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johndpg · 6 months

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SPANKING ON TV #3

Flirting (1991) d. John Duigan

A six-stroke caning over pyjamas for Danny Embling by his Housemaster. At least one member of his dorm has already been dealt with; the rest are nervously lined-up outside the study. Later, the boys compare stripes after lights out. The film is set in Australia in 1965 and deals with the burgeoning romance between the socially-isolated Danny, who has a stutter, and Thandiwe Adjewa, a Ugandan-Kenyan-British girl he meets at a school rugby match. Between them they confront the authoritarian regime in their respective boarding schools.

The film is a coming-of-age melodrama and is a semi-autobiographical piece by the director. It’s the second in an intended trilogy that wasn’t completed. Noah Taylor who plays Danny also starred in the first film: The Year My Voice Broke (1987). It marks the film debut of Thandiwe Newton; Nicole Kidman is in it too, before Hollywood and mega-stardom.

The school is shown as a harsh, uncompromising place where the boys are caned regularly. They bully each other too, and Danny is frequently the butt of their jokes. Even his nickname mocks his stammer. His romance with Thandiwe is something of a revelation to them, then, especially when he sneaks her into the dorm and later hides her in the boys’ showers.

The Housemaster in particular is vindictive and sadistic. As well as the caning at the start of the film, he’s heard caning another boy during prep. It’s telling that he has to chalk his cane, which suggests he enjoys terrorising the boys and inflicting the pain of a caning but isn’t all that expert at it. He always gives out six of the best, too, which shows no discretion or understanding of justice.

The canings we see/hear are massively exaggerated, especially the audio. If a boy was beaten that severely in real life, I doubt he’d just get up and walk off with a nod to the next boy in line.

There is an ongoing joke of one boy, Green, saying or doing the wrong thing and being told to report to different teachers for a caning.

Despite being set in Australia in the 60s, the boys wear long grey trousers throughout, although some wear shorts for rugby and tennis.

Noah Taylor, Thandiwe Newton and Nicole Kidman are all still acting (fancy that). You might recognise Noah from Game of Thrones amongst other things. Thandiwe has won various awards, including a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA for Crash (2004) and an Emmy; she was made an OBE in 2019. Nicole, meanwhile, bagged a Best Actress Oscar and a BAFTA for The Hours (2003), and is also the recipient of two Golden Globes, an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Noah was 21 when he filmed this. Australia ended corporal punishment in 1985, so it's not inconceivable that he was caned at school. I wonder if shooting these scenes brought back any memories?

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stuart-townsend · 2 years

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Stuart Townsend as Guy Malyon in Head in the Clouds (2004) dir. John Duigan

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johannestevans · 1 year

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Movie Review: Lawn Dogs (1997, dir. John Duigan)

Lawn Dogs (1997) on Letterboxd.

One of the end stills of the film, via IMDb.

What an interesting fucking film.

So like... This is a film from the perspective of a ten-year-old girl who grows up emotionally neglected and isolated in a picture-perfect gated community - having survived a heart transplant, she is in many ways morbid and isolated from other children her age, and this is really driven home by the complete dearth of same-age children in her community but for a little boy who serves as a counterbalance for her presence on screen.

Where Devon (Mischa Barton) is quiet and contemplative, intrigued and engaged by different forms of violence and horror, this little boy shoots toy guns into people's faces, he destroys glass and steals from things - her violence is intensely targeted and continuous but goes relatively unnoticed because she is so quiet, and most of all because she is a little girl, whereas he is a little boy.

Nonetheless, neither of them fit in this perfect community, made for perfect adults with perfect silhouettes and perfect lives - he doesn't belong in it anymore than she does, and when he steals all the lamps from the community streets to smash them on the beach as part of his army play, he is so far from anybody's minds as a suspect they don't even mention his existence.

The film is primarily centred on the uncomfortably intimate dynamic between Devon and a 21-year-old man called Trent (Sam Rockwell), who is an outsider to the community and comes in to mow lawns there. Finding his trailer in the woods, she insinuates herself into his life because he's the nearest person who treats her as a full human instead of the ornament she is expected to grow into as a little girl in a class community like this.

Devon has a funny sense of boundaries, doesn't like children her age or understand how to relate to them, and she comes off as in many ways strangely mature for her age - as traumatised children tend to do - but also in many others incredibly naive. Trent at first turns her away, aware that associating with her won't help his own isolation, but he does end up allowing her to come closer and they develop a sibling-like relationship, including him driving her one day to his parents and his own siblings some ways away.

