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Brian Bansgrove
Brian Bansgrove (18 July 1941 – 29 December 2001) was a New Zealand gaffer (chief lighting technician for motion pictures) best known for his work on ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. Andrew Lesnie, who won the 2002 Academy Award for Cinematography for '' The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' said that Bansgrove and his crew were the "key element" in helping him craft images for the three ''Lord of the Rings'' films during the 15-month shoot between mid-1999 and late 2000. At the nomination of the film for the 16th annual ASC awards (American Society of Cinematographers), Lesnie called him "one of the true legends of the Australian film industry" saying further that "he was an extremely close collaborator" in the lighting design. Lesnie described Bansgrove not only as a friend and colleague but as the "main reason for winning" the Academy Award. Lesnie dedicated his Academy Award to Bansgrove in his acceptance speech at the 74th Academy Awards Ceremony. Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / Ōtākaro flows through the centre of the city, with an urban park along its banks. The city's territorial authority population is people, and includes a number of smaller urban areas as well as rural areas. The population of the urban area is people. Christchurch is the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland. It is the major urban area of an emerging sub-region known informally as Greater Christchurch. Notable smaller urban areas within this sub-region include Rangiora and Kaiapoi in Waimakariri District, north of the Waimakariri River, and Rolleston and Lincoln in Selwyn District to the south. The first inhabitants migrated to the area sometime between 1000 and 1250 AD. They hunted moa, which led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heatwave (film)
''Heatwave'' is a 1982 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the murder of Juanita Nielsen. It was the second of two films inspired by the story that came out at that time, the first being '' The Killing of Angel Street'' (1981). Plot Around Christmas time, as a heatwave hits Sydney, an architect is undertaking a housing project for a brash Cockney immigrant developer, which becomes controversial when tenants and squatters refuse to move from houses intended for demolition. Cast *Judy Davis as Kate Dean * Richard Moir as Stephen West *Chris Haywood as Peter Houseman * Bill Hunter as Robert Duncan * John Gregg as Philip Lawson *John Meillon as Freddy Dwyer *Dennis Miller as Mick Davies * Carole Skinner as Mary Ford Production The original script was called ''King's Cross'' and was written by Tim Gooding and Mark Stiles. The final script was by Phil Noyce and Mark Rosenberg.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starstruck (1982 Film)
''Starstruck'' is a 1982 Australian comedy-drama musical film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan and Margo Lee. The plot concerns two teenagers trying to break into the music industry. The film was shot on location in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was marketed with the tagline "A Comedy Musical." The hotel shots were filmed at the Harbour View Hotel in The Rocks, near the south pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Plot Sydney teenager Jackie Mullens works as a barmaid in her mother's failing pub, but dreams of becoming a singing star. Her scheming 14-year-old cousin Angus aspires to be her manager. At a local club talent night, Jackie's performance impresses pop band The Wombats, who become her backing band. Jackie also begins dating the band's guitarist, Robbie. In an attempt to get Jackie on a TV talent show, "The Wow! Show", Angus calls up the show's host, Terry Lambert, and tells him Jackie will be walking a tightrope between high- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Year Of Living Dangerously (film)
''The Year of Living Dangerously'' is a 1982 Australian romantic drama film directed by Peter Weir and co-written by Weir and David Williamson. It was adapted from Christopher Koch's 1978 novel '' The Year of Living Dangerously''. The story is about a love affair set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. It follows a group of foreign correspondents in Jakarta on the eve of an attempted coup by the 30 September Movement in 1965. The film stars Mel Gibson as Australian journalist Guy Hamilton, and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy officer Jill Bryant. It also stars Linda Hunt as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism, Billy Kwan, Hamilton's local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was shot in both Australia and the Philippines and includes Australian actors Bill Kerr as Colonel Henderson and Noel Ferrier as Wally O'Sullivan. It was banned from being shown in Indonesia until 2000, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley (1984 Film)
''Stanley'' is a 1984 Australian comedy film directed by Esben Storm and starring Peter Bensley and Graham Kennedy. Production Andrew Gaty had developed the original script. He had a man working for him called Steve Kibbler, who had worked with Esben Storm. Gaty asked Storm what he thought of the script and Storm did not like it. Gaty then hired him to rewrite and direct the movie, with Stanley Mann acting as script editor. Storm: Andrew had certain things that he wanted, which I had to accommodate, but within that I was trying to make a comedy about acceptance and prejudice. But even though it was hugely unsuccessful, it was my first attempt at comedy, which I really enjoyed. Some people still come up and say they like it and have it in their collections and talk about it being hugely underrated. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of Captain Invincible
