Cineteca Milano is renowned for its silent film holdings. With a collection of more than 35,000 Italian and international films dating back to the 1890s, it was both coincidental and fortuitous that, in December 2019, the archive began digitalisation.
Part of a national digitalisation program, the Cineteca decided rather than merely deposit their digitised materials into the holdings of the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome, they would release films online.
Matteo Pavesi, the director of the Cineteca Italiana, tells me they wanted to “make our oldest archival materials visible; we wanted to publish these holdings for everyone to enjoy”.
Since the Cineteca was shut in February, Cineteca’s staff of six have been releasing 20 films a week on their free streaming service.
Pre-coronavirus, Cineteca Milano attracted around 300 users to its site each day.
In March, the online archive attracted more than 4 million users.
Saving history
Film archives began to be established in 1933 as...
Part of a national digitalisation program, the Cineteca decided rather than merely deposit their digitised materials into the holdings of the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome, they would release films online.
Matteo Pavesi, the director of the Cineteca Italiana, tells me they wanted to “make our oldest archival materials visible; we wanted to publish these holdings for everyone to enjoy”.
Since the Cineteca was shut in February, Cineteca’s staff of six have been releasing 20 films a week on their free streaming service.
Pre-coronavirus, Cineteca Milano attracted around 300 users to its site each day.
In March, the online archive attracted more than 4 million users.
Saving history
Film archives began to be established in 1933 as...
- 5/19/2020
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Australian filmmaker P.J. Hogan has come full circle with his award-winning international hit comedy “Muriel’s Wedding.”
Not only is Hogan observing the 25th anniversary of the release in the U.S. this March, he was in New York in prepping pre-production on “Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical” before the coronavirus restrictions hit. The stage version scored a warm response from critics and audiences when it opened in Australia in 2017.
“It’s still very relevant — even more so,” said Hogan in a recent phone interview. “It’s all about self-esteem.”
Written and directed by Hogan and produced by his wife, filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse, “Muriel’s Wedding” was like a breath of fresh air. It not only launched Hogan’s career and fortified Moorhouse’s, “Muriel’s Wedding” also changed the careers of its stars Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.
Collette played the zaftig, socially awkward Muriel Heslop, who lives in the quiet Gold Coast town of Porpoise Spit.
Not only is Hogan observing the 25th anniversary of the release in the U.S. this March, he was in New York in prepping pre-production on “Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical” before the coronavirus restrictions hit. The stage version scored a warm response from critics and audiences when it opened in Australia in 2017.
“It’s still very relevant — even more so,” said Hogan in a recent phone interview. “It’s all about self-esteem.”
Written and directed by Hogan and produced by his wife, filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse, “Muriel’s Wedding” was like a breath of fresh air. It not only launched Hogan’s career and fortified Moorhouse’s, “Muriel’s Wedding” also changed the careers of its stars Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.
Collette played the zaftig, socially awkward Muriel Heslop, who lives in the quiet Gold Coast town of Porpoise Spit.
- 3/18/2020
- by Susan King
- Variety Film + TV
Jocelyn Moorhouse at the Raising Films Australia Screen Industry Forum. (Photo credit: Rosie Keogh)
Writer and director Jocelyn Moorhouse was the keynote speaker at yesterday’s Raising Films Australia Screen Industry Forum at Aftrs. The forum, held off the back of the organisation’s survey report, ‘Honey, I Hid the Kids!: Experiences of Parents and Carers in the Australian Screen Industry’, aimed to identify workable actions to address the needs of and issues faced by, parents and carers working in the Australian screen sector. Moorhouse’s speech is republished here with permission.
Hello everyone. It is an honour to be invited to speak to you today. I am a writer and director of movies and television. Some of the films I have either written, produced or directed include Proof, Muriel’s Wedding, Unconditional Love, How to Make an American Quilt, Peter Pan, Mental and The Dressmaker. I wanted to...
Writer and director Jocelyn Moorhouse was the keynote speaker at yesterday’s Raising Films Australia Screen Industry Forum at Aftrs. The forum, held off the back of the organisation’s survey report, ‘Honey, I Hid the Kids!: Experiences of Parents and Carers in the Australian Screen Industry’, aimed to identify workable actions to address the needs of and issues faced by, parents and carers working in the Australian screen sector. Moorhouse’s speech is republished here with permission.
Hello everyone. It is an honour to be invited to speak to you today. I am a writer and director of movies and television. Some of the films I have either written, produced or directed include Proof, Muriel’s Wedding, Unconditional Love, How to Make an American Quilt, Peter Pan, Mental and The Dressmaker. I wanted to...
- 12/7/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
The ABC and Screen Australia will fund documentary Making Muriel, following P.J. Hogan as he adapts his 1994 film Muriel.s Wedding into a musical produced by the Sydney Theatre Company and Global Creatures (Strictly Ballroom The Musical).