Trent is interesting because like, he was a competitive diver as a youth, but his parents are poor and still with kids at home, his father on a veteran's pension with one of his lungs destroyed by the impact of a diet on very little money - unlike the young people his age within the gated community, he knows he's going to be unable to go to college, he knows he can't afford it or put time into it while sending enough money back to his parents.

He's fucking a local girl who is horrified at the prospect of other people knowing about their sexual relationship, and he frequently shows off to other local women who find him very attractive - when asked about it, though, he denies it, doesn't admit to it, doesn't let on. Similarly, he knows and clocks a local gay boy his own age, who flirts with him, they touch hands - and at one point in the film, Trent publicly kisses this closeted gay boy and bites him in the process.

The kiss, via IMDb.

He gives the gay boy what he desires - a kiss from Trent - while disguising it as the violence between men that the community will accept.

There's so many other bits and pieces in this film I'm fascinated by like... It explores the class dynamics at play here between Trent and his family in their shitty house a ways away versus this highly affluent community, and there's an interesting moment where the film contrasts the shitty cheap glass that in the gated community is allowed for him to use rather than the nice glasses, but in this poor home the explicitly described "nice glasses" resemble that one; the misogyny that affects Devon and the way that her parents talk so freely about her developing body and how boys her age will or won't want to have sex with her because of her transplant scar, reducing her to her potential desirability; the way that the closeted gay guy subtly mocks his straight best friend while disguising his own queerness, and who is very reasonable compared to him while hiding in plain sight...

Like, God, God, there's so much this film has to say about public-facing politics and interpersonal dynamics in a highly appearance-focused community like this one, on hidden versus outward-facing identity, on sexual mores, on the treatment of veterans, like...

So Trent's father is very sick and is on a veteran's pension and is dying - Devon asks if he's dying from injuries he received during the Korean war, and Trent scoffs and says, no. It's a shitty diet and the shitty treatment of war veterans that did this to him, and that's why he's dying, and he's furious about it and like, especially because all the money he's trying to earn from these awful, cruel rich people is going home to his family!

But then, later in the film, he hits the gay guy's dog with his car (it's ambiguous, but I think hitting the dog was by accident: he did then euthanise it by hitting it in the head with a big plank), and because it's one of the only pieces of cloth he has in the back of his pick-up, he wraps the corpse in an American flag to bring it back to the community.

I'm fascinated with Trent's sense of responsibility and nobility and ethics in this film, especially in that like... He didn't have to bring the dog back. The dog got loose - they would never have known that the dog had even died if he hadn't brought it back. But he not only brought it back but wrapped it up, and specifically wrapped it in the stars and stripes as they would a dead soldier, and it's fascinating when like, it's such a direct commentary on how this beloved rich person's dog will be treated with so much more love and respect than soldiers who went off to fight in a futile fucking war, because nothing fucking matters.

I will also say that watching it was interesting because like... This was very obviously a class commentary, but because of the treatment of Trent by this community - there's a scene where he's on the doorstep getting the money for his lawn mowing and they won't even open the door fully to pass him his money; Devon's mother won't let him use one of the nice glasses and has him use a separate one from under the sink; he sleeps with a girl from the gated community and the gay guy later ironically comments about him stealing "our women" while mocking his straight bestie; no one will let him use their bathroom; he is permanently scarred in a police violence incident where a cop with a grudge shoots him in the belly with a shotgun; the particularly terrible treatment of his veteran father most of all his dynamic with this young girl that leads to him getting beaten up by a gang of men from the community - I would be interested if in one version of the script it was intended that Trent would be played by a Black man.

Obviously this is a class commentary, I'm not saying none of the above couldn't happen to a guy who's white trash at the edge of these communities, but it felt like it could very easily be a racialised dynamic too, and particularly a commentary on the way that white communities like this treat Black people and particularly Black men's labour.

But yeah, this film is also like... It's got these picture-perfect, slightly uncanny wide scenes, these bright green lawns, and there's a lot of fairy tale motifs including the end scene which is ambiguous as to whether this is a real and fantastical happening or something in Devon's imagination.

This film is so rich and there's a lot in it, and I saw a lot of myself in Devon as like... This creepy little traumatised child who's SO WEIRD on account of the trauma and the neglect, and she's such a mood.

Good movie! Enjoyed the movie! Recommend it!

