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Read Article LEWISTON — NYC’s Royal Family Productions is bringing back Chris Henry’s popular adaptation of the novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery for one day only. Anne of Green Gables: Part I was a sold-out hit when performed at South Road Farm last September, and this remount pairs it for the first time with Anne of Green Gables: Part II. These one-woman shows have been adapted and directed by Chris Henry with Creative Direction by Lorna Ventura. This specia...

Wake In Fright (aka  Outback) and Nicolas Roeg’s  Walkabout. Though directed by foreigners (Canadian and English, respectively), they were uniquely Australian stories that set the mold for much of what was to come.  And what came was that, by the decade’s end, such homegrown directors as Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, George Miller, Fred Schepisi, and Philip Noyce were considered among the world’s leading emergent celluloid talents. While movies from Australia (barrin...

Don’t look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Don’t look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture As The Sydney Morning Herald celebrates its 190th birthday, three leading Australian writers consider the stepping stones to the development of Sydney’s artistic culture. April 23, 2021 — 4.00pm Save Normal text size Advertisement Everything changed in...

MANK, TENET, DA 5 BLOODS and SOUL Motion Picture Winners at the 25th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards "THE MANDALORIAN," "OZARK," "THE QUEENS GAMBIT," "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE," "WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS," "BLACK IS KING" and "WILL & GRACE" Among Television Winners RYAN MURPHY RECEIVES THE CINEMATIC IMAGERY AWARD; JB SMOOVE HOSTS News provided by Share this article Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) announced winners of its 25 thAnnual ADG Awards in 12 categories of film, television, com...

Listen: Chris Witts presents Morning Devotions Fred Schepisi’s 1976 film The Devil’s Playground tells the story of Tom, growing up through a Catholic boarding school, and of his own struggle to find faith. At one very moving moment, the boy of 12 or 13 years, torn between all the emotions and passions of his emerging manhood and the dictates of his church, talks with his counsellor about whether he has a vocation from God. Just then he runs out to the middle of the school oval, and in real...

Advertisement Around Christmas of 2019 the veteran Australian filmmaker Nadia Tass was on holiday in New York, catching up with old friends. One day she visited the home of actors Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, where she was surprised to find Jackman and some of his brothers were watching one of their favourite Australian films: Tass’ delightful 1990 teen comedy The Big Steal, starring a young Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan. “They were saying that they loved it,” Tass ...

A still from “Canberra Today and Tomorrow”. NOTING that Canberra was named and its foundation laid on March 12, 1913, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has decided to celebrate the actual birthday of the nation’s capital on March 12, with a new free film program. Canberrans will be able to travel back in time and see this city evolve on the big screen in  “Australia’s Capital Nearing Completion”, silent black and white footage from around 1920,  comes f...

Renowned Production Designer Stuart Wurtzel to Receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards ADG Awards Set For Saturday, April 10, 2021 For ticket reservations, go to www.adgawards25.com News provided by Share this article Stuart Wurtzel, best known for his work on Hannah and Her Sisters and Angels in America , will receive the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25 th Annual  ADG Awards. The Awards ceremony, set...

Advertisement Around Christmas of 2019 the veteran Australian filmmaker Nadia Tass was on holiday in New York, catching up with old friends. One day she visited the home of actors Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, where she was surprised to find Jackman and some of his brothers were watching one of their favourite Australian films: Tass’ delightful 1990 teen comedy The Big Steal, starring a young Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan. “They were saying that they loved it,” Tass ...

Whirlybird: Live Above LA – Storyville 9pm, BBC Four The “eye in the sky” is a phrase familiar to anyone who has watched an LA thriller – the helicopter reporting team tasked with covering high-speed chases. This fascinating documentary tells the story of one of its pioneers, Zoey Tur, who spotted the potential for birds-eye reporting during the breaking news boom of the 80s and 90s. Interweaving the tale of Tur’s professional life with her...