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Risk (2001 Film)
''Risk'' is a 2001 Australian film about insurance fraud directed by Alan White and starring Tom Long, Bryan Brown, and Claudia Karvan. accessed 4 December 2012 The film is based on the story ''The Adjuster'' by . Plot synopsis John Kriesky () is a veteran insurance investigator who is tempted towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of an amateur con man Ben ([...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Kidder
John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his ''The Soul of a New Machine'' (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, titled ''Mountains Beyond Mountains'' (2003). Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing. He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell. In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think." Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable." E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Long (actor)
Tom Long (3 August 1968 – 4 January 2020) was an Australian film and television actor. He played court official and avid surfer Angus in the late 1990s TV series ''SeaChange'' and Brenden Abbott in the 2003 Australian TV movie '' The Postcard Bandit''. Early life Long was born on 3 August 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, as his Australian parents were visiting there at the time. On their return to Australia he grew up on a farm near Benalla, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. He worked as a Jackaroo (trainee), jackaroo and Sheep shearer, shearer after attending Geelong Grammar School, before going abroad, travelling to India, the United Kingdom, Los Angeles, and South Carolina. After returning to Australia, Long successfully auditioned for a place at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1994. Career Long appeared in several Australian television series, most notably the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) hit ''SeaChange'' (1998–2000) and the Nine Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Brown
Bryan Neathway Brown AM (born 23 June 1947) is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include ''Breaker Morant'' (1980), ''Give My Regards to Broad Street'' (1984), '' F/X'' (1986), ''Tai-Pan'' (1986), ''Cocktail'' (1988), ''Gorillas in the Mist'' (1988), ''F/X2'' (1991), '' Along Came Polly'' (2004), ''Australia'' (2008), ''Kill Me Three Times'' (2014) and ''Gods of Egypt'' (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries ''The Thorn Birds'' (1983). Early life Brown was born in Panania, a south-western Sydney suburb, the son of John "Jack" Brown and Molly Brown, a pianist in the early days of the Langshaw School of Ballet, who also worked as a house cleaner. He grew up with his younger sister, Kristine, in Panania, and began working at AMP as an actuarial student. He started to act in amateu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Karvan
Claudia Karvan (born 19 May 1972) is an Australian actress, producer and scriptwriter. As a child actor, she first appeared in the film, '' Molly'' (1983) and followed with an adolescent role in ''High Tide'' (1987). She portrayed a teacher in '' The Heartbreak Kid'' (1993) – the film was spun off into a TV series, ''Heartbreak High'' (1994–1999), with her character taken over by Sarah Lambert. Karvan's roles in television series include ''The Secret Life of Us'' (2001–2005), ''Love My Way'' (2004–2007), '' Newton's Law'' (2017) and '' Halifax: Retribution'' (2020). She won Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama at the AFI Awards (later rebranded as the AACTA Awards) for her appearance in '' G.P.'' (1996). She won two similar AFI Awards for her role in ''Love My Way'' ( 2005 and 2007) and in 2014 for her work in '' The Time of Our Lives'' (2013–2014). As a co-producer and co-writer on ''Love My Way'', she won three further AFI Awards for Best Drama Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Duggan
Simon Duggan, , (born 13 May 1959) is a New Zealand-born Australian cinematographer. Career Duggan started his career off in Australia at Ross Wood Film Studios. His first feature film was 1998's ''The Interview'' starring Hugo Weaving. Duggan frequently worked with Alex Proyas and Len Wiseman, acting as cinematographer on their films ''Garage Days'', ''I, Robot'', '' Underworld: Evolution'', ''Live Free or Die Hard'' and '' Knowing''. Other credits include '' The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' and '' Killer Elite''. Duggan was director of photography on Baz Luhrmann's ''The Great Gatsby''. This was Luhrmann's first experience filming with 3D. After ''The Great Gatsby'', Duggan worked on '' 300: Rise of an Empire'', Duncan Jones' ''Warcraft'', and ''Hacksaw Ridge'', which marked Mel Gibson's return to directing after 2006's ''Apocalypto''. Duggan was invited as a member to the Australian Cinematographers Society in 1989, and American Society of Cinematographers T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Smith (film Editor)
Lee Smith, ACE, (born June 10, 1960) is an Australian film editor who has worked in the film industry since the 1980s. He began his film career as a sound editor before establishing himself as an editor. His breakthrough came when he began collaborating with director Peter Weir. Smith is best known for his work on several of Christopher Nolan's films, including ''Batman Begins'' (2005), ''The Dark Knight'' (2008), ''Inception'' (2010), ''The Dark Knight Rises'' (2012), '' Interstellar'' (2014) and ''Dunkirk'' (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Life and career Smith was born in Harefield, Middlesex. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' (2004) and ''The Dark Knight'' (2008). He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for ''The Dark Knight'' and for ''Inception'' (2010). He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for ''The Piano'' (1993). He began hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Madden Gray
Melissa Madden Gray, stage name Meow Meow, is an Australian-born actress, dancer and cabaret performer who tours internationally. Gray has been particularly active in the UK where she appeared in ''La Clique'' at the Roundhouse (venue), Roundhouse and created the role of the ''Maîtresse'' in the West End theatre, West End musical adaptation of ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg#Stage adaptation, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' at the Gielgud Theatre. In 2010 Meow Meow was awarded the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Prize. In January 2011 she premiered "Meow Meow in Concert" for three nights at the Apollo Theatre on London's West End. She was named Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer, Best Cabaret Performer at the 2012 Helpmann Awards for her show, ''Little Match Girl''. She debuted "An Audience with Meow Meow" at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California as part of their Fall 2014 season. Training As an undergraduate, Gray studied at the University of Melbourne where she was a reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Clarke
Jason Clarke (born 17 July 1969) is an Australian actor. He has appeared in many TV series, and is known for playing Tommy Caffee on the television series ''Brotherhood''. He has also appeared in many films, often as an antagonist. His film roles include ''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), ''White House Down'' (2013), ''Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' (2014), ''Terminator Genisys'' (2015), ''Everest'' (2015), '' All I See Is You'' (2016), ''Mudbound'' (2017), '' Chappaquiddick'' (2017), '' First Man'' (2018), and ''Pet Sematary'' (2019). In 2022, he starred in the HBO sports drama series '' Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty'' as former Los Angeles Lakers player turned coach Jerry West. Early life Clarke was born and brought up in Winton, Queensland. His father worked as a sheep shearer in rural South Australia outside a small township of Padthaway on the Limestone Coast. His family also lived in North Queensland, where Clarke completed his secondary schooling at Ignatius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Critics Circle Of Australia
The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of cinema critics and reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and freelance writers, Australian representatives from international magazines..and local specialist film magazines", and is based in Sydney. The FCCA Annual Awards for Australian Film, rewarding makers of feature films and documentaries is highly regarded. History The Sydney Film Critics' Circle became a national organisation as the Film Critics' Circle of Australia by October 1988. It joined International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), "which will allow its members to be considered for jury duty at international festivals, accreditation at festivals and markets." The FCCA Awards have been presented each year since September 1988, with the inaugural winners including two awards each for ''The Year My Voice Broke'': best director (John Duigan) and best male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Crime Thriller Films
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s English-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter '' samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