#musings #lawn dogs #sam rockwell #mischa barton #movie review #long post for ts

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flatteredbutnothanks · 1 year

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Favorite films: "Lawn dogs" (1997) Dir. John Duigan

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miguelmarias · 1 year

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TOP 2022

(31/12/2022)

Great recent movies (made since 2018) seen for the first time in 2022:

Les Passagers de la nuit(Mikhaël Hers, 2021/2)

Rachel Hendrix(Victor Nunez, 2022)

Memoria(Memory;Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)

O Trio em Mi Bemol(The Kegelstatt Trio;Rita Azevedo Gomes;a.Éric Rohmer)

Ouistreham(Emmanuel Carrère, 2021)

The Ride(Ride;Alex Ranarivelo, 2018/9)

Pan de limón con semillas de amapola(Benito Zambrano, 2021)

Twist à Bamako(Mali Twist;Robert Guédiguian, 2021/2)

Mulher Oceano(Djin Sganzerla, 2020)

Greta(Neil Jordan, 2018)

Albatros(Xavier Beauvois, 2021)

À vendredi, Robinson(Mitra Farahani, 2022)

El Rey de todo el Mundo(Carlos Saura, 2021)

Great older movies (made before 2018) seen for the first time in 2022:

Saikai(Kimura Keigo, 1953)

Yuwaku(Temptation;Yoshimura Kōzaburō, 1948)

The Very Thought of You(Delmer Daves, 1944)

Dunia(Jocelyn Saab, 2005)

Strangers in Good Company/The Company of Strangers(Cynthia Scott, 1990)

Lawn Dogs(John Duigan, 1997)

What happened was...(Tom Noonan, 1993/4)

Tigerstreifenbaby wartet auf Tarzan(Rudolf Thome, 1997/8)

Rot und Blau(Rudolf Thome, 2002/3)

Yawaraka na hou(A Tender Place;Nagasaki Shunichi, 2001)

Tin ngai hoy gok(Lost and Found;Lee Chi-ngai, 1996)

The Journey of August King(John Duigan, 1995)

Off the Map(Campbell Scott, 2003)

Bed of Roses(Michael Goldenberg, 1995/6)

The Cake Eaters(Mary Stuart Masterson, 2007)

Trigger(Bruce McDonald, 2010)

Lian’ai yu yiwu(Love and Duty;Bu Wancang=Richard Poh, 1931)

Sparrows Dance (Noah Buschel, 2013)

Aoi sanmyaku+Zoku aoi sanmyaku(The Green Mountains 1+2/Blue Mountains 1+2;Imai Tadashi, 1949)

Du hast gesagt, dass du mich liebst(You Told Me You Loved Me;Rudolf Thome, 2005/6)

Yūwakusha(The Enchantment;Nagasaki Shunichi, 1989)

Nishi no majo ga shinda(The Witch of the West is Dead;Nagasaki Shunichi, 2008)

Hachi-kō Monogatari(Kōyama Seijirō, 1987)

Spoken Word(Victor Nunez, 2009)

The Missing Person (Noah Buschel, 2008/9)

The Devil Makes Three(Andrew Marton, 1952)

Christmas in Connecticut(Peter Godfrey, 1945)

Berlin Chamissoplatz(Rudolf Thome, 1980)

Rauchzeichen(Rudolf Thome,2005/6)

Among the Living(Stuart Heisler, 1941)

Voice in the Mirror(Harry Keller, 1958)

Glass Chin(Noah Buschel, 2013/4)

The Mule/Border Run/La frontera del crimen(Gabriela Tagliavini, 2012)

BigEden(Thomas Bezucha, 2000)

Endoretsu warutsu(Endless Waltz;Wakamatsu Kōji, 1995)

Keith Richards:Under the Influence(Morgan Neville, 2015)

Kōfuku no genkai(The Limit of Happiness;Kimura Keigo, 1948)

Friends(Elaine Proctor, 1993)

The Stone Boy(Christopher Cain, 1983/4)

Frau fährt, Mann schläft(Rudolf Thome, 2003/4)

Pêcheur d’Islande(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1959)

Awdat mowatin(Return of a Citizen;Mohamed Khan, 1986)

Les Portes tournantes(The Revolving Doors;Francis Mankiewicz, 1988)

Remarkable recent movies:

Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt?(What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?;Aleksandr Koberidze, 2021)

Degas et moi(of 3e Scène)(Arnaud Des Pallières, 2019)

Ergej irekhgüi namar/Harvest Moon (Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, 2021/2)

Viagem ao Sol(Journey to the Sun;Ansgar Schaefer & Susana de Souza Dias, 2021)

Illusions Perdues(Xavier Giannoli, 2021)

Petite Solange(Axelle Ropert, 2021)

Pacifiction/Tourment sur les îles(Albert Serra, 2022)

Where The Crawdads Sing(Olivia Newman, 2022)

The Batman(Matt Reeves, 2022)

