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Show I In focus: Australian cinema W ( highlight movie festival 53; A collection of the films from the E land down under Australia is 3 planned as a major sidebar to the United Stetes Film Festival. The 3 roster of 24 movies titled ' ' Indepen 3 dent Australia" were aspiefe jg in Sydney last summer by$a$ S3 program director Tony Saffwtfjfyvt 52 the cooperation of the AusfrHaK J r Film Commission. The collection is designed)Sft H in comparison to the AnSi4ittX Ss features that will compete&af rative and documentary categories Kg during the festival in Park Qtaft 17-26. 53; Fourteen of the independently' ES duced Australian films li; S United States premieres ands-jeeail' of the filmmakers are expe$($ jjg attend the openings. 3 "The films are all about AuWagf 5 in that they deal with specifuU s in Australian culture politicri IS history, feminism, aboriginal rhts labor movements, art, music and 5; youth," said Safford. , s j&jf "Their common thread &$fcm. tempt to formulate a fresh new cultural identity, one free from koala bears, pretty beaches and the epic dramas of manly men." vvHere are some of the films that pm) be included in what is to be the 'lirst extensive collection of a na-ribfial na-ribfial cinema to be presented at the SiVal: ' 22$$n FRAN, directed by Glenda feHamby, one of Australia's finest ac-'fiiresses, ac-'fiiresses, Noni Hazelhurst, is a young ?man who is coming to grips with idrriage and motherhood, brt&enny Lawrence's EMOH RUO is A'&fjresh comedy about a young couple fynb buy their dream house in a dis-'iM'ieht dis-'iM'ieht suburb. Predictably, wrything goes wrong. $jgA' STREET TO DIE is directed by $;fiM- Bennett and stars award-winning award-winning actor Chris Haywood as a tetnam veteran who is dying of ex-iV ex-iV piosure to Agent Orange and struggling struggl-ing to win compensation for his illness. il-lness. ft Dennis O'Rourke directed COULDN'T BE FAIRER, an expose wJ-the rights of Australia's aboriginal people, and HALF LIFE, an indictment of nuclear testing by the United States in the Marshall Islands. Ken Cameron directed a story about a tough Sydney schoolboy and his conflicts with family and authority authori-ty in FAST TALKING. TRAPS is an expose of contemporary contem-porary Australian politics in which fiction and real events are intertwined. intertwin-ed. Four young women move through the dark subcultures of punkers, drugs and prostitution in Hayden Keenan's GOING DOWN. BLISS was the 1985 winner of the Australian Film Institute awards for best feature and best film achievement achieve-ment in direction. It is the story of a happily married businessman who suffers a heart attack during a family fami-ly outing and has an out-of-body experience. ex-perience. He recovers with a bizarre viewpoint on his surroundings. surroun-dings. United States Film Festival, Jan. 17-26; for ticket information, call The Sundance Institute, 874-4188. |
