Exclusive: Ocsar-nominated Shine director Scott Hicks’ projects about musician Ben Folds have been taken on for distribution by Banijay Rights.
The director’s features will world-premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival later this month and see Hicks combine with celebrated producers Kerry Heysen and Jett Heysen-Hicks.
Inspired by the 25th anniversary of Shine, which starred Geoffrey Rush as a pianist who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions, The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process explores the power of the musical brain. Hicks reveals the creative process of elite international musicians focusing on Shine subject David Helfgott, Australian rock star Daniel Johns, Shine star Simon Tedeschi and Folds.
The latter is the subject of My Name’s Ben Folds, I Play Piano, a symphonic concert spectacle featuring the Emmy-nominated composer with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The film offers unique coverage of the rock pianist including the creation of a new song from scratch,...
The director’s features will world-premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival later this month and see Hicks combine with celebrated producers Kerry Heysen and Jett Heysen-Hicks.
Inspired by the 25th anniversary of Shine, which starred Geoffrey Rush as a pianist who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions, The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process explores the power of the musical brain. Hicks reveals the creative process of elite international musicians focusing on Shine subject David Helfgott, Australian rock star Daniel Johns, Shine star Simon Tedeschi and Folds.
The latter is the subject of My Name’s Ben Folds, I Play Piano, a symphonic concert spectacle featuring the Emmy-nominated composer with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The film offers unique coverage of the rock pianist including the creation of a new song from scratch,...
- 10/14/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The South Australian festival iis now an annual event.
Films from Europe, the Middle East and Australia dominate the fiction and documentary competitions at the Adelaide Film Festival (Aff), the first since an injection of government funding enabled the event to step up from being biennial to annual.
The festival will take place in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, from October 18-29.
The opening film will be the Australian premiere of Kitty Green’s Toronto premiere and awards hopeful The Royal Hotel, produced by UK-Australian outfit See-Saw Films. The world premiere of Scott Hicks’ music documentary My Name’s Ben Folds – I Play Piano,...
Films from Europe, the Middle East and Australia dominate the fiction and documentary competitions at the Adelaide Film Festival (Aff), the first since an injection of government funding enabled the event to step up from being biennial to annual.
The festival will take place in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, from October 18-29.
The opening film will be the Australian premiere of Kitty Green’s Toronto premiere and awards hopeful The Royal Hotel, produced by UK-Australian outfit See-Saw Films. The world premiere of Scott Hicks’ music documentary My Name’s Ben Folds – I Play Piano,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-winning actors Geoffrey Rush and Benicio Del Toro will be feted at the 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, which will run July 1-9. The actors will receive their awards at the festival’s closing ceremony. The Czech event has also revealed its juries.
“We are honored and delighted that two extraordinary actors we have been deeply admiring for many years accepted our invitation to come to Karlovy Vary,” said Kviff’s president Jiří Bartoška.
Rush will receive the festival’s Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema, and his films “The King’s Speech,” “Quills” and “Shine” will be screened as an homage to the actor.
Rush began his career in theater with the Queensland Theater Company. An important turning point in his cinematic career came in 1996, when he excelled in the role of composer and pianist David Helfgott in Scott Hick’s “Shine,” which won him an Oscar,...
“We are honored and delighted that two extraordinary actors we have been deeply admiring for many years accepted our invitation to come to Karlovy Vary,” said Kviff’s president Jiří Bartoška.
Rush will receive the festival’s Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema, and his films “The King’s Speech,” “Quills” and “Shine” will be screened as an homage to the actor.
Rush began his career in theater with the Queensland Theater Company. An important turning point in his cinematic career came in 1996, when he excelled in the role of composer and pianist David Helfgott in Scott Hick’s “Shine,” which won him an Oscar,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
It was an unusual evening at the Oscars, with several fresh faces, a veteran actress receiving her first nomination and one film dominating the ceremony. Billy Crystal hosted for the fifth time on March 24, 1997, and kept the ceremony lively, along with award winners who offered some rather entertaining acceptance speeches.
Best Picture winner “The English Patient” dominated, winning nine out of 12 nominations. Fellow Best Picture nominee “Fargo” was the only other recipient of multiple awards, winning two out of seven bids. The films that rounded out that category were “Shine,” which won one out of seven nominations, and “Jerry Maguire” and “Secrets and Lies,” each with five bids, with the former winning one and the latter leaving empty-handed.
A WWII-era epic romance detailing the tragic love affair of a burn victim and his married lover, “The English Patient” claimed victory for its score, sound, art direction, cinematography, costume design and editing.
Best Picture winner “The English Patient” dominated, winning nine out of 12 nominations. Fellow Best Picture nominee “Fargo” was the only other recipient of multiple awards, winning two out of seven bids. The films that rounded out that category were “Shine,” which won one out of seven nominations, and “Jerry Maguire” and “Secrets and Lies,” each with five bids, with the former winning one and the latter leaving empty-handed.
A WWII-era epic romance detailing the tragic love affair of a burn victim and his married lover, “The English Patient” claimed victory for its score, sound, art direction, cinematography, costume design and editing.
- 3/2/2022
- by Susan Pennington
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: The feature take of Steve Stoliar’s memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House is finally moving forward, with Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush set to play comedy legend Groucho Marx and Oscar nominee Oren Moverman directing off a screenplay he co-wrote with Stoliar.
Sienna Miller and Moonfall and All the Money in the World actor Charlie Plummer will also star in the Cold Iron Pictures project, which is produced by CEO Miranda Bailey and Moverman.
Set between 1973-1977, Raised Eyebrows follows Steve (Plummer) as he enters Groucho Marx’s house for his dream job of working for the aging, frail comedian, under the watchful eye of Erin Fleming (Miller), who had taken over the Marx brother’s personal and professional life. Marx and Fleming had a controversial relationship in his twilight years, she his devoted girlfriend-turned-manager. The power struggles result in a comedy of horrors in which obsession,...
