Australian Film Institute Awards 2009
2009 Australian Film Institute Awards
2009 Australian Film Institute Award nominations: Oct. 28, 2009
2009 Australian Film Institute Award winners: Regent Theatre in Melbourne on Dec. 11 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 12 (top categories), 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Winner of the 2009 Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Australia’s submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award, Warwick Thornton’s feature-film debut, Samson & Delilah is a coming-of-age story set in a remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia, where two teenagers (best actor nominee Rowan McNamara and best actress nominee Marissa Gibson) must cope with a life of violence, poverty, and substance abuse. Eventually, the couple set out on their own, facing all sorts of [...]
by Anna Robinson | October 28, 2009
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Tags: Australia, Australian Film Institute Awards, Balibo, Beautiful Kate, Blessed, Bruce Beresford, Bryan Brown, Film Awards, Mao’s Last Dancer, Rachel Griffiths, Rachel Ward, Samson and Delilah
Hedy Lamarr II: Arrival in Hollywood
Hedy Lamarr in Tortilla Flat
Hedy Lamarr – Q&A with Author Patrick Agan: Part I
Do you have a favorite Hedy Lamarr film and/or performance?
As for a favorite Lamarr performance, I would have to say Tortilla Flat is right up there. Her performance as the Mexican girl, Dolores, was amazing in its simplicity and clarity, and Karl Freund’s cinematography brought out an earthiness that she’d never shown before. This was a girl who knew she was beautiful, but she also knew there was much more to life than that and wasn’t ready to settle for anything less than a faithful husband with a job. Hedy had to go to the front office to get that part. The chemistry between her [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2007
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Tags: Books, Classic Movies, Hedy Lamarr, Interviews, Josef von Sternberg, Louis B. Mayer, Patrick Agan, Samson and Delilah, The Female Animal, Tortilla Flat, White Cargo
