived...
- 7/17/2012
- by Rocheen Flaherty
- IF.com.au
Margaret Pomeranz delivered a powerful keynote speech at the opening of the Spaa Conference yesterday in Sydney, and Encore has the full transcript of her meditation on the state of Australian film and television – and why Government and audiences should appreciate the arts a little more.
I’m extremely grateful to Spaa for inviting me to give this keynote speech today. It is the Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture and I want to honour the man today. Hector put Australian television on the map, he made Australian accents acceptable in the media. Do you remember when we could only stomach New Zealanders reading our news because they sounded more English than us? Brian Henderson was a prime example. But more than that Hector validated Australian writers, Australian actors, directors, designers, a whole Australian infrastructure, Some of those people are still working today. In a very significant way Hector created an industry,...
I’m extremely grateful to Spaa for inviting me to give this keynote speech today. It is the Hector Crawford Memorial Lecture and I want to honour the man today. Hector put Australian television on the map, he made Australian accents acceptable in the media. Do you remember when we could only stomach New Zealanders reading our news because they sounded more English than us? Brian Henderson was a prime example. But more than that Hector validated Australian writers, Australian actors, directors, designers, a whole Australian infrastructure, Some of those people are still working today. In a very significant way Hector created an industry,...
- 11/18/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
It is hard to fathom that up until now there has been no academic reference on influential and groundbreaking Australian director Rolf de Heer. With films such as Bad Boy Bubby and The Tracker under his belt, as well as Ten Canoes, which won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 2006, and the AFI awards for Best Director, Best Film and Best Original Screenplay, there is surely a surplus of fascinating material should one choose to compile it. Qut researcher Dr Bruno Starrs has remedied the injustice with a comprehensive academic text titled Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer.
- 11/23/2009
- FilmInk.com.au
CANNES -- A joke about flatulence comes early in Australian writer-director Rolf de Heer's tragicomedy Ten Canoes, yet this richly layered film couldn't be further removed from the low-brow concerns of a Hollywood sex comedy.
Set a thousand years ago in Australia's far northern Arnhem Land, it manages to skirt the issue of race relations, a hot-button topic in a country where black and white Australians are still coming to grips with their recent disharmonious history. Yet, in telling this ancient story with style and humor, de Heer and his Aboriginal collaborators promote cultural understanding and acceptance by stealth, if you will.
The beauty of the otherworldly landscapes and the authenticity of the detail gleaned from anthropologist Donald Thomson's mid-1930s photographs will appeal to arthouse audiences, and the film should have legs on the international festival circuit. (It will open the Sydney Film Festival on June 9, ahead of its Australian release June 29.)
De Heer's latest outing -- co-directed by Peter Djigirr and written in collaboration with the Arnhem Land community of Ramingining -- is playful where his 2002 political allegory The Tracker was potent.
Frequent bursts of bawdy humor are as unexpected as they are welcome, leavening the ethnographic raw material and providing handy points of entry into the first Australian feature shot entirely in a number of indigenous languages, predominantly Ganalbingu.
This mythic history lesson also is buoyed by naturalistic performances from a cast of first-time Aboriginal actors and chatty narration by the legendary David Gulpilil.
Ten Canoes opens with a grand aerial swoop over the remote Arafura swamp region of northeast Arnhem Land while Gulpilil's Storyteller solemnly intones: "Once upon a time in a land far, far away ..." The spell is broken -- and a capricious tone set -- when the voice cracks up at the fairytale stereotype and says, I'm only joking.
Old Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) discovers that his younger brother Dayindi (played by Gulpilil's 22-year-old son, Jamie) covets his third and youngest wife, and decides to tell him an ancestral story to, in the words of the narrator, "help him live proper way."
The screen is saturated with color as this parable -- set in the mythical past -- begins. The action then switches nimbly between the two periods for the remainder of the film.