Sienna Miller and Moonfall and All the Money in the World actor Charlie Plummer will also star in the Cold Iron Pictures project, which is produced by CEO Miranda Bailey and Moverman.
Set between 1973-1977, Raised Eyebrows follows Steve (Plummer) as he enters Groucho Marx’s house for his dream job of working for the aging, frail comedian, under the watchful eye of Erin Fleming (Miller), who had taken over the Marx brother’s personal and professional life. Marx and Fleming had a controversial relationship in his twilight years, she his devoted girlfriend-turned-manager. The power struggles result in a comedy of horrors in which obsession,...
- 2/1/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
by Nick Taylor
One of my favorite bits of This Had Oscar Buzz’s year in review episodes is the segments where they discuss a film that overcame its middling quality to cash in on their buzz and score with the Academy. This is the energy I bring to you for my 25th anniversary retrospective of Shine, an Australian film that copped seven Oscar nominations and a Best Actor prize for Geoffrey Rush in his starmaking role. I do not remember hearing or reading a single solitary comment about this film in the years since I became a cinephile. The closest I’ve ever gotten comes courtesy of folks sticking up for their personal pet among 1996’s Best Actor lineup, or scattered comments that Geoffrey Rush was better in his other nominated performances. It’s slim pickings, and having finally seen Shine for myself, I find very little of worth to really excavate here.
One of my favorite bits of This Had Oscar Buzz’s year in review episodes is the segments where they discuss a film that overcame its middling quality to cash in on their buzz and score with the Academy. This is the energy I bring to you for my 25th anniversary retrospective of Shine, an Australian film that copped seven Oscar nominations and a Best Actor prize for Geoffrey Rush in his starmaking role. I do not remember hearing or reading a single solitary comment about this film in the years since I became a cinephile. The closest I’ve ever gotten comes courtesy of folks sticking up for their personal pet among 1996’s Best Actor lineup, or scattered comments that Geoffrey Rush was better in his other nominated performances. It’s slim pickings, and having finally seen Shine for myself, I find very little of worth to really excavate here.
- 11/22/2021
- by Nick Taylor
- FilmExperience
The creation of the supporting Oscar categories in 1937 clarified the intention that the lead acting categories are meant to honor true star turns. While most Best Actor wins have aligned with that idea, there have been more than a few whose placement has been called into question due to low screen time. Here is a look at the 10 shortest winners in the category:
10. Gary Cooper (“High Noon”)
40 minutes, 57 seconds (48.35% of the film)
Five-time Best Actor Oscar nominee Cooper earned his second win in 1953 for playing morally conflicted Marshal Will Kane in “High Noon.” By appearing in less than half of the 85-minute film, Cooper made history by holding two screen time records at once. At the time, his one-hour, 30-minute, 55-second performance in 1941’s “Sergeant York” was the longest to have won in the Best Actor category. His second win broke a 21-year record for shortest, which was previously held...
10. Gary Cooper (“High Noon”)
40 minutes, 57 seconds (48.35% of the film)
Five-time Best Actor Oscar nominee Cooper earned his second win in 1953 for playing morally conflicted Marshal Will Kane in “High Noon.” By appearing in less than half of the 85-minute film, Cooper made history by holding two screen time records at once. At the time, his one-hour, 30-minute, 55-second performance in 1941’s “Sergeant York” was the longest to have won in the Best Actor category. His second win broke a 21-year record for shortest, which was previously held...
- 12/29/2020
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Since 2000, slightly more than half the lead actor and actress Oscars (21 out of 38) have gone to portrayals of real-life individuals. It’s a bias that dates back to George Arliss and “Disraeli” (1929), although award-winning impersonations have become increasingly stark, even critical, in the latter years.
Notwithstanding Oliver Cromwell’s plea to “Paint me as I am, warts and all!,” early Hollywood awarded acting honors to a near-dozen respectful, even adoring bio-pics. Arliss turned the moody, depressive Disraeli into a matchmaking Dutch uncle. Charles Laughton went cute, not cruel, as Henry VIII. Paul Muni sidestepped Louis Pasteur’s alleged data tampering, just as James Cagney’s George M. Cohan in 1942 ignored the opposition to Actors’ Equity that earned Cohan actors’ enmity.
Honoring real-life subjects virtually dried up for the next 40 years, with the rare exceptions going easy on the likes of George Patton, Thomas More, Fanny Brice and Annie Sullivan. (Who...
Notwithstanding Oliver Cromwell’s plea to “Paint me as I am, warts and all!,” early Hollywood awarded acting honors to a near-dozen respectful, even adoring bio-pics. Arliss turned the moody, depressive Disraeli into a matchmaking Dutch uncle. Charles Laughton went cute, not cruel, as Henry VIII. Paul Muni sidestepped Louis Pasteur’s alleged data tampering, just as James Cagney’s George M. Cohan in 1942 ignored the opposition to Actors’ Equity that earned Cohan actors’ enmity.
Honoring real-life subjects virtually dried up for the next 40 years, with the rare exceptions going easy on the likes of George Patton, Thomas More, Fanny Brice and Annie Sullivan. (Who...
- 1/31/2020
- by Bob Verini
- Variety Film + TV
The business of depicting genius on screen has always attracted screenwriters, directors, actors and audiences alike. There is fertile dramatic ground in the notion that those born with a gift walk in the same world as the rest of us – and the friction and awe this causes plays a huge part in many of the films on this list. Here’s our look at some of the best Movie Geniuses.
Good Will Hunting
This is the film that introduced the world to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. It earned the boys a Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1998 and their transformation to Hollywood big shots is visible when their stunned looks of realisation gives way to youthful exuberance. It’s a treat to watch.
The film deals with the Becoming of Will Hunting, a janitor at a college whose innate genius for Mathematics leads him to the therapy room of that late,...
Good Will Hunting
This is the film that introduced the world to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. It earned the boys a Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1998 and their transformation to Hollywood big shots is visible when their stunned looks of realisation gives way to youthful exuberance. It’s a treat to watch.
The film deals with the Becoming of Will Hunting, a janitor at a college whose innate genius for Mathematics leads him to the therapy room of that late,...