Jaula(Ignacio Tatay, 2018)

Prapti(Receipt;Anuraag Pati, 2021)

Limbo(Soi Cheang, 2021)

Avec amour et acharnement(Both Sides of the Blade/Fire;Claire Denis, 2021/2)

Armageddon Time(James Gray, 2022)

Beurokeo(Broker;Kore-Eda Hirokazu, 2021/2)

America(Ofir Raul Graizer, 2021/2)

Faridaning ikki ming qo’shig’i(2000 Songs of Farida;Yalkin Tuychiev, 2020)

El sustituto(The Replacement;Óscar Aira, 2020/1)

Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar(On Either Side of the Pond;Parth Saurabh, 2022)

The Gigantes(Beatriz Sanchis, 2021)

Farha(Darin J. Sallam, 2021)

In My Own Time:A Portrait of Karen Dalton(Rich Peete & Robert Yapkowitz, 2020)

Barbarian(Zach Cregger, 2022)

Between Earth and Sky(The Lie;Veena Sud, 2018//20)

Watcher(Chloe Okuno, 2021/2)

A Christmas Mystery(Alex Ranarivelo, 2022)

A Hollywood Christmas(Alex Ranarivelo, 2022)

Les Intranquilles(Joachim Lafosse, 2021)

Unrueh(Unrest;Cyril Schäublin, 2022)

Malintzin 17(Eugenio & Mara Polgovsky, 2016//21/2)

Coda(Siân Heder, 2020/1)

Work in progress, Agosto 2022(José Luis Guerin, 2022)

A pesar de todo(Despite Everything;Gabriela Tagliavini, 2019)

They’ll Love Me When I ‘m Dead(Morgan Neville, 2018)

Pretend It’s A City(Martin Scorsese, 2020)

The Glorias(Julie Taymor, 2020)

Land(Robin Wright, 2021)

Chavalas(Carol Rodríguez Colás, 2020/1)

Alam(Firas Khoury, 2022)

Remarkable older movies:

Watashi no Niisan(My Older Brother;Shimazu Yasujirô, 1934)

Liu mang yi sheng(Doctor Mack;Lee Chi-ngai, 1995)

Hunt the Man Down(George Archainbaud, 1950)

Happy Here and Now(Michael Almereyda, 2002)

Hold That Co-Ed(Hold That Girl;George Marshall, 1938)

Transcendence(Wally Pfister, 2014)

Mr. Fix-It(Allan Dwan, 1918)

Down Home (Irvin V. Willat, 1920)

The Tall Stranger(Thomas Carr, 1957)

Pagdating Sa Dulo(At the Top;Ishmael Bernal, 1971)

Maowid ala ashaa(A Dinner Date;Mohamed Khan, 1981)

Zawgat Ragoul Mohem(The Wife of an Important Person;Mohamed Khan, 1987)

The Eclipse(Conor McPherson, 2009)

El Rebozo de Soledad(Roberto Gavaldón, 1952)

Desert Hearts(Donna Deitch, 1985)

Manhandled(Lewis R. Foster, 1949)

Accused of Murder(Joseph Kane, 1956)

The Marauders(Gerald Mayer, 1955)

Ramuru/Aibu(L’Amour/Caress/Love;Goshō Heinosukē, 1933)

Amerasia(Wolf-Eckart Bühler, 1985)

Careless Love(John Duigan, 2012)

Sieben Frauen(Formen der Liebe III)(Rudolf Thome, 1989)

Flirting(John Duigan, 1990/1)

One Night Stand(John Duigan, 1984)

Mouth to Mouth(John Duigan, 1978)

Kissed(Lynne Stopkewich, 1996)

Strike!/All I Wanna Do!(Sarah Kernochan, 1998)

In Old Kentucky(George Marshall, 1935)

Hei jun ma(A Mongolian Tale;Xie Fei, 1995)

Kojima no haru(Spring on Lepers’ Island;Toyoda Shirō, 1940)

Jack Higgins’ ‘A Prayer for the Dying’/A Prayer for the Dying(Mike Hodges, 1987)

Whispering City(Fedor Ozep, 1947)

Maytime in Mayfair(Herbert Wilcox, 1949)

Derby Day(Herbert Wilcox, 1952)

Hell’s Half Acre(John H. Auer, 1954)

Without Honor(Irving Pichel, 1949)

Big Night(Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott, 1996)

In Old Arizona(Raoul Walsh & Irving Cummings, 1929)

Storm Over Lisbon(George Sherman, 1944)

Chant d’hiver(Otar Iosseliani, 2015)

Die rote Zimmer (Rudolf Thome, 2010)