Directed by Nel Minchin (Matilda and Me), produced by Minchin and Ivan O.Mahoney (Hitting Home, Caged), and executive produced by Nial Fulton (Hitting Home, Matilda and Me) from In Films, Making Muriel will take viewers all the way to the musical's world premiere at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre in November 2017.
The rehearsal process will be weaved together with archival footage and interviews with Hogan, the film.s producers Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) and Lynda House, as well as the musical's cast.
.We are following up Nel Minchin.s wonderful documentary debut, Matilda and Me, with another musical theatre documentary about the making of a musical based on the hit film, Muriel.s Wedding,...
Directed by Nel Minchin (Matilda and Me), produced by Minchin and Ivan O.Mahoney (Hitting Home, Caged), and executive produced by Nial Fulton (Hitting Home, Matilda and Me) from In Films, Making Muriel will take viewers all the way to the musical's world premiere at Sydney's Roslyn Packer Theatre in November 2017.
The rehearsal process will be weaved together with archival footage and interviews with Hogan, the film.s producers Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) and Lynda House, as well as the musical's cast.
.We are following up Nel Minchin.s wonderful documentary debut, Matilda and Me, with another musical theatre documentary about the making of a musical based on the hit film, Muriel.s Wedding,...
- 5/8/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Joe Cinque's Consolation.
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
Melbourne International Film Festival revealed its full program yesterday, with a lineup that boasts over 345 films, including 24 world and 157 Australian premieres.
As previously announced.the festival will open with the world premiere of The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, the debut feature of Melbourne filmmaker Cris Jones, starring Xavier Samuel, Matilda Brown and Rachel Ward.
Abe Forsythe.s black comedy Down Under, set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, will screen as the festival.s Centrepiece Gala at the fest's midpoint.
Closing out the festival will be Cannes hit Hell or High Water, a neo-Western directed by David Mackenzie.
Among the Aussie drawcards is Joe Cinque.s Consolation, directed by Sotiris Dounoukos and based on the 2004 award-winning novel by Helen Garner. It will make its world premiere at the festival.
Other Aussie world debuts are.Bad Girl, The Family, Emo the Musical, Servant or Slave,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Margaret Pomeranz is on the hustings, trying to raise $25,000 to restore Jocelyn Moorhouse's 1991 film Proof, which launched the careers of Russell Crowe and Hugo Weaving.
Pomeranz, an ambassador for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Nfsa), made the first contribution on Pozible.
"I'm making the first donation because it was a bit rich to ask you guys to put money into this campaign, and me just sitting back and saying 'Hey, why don't you do it?'", Pomeranz said..
The veteran critic called Proof "an extraordinary debut feature by Jocelyn Moorhouse and producer Lynda House: two young women that took the Australian film industry by storm.".
"It's an intriguing exploration of one man's lack of trust in the world, and how he goes about achieving it. But does he really? Even though it's a story about a man, I don't think it could have been written or made by a man.
Pomeranz, an ambassador for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Nfsa), made the first contribution on Pozible.
"I'm making the first donation because it was a bit rich to ask you guys to put money into this campaign, and me just sitting back and saying 'Hey, why don't you do it?'", Pomeranz said..
The veteran critic called Proof "an extraordinary debut feature by Jocelyn Moorhouse and producer Lynda House: two young women that took the Australian film industry by storm.".
"It's an intriguing exploration of one man's lack of trust in the world, and how he goes about achieving it. But does he really? Even though it's a story about a man, I don't think it could have been written or made by a man.
- 5/17/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia.s decision to hand back the rights of 1,200 titles to the producers, effective July 1, will result in the reissue on DVD and pay TV of some films and TV productions that have long been out of circulation.
While few if any producers expect to get rich from regaining the rights, the move has been widely welcomed.
The agency has clarified that the concession applies to all projects, including features, miniseries, series and telemovies funded by the Film Finance Corp. and during Screen Australia.s first year, that were released or broadcast in the seven years prior to December 31 2008.
The handover has been brought forward by six months. All rights minus a 1% copyright fee revert back to producers.
Producer Matt Carroll is looking forward to exploring the potential of new revenue sources for Passion, his 1993 drama about composer Percy Grainger, which starred Richard Roxburgh. Beyond Films handled the film directed by Peter Duncan.
While few if any producers expect to get rich from regaining the rights, the move has been widely welcomed.
The agency has clarified that the concession applies to all projects, including features, miniseries, series and telemovies funded by the Film Finance Corp. and during Screen Australia.s first year, that were released or broadcast in the seven years prior to December 31 2008.
The handover has been brought forward by six months. All rights minus a 1% copyright fee revert back to producers.