- 11/7/2019
- by Michael Walsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The way Rami Malek got under Freddie Mercury’s skin and brought him to life again in “Bohemian Rhapsody” was no small miracle. It is similar to how Gary Busey became a star when he uncannily channeled the‘50s rock icon in 1978’s “The Buddy Holly Story.” Or when Joaquin Phoenix was able to capture Johnny Cash’s charisma and his tumultuous dark side in 2005’s “Walk the Line.”
But neither Busey nor Phoenix won in their years. In fact, besides Malek, only five lead actors have been given an Oscar for playing real-life music makers – although it interesting that Mahershala Ali earned a corresponding supporting statuette as concert pianist Don Shirley in “Green Book” this year as well.
Who are these fellows and what traits might their roles have in common?
First was James Cagney as George M. Cohan in 1942’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Cagney, best known for his gangster roles,...
But neither Busey nor Phoenix won in their years. In fact, besides Malek, only five lead actors have been given an Oscar for playing real-life music makers – although it interesting that Mahershala Ali earned a corresponding supporting statuette as concert pianist Don Shirley in “Green Book” this year as well.
Who are these fellows and what traits might their roles have in common?
First was James Cagney as George M. Cohan in 1942’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Cagney, best known for his gangster roles,...
- 2/26/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Among this year’s leading Oscar contenders for Best Actor is Emmy winner Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”) for his star turn as the late Freddie Mercury, the legendary lead vocalist of the rock band Queen, in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Should Malek reap an Oscar bid, he will mark the 12th leading man to date recognized for his portrayal of a real-life musician.
First to achieve this feat was James Cagney, nominated for his lively depiction of Broadway composer and performer George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942). On Oscar night, Cagney was triumphant, scoring the lone Oscar of his storied career.
Later in the decade, a pair of actors earned recognition for portraying real-life musicians, the first being Cornel Wilde, up for his performance as Polish pianist Frederic Chopin in “A Song to Remember” (1945). The following year, Larry Parks was a nominee for portraying singer and actor Al Jolson in “The Jolson Story...
First to achieve this feat was James Cagney, nominated for his lively depiction of Broadway composer and performer George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942). On Oscar night, Cagney was triumphant, scoring the lone Oscar of his storied career.
Later in the decade, a pair of actors earned recognition for portraying real-life musicians, the first being Cornel Wilde, up for his performance as Polish pianist Frederic Chopin in “A Song to Remember” (1945). The following year, Larry Parks was a nominee for portraying singer and actor Al Jolson in “The Jolson Story...
- 9/21/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
The Best Actor Oscar winners of the 1990s include some of the most legendary actors in film history, like Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson. We’ve also seen actors springboard off their victories to have fruitful careers in film, like Geoffrey Rush and Nicolas Cage. Now, two decades later, which do you consider the greatest Best Actor winner of the 1990s?
Refamiliarize yourself with the winners and be sure to vote in our poll below. (See 2018 Oscar predictions for Best Actor.)
Jeremy Irons, “Reversal of Fortune” (1990) — The ’90s began with Jeremy Irons being awarded for “Reverse of Fortune,” in which the actor plays Claus von Bulow, a man charged with attempted murder after his wife goes into diabetic shock. Despite a long career in film this remains Irons’ only nomination and win, though he has won two Emmys for voiceover work and another for his performance in 2005’s “Elizabeth I.
Refamiliarize yourself with the winners and be sure to vote in our poll below. (See 2018 Oscar predictions for Best Actor.)
Jeremy Irons, “Reversal of Fortune” (1990) — The ’90s began with Jeremy Irons being awarded for “Reverse of Fortune,” in which the actor plays Claus von Bulow, a man charged with attempted murder after his wife goes into diabetic shock. Despite a long career in film this remains Irons’ only nomination and win, though he has won two Emmys for voiceover work and another for his performance in 2005’s “Elizabeth I.
- 2/2/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Triumph over adversity is drama defined, and Oscar nominations often go to actors whose characters find victory over physical or mental afflictions. The earliest example goes back to 1947; that was the year that non-pro Harold Russell won Best Supporting Actor and a special award for “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Russell was a WWII veteran who lost both of his hands while making a training film. Of note: Of the 59, 27 of these nominations went on to a win. This year’s roster of stars playing afflicted characters includes Jake Gyllenhaal as bombing victim Jeff Baumer in “Stronger,” Andrew Garfield as polio survivor Robin Cavendish in “Breathe,” Bryan Cranston as a millionaire quadriplegic in “The Upside,” and Sally Hawkins in two roles, as an arthritic painter in “Maudie” and a mute lab worker in “The Shape of Water.”
Check out Oscar’s rather astonishing legacy of afflicted contenders below.
Blind...
Check out Oscar’s rather astonishing legacy of afflicted contenders below.
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- 9/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Triumph over adversity is drama defined, and Oscar nominations often go to actors whose characters find victory over physical or mental afflictions. The earliest example goes back to 1947; that was the year that non-pro Harold Russell won Best Supporting Actor and a special award for “The Best Years of Our Lives.” Russell was a WWII veteran who lost both of his hands while making a training film. Of note: Of the 59, 27 of these nominations went on to a win. This year’s roster of stars playing afflicted characters includes Jake Gyllenhaal as bombing victim Jeff Baumer in “Stronger,” Andrew Garfield as polio survivor Robin Cavendish in “Breathe,” Bryan Cranston as a millionaire quadriplegic in “The Upside,” and Sally Hawkins in two roles, as an arthritic painter in “Maudie” and a mute lab worker in “The Shape of Water.”
Check out Oscar’s rather astonishing legacy of afflicted contenders below.
Blind...
Check out Oscar’s rather astonishing legacy of afflicted contenders below.
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- 9/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Geoffrey Rush is getting back into biopic mode. The actor — who won an Oscar for his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott in “Shine” and has also played the Marquis de Sade and other historical figures — will star as Albert Einstein in National Geographic Channel’s anthology series “Genius.” He’ll be joined in that role by Johnny Flynn (“Song One,” “Clouds of Sils Maria”), who’s starring as the physicist in his younger years, with Ron Howard directing the pilot. The Hollywood Reporter first broke the news.