Das Geheimnis(Rudolf Thome, 1994/5)

Der Philosoph(Rudolf Thome, 1988/9)

Winter of our Dreams(John Duigan, 1981)

Just Married(Rudolf Thome, 1997/8)

Ins Blaue(Into the Blue;Rudolf Thome, 2011/2)

The Sky Pilot(King Vidor, 1921)

Wine of Youth(King Vidor, 1924)

The Family Stone(Thomas Bezucha, 2005)

Les Deaux Souvenirs(Happy Memories;Francis Mankiewicz, 1981)

Istoriia Grazhdanskoí Voíny(Dziga Vertov & Nikolai Izvolov, 1922)

Jes’ Call Me Jim(Clarence G. Badger, 1920)

Jubilo(Clarence G. Badger, 1919)

Marguerite Duras:Worn Out with Desire to Write(David Wiles & Alan Benson, 1985)

Bestsennaia golova(V boevom kinsbarnike 10)(A Priceless Head;Boris Barnet, 1942)

Taifuken no onna(Ōba Hideo, 1948)

The Hasty Heart(Vincent Sherman, 1949)

A Kiss in the Dark(Delmer Daves, 1948/9)

Anesthesia(Tim Blake Nelson, 2014/5)

The Half-Breed(Stuart Gilmore;uc.Edward Ludwig, 1952)

The Two Fister(William Wyler, 1927)

Croupier(Mike Hodges, 1997/8)

Paranoid(John Duigan, 1999/2000)

The Leading Man(John Duigan, 1996)

Aucun regret(Emmanuel Mouret, 2015)

Tout le monde a raison(Emmanuel Mouret, 2017)

Invisible Agent(Edwin L. Marin, 1942)

Full Body Massage(Nicolas Roeg, 1995)

Saya no iru tousizu(Saya:Perspective in Love;Kimata Akiyoshi=Izumi Seiji, 1986)

Race Street(Edwin L. Marin, 1948)

The Wife(Tom Noonan, 1994/5)

Molly(John Duigan, 1998/9)

The Phenom (Noah Buschel, 2015/6)

Live A Little, Love A Little(Norman Taurog, 1968)

Café Com Canela(Coffee with Cinnamon;Ary Rosa & Glenda Nicácio, 2017)

And Now Tomorrow(Irving Pichel, 1944)

On An Island With You(Richard Thorpe, 1948)

One More Tomorrow(Peter Godfrey, 1946)

Il tradimento(Passato che uccide)(Riccardo Freda, 1951)

The Magnificent Dope(Walter Lang, 1942)

Hands Up!(Clarence G. Badger, 1926)

Venus im Netz/Venus.de-Die bewegte Frau(Venus Talking;Rudolf Thome, 2000/1)

Les Bons Débarras(Good Riddance;Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)

Beverly of Graustark(Sidney Franklin, 1926)

Millennium(Michael Anderson, 1989)

Gibraltar(Fedor Ozep, 1938/9)

Great movies watched again:

JLG/JLG(Autoportrait de décembre)(Jean-Luc Godard, 1994)

Yuki fujin ezu(Mizoguchi Kenji, 1950)

The Ten Commandments(Cecil B. DeMille, 1956)

They Were Expendable(John Ford;coll.Robert Montgomery, 1945)

The Civil War(from How The West Was Won;John Ford, 1962)

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes(Billy Wilder, 1970)

The Bitter Tea of General Yen(Frank Capra, 1932)

Return of the Texan(Delmer Daves, 1952)

You Can’t Take It With You(Frank Capra, 1938)

Kiss Me Deadly(Robert Aldrich, 1955)

Desert Fury(Lewis Allen, 1947)

Japanese War Bride(King Vidor, 1951/2)

Storm Warning(Stuart Heisler, 1950/1)

The Circle(Frank Borzage, 1925)

There’s Always Tomorrow(Douglas Sirk, 1955/6)

A Romance of the Redwoods(Cecil B. DeMille, 1917)

Shockproof(Douglas Sirk, 1949)

Sergeant Rutledge(John Ford, 1960)

Bad Girl(Frank Borzage, 1931)

Interlude(Douglas Sirk, 1957)

The First Legion(Douglas Sirk, 1950/1)

Captain China(Lewis R. Foster, 1950)

Passage West(Lewis R. Foster, 1951)

The Invisible Man(James Whale, 1933)

Slávnyí malyí/Novgorodtsy(Boris Barnet, 1943)

Alyonka(Boris Barnet, 1961)

Hurry Sundown(Otto Preminger, 1966)

