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NATIONAL TREASURE - A PREVIEW
Mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer is digging up bits of American history - with an A Class team - for National Treasure, a movie that might have been pitched as “Indiana Jones meets Pirates of the Declaration of Independence”, starring Nicolas Cage as Ben Franklin, the archaeologist adventurer. National Treasure will be the big event film of the US Thanksgiving weekend in November 2004. Here’s a preview with a couple of stills from the film.
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NEWMAN, PAUL - OBITUARY
Paul Newman was one of Hollywood’s most loved leading men, an iconic figure
who gave audiences plenty to enjoy in a variety of roles, writes Geoff Gardner.
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NEXT FROM HOLLYWOOD – PART 2
Nick Roddick continues his report on Hollywood’s
latest moves, shakes and casting concepts – like maybe Julia
Roberts (pic) & Adam Sandler and Mel Gibson & M Night
Shayamalan and Toni Collette & Hugh Grant.
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NICHOLAS NICKLEBY: DOUGLAS MCGRATH
If the lack of a nourishing human connection is the problem, then what is the answer? Over and over again in his books, Dickens provides it: family, says Douglas McGrath, the writer/director of the latest adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby. But he means a family that’s perhaps larger, more forgiving, more generous in its parameters than the standard unit we think of. And in that regard, Dickens is as contemporary as if he were writing today.
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NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY: CUTE FILM, PITY ABOUT THE FACTS
Cute film, pity about the facts, says John Pond, the man who was at the epicentre of the Frank Sinatra black ban crisis in 1974, the event that gave birth to the new Australian film, The Night We Called It A Day. Andrew L. Urban reports
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NIJINSKY COMPETITION – THE WINNERS
The lucky 10 below won double passes to the preview screening of Paul Cox’s Nijinsky, followed by Q & A on Thurs Apr 18 at the Cremorne Orpheum (Sydney). Tickets will be posted to each winner. Prizes courtesy Sharmill Films.
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NOMINATIONS FILM CRITICS AWARDS 1998
The Boys has been nominated in 10 categories in the awards handed out by the Film
Critics Circle of Australia, in which only professional film critics vote.
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NOOSA FILM FEST - LATEST NEWS REPORTS
Andrew L. Urban and Louise Keller's first hand reports on the who/what/where, from Noosa,
on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, home to the first competitive film festival in Australia,
from September 2 - 8, 1999 . . . the colour and movement, the mood and feel of it,
reported directly from Noosa.(Festival President, Jack Thompson)
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NOOSA FILM FEST 99: IT'S A WRAP
The screenings and the parties are over and the post mortems begin; here, Editor ANDREW
L. URBAN reflects on what the first Noosa Film Festival achieved - and where it may be
going. (Pic, Closing night film, Muggers)
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NOOSA FILM FEST 99: READERS RESPOND
Readers respond to the inaugural Noosa Film Festival.
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NOOSA FILM FESTIVAL 1999 - COMPETITION FILMS
The first Australian film festival with a competitive section was officially launched in
Sydney tonight (29/7/99) – even though the festival will take place in Noosa, with
one major objective - having fun and hanging loose while seeing films, festival founder
and director, Luke Davis told a gathering of filmbiz luminaries gathered at the Sheraton
on the Park – the hotel chain which is one of several sponsors that have coughed up
enough support to create the event.
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NOOSA FILM FESTIVAL 99 - INAUGURAL EDITION
Luke Davis spent three years trying to make the Noosa Film Festival happen; he had
one driving ambition - to create a festival he would like to attend. "I just love
movies - from the obscure to the commercial," he tells ANDREW L. URBAN.(Pic: Opening night film, The Sixth Sense)
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NORDIC FILM FESTIVAL 2009 - PREVIEW
The inaugural Nordic Film Festival will showcase films from Denmark, Finland,
Norway and Sweden in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, promising a Eurovision Song
Contest romantic comedy, a Golden Globe nominee, a steaming horror film set in a
Finnish Sauna, the biggest budget Norwegian film of all time, and a Coen
Brothers-style black comedy … among other things.
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NOSFERATU & PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
The Sydney Opera House is screaming the Phantom of the Opera, in a double bill with Nosferatu, accompanied by the Concert Hall organ in all its nerve-shuddering glory (with original scores). Andrew L. Urban prepares you for a symphony of horror from these not-so-silent films.
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NOT THE MESSIAH
Those crazy Brits, the Monty Python team, have been at it again, taking over the
venerable old Royal Albert Hall in London for a subversive, funny and irreverent
musical performance based on their movie, The Life of Brian – and they have the
po faced cheek to call it an oratorio! Andrew L. Urban reports on the eve of the
concert’s release on Australian screens (July 31, selected cinemas).
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NOTES ON A SCANDAL - THE SCANDAL MAKER
The flawed characters and the intensity of their emotions makes Notes on a
Scandal gripping – and the performances of the stars are riveting, not least
Australia’s Cate Blanchett, who plays Sheba Hart. "It's been the hardest journey
of connection I've ever had with a character," says Blanchett. An Insider
Briefing.
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NOTTING HILL
Julia Roberts is one of a handful of screen actors who has found fame in the nineties by
the sheer force of talent and screen charisma. And some say it’s as much for her
ability to offer good screen "suffering" – as much as for her dazzling
smile.
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NOVA CINEMAS
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NUGGET, THE – ON LOCATION
A funny fable about three friends who discover a huge gold nugget that promises
wealth but strains their mateship is Bill Bennett’s next film, starring Eric Bana,
Stephen Curry and Dave O’Neill; Andrew L. Urban went on location in Mudgee, NSW.
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