Read More: ‘Dragon Teeth’: Michael Crichton’s Soon-to-Be-Published Manuscript Will Be Adapted for TV by National Geographic Channel
The 10-episode drama, Nat Geo’s first scripted series, will serve as a portrait of the genius as a young man, focusing on the contrast between Einstein’s brilliance and his inability to attain either a doctorate or a position as a teacher. “National...
Read More: ‘Dragon Teeth’: Michael Crichton’s Soon-to-Be-Published Manuscript Will Be Adapted for TV by National Geographic Channel
The 10-episode drama, Nat Geo’s first scripted series, will serve as a portrait of the genius as a young man, focusing on the contrast between Einstein’s brilliance and his inability to attain either a doctorate or a position as a teacher. “National...
- 8/15/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Picture the ending of the standard-issue based-on-a-true-story film. Once the picture fades on a family’s final teary goodbye or the camera pans up from our hero(ine) in a moment of triumph, there’s a postscript. And then, the inevitable grainy home video or candid photo of the “real” main character, proof that someone in the casting office (or the hair/make-up department) did their job and brought you the closest facsimile of the real thing.
This may be the most common approach, but it doesn’t produce the best biopics. Good biographies recreate a moment; great ones evoke a sprit that reverberates through the current time.
Read More: Director Debuts: The 20 Best First Films of the Last 20 Years
The standout biographical films from the past two decades reflect the different ways that we commemorate figures of fame or infamy. Sometimes we devote three hours of our lives to...
This may be the most common approach, but it doesn’t produce the best biopics. Good biographies recreate a moment; great ones evoke a sprit that reverberates through the current time.
Read More: Director Debuts: The 20 Best First Films of the Last 20 Years
The standout biographical films from the past two decades reflect the different ways that we commemorate figures of fame or infamy. Sometimes we devote three hours of our lives to...
- 6/23/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller, Kyle Kizu, Chris O'Falt, Steve Greene, Zack Sharf, David Ehrlich, Kate Halliwell, Russell Goldman, Anne Thompson and Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Fillip Cornershop Satiediously, vol. 2 (Unheard Universe) Following up on last year's initial Satie volume, Cornershop now delivers a unique reading of Satie's notorious "Vexations," the one-page piece which Satie said should be performed with repeats until it totaled 840 times through the printed text (or perhaps not; debate has raged since its 1949 publication). Cornershop brings the piece in at a monumental 48 hours (more traditional performances of the 840-times length range from 18 to 28 hours).
As I was wondering how Cornershop could achieve such a performance without the aid of caffeine, which in turn would mitigate against his chosen slow tempo, I noticed a splice after the 168th time through and then, in turn, after the 336th. Shortly after the latter, and concurrent with my wife's threat of divorce, I had to stop listening, but a little math revealed to me that 1 through 168 and 169 through 336 were precisely the same length, so it appears...
As I was wondering how Cornershop could achieve such a performance without the aid of caffeine, which in turn would mitigate against his chosen slow tempo, I noticed a splice after the 168th time through and then, in turn, after the 336th. Shortly after the latter, and concurrent with my wife's threat of divorce, I had to stop listening, but a little math revealed to me that 1 through 168 and 169 through 336 were precisely the same length, so it appears...
- 4/1/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
With Michael Keaton winning the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy and Eddie Redmayne winning for best actor in a drama, both men continue establishing themselves as the frontrunners in this year’s lead actor race at the Oscars.
Though not new to films, Redmayne starred in Oscar-nominated films such as Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2008) and Les Miserables (2012). His performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, however, propelled him to widespread acclaim and put him on the radar. He is one of four best actor nominees — along with Keaton, Benedict Cumberbatch and Steve Carell — to receive their first nomination this year.
For most of his career, Keaton was known for his comedic roles, such as Mr. Mom (1983) and Beetlejuice (1988), and for his turn as Batman in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). These roles earned Keaton praise and...
Managing Editor
With Michael Keaton winning the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy and Eddie Redmayne winning for best actor in a drama, both men continue establishing themselves as the frontrunners in this year’s lead actor race at the Oscars.
Though not new to films, Redmayne starred in Oscar-nominated films such as Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2008) and Les Miserables (2012). His performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, however, propelled him to widespread acclaim and put him on the radar. He is one of four best actor nominees — along with Keaton, Benedict Cumberbatch and Steve Carell — to receive their first nomination this year.
For most of his career, Keaton was known for his comedic roles, such as Mr. Mom (1983) and Beetlejuice (1988), and for his turn as Batman in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992). These roles earned Keaton praise and...
- 1/19/2015
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
European Film Promotion (Efp) has launched a new initiative, Producers Lab Hamburg (Plh), bringing producers from across Europe to meet with their Hamburg-based opposite numbers.
The event’s two-day programme (Oct 1-2) during this year’s Filmfest Hamburg will include seminars, pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings and a Hamburg location tour.
The ten European producers coming to Hamburg are drawn from the pool of Efp’s former Producers on the Move, including the UK’s Isabelle Stead (Human Films), Luxembourg’s Donata Rotunno (Tarantula), Norway’s Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord Kidstory) and Spain’s Antonio Saura (Zampa Audiovisual).
Stead will be coming to Hamburg after having taken part in the fifth edition of the Producers Lab Toronto, while Rotunno is now developing Yilmaz Arslan’s new project Raqs after producing his last film Fratricide and is also looking for German partners for his own third feature film Sara Sarà.
Eik has produced and co-produced more than 20 feature films and...
The event’s two-day programme (Oct 1-2) during this year’s Filmfest Hamburg will include seminars, pitching sessions, one-to-one meetings and a Hamburg location tour.
The ten European producers coming to Hamburg are drawn from the pool of Efp’s former Producers on the Move, including the UK’s Isabelle Stead (Human Films), Luxembourg’s Donata Rotunno (Tarantula), Norway’s Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord Kidstory) and Spain’s Antonio Saura (Zampa Audiovisual).
