— Marie Arana The Washington Post Maybe it was seeing “There Will Be Blood,” a magnificent movie made from Upton Sinclair’s hair-raising Oil!, that started me thinking about how some works of fiction make the leap to the screen gracefully, and...
A yearning for better times … director George Miller. Australia’s film industry is not in terminal decline but it needs urgent treatment, George Miller tells Garry Maddox. A more aggressive approach to film financing, more creative training, more emphasis...
By Sam Dallas Screen Australia and online video powerhouse YouTube have joined forces to expand Australian content online. Launched early this morning, the national agency’s new channels will offer behind the scenes footage on productions, footage of local filmmakers...
By Lewis Beale September 28, 2008 “BLINDNESS,” Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago’s 1997 allegorical novel about an epidemic of sightlessness that threatens to destroy society, is told in a stream-of-consciousness style that reads like a...
by Jonathan Coe In the course of their famous book-length interview, Francois Truffaut once asked Alfred Hitchcock about his approach to literary adaptation. Hitch’s response was as magisterial, worldly and mischievous as one would expect: “What I do is to...
Veteran Australian actor Jack Thompson and young film-maker and director James Khehtie on the eve of the Asia Pacific awards on the Gold Coast. Photo: Mike Batterham THE Asia Pacific Screen Awards focuses on feature films, but veteran actor Jack Thompson is...
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