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2 days ago · He describes the film — a classic of Australian New Wave cinema directed by Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, about a teacher getting stuck in a remote outback mining town after accruing a bad ...
7 hours ago · Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971) – set to be reprised at this year’s Melbourne Film Festival in a new print – was a frightening exploration of a culture of toxic masculinity. Birdeater , a title that suggests a huge spider, is a more intimate affair, a chamber piece performed by a mismatched group of friends in an isolated setting.
Jul 19, 2024 · In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971).. More than in any other film of the period, Kotcheff managed ...
4 days ago · In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971).. More than in any other film of the period, Kotcheff managed to capture something of the unhinged, deranged quality of homosociality in the Australian outback in a hallucinatory, nightmarish, nihilistically comedic romp.
Jul 1, 2024 · Tiara Tahiti is a 1962 comedy-drama film starring James Mason and John Mills and the directorial debut of Ted Kotcheff; it is based on the novel by Geoffrey Cotterell, who also adapted it for the screen with Ivan Foxwell. It was filmed in London and Tahiti. Rosenda Monteros, a Mexican actress, plays a Tahitian beauty. Roy Kinnear had a minor role.
- Ted Kotcheff
2 days ago · Morris West tried to get a big-screen version going, then Dirk Bogarde and Joseph Losey, before the money was raised by an Australian-American combination that included Bobby Limb. They were smart and lucky enough to hire as director Ted Kotcheff, who was Canadian, so he got it. (Canadians are basically Australians with snow and French).
Jul 16, 2024 · The more accurate comparison though would be Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 Ozploitation offering Wake In Fright, with several sequences serving as visual nods throughout, as well as the general thematic of its central figure crumbling into moral degradation; the Wake In Fright poster hanging in the background of a character’s apartment here truly driving the inspiration home.