Gideon’s Day(Gideon of Scotland Yard;John Ford, 1958)

Anjô-ke no butôkai (Yoshimura Kôzaburô, 1947)

The World Moves On(John Ford, 1934)

Black Tuesday(Hugo Fregonese, 1954)

The Raid(Hugo Fregonese, 1954)

One Way Street(Hugo Fregonese, 1950)

Seven Thunders(Hugo Fregonese, 1957)

La Femme d’à côté(François Truffaut, 1981)

Double Messieurs(Jean-François Stévenin, 1986)

Fighter Squadron(Raoul Walsh, 1948)

State of the Union(Frank Capra, 1947/8)

The Lady Eve(Preston Sturges, 1940/1)L

Shchiedroe leto(Boris Barnet, 1950)

The Year My Voice Broke(John Duigan, 1987)

Liedolom(Boris Barnet, 1931)

All I Desire(Douglas Sirk, 1953)

Illegal(Lewis Allen, 1955)

L’Homme qui aimait les femmes(François Truffaut, 1977)

Very good movies watched again:

Crack-Up(Irving Reis, 1946)

Twilight For The Gods(Joseph Pevney, 1958)

Wide Sargasso Sea(John Duigan, 1992/3)

Ivanhoe(Richard Thorpe, 1951/2)

Polustanok(Boris Barnet, 1963)

Odnazhdy nochyu(Dark is the Night;Boris Barnet, 1944/5)

Mystery Submarine(Douglas Sirk, 1950)

Battle Hymn(Douglas Sirk, 1956/7)

Tomorrow Is Forever(Irving Pichel, 1945/6)

The Gypsy Moths(John Frankenheimer, 1969)

Amok(Fedor Ozep, 1934)

I’ll Be Seeing You(William Dieterle, 1944)

The Lady(Frank Borzage, 1925)

Torrents of Spring(Jerzy Skolimowski, 1989)

Starií naezdnik(The Old Jockey;Boris Barnet, 1940)

The Honeymoon Machine(Richard Thorpe, 1961)

The Flame(John H. Auer, 1947)

The Jack Knife Man(King Vidor, 1920)

Cheyenne (Raoul Walsh, 1947)

Dakota(Joseph Kane, 1945)

Singapore(John Brahm, 1947)

The Brasher Doubloon(John Brahm, 1947)

Junior Bonner(Sam Peckinpah, 1972)

Family Plot(Alfred Hitchcock, 1976)

La Femme et le Pantin(Jacques de Baroncelli, 1928/9)

My Reputation(Curtis Bernhardt, 1946)

The Reluctant Debutante(Vincente Minnelli, 1958)

Annushka(Boris Barnet, 1959)

Stranítsy zhizni(Boris Barnet & Aleksandr Macheret, 1946//8)

The Lady Pays Off(Douglas Sirk, 1951)

Schluss-akkord(Detlef Sierck=Douglas Sirk, 1936)

Whirlpool(Lewis Allen, 1959)

City That Never Sleeps(John H. Auer, 1953)

April! April!(Detlef Sierck, 1935)

Byzantium(Neil Jordan, 2012)

Too Many Husbands(Wesley Ruggles, 1940)

All The Brothers Were Valiant(Richard Thorpe, 1953)

Crosswinds(Lewis R. Foster, 1951)

Casbah(John Berry, 1948)

The Eagle and the Hawk(Lewis R. Foster, 1950)

Body of Lies(Ridley Scott, 2008)

La larga noche de los bastones blancos(Javier Elorrieta, 1979)

Wives Under Suspicion(James Whale, 1938)

Home Before Dark(Mervyn LeRoy, 1958)

Podvig razvedchika(Boris Barnet, 1947)

The Two Mrs. Carrolls(Peter Godfrey, 1947)

Barricade(Peter Godfrey, 1949/50)

Escape Me Never(Peter Godfrey, 1947)

The House of the Seven Hawks(Richard Thorpe, 1959)

Sugarfoot(Edwin L. Marin, 1950)

Room For One More(Norman Taurog, 1951/2)

El Paso(Lewis R. Foster, 1949)

Jamaica Run(Lewis R. Foster, 1953)

Vértigo(Antonio Momplet, 1946)

The Manchurian Candidate(John Frankenheimer, 1962)

#listas #lists #top 2022

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ofallingstar · 2 years

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Sirens (1994)

#sirens #sirens 1994 #john duigan #tara fitzgerald #elle macpherson #portia de rossi #kate fischer #wlw #mis gifs

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cinematicjourney · 1 year

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Sirens (1994) | dir. John Duigan