Producer Matt Carroll is looking forward to exploring the potential of new revenue sources for Passion, his 1993 drama about composer Percy Grainger, which starred Richard Roxburgh. Beyond Films handled the film directed by Peter Duncan.
- 6/29/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The Australian Film Institute (AFI) have launched a new festival to showcase the local films of the past year vying for an Aacta (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award).
The Festival will run from 6 October to 14 November in Sydney and 11 October to 14 November in Melbourne and showcase the 21 feature films, as well as 12 non feature nominees including best short fiction film, Best short animation and Best feature length documentary in lead up for the inaugural Aacta Awards held in January 2012.
“Through Aacta,” Damian Trewhella, AFI Aacta CEO said, “we not only celebrate Australia’s best screen practitioners, but also engage audiences with our great stories; the Samsung AFI І Aacta Festival of Film provides a perfect platform for this at an exciting time for our screen industry.”
The festival aims to showcase the films to generate greater audience reach and engagement. “Having increased awareness of our screen industry...
The Festival will run from 6 October to 14 November in Sydney and 11 October to 14 November in Melbourne and showcase the 21 feature films, as well as 12 non feature nominees including best short fiction film, Best short animation and Best feature length documentary in lead up for the inaugural Aacta Awards held in January 2012.
“Through Aacta,” Damian Trewhella, AFI Aacta CEO said, “we not only celebrate Australia’s best screen practitioners, but also engage audiences with our great stories; the Samsung AFI І Aacta Festival of Film provides a perfect platform for this at an exciting time for our screen industry.”
The festival aims to showcase the films to generate greater audience reach and engagement. “Having increased awareness of our screen industry...
- 9/21/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Pusan International Film Festival
SYDNEY -- A milestone moment in Australia's race-relations history forms the backdrop of "September", a sensitively crafted coming-of-age story about the friendship between two teenage boys from opposite sides of the racial divide. First-time feature director Peter Carstairs and co-writer Ant Horn unspool the threads of the story slowly and deliberately, using painterly compositions and spare but strangely eloquent dialogue to create a powerful lament for the loss of youthful innocence.
There's a tranquility in the rhythms of the film -- at odds with the tumult of the characters' emotions -- that rewards those who lose themselves in it. "September", which screened in Toronto, should see modest success on the art house circuit when it is released in Australia on Nov. 29.
Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Clarence John Ryan) are 16-year-olds, growing up in 1968 in the wheat belt of outback Western Australia. They've been best mates for as long as they can remember, but as they mature into men, the simplicity of their friendship is sullied by the encroaching realities of a turbulent sociopolitical climate.
Ed goes to school, but Paddy, an Aboriginal boy, helps his father, Michael (Kelton Pell), do maintenance work on the property owned by Ed's taciturn dad, Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith).
September heralds spring and a multitude of changes: Ed starts showing interest in the new girl at school, Amelia (young up-and-comer Mia Wasikowska), and a famous traveling boxing troupe is coming to town, prompting Paddy and Ed to erect a makeshift ring and begin regular afternoon sparring sessions.
Crucially, a new law is passed requiring Aboriginal pastoral workers to be paid the same as their white counterparts. The legislation, meant to promote equality, instead backfires, with many Aborigines kicked off the farms when they can no longer be put to work in exchange for a bit of food and lodging.
Tension builds between Michael and Rick, who also have known each other since childhood, and the prejudices of the outside world expose fault lines in the friendship of their sons.
The film is not overtly political, allowing the focus to remain tight on the characters with the centerpiece prop, a boxing ring in a wheat field, serving as an understated symbol of the fight against injustice.
"September" is the first feature film produced by Tropfest, the successful short film festival that actor-director John Polson established in Australia in 1993 and last year expanded to the Tribeca Film Festival.
Working with a limited budget (funding was provided by Movie Network Channels), Carstairs and cinematographer Jules O'Loughlin let a simple story unfurl beneath vast skies and boundless horizons, giving it plenty of space to breathe.
SEPTEMBER
Hopscotch Films/Tropfest Feature Program
Credits:
Director: Peter Carstairs
Screenwriters: Peter Carstairs, Ant Horn
Producer: John Polson
Executive producers: Mark Bamford, Tony Forrest and Gary Hamilton
Director of photography: Jules O'Loughlin
Production designer: Sam Hobbs
Music: Roger Mason
Co-producers: Lynda House and Serena Paull
Costume designer: Cappi Ireland
Editor: Martin Connor
Cast:
Paddy: Clarence John Ryan
Ed: Xavier Samuel
Rick: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Michael: Kelton Pell
Leena: Lisa Flanagan
Eve: Alice McConnell
Amelia: Mia Wasikowska
Miss Gregory: Sibylla Budd
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
SYDNEY -- A milestone moment in Australia's race-relations history forms the backdrop of "September", a sensitively crafted coming-of-age story about the friendship between two teenage boys from opposite sides of the racial divide. First-time feature director Peter Carstairs and co-writer Ant Horn unspool the threads of the story slowly and deliberately, using painterly compositions and spare but strangely eloquent dialogue to create a powerful lament for the loss of youthful innocence.