Stead will be coming to Hamburg after having taken part in the fifth edition of the Producers Lab Toronto, while Rotunno is now developing Yilmaz Arslan’s new project Raqs after producing his last film Fratricide and is also looking for German partners for his own third feature film Sara Sarà.
Eik has produced and co-produced more than 20 feature films and...
- 8/28/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
There are films we see and films we remember. Few leave as lasting an impression as this 1996 biopic, starring 43-year-old Geoffrey Rush in the breakthrough role that won him an Oscar
When audiences met David Helfgott in Scott Hicks’s 1996 biopic, Shine, they met a character they would never forget. Drenched from the rain, with a cigarette drooping from his mouth as he giggles and gabs at a million miles an hour, they watched in awe as Geoffrey Rush transformed before their eyes. Who was this actor, and where did he come from? Aged 43 when Shine opened, Rush was a late bloomer.
If we brush aside every genre we use to contextualise cinema, every shorthand we use to describe the stories we watch, there are only two kinds of films: the films we see and the films we remember. Few films leave a lasting impression as great as Hicks’s film about troubled genius,...
When audiences met David Helfgott in Scott Hicks’s 1996 biopic, Shine, they met a character they would never forget. Drenched from the rain, with a cigarette drooping from his mouth as he giggles and gabs at a million miles an hour, they watched in awe as Geoffrey Rush transformed before their eyes. Who was this actor, and where did he come from? Aged 43 when Shine opened, Rush was a late bloomer.
If we brush aside every genre we use to contextualise cinema, every shorthand we use to describe the stories we watch, there are only two kinds of films: the films we see and the films we remember. Few films leave a lasting impression as great as Hicks’s film about troubled genius,...
- 12/26/2013
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Lee Daniels appears to have modeled his movie on a visit to Madame Tussauds. The historical impersonation as Oscar horse is something new
• First look review: The Butler
• Video: Whitaker and Winfrey at the Butler premiere
• Gallery: all the presidents' men
When did acting turn into a sub-category of karaoke? When Robin Williams first turns up as Dwight Eisenhower in Lee Daniels' The Butler, his face saggy with prostheses and floured like an overbaked pizza, it draws giggles from the audience. This sort of star turn requires a certain amount of time for audiences to acclimatise; the same giggles greeted the sight of Leonardo DiCaprio, looking like an aged liverwurst as J Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's 2009 biopic. Half an hour in and we had adjusted.
The Butler doesn't have that luxury, but instead has an entire series of similar impersonations – Liev Schriber as Lyndon Johnson, John Cusack as Richard Nixon,...
• First look review: The Butler
• Video: Whitaker and Winfrey at the Butler premiere
• Gallery: all the presidents' men
When did acting turn into a sub-category of karaoke? When Robin Williams first turns up as Dwight Eisenhower in Lee Daniels' The Butler, his face saggy with prostheses and floured like an overbaked pizza, it draws giggles from the audience. This sort of star turn requires a certain amount of time for audiences to acclimatise; the same giggles greeted the sight of Leonardo DiCaprio, looking like an aged liverwurst as J Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood's 2009 biopic. Half an hour in and we had adjusted.
The Butler doesn't have that luxury, but instead has an entire series of similar impersonations – Liev Schriber as Lyndon Johnson, John Cusack as Richard Nixon,...
- 8/16/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
The actor on being an Australian in Brighton, his love of country and western and being mistaken for Prince
Hi, Noah! What's it like in Belfast?
I'm in Brighton. (1)
Ah sorry. For the surfing?
Not all Aussies surf. But a few reckless types do here. You can get waves off the ruins of the old west pier, where the steel girders stick out.
You've lived over here for ages.
Almost 17 years. I still call Australia home but I'm used to English life. And in a way Australia feels quite foreign to me now, both in an exotic sense but also when you've been away from somewhere for a long time, it's not so much that the place has changed but it's a different era. You're nostalgic for that.
You're a patron (2) of this year's Australian film festival. What do your duties involve?
Not much, really, to tell you the truth.
Hi, Noah! What's it like in Belfast?
I'm in Brighton. (1)
Ah sorry. For the surfing?
Not all Aussies surf. But a few reckless types do here. You can get waves off the ruins of the old west pier, where the steel girders stick out.
You've lived over here for ages.
Almost 17 years. I still call Australia home but I'm used to English life. And in a way Australia feels quite foreign to me now, both in an exotic sense but also when you've been away from somewhere for a long time, it's not so much that the place has changed but it's a different era. You're nostalgic for that.
You're a patron (2) of this year's Australian film festival. What do your duties involve?
Not much, really, to tell you the truth.
- 8/31/2012
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
[Editor's Note: Melanie Lynskey Guest Blogging Continues!]
So, the movie Lawless came out last night. I don't know a whole lot about westerns, but I do know this movie is filled with great actors. Including, one of my absolute, all-time, favourite actors, Noah Taylor.
I remember so clearly the first time I saw Noah Taylor in a movie. I was 16, and I saw the movie Flirting, and that was it. I was in love. I loved his face, I loved the way he walked. I loved his voice and the little lisp in it. I loved the way he looked at Thandie Newton so shyly but so directly at the same time. There was such a lovely, innocent quality to him, but underneath it was something really powerful. He was sexy in a very unexpected way. There's a little edge to him and he's so funny in that movie. I went on a Noah Taylor rampage. I...
So, the movie Lawless came out last night. I don't know a whole lot about westerns, but I do know this movie is filled with great actors. Including, one of my absolute, all-time, favourite actors, Noah Taylor.
I remember so clearly the first time I saw Noah Taylor in a movie. I was 16, and I saw the movie Flirting, and that was it. I was in love. I loved his face, I loved the way he walked. I loved his voice and the little lisp in it. I loved the way he looked at Thandie Newton so shyly but so directly at the same time. There was such a lovely, innocent quality to him, but underneath it was something really powerful. He was sexy in a very unexpected way. There's a little edge to him and he's so funny in that movie. I went on a Noah Taylor rampage. I...