#sirens #john duigan #tara fitzgerald #elle macpherson #portia de rossi #kate fischer #mark gerber #hugh grant #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

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cemyafilmarsiv · 6 months

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Sirens directed by John Duigan

#Elle Macpherson #Sirens #John Duigan #Mystery Movies #12

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brookstonalmanac · 9 months

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Events 7.16 (after 1900)

1909 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia. 1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War. 1915 – At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law. 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia. 1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record. 1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane. 1950 – Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army. 1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium. 1951 – J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye. 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas. 1957 – KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people. 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. 1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. 1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. 1994 – The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter. 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. 2009 – Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention. 2013 – As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India. 2013 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict. 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Charlize Theron & Stuart Townsend in ’Head In The Clouds’, direc. John Duigan, 2004

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Roses from the Heart bonnet tributes to King Island

Group photo included shows from left to right:

Linda Payne, myself - Christina Henri, Janine Bayne and Lindy McAllister (née Davis).

One of our group, Kate Powell, took this photograph during the Mocktail Party. This was the final event of my Roses from the Heart, Bonnets and Boats Exhibition run in conjunction with Liz Virtue, Glen Derwent; potter Lee Farrell and members of the Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania.

I am indebted to Rob Virtue for the use of his wooden dinghy in which the bonnets acknowledging the women travelling aboard the Neva were placed. I deliberately chose the Glen Derwent verandah for the ‘farewell’ ceremony. Standing on the wooden boards with the sky in sight, the cold air closing in and wind gusts manifesting helped create more of an affinity with the elements.

The group photo enclosed was taken at the completion of Sharon Hutchison reading aloud each name of the women and children aboard the ill-fated Neva. Sharon is one of my Roses from the Heart bonnet making group that meets regularly at Glen Derwent. Throughout the Bonnets and Boats Exhibition Sharon and fellow group member, Ruth Binny, performed a short play that looked at the Neva experience though the eyes of two survivors, Rose Ann Dunn (referred to in the play as ‘Rosie’) and Ann Cullen.

Sharon has a lovely soft accent, perfect for the solemness of the occasion as she read out the women and their children’s names. A Canadian, Sharon hails from the Maritimes Region of Eastern Canada (most specifically Nova Scotia and Newfoundland). Living on Newfoundland, Sharon had a connection by way of place, to the transportation era via the Duke of Leinster voyage that left Dublin in 1789 with 102 convict men and boys and 12 convict women. The captain landed most of the contingent of convicts at Bay Bulls on July 15th and the following day 17 more convicts disembarked at Petty Harbour, Newfoundland. Documentation shows a number of the convicts appeared to have been suffering from typhus.[1]This history deserves being told in detail as a separate story. Amongst the literature on the Duke of Leinsterwell researched articles such as Jerry Barristers’ Convict Transportation and the Colonial State in Newfoundland, 1789[2] were most insightful. In the context of this article I suspect readers would be surprised to learn that on the 24th October 1789, 74 of the men and six of the women were returned to England, sailing out of St John’s harbour, aboard the brig the Elizabeth and Clare. According to Barbara Hall[3] 23 of those [male] convicts were included amongst the consignment of convicts travelling aboard the Queen from Cobh, County Cork, Ireland in 1791, destination New South Wales, Australia.Roses from the Heart bonnet tributes have been created by Canadian women acknowledging the 12 Duke of Leinster women. These bonnets have been displayed in the Colchester Museum, Truro. Since the enclosed group photo was taken the Roses from the Heart bonnets remembering the Neva women and children have arrived safely on King Island, travelling across Bass Strait on the John Duigan. Linda Payne has now collected the bonnets and the two sponsored ‘convict dolls’. A massive thank you to Linda/ King Island Lions Club for taking on the custodianship of these particular bonnet tributes. Also enormous thanks to Kate Powell whose tailoring and embroidery skills shine through in each ‘convict doll’ she creates from pre-loved porcelain dolls.It is a lovely coincidence that two of the Roses from the Heart bonnet makers who are part of my Glen Derwent, New Norfolk group have a relationship to King Island. They have both been keen to be involved in a tangible acknowledgment of the women and children aboard the ill-fated Neva through the sponsorship of a ‘convict doll’. Lindy McAllister counts herself fortunate to have been born on King Island. Her early childhood was spent on the island until the family moved away in the early 1950s, as she describes ‘to the big island’.

That sense of connection to one’s place of birth has an enormous bearing for so many and for Lindy that is no exception.

