Continuing our Peter Weir Blogathon, Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-nominated film editor Lee Smith… Lee Smith began his career in the movie industry as a sound designer for internationally respected directors such as Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm), Jane Campion (The Piano), George Miller (Lorenzo’s Oil), and Peter Weir (Green Card). “I was fortunate enough […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at the director’s seventh feature… The Mosquito Coast, 1986. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Andre Gregory, Conrad Roberts, Martha Plimpton and Dick O’Neill. SYNOPSIS: Inventor Allie Fox uproots his wife and children from the comfort of their New England […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at the director’s Academy Award-nominated US debut… Witness, 1985. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Jan Rubes, Danny Glover, Lukas Haas, Viggo Mortensen and Angus MacInnes. SYNOPSIS: Internal Affairs Det. John Book’s perfectly defined world of right and wrong is turned dangerously […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at the director’s fifth feature and final Australian film… The Year of Living Dangerously, 1982. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Murphy, Linda Hunt, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier and Bembol Roco. SYNOPSIS: In 1965, Indonesia is embroiled in a civil war […]

Crying with Laughter, 2009. Written and Directed by Justin Molotnikov. Starring Stephen McCole, Malcolm Shields, Andrew Neil, Jo Hartley, Micaiah Dring, Niall Greig Fulton and Laura Keenan. SYNOPSIS: A rising stand-up comedian finds himself taking a bad trip down memory lane after a chance meeting with an old school friend. Imagine Martin Scorsese’s The King […]

Continuing our Peter Weir Blogathon, Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Russell Boyd… Checking the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) I was surprised to find that Oscar-winning cinematographer Russell Boyd was listed with sixty-one production credits. “[Every year] since the mid 70s through the 80s and early 90s I would often do two pictures and […]

Jackboots on Whitehall, 2010. Written and Directed by Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry. Featuring the voice talents of Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Rosamund Pike, Timothy Spall, Dominic West, Tom Wilkinson, Richard O’Brien, Stephen Merchant, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Pam Ferris and Brian Conley. SYNOPSIS: When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seize London […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at the director’s fourth feature… Gallipoli, 1981. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Charles Yunupingu and Heath Harris. SYNOPSIS: Gallipoli evolves around the growing relationship between two runners whose destiny with death takes them to the Turkish battlefield […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at the acclaimed director’s third feature… The Last Wave, 1977. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray and Nandjiwarra Amagula. SYNOPSIS: An Australian attorney defends a group of aborigines who are charged with killing one of their […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at his internationally acclaimed second film… Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Anne-Louise Lambert, Jacki Weaver and Tony Llewellyn-Jones. SYNOPSIS: At the turn of the twentieth century a group of Australian schoolgirls vanish […]