- 8/30/2012
- by SPECIAL GUEST STAR
- FilmExperience
Geoffrey Rush in "Shine" is one of the most amazing performances I've ever seen. He completely disappeared into the role and manifested the oppressive parenting of this real-life pianist, David Helfgott, who suffered from mental illness. It's a trap performance because he's got a stutter. When you've got a specific disability or physicality like that, it can very easily feel canned or self-conscious. Rush has the ability to pull it off with such authenticity, so it's not preconceived or contrived. He's found the skin of the character and is basically living in it. You know just from seeing it that no two takes were the same, that it was a visceral and immediate experience for the actor.Another element of his performance that I love so much is that you see him age. He goes through a lifetime. There is a second actor [Alex Rafalowicz] who plays him as a child...
- 6/25/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Charlie Hofheimer)
- backstage.com
Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush plans to use his Australian of the Year award to encourage more people to watch local theatre productions and films.
Prime minister Julia Gillard presented Rush with the prestigious award yesterday in recognition of his 40-year contribution to the industry, as well as his support for.young actors and remaining grounded in the local community.
Screen industry veteran Peter Fenton, who.was chief mixer on more than 150 films, was also awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his services to the Australian film industry as a sound engineer.
Rush, the third actor to receive the award after Robert Helpmann and Paul Hogan, later told reporters: .An empty theatre or an empty cinema, metaphorically, is not a great place for a culture to be in and I want to try and encourage more people to take a punt and go and see what.s made in this country.
Prime minister Julia Gillard presented Rush with the prestigious award yesterday in recognition of his 40-year contribution to the industry, as well as his support for.young actors and remaining grounded in the local community.
Screen industry veteran Peter Fenton, who.was chief mixer on more than 150 films, was also awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his services to the Australian film industry as a sound engineer.
Rush, the third actor to receive the award after Robert Helpmann and Paul Hogan, later told reporters: .An empty theatre or an empty cinema, metaphorically, is not a great place for a culture to be in and I want to try and encourage more people to take a punt and go and see what.s made in this country.
- 1/26/2012
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
A striking presence on stage and in the great days of British film, she played the prison governor of TV's Within These Walls
Followers of postwar cinema may well recall Googie Withers's striking presence in It Always Rains On Sunday, an unusually intense film for the Ealing Studios of 1947. A bored wife, she gives shelter to an ex-lover, now a murderer on the run, played by John McCallum, soon to be her real-life husband. The lovers were shown as unsympathetically as they might have been in French film noir, and the weather was bad even by British standards.
What Withers, who has died aged 94, brought to that performance was to define her strength in some of her most powerful roles. Too strong a face and too grand a manner prevented her being thought conventionally pretty, but she was imposingly watchable because of an obvious vigour and sexuality. Thus equipped,...
Followers of postwar cinema may well recall Googie Withers's striking presence in It Always Rains On Sunday, an unusually intense film for the Ealing Studios of 1947. A bored wife, she gives shelter to an ex-lover, now a murderer on the run, played by John McCallum, soon to be her real-life husband. The lovers were shown as unsympathetically as they might have been in French film noir, and the weather was bad even by British standards.
What Withers, who has died aged 94, brought to that performance was to define her strength in some of her most powerful roles. Too strong a face and too grand a manner prevented her being thought conventionally pretty, but she was imposingly watchable because of an obvious vigour and sexuality. Thus equipped,...
- 7/16/2011
- by Dennis Barker
- The Guardian - Film News
Following on from my piece concerning the Best Picture statistics here is a look at some stats for the Best Lead Actor category and how they may favour or hinder this year’s five nominees.
The Age Game:
Adrien Brody is the only man in history to win this category under the age of thirty with his 2003 lead actor Oscar for The Pianist. Two thirty year olds have also won the prize with Marlon Brando’s 1954 win for On the Waterfont and Richard Dreyfuss’s 1977 win for The Goodbye Girl. This statistic does not bode well for nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg who is just twenty seven years of age and would become the category’s youngest ever winner were he to triumph on the night. It is also not a great piece of foreshadowing for the thirty two year old nominee James Franco.
The average age of the lead actor...
The Age Game:
Adrien Brody is the only man in history to win this category under the age of thirty with his 2003 lead actor Oscar for The Pianist. Two thirty year olds have also won the prize with Marlon Brando’s 1954 win for On the Waterfont and Richard Dreyfuss’s 1977 win for The Goodbye Girl. This statistic does not bode well for nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg who is just twenty seven years of age and would become the category’s youngest ever winner were he to triumph on the night. It is also not a great piece of foreshadowing for the thirty two year old nominee James Franco.
The average age of the lead actor...
- 2/18/2011
- by Laurent Kelly
- Obsessed with Film
Geoffrey Rush is one a select few actors who have earned the "Triple Crown of Acting" -- an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy.
The Australian actor earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist in "The King's Speech." Rush not only stars, but also served as an executive producer of the film, which is nominated for Best Picture of the Year.
Rush's talents were discovered long before his currently acclaimed role.
The Australian actor earned his fourth Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist in "The King's Speech." Rush not only stars, but also served as an executive producer of the film, which is nominated for Best Picture of the Year.
Rush's talents were discovered long before his currently acclaimed role.
- 2/11/2011
- Extra
Another day, another biopic, although this film is likely to be of a decidedly different type to the one threatened by Elton John (below), and one about a decidedly different order of musician.
Sergei Rachmaninoff was among the pre-eminent composers of the early twentieth century- among the last of the great romantics. Rachmaninoff was renowned for the beauty of his melodies, his thunderous rolling harmonies and lavish virtuoso piano arrangements. It is frequently asserted that his Piano Concerto No 3- written, initially, for a lucrative concert tour of America- is among the most technically challenging pieces ever composed.
Given his extra-ordinary accomplishments in art, and his association and tutelage under some of the greatest musicians to have lived, not to mention the struggles he endured as a consequence of the Russian revolution, it is with some reservation that the news that a film about the great man’s life is...