Minygululu's cautionary tale concerns Yeeralparil (also played by Jamie Gulpilil), a young single man who desires one of the wives of his older brother, Ridjimiraril (sculptor and dancer Crusoe Kurddal.)
The core story is a relatively simple one of forbidden love, made epic by the many narrative offshoots and asides that flesh out the meandering tale. Soon we are up to our ears in kidnapping, sorcery, murder and bloody revenge -- though de Heer always has time for a jokey aside about the rampaging sweet tooth of the Honey Man (Richard Birrinbirrin.)
Ian Jones' superb photography underscores the majestic beauty of the landscapes and leaves a lingering impression, while intuitive editing by Tania Nehme keeps the narrative threads from tangling. Kudos also to the cast and crew for enduring the hard slog of a weeks-long shoot fending off leeches, mosquitoes and crocodiles in the unforgiving swamplands of Australia's top end.
TEN CANOES
Vertigo Prods./Fandango Australia
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Rolf de Heer
Co-director: Peter Djigirr
Producers: Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan
Executive producers: Sue Murray, Domenico Procacci, Bryce Menzies
Director of photography: Ian Jones
Production designer: Beverley Freeman
Co-producers: Richard Birrinbirrin, Belinda Scott, Nils Erik Nielsen
Costumes: Beverley Freeman
Editor: Tania Nehme
Cast:
Ridjimiraril: Crusoe Kurddal
Dayindi/Yeeralparil: Jamie Gulpilil
Honey Man: Richard Birrinbirrin
Minygululu: Peter Minygululu
Nowalingu: Frances Djulibing
The Storyteller: David Gulpilil
The Sorcerer: Philip Gudthaykudthay
The Stranger: Michael Dawu
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 91 minutes...
Set a thousand years ago in Australia's far northern Arnhem Land, it manages to skirt the issue of race relations, a hot-button topic in a country where black and white Australians are still coming to grips with their recent disharmonious history. Yet, in telling this ancient story with style and humor, de Heer and his Aboriginal collaborators promote cultural understanding and acceptance by stealth, if you will.
The beauty of the otherworldly landscapes and the authenticity of the detail gleaned from anthropologist Donald Thomson's mid-1930s photographs will appeal to arthouse audiences, and the film should have legs on the international festival circuit. (It will open the Sydney Film Festival on June 9, ahead of its Australian release June 29.)
De Heer's latest outing -- co-directed by Peter Djigirr and written in collaboration with the Arnhem Land community of Ramingining -- is playful where his 2002 political allegory The Tracker was potent.
Frequent bursts of bawdy humor are as unexpected as they are welcome, leavening the ethnographic raw material and providing handy points of entry into the first Australian feature shot entirely in a number of indigenous languages, predominantly Ganalbingu.
This mythic history lesson also is buoyed by naturalistic performances from a cast of first-time Aboriginal actors and chatty narration by the legendary David Gulpilil.
Ten Canoes opens with a grand aerial swoop over the remote Arafura swamp region of northeast Arnhem Land while Gulpilil's Storyteller solemnly intones: "Once upon a time in a land far, far away ..." The spell is broken -- and a capricious tone set -- when the voice cracks up at the fairytale stereotype and says, I'm only joking.
Old Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) discovers that his younger brother Dayindi (played by Gulpilil's 22-year-old son, Jamie) covets his third and youngest wife, and decides to tell him an ancestral story to, in the words of the narrator, "help him live proper way."
The screen is saturated with color as this parable -- set in the mythical past -- begins. The action then switches nimbly between the two periods for the remainder of the film.
Minygululu's cautionary tale concerns Yeeralparil (also played by Jamie Gulpilil), a young single man who desires one of the wives of his older brother, Ridjimiraril (sculptor and dancer Crusoe Kurddal.)
The core story is a relatively simple one of forbidden love, made epic by the many narrative offshoots and asides that flesh out the meandering tale. Soon we are up to our ears in kidnapping, sorcery, murder and bloody revenge -- though de Heer always has time for a jokey aside about the rampaging sweet tooth of the Honey Man (Richard Birrinbirrin.)
