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Tim Burstall est un Réalisateur, Scénariste, Producteur, Second Unit First Assistant Director et Ecrivain additionnel né le 20 avril 1927 à Stockton-on-Tees (Royaume-uni)
Tim Burstall AM (20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for the motion picture Alvin Purple.
Burstall was a key figure in Australian postwar cinema and was instrumental in rebuilding the Australian film industry at a time when it had been effectively dead for years. He created groundbreaking Australian films including Stork, Alvin Purple, End Play, Eliza Fraser, The Last of the Knucklemen and the 1986 adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel Kangaroo.
Burstall also launched the film careers of many well-known actors including Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, Graeme Blundell, Jack Thompson, John Waters and Judy Davis. His wife, Betty Burstall, an important figure in her own right, founded the pioneering La Mama Theatre in Melbourne in the late 1960s. Many leading Australian 'new wave' playwrights including David Williamson had their first successes there, and Burstall was an integral part of the fertile creative scene that centred on the theatre.
Speaking just after Burstall's death, Williamson said that Burstall "couldn't stomach" Australia's lack of a film industry. "He was determined to do something about it and he had the energy and spirit to do it. (He) was a very important cultural figure: highly intelligent, widely read, with a succinct and often highly controversial opinion on everything."
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Naissance 20 avril 1927 à Stockton-on-Tees (Royaume-uni)
Mort 19 avril 2004 (à 76 ans) à Melbourne (Australie)
Mort 19 avril 2004 (à 76 ans) à Melbourne (Australie)
Tim Burstall AM (20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for the motion picture Alvin Purple.
Burstall was a key figure in Australian postwar cinema and was instrumental in rebuilding the Australian film industry at a time when it had been effectively dead for years. He created groundbreaking Australian films including Stork, Alvin Purple, End Play, Eliza Fraser, The Last of the Knucklemen and the 1986 adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel Kangaroo.
Burstall also launched the film careers of many well-known actors including Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, Graeme Blundell, Jack Thompson, John Waters and Judy Davis. His wife, Betty Burstall, an important figure in her own right, founded the pioneering La Mama Theatre in Melbourne in the late 1960s. Many leading Australian 'new wave' playwrights including David Williamson had their first successes there, and Burstall was an integral part of the fertile creative scene that centred on the theatre.
Speaking just after Burstall's death, Williamson said that Burstall "couldn't stomach" Australia's lack of a film industry. "He was determined to do something about it and he had the energy and spirit to do it. (He) was a very important cultural figure: highly intelligent, widely read, with a succinct and often highly controversial opinion on everything."
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La randonnée tragique (1988)
, 1h40Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Thriller, Action
Acteurs Lindsay Wagner, Tom Skerritt, Constance McCashin, Joanna Cassidy, Janne Mortil, Andrew Kavadas
Note50%
Quatre femmes jouent à un jeu terrifiant du chat et de la souris lorsqu'elles découvrent une cachette néo-nazie en faisant un voyage à travers les montagnes de la Sierra.
, 1h42Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Drame
Thèmes L'enfance
Acteurs Sigrid Thornton, Anne-Louise Lambert, John Stanton, Robert