Sergei Rachmaninoff was among the pre-eminent composers of the early twentieth century- among the last of the great romantics. Rachmaninoff was renowned for the beauty of his melodies, his thunderous rolling harmonies and lavish virtuoso piano arrangements. It is frequently asserted that his Piano Concerto No 3- written, initially, for a lucrative concert tour of America- is among the most technically challenging pieces ever composed.
Given his extra-ordinary accomplishments in art, and his association and tutelage under some of the greatest musicians to have lived, not to mention the struggles he endured as a consequence of the Russian revolution, it is with some reservation that the news that a film about the great man’s life is...
- 1/31/2011
- by Ben Szwediuk
- Obsessed with Film
Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue in The King’s Speech. The King’s Speech, which opens Friday in limited release, has already taken its place alongside The Social Network as a film to beat this Oscar season for best picture. If you want to know why, just look at the cast. With masterful performances by Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech is something of a master class of great acting. Little Gold Men had the pleasure of talking with Rush, who won best actor in 1996 for his portrayal of the prodigy David Helfgott in Shine and hasn’t let up since. In the new film, Rush plays Lionel Logue, an Australian actor who is hired to help Prince Albert (Firth) overcome his speech impediment before being crowned King George VI. Little Gold Men: From Peter Sellars to the Marquis de Sade, and now with...
- 11/24/2010
- Vanity Fair
Lynn Redgrave, who has died aged 67 following a long fight with breast cancer, enjoyed more than three decades of screen work. Here are some of her best roles
She was born into a theatrical dynasty, the younger child of a distant, driven father, and later claimed that she took up acting to win his love. But Lynn Redgrave – daughter of Michael, sister of Vanessa – would go on to become a star in her own right; one of the most earthy, complex and committed performers of her generation.
Following a supporting slot in Tom Jones, and stage success with the nascent National Theatre, Redgrave struck gold in the title role in Silvio Narizzano's Georgy Girl (1966). Effervescent, naive, loving, downtrodden and insecure in her own body, the character earned the 23-year-old a best actress Oscar nomination and set the tone for many aspects of her persona over the coming years. In this scene,...
She was born into a theatrical dynasty, the younger child of a distant, driven father, and later claimed that she took up acting to win his love. But Lynn Redgrave – daughter of Michael, sister of Vanessa – would go on to become a star in her own right; one of the most earthy, complex and committed performers of her generation.
Following a supporting slot in Tom Jones, and stage success with the nascent National Theatre, Redgrave struck gold in the title role in Silvio Narizzano's Georgy Girl (1966). Effervescent, naive, loving, downtrodden and insecure in her own body, the character earned the 23-year-old a best actress Oscar nomination and set the tone for many aspects of her persona over the coming years. In this scene,...
- 5/4/2010
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
Scott Hicks returns to the South Australian sun for his latest film The Boys Are Back, and echos his greatest commercial triumph, the David Helfgott biopic Shine, with this family in transition drama. Clive Owen leads the film as a recently widowed sports writer and father to two boys, Artie (Nicholas McAnulty) who lives with him in Australia and Harry, his child from a previous marriage who is ensconced at an English boarding school, played by George MacKay. While this road has been walked before Hicks and Owen combine to create a poignant film which maintains an original voice despite the crowded arena.
Dealing with the tragic, early death of his wife (Laura Fraser)and the onslaught of parental responsibility Joe Warr (Owen) retreats into his grief with a stoic facade and the creation of what he considers to be the best environment for his young son: Hog’s Heaven.
Dealing with the tragic, early death of his wife (Laura Fraser)and the onslaught of parental responsibility Joe Warr (Owen) retreats into his grief with a stoic facade and the creation of what he considers to be the best environment for his young son: Hog’s Heaven.
- 10/21/2009
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Scott Hicks: One Of The Boys
By
Alex Simon
Scott Hicks made his bones as a filmmaker the old-fashioned way, paying his dues as a crew member during the Australian film industry’s birth in the 1970s. Born in Uganda March 4, 1953, and raised in Kenya, England and finally Australia, Hicks worked his way up to assistant director for soon-to-be big names such as Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford before moving into directing industrial films and documentaries for television. Hicks didn’t direct his first feature, Freedom, until 1982, and had to wait for his second, in 1996, to put him on the A-list. Shine was the true story of Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott, and his battle with mental illness. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won a Best Actor statuette for Geoffrey Rush, who played Helfgott as an adult.
Hicks has been choosy since then, going back and...
By
Alex Simon
Scott Hicks made his bones as a filmmaker the old-fashioned way, paying his dues as a crew member during the Australian film industry’s birth in the 1970s. Born in Uganda March 4, 1953, and raised in Kenya, England and finally Australia, Hicks worked his way up to assistant director for soon-to-be big names such as Peter Weir and Bruce Beresford before moving into directing industrial films and documentaries for television. Hicks didn’t direct his first feature, Freedom, until 1982, and had to wait for his second, in 1996, to put him on the A-list. Shine was the true story of Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott, and his battle with mental illness. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won a Best Actor statuette for Geoffrey Rush, who played Helfgott as an adult.
Hicks has been choosy since then, going back and...
- 9/28/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
In the Us, this has been hailed as the 21st century's worst movie; I think it is the 21st century's worst cultural artefact. Watching it was among the worst experiences of my life, up there with having a quarter of millimetre shaved off my upper molar without anaesthetic by an eccentric dentist when I was 15.
MTV's pampered star Tom Green has here co-written, directed and starred in his very own gross-out comedy, and he has never looked more grotesquely unfunny and untalented, playing an unemployed cartoonist and babbling away like David Helfgott without the piano. At various stages, he capers around in an eviscerated stag's carcass, swings a new-born baby around by its umbilical cord, masturbates a horse and an elephant, and licks the protruding bone from a fractured leg.