There's a tranquility in the rhythms of the film -- at odds with the tumult of the characters' emotions -- that rewards those who lose themselves in it. "September", which screened in Toronto, should see modest success on the art house circuit when it is released in Australia on Nov. 29.
Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Clarence John Ryan) are 16-year-olds, growing up in 1968 in the wheat belt of outback Western Australia. They've been best mates for as long as they can remember, but as they mature into men, the simplicity of their friendship is sullied by the encroaching realities of a turbulent sociopolitical climate.
Ed goes to school, but Paddy, an Aboriginal boy, helps his father, Michael (Kelton Pell), do maintenance work on the property owned by Ed's taciturn dad, Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith).
September heralds spring and a multitude of changes: Ed starts showing interest in the new girl at school, Amelia (young up-and-comer Mia Wasikowska), and a famous traveling boxing troupe is coming to town, prompting Paddy and Ed to erect a makeshift ring and begin regular afternoon sparring sessions.
Crucially, a new law is passed requiring Aboriginal pastoral workers to be paid the same as their white counterparts. The legislation, meant to promote equality, instead backfires, with many Aborigines kicked off the farms when they can no longer be put to work in exchange for a bit of food and lodging.
Tension builds between Michael and Rick, who also have known each other since childhood, and the prejudices of the outside world expose fault lines in the friendship of their sons.
The film is not overtly political, allowing the focus to remain tight on the characters with the centerpiece prop, a boxing ring in a wheat field, serving as an understated symbol of the fight against injustice.
"September" is the first feature film produced by Tropfest, the successful short film festival that actor-director John Polson established in Australia in 1993 and last year expanded to the Tribeca Film Festival.
Working with a limited budget (funding was provided by Movie Network Channels), Carstairs and cinematographer Jules O'Loughlin let a simple story unfurl beneath vast skies and boundless horizons, giving it plenty of space to breathe.
SEPTEMBER
Hopscotch Films/Tropfest Feature Program
Credits:
Director: Peter Carstairs
Screenwriters: Peter Carstairs, Ant Horn
Producer: John Polson
Executive producers: Mark Bamford, Tony Forrest and Gary Hamilton
Director of photography: Jules O'Loughlin
Production designer: Sam Hobbs
Music: Roger Mason
Co-producers: Lynda House and Serena Paull
Costume designer: Cappi Ireland
Editor: Martin Connor
Cast:
Paddy: Clarence John Ryan
Ed: Xavier Samuel
Rick: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Michael: Kelton Pell
Leena: Lisa Flanagan
Eve: Alice McConnell
Amelia: Mia Wasikowska
Miss Gregory: Sibylla Budd
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/6/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Geoffrey Rush is in negotiations to join Russell Crowe in the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award winning novel Eucalyptus. Rush would play the Australian widower Holland, a man who plants hundreds of different eucalyptus trees on his plantation west of Sydney. When his daughter Ellen comes of age, Holland tests all potential suitors by making them correctly identify every single species. Only one man succeeds, but by then Ellen already has lost her heart to a handsome stranger played by Crowe, who has entranced her with stories not of trees but about people. The film is being directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse, written by Michelle Joyner and Moorehouse with Uberto Pasolini and Lynda House producing. Fox Searchlight Pictures is financing and distributing. Rush is repped by CAA.
- 9/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Russell Crowe is going back to his roots. The Oscar-winning actor is in negotiations to topline the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award-winning novel Eucalyptus. The project would reunite Crowe with director Jocelyn Moorhouse, for whom he starred in 1991's Proof. Fox Searchlight Pictures is financing and distributing, with Uberto Pasolini and Lynda House producing. House also produced Proof. Michelle Joyner adapted the book and wrote the original screenplay, with Moorhouse coming in to work on the script. Searchlight's Zola Mashariki is understood to be overseeing for the studio. Searchlight declined comment.
- 7/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Russell Crowe is going back to his roots. The Oscar-winning actor is in negotiations to topline the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award-winning novel Eucalyptus. The project would reunite Crowe with director Jocelyn Moorhouse, for whom he starred in 1991's Proof. Fox Searchlight Pictures is financing and distributing, with Uberto Pasolini and Lynda House producing. House also produced Proof. Michelle Joyner adapted the book and wrote the original screenplay, with Moorhouse coming in to work on the script. Searchlight's Zola Mashariki is understood to be overseeing for the studio. Searchlight declined comment.
- 7/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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