''The Return of Captain Invincible'' is a 1983 Australian superhero film, superhero musical film, musical comedy film directed by Philippe Mora, and starring Alan Arkin and Christopher Lee. It was a box office disappointment on release but has become a cult film since then. Plot The plot involves the super-hero called "Captain Invincible" (also known as "Legend in Leotards", "The Caped Contender" and "Man of Magnet") who is active during Prohibition in the United States, Prohibition, World War II, and afterwards. Once a popular hero to all Americans, he is forced into retirement by McCarthyism, McCarthy-style government persecution in the 1950s. A congressional investigation accuses him of being a communism, communist, citing his red cape and International Brigades#United States, "premature anti-fascism". He is charged with violating U.S. airspace by flying without a proper license, impersonating a military officer, and wearing underwear in public. He disappears from the public e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phar Lap (film)
''Phar Lap'' (also released as ''Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation'') is a 1983 film about the racehorse Phar Lap. The film stars Tom Burlinson and was written by David Williamson. Plot A chestnut Thoroughbred horse called Phar Lap, known as Bobby by his strapper Tommy Woodcock (Tom Burlinson), collapses and dies in Tommy's arms at Menlo Park in California in 1932. The news is greeted with great sadness in Australia. The remainder of the film is done as flashback. Five years earlier, Phar Lap arrives in Australia, purchased for £168 sight unseen from New Zealand. His trainer Harry Telford (Martin Vaughan), along with his wife Vi (Celia De Burgh) and young son Cappy, watch as Phar Lap is lowered onto the wharf in a sling, underweight with warts all over his face. Mrs. Telford comments that she "wonders what his (Telford's) American friend (Phar Lap's owner David Davis (Leibman)) will think?" Mr. Davis is not impressed with the underweight colt, calling him a cross between a shee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burk & Wills , an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland
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Burk may refer to: Places * Burk, Bavaria, a municipality in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany * Burk, a city district of Bautzen_(district), Saxony, Germany * Burk, a neighborhood of Forchheim (Oberfranken), Bavaria, Germany People * Burk (name), given name and surname Other uses * Burk House (other) See also *Burking, a particular form of smothering * Burks (other) * Burke (other) * Burck * Berk (other) * de Burgh, a surname * Birk (other) * Bourke (other) * Berg (other) * Burgos, a city of northern Spain * Burgh A burgh is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crocodile Dundee
''Crocodile Dundee'' (stylized as ''"Crocodile" Dundee'' in the U.S.) is a 1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee, and American actress Linda Kozlowski as reporter Sue Charlton. Inspired by the true-life exploits of Rod Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September 1986 in the United States, it was the highest-grossing film of all-time in Australia, the highest-grossing Australian film worldwide, the second-highest-grossing film in the United States in 1986, the highest-grossing non-US film at the US box office ever and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide for the year. There are two versions of the film: the Australian version, and an international version, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Perfectionist
''The Perfectionist'' is a 1981 play by David Williamson. It was adapted into a film for television directed by Chris Thomson in 1985. Plot The plot revolves around an academic who is working on a PhD. His wife hires a Danish student to babysit their children. Film version In 1983 Patricia Lovell Patricia Anna Lovell (née Parr), (1929 – 26 January 2013), commonly referred to as Pat Lovell, was an Australian film producer and actress, whose work within that country's film industry led her to receive the Raymond Longford Award in 2 ... announced plans to produce a film version of the play directed by Williamson but they were unable to finance it. A telemovie was made in 1985.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p191 The telemovie was subsequently sold in multiple international territories, but also for television and direct-to-video. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Tide (1987 Film)
''High Tide'' is a 1987 Australian drama film starring Judy Davis, from a script by Laura Jones, about the mother-daughter bond, directed by Gillian Armstrong. Armstrong reported that when she began work on ''High Tide'' she pinned a note above her desk: "Blood ties. Water. Running Away." Jan Adele plays Lilli's mother-in-law Bet, in her film debut. Synopsis Lilli is one of three backing singers for a touring Elvis impersonator until she is fired. Then, left alone at the beginning of winter she is stranded in a ramshackle beach town on the windswept coast of New South Wales. This remote, working class, tourist-town has a pervasive sense of rootlessness and movement. The people survive by changing their occupations with the seasons and work hard in small businesses. Here, stuck in the Mermaid Caravan Park, she encounters her teenage daughter Ally (Claudia Karvan). When Lilli's young surfer husband had died, she felt lost; she gave up her baby to her mother-in-law, Bet. Lilli has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
