Tag Archives: Cinema
The Wrong Perspective
It Ain’t The Money, It’s How It’s Spent It’s one thing for me to write on and on about how fucked the Australian Film Industry is, because it so happens that I’ve toiled in it, and it’s my industry. It’s … Continue reading
‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
Nostalgia In Reverse I would have loved to have done a movie double of this film with either ‘The Aviator’ to talk about the amazing Cate Blanchett, or ‘Burn After Reading’ to talk about the versatility of Brad Pitt. Both … Continue reading
What They’re Saying
Gimme A Break. No, Seriously A Real Break I got a fax from Pleiades today with an article about Dr. Ruth Harley and her outlook on the Australian Film industry, which I would love to link to but can’t – … Continue reading
From The Mailbox
Top Ten Closing Film Lines This link came in from the Micra Racer. The list goes in ascending order: Soylent Green Back To The Future Robocop Withnail and I Stand By Me Sunset Boulevard Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) The Silence … Continue reading
Japanese Film Festival Opens In Sydney
Just A Quick Note The Japanese Film Festival kicked off last night, with the usual speeches at the Reception and a pretty cool film called ‘After School’. It’s one of those films where the narrative is broken up and tells … Continue reading
Somewhere Over The Tasman…
Where Film Bureaucrats Bloom I have met some fine film people over in New Zealand. They’re generous, warm, and far less cagey about discussing meat and potato money issues than their Australian counterparts. When I’ve been there, trying to get … Continue reading
Product Portfolio Management Of Australian Cinema
If PPM Was Applied To Australian Cinema… Product Portfolio Management is a type of marketing tool that looks at where a product is in a 4 quadrant cycle. A product can be in any 4 situations at any given time. … Continue reading
Bill Bennett And His Auteurs-Are-Bad Theory
Describing Symptoms Does Not Make A Diagnosis That’s the best bit of life-experience I got in my brief time as Medical student. It’s so true when you come up against a real suffering person, after spending time behind books and … Continue reading
(Appropriately,) The Cultural Cringe Sets In
It’s Now Official ‘Australia’ is a flop. With a budget of $197million, the picture has taken in a paltry $3.4million in its first weekend at the US Box office. Figures quoted from US entertainment newspaper Variety said the movie made … Continue reading
I Told You So!
Australian Taxation Office Hates The Film Industry In one of the earlier posts here I pointed out how the ATO has been anything but helpful, and how their idiotic, myopic, insane rulings have scared away investors into Australian films covered … Continue reading
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