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MTV's pampered star Tom Green has here co-written, directed and starred in his very own gross-out comedy, and he has never looked more grotesquely unfunny and untalented, playing an unemployed cartoonist and babbling away like David Helfgott without the piano. At various stages, he capers around in an eviscerated stag's carcass, swings a new-born baby around by its umbilical cord, masturbates a horse and an elephant, and licks the protruding bone from a fractured leg.
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- 10/19/2001
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
CHICAGO -- A radiant drama about a concert pianist's emotional turmoil, "Shine" dazzled Saturday night viewers at the 32nd annual Chicago International Film Festival. Crescendoing with a number of previous festival accolades, this Fine Line release should similarly win the hearts of select-site audiences when it is released later this fall. It will surely grace many end-of-year top 10 lists.
"Shine" is based on a true story, centering on the life of one David Helfgott, a promising concert pianist who "cracked" under the strain of playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. The breakdown was due only in part to the demands of confronting that awesome work on a technical, as well as artistic level, but had its roots in Helfgott's tumultuous childhood. In his household, his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) ruled with an iron-fisted hand with one major goal in mind, that young David (Alex Rafalowicz) would someday be a great pianist.
In Jan Sardi's complex and perceptive scenario we see that the father's rule was in large part an attempt to live vicariously through the accomplishments of his son. But, we further see how his autocratic rule placed the young pianist in a contradictory bind: While his father encouraged him to the highest artistry, he also forbid many practices that would ensure David's reaching such a height.
Rafalowicz magically conveys that young boy's turmoil in marvelous, shimmering detail. He evinces both the boy's passion and talent, as well as providing clues to his insecurities and inner confusions. In effect, David Was expected to interpret works -- by Chopin and Liszt as well as Rachmaninoff -- with a feeling beyond his years. And more debilitating, his emotional life was so constricted by his father that David instinctively knew he did not have the range-of-life to adequately play such mature wonders.
Alternately lilting and frisky, "Shine" is a terrific, complex character study. Under Australian director Scott Hicks' wand, the players, as well as the technicians, combine in a wonderful symphony of passion and despair and rise ultimately in transcendent triumph.
In large part this is due to Geoffrey Rush's virtuoso performance as the gifted but troubled adult pianist. It is a truly poetic characterization, graced with idiosyncratic flourishes and enlivened by a number of cadenza-like interludes of almost slapstick desperation. Other cast members are similarly superb, particularly Mueller-Stahl as David's overbearing father and John Gielgud as a wily music professor.
Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson's compositions are marvelously apt, conveying the emotional link between David's troubled world and the healing power of the music he plays. Propelled by telling, singular images, as well as grand 'scapes of the mind, "Shine" is also accentuated by Pip Karmel's crisp, but resonant editing.
SHINE
Fine Line Pictures
A Scott Hicks Film
Producer :Jane Scott
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenwriter :Jan Sardi
Director of photography:Geoffrey Simpson
Editor :Pip Karmel
Production designer:Vicki Niehus
Costume designer:Louise Wakefield
Music :David Hirschfelder
Color/stereo
David as an adult:Geoffrey Rush
David as a young man:Noah Taylor
David as a child :Alex Rafalowicz
Peter :Armin Mueller-Stahl
Gillian:Lynn Redgrave
Cecil Parkes :John Gielgud
Katharine:Susannan Prichard
Sylvia :Sonia Todd
Ben Rosen :Nicholas Bell
Running time -- 107 minutes...
"Shine" is based on a true story, centering on the life of one David Helfgott, a promising concert pianist who "cracked" under the strain of playing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3. The breakdown was due only in part to the demands of confronting that awesome work on a technical, as well as artistic level, but had its roots in Helfgott's tumultuous childhood. In his household, his father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) ruled with an iron-fisted hand with one major goal in mind, that young David (Alex Rafalowicz) would someday be a great pianist.
In Jan Sardi's complex and perceptive scenario we see that the father's rule was in large part an attempt to live vicariously through the accomplishments of his son. But, we further see how his autocratic rule placed the young pianist in a contradictory bind: While his father encouraged him to the highest artistry, he also forbid many practices that would ensure David's reaching such a height.
Rafalowicz magically conveys that young boy's turmoil in marvelous, shimmering detail. He evinces both the boy's passion and talent, as well as providing clues to his insecurities and inner confusions. In effect, David Was expected to interpret works -- by Chopin and Liszt as well as Rachmaninoff -- with a feeling beyond his years. And more debilitating, his emotional life was so constricted by his father that David instinctively knew he did not have the range-of-life to adequately play such mature wonders.
Alternately lilting and frisky, "Shine" is a terrific, complex character study. Under Australian director Scott Hicks' wand, the players, as well as the technicians, combine in a wonderful symphony of passion and despair and rise ultimately in transcendent triumph.
In large part this is due to Geoffrey Rush's virtuoso performance as the gifted but troubled adult pianist. It is a truly poetic characterization, graced with idiosyncratic flourishes and enlivened by a number of cadenza-like interludes of almost slapstick desperation. Other cast members are similarly superb, particularly Mueller-Stahl as David's overbearing father and John Gielgud as a wily music professor.
Cinematographer Geoffrey Simpson's compositions are marvelously apt, conveying the emotional link between David's troubled world and the healing power of the music he plays. Propelled by telling, singular images, as well as grand 'scapes of the mind, "Shine" is also accentuated by Pip Karmel's crisp, but resonant editing.
SHINE
Fine Line Pictures
A Scott Hicks Film
Producer :Jane Scott
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenwriter :Jan Sardi
Director of photography:Geoffrey Simpson
Editor :Pip Karmel
Production designer:Vicki Niehus
Costume designer:Louise Wakefield
Music :David Hirschfelder
Color/stereo
David as an adult:Geoffrey Rush
David as a young man:Noah Taylor
David as a child :Alex Rafalowicz
Peter :Armin Mueller-Stahl
Gillian:Lynn Redgrave
Cecil Parkes :John Gielgud
Katharine:Susannan Prichard
Sylvia :Sonia Todd
Ben Rosen :Nicholas Bell
Running time -- 107 minutes...
- 10/14/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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