Ian Jones' superb photography underscores the majestic beauty of the landscapes and leaves a lingering impression, while intuitive editing by Tania Nehme keeps the narrative threads from tangling. Kudos also to the cast and crew for enduring the hard slog of a weeks-long shoot fending off leeches, mosquitoes and crocodiles in the unforgiving swamplands of Australia's top end.
TEN CANOES
Vertigo Prods./Fandango Australia
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Rolf de Heer
Co-director: Peter Djigirr
Producers: Rolf de Heer, Julie Ryan
Executive producers: Sue Murray, Domenico Procacci, Bryce Menzies
Director of photography: Ian Jones
Production designer: Beverley Freeman
Co-producers: Richard Birrinbirrin, Belinda Scott, Nils Erik Nielsen
Costumes: Beverley Freeman
Editor: Tania Nehme
Cast:
Ridjimiraril: Crusoe Kurddal
Dayindi/Yeeralparil: Jamie Gulpilil
Honey Man: Richard Birrinbirrin
Minygululu: Peter Minygululu
Nowalingu: Frances Djulibing
The Storyteller: David Gulpilil
The Sorcerer: Philip Gudthaykudthay
The Stranger: Michael Dawu
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 91 minutes...
- 5/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SYDNEY -- An Australian festival providing gap financing for independent local films has announced the first nine projects commissioned through its newly established Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund. The initiative provides equity investment in local screen production of AUS$500,000 ($353,000) per year for two years from 2003-05. The Adelaide Film Festival is the only local festival to commission new feature-length Australian works. The fund's pilot program commissioned such original and award-winning works as The Tracker. An initiative of South Australia Premier Mike Rann, the fund makes films for premiere showing at the biennial Adelaide event and for screening beyond the event.
- 8/26/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The Phillip Noyce-directed drama Rabbit-Proof Fence has emerged as the most-nominated film for the upcoming Australian Film Institute awards, which will be handed out Dec. 7 in Melbourne. Nominations, which are voted on by members of the AFI, were set to be announced today in Sydney. With noms in 10 categories, Rabbit-Proof Fence, which chronicles the attempt of three Aborigine girls to escape from government authorities in 1930s Western Australia, has been the most commercially successful homegrown feature this year, with boxoffice of around $4 million. In the best film category, Rabbit-Proof Fence, which Miramax will release next month in the United States, is up against three other features exploring indigenous themes: Australian Rules, which screened at Sundance earlier this year, contemporary road film Beneath Clouds and The Tracker, from Rolf de Heer (Bad Boy Bubby, The Quiet Room). Walking on Water, a bittersweet comedy exploring the aftermath of a death in contemporary Sydney, also figured prominently, picking up nominations in nine categories.
- 10/18/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The race-relations drama Australian Rules, which screened at Sundance earlier this year, leads the nominations list for the Australian Film Critics Circle Awards with eight, including a nom for best film. The winners will be announced at an Oct. 31 ceremony in Sydney. Other titles featured prominently in the AFC choices are fellow best film nominees Walking on Water and The Tracker (seven nominations each) and Rabbit-Proof Fence (six nominations). In the best actress category, Toni Collette (Dirty Deeds) is up against Danielle Hall (Beneath Clouds), Everlyn Sampi (Rabbit-Proof Fence) and Maria Theodorakis (Walking on Water), while the best actor contenders are Vince Colosimo (Walking on Water), David Gulpilil (The Tracker), Guy Pearce (The Hard Word) and Nathan Phillips (Australian Rules). Nominated for best director are Tony Ayres (Walking on Water), Rolf de Heer (The Tracker), Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence) and Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds). More than 50 critics are eligible to vote for the awards, which have become the curtain-raiser of Australia's awards season.
- 10/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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