Following my decision to present two ‘convict dolls’, one to the King Island Lions Club for permanent display at the Reekara Community Centre and one to the Historical Society for permanent exhibiting at the King Island Historical Museum[3] Lindy was very keen to be a sponsor. It is easy to see from the photo that she chose a fine doll from her own collection to be converted into a ‘convict lass’, representing 20 year old Rose Ann Dunn from Cavan. Rose Ann was one of the six convict women to survive the shipwreck.[4]

Since joining the bonnet making get-togethers at Glen Derwent Lindy has been fashioning captivating Roses from the Heart bonnet tributes integrating doillies and tablecloths as embellishment. Excitingly during this time she has become aware she has a female convict ancestor of her very own.

On reading Lindy’s words it is obvious this ‘convict doll’ sponsorship is extremely meaningful to her.

“On leaving the island in the 50’s…. there was always a call for my birthplace. The opportunity arose in being involved with the honouring of these lost lasses by way of a memorial [‘convict doll’]. In having a daughter of my own 34 years ago, I bought several porcelain heritage dolls for her. Now knowing they weren’t exactly play toys I stored them away until now, I thought it would be poignant to donate this particular doll with the same character traits as [Rose Ann Dunn], being a lasting tribute for Rosanne a survivor of the Neva.

An overwhelming heartfelt feeling of nostalgia in sending her home to my birthplace has taken a part of my heart with her. Safe passage”.

Janine Bayne has a strong relationship with King Island and this bond inspired her to sponsor a ‘convict doll’ acknowledging the life of 64 year old Johanna Galvin from Limerick. Johanna was amongst the 224 that did not survive the Neva catastrophe.

Janine was drawn to Johanna Galvin’s circumstances. A widow and mother of 5 daughters, from 3 Mary Street, Limerick there was no social welfare support to fall back on. Her husband dead and a large family to feed times must surely have been tough. Research shows Johanna obtained money and wearing apparel under false pretences resulting in a sentence of 7 years Transportation to the colonies. Two of Johanna’s daughters, 30 year old Johanna Sweeney and already widowed 28 year old Bridget Hayes along with her infant child were also sentenced to 7 years transportation at the same time. Two weeks later a third daughter, Ellen Galvin, aged 19 received a 7 year sentence. Fortunately for Johanna’s daughter Bridget she was not aboard the Neva. Bridget was transported aboard the Roslin Castle which arrived safely in New South Wales in 1836.

Neither Johanna Galvin nor her daughter Johanna Sweeney survived the wreck of the Neva. Daughter, Ellen Galvin was amongst the six female convict Neva survivors.

Janine Bayne moved to King Island with her late husband Peter in 1980. In the many years Janine was on the island she embroiled herself within community life. Amongst the list of endeavours she undertook Janine was the King Island Drama and Regional Arts Secretary and thespian. In a lovely link to the site where the Roses from the Heart bonnets remembering the Neva women and children will be exhibited, Janine once worked at the Reekara School as the office lady, teacher aide and library aide.

Over the years Janine and her friend Judy Cooper ran the Penny Wickham Tea Rooms and both ladies also ran a busy cottage business, King Island Naturals, making jumpers and children’s bootees from their very own Moorit bred sheep.

It is significant that the Bayne and Payne families have been friends since the 1980s making Linda Payne’s guardianship of the bonnets and the ‘convict dolls’ on King Island special.

I am so grateful that Linda Payne understood my vision of having Roses from the Heart bonnet tributes to the Neva women and children exhibited permanently both in Cobh at the Cobh Heritage Centre and also on King Island. These token mementos mark the beginning and the end of the Neva’s journey. The symbolic bonnets embody the feelings of the bonnet makers as they stitched and embellished fabric into a tactile offering, recognition that these women and their children’s lives mattered.

Within this particular collection of Roses from the Heart bonnets I am mindful that a mere six convict women lived out of the 159 women travelling on board the Neva in 1835. In this month of March, a month designated to remembering the history of women it seems relevant to reflect on Australia’s second largest maritime disaster and be mindful of those who died. Also understanding that those who survived would have endured consequential trauma throughout their lives.

[1] colloquially referred to as gaol fever

[2] https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/10845/11667[3] Barbara Hall, The Irish Vanguard, The Convicts of the Queen, Ireland to Botany Bay, 1791, Barbara Hall, 2009, p xv

[3] Appreciation to Luke Agati for his interest in exhibiting ‘convict doll’ representing Rose Ann Dunn

[4] In The Wreck of the Neva, Mercier Press, 2013, Cal McCarthy and Kevin Todd allocate an entire chapter, Chpt 13, pps 222-241 to ‘Life after the Neva’. Further information on the 6 surviving convict women is included.

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