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JACK'S STACK
Jack Nicholson has played a stack of roles in a stack of good movies (55 or so), and
won a stack of accolades (as well as awards – including three Oscars); this
collection covers just a sample of his amazing and active career.
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JACKSON, PETER: A REVEALING EVENING
A slimmer & trimmer Peter Jackson got a standing ovation from 2,000 fans of his
work on The Lord of The Rings after a revealing two hour conversation last Saturday at Sydney’s
State Theatre, guided by David Stratton, talking about his filmmaking life, especially
details of the birth and execution of the LOTR trilogy – interspersed with blooper footage
from the set which has never (and will never) see the public light of day elsewhere.
Andrew L. Urban reports.
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JAMES CAMERON – AVATAR ON 3-D
Making Avatar, his first narrative film since Titanic (1997), James Cameron is a
convert to 3-D and believes cinema could all be that good but people have been
asking the wrong question – counting pixels and lines, that they have forgotten about frame rate - and losing out on marketing values and piracy
negation. Here is how he sees it.
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JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL 2009 – PREVIEW
Japanese comedy, ninja action … and cooking at the South Pole are some of the
ingredients of this year’s Japanese Film Festival.
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JAPANESE STORY: THE MAKING OF
It took 10 years to develop as a screenplay, but only a week to get Toni Collette to sign on for the lead role. Andrew L. Urban reports on the making of the label-defying Japanese Story, Australia’s entry for Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2003, shot in the extremes of outback Australia. (But he doesn’t give away the ending.)
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JERRY MAGUIRE
Behind the scenes - the making of Jerry Maguire, and introducing a girl called Zellweger.
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JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 1999: PREVIEW
JAKE WILSON sticks his nose into this year's program of the Festival of Jewish Cinema
and sniffs out some enticing films, ranging from a Romeo and Juliet like love drama to a
romantic drama from 1934 about a drunken layabout. (Pic, Kadosh)
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JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2004 – PREVIEW
The 2004 Festival of Jewish Cinema (Nov 10 – 28) brings together movies from Argentina, France, Israel, Sweden, America, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Germany, in a smorgasbord of comedy, drama and reality.
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JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2009 - PREVIEW
The Festival of Jewish Cinema celebrates its 20th Birthday this year with an
collection of new features, documentaries plus encore screenings of some of the
festival favourites that have screened over the last 20 years. Opening night
film, A Matter of Size takes a comical look at Middle East politics and other
‘big issues’ as it follows the lives of four overweight friends.
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JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS – AND A CONTENDER
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, will be standing beside animation powerhouses DreamWorks
SKG and Disney at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony for the first ever Best
Animated Feature Oscar. And this animated film is made with off-the-shelf software that
even you could use at home, reports Robert Nunez.
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JOHN POLSON – PROFILE
John Polson founded Tropfest in 1993 and in February each year takes on the role of
Festival Director of Australia's largest short film festival. In November 1997 John was
awarded the Byron Kennedy Award by the Australian Film Institute for his contribution to
the film industry.
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JOHN SEALE ACS, CSA, CINEMATOGRAPHER
The English Patient has confirmed John Seale as one of
the world's finest - a real Whizzard of Oz.
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JOHN SEALE, CINEMATOGRAPHER, credits to 1997
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