LEFT: LIKE HER NA M ESA KE. THE PROSTITUTE IN THE BRECHT P LA Y . AO I (Y A G W A LA K CH O N CHAN AKUN ), IS THE GO O D W OM AN IN A W ICKED W ORLD. DENNIS O ROURKE S THE GOOD W O M A N OF B A N G KO K BELO W . LEFT: EDDIE (CRAIG ADAM S) AND M ICK (LUKE ELLIOT). LEO BERKELEY'S HO LIDAYS O N THE RIVER Y A R R A . RIGHT: M ATHILDA M A Y A S ISABELLE EBERHARDT. IAN PRINGLE S ISABELLE EBERHARDT
lure goes horribly wi ong. Holidays on the River Farra is the first feature o f Leo Berkeley and was financed by the Australian Film Commission through its Special Production Fund.
Flynn is the story of Australian actor Errol
Starting from the worst possible condi
Flynn’s early years, up till his first screen;
tion, the i elationship between Aoi, the good
i o le as l l c lih c i Christian in C hailes
woman o f the story, and the filmmakerwas
Chauvel’s In the Wake of the Bounty (1932).
recorded: its evolution horn lake sexual
The film w as directed by Frank 1low son,
intimacy to c ollusion in the pi oc ess oi mak
one of the principals of Boulevard Films,
ing the film and, finally, to friendship and
which has produced m ore films over the
a kind o f lo \e.
past few years than probably any othci
Mathilda May (Isabelle Eberhardt), Fcheky Karyo (Slimen), Peter O’Toole (Lyautey), (Carnet).
Australian compam si i im u id i « n o N r e p o r t i m s i s s u
Director: Ian Pringle. Producers: Daniel Scharf, Jean Petit, Jacques Leclere, Youssef Lakhoua. Scriptwriter: Stephen Sewell. Di rector of photography: Manuel Teran. Pro duction designers: Bryce Perrin, Geoffrey Larcher. Costume designer: Mic CheminaL
Isabelle Eberhardt is the story of the Ionian n
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Director: Dennis O’Rourke. Producer: Dennis O’Rourke Associate pioducci GlenysRowe Scriptwriter: Dennis O’Rouike. Diiector of photography: Dennis O’Rourke. Editor: Tim L itch field . Sound recordist: D ennis O’Rourke. Cast: Yagwalak Chonchanakun
T he filmmakei was forty-three and his marriage had ended. H e was trying to un dc i stand how I o n e could be so banal and yet So profound. He came to Bangkok, the
tic <id\ enturer in Noi th All ica at the turn oi Director: Leo Berkeley. Producer: Fiona 'Cochrane. Scriptwriter: Leo Berkeley: Directoi ol photography: Brendan la\cilc*. \rt directors: Margaret Eastgate, Adele Flere. Editoi: Leo Berkeley. Sound recordist: Mark Tarpcy. Composer: Sam Mallet. Cast: Craig Adams (Icldic). Luke Llhot (Mick). Mex Menglet (Big Mac), Tahir Cambis (Stewie), Claudia kar\an (Fisa). Ian Scott (liank). She ixl Munks (\aleiio). \ngcla McKenna (Mother), Eric Mueck (Billy), Justin Connor (Danny );John Bi rnnpton, Jac c k Roman, ( hris
mecca foi western men with fantasies of
Mic k and 1 ddie ai e out-of woi k teenagei s, living in Melbourne and looking for some
exotic sex and love without pain. He wanted
action 1 hey becom e involved with a gang
to meet a 1 hai prostitute and make a film
oi would-hc mcicenarics headed for Af
about that.
rica. What they hope will be a great adven-
n flH w . Inspired in part b\ Paul Bowles' intro duction to a collection o f Eberhardt’s sto ries, this Australian-French co-production is the foiu 111 feature of Ian Pnngle. and follows The Plains of Heaven (1982), Wrong !lf/r/rf(198b)and IhePnsunerofStPetenhuii> (1990). Pringle: The fibn Ls essentially an interior journey. There are elements o f encountering anew culture, but ... it is more to do with the Isabelle has allowed me to explore the beginnings of a style I want to take much fin thei I am . ck aling with a story that is I have c\ci tried to capline on film. t ’RIXC.I I I M I K\u W < / \ M f l / M / / V i '. N O SI !»1’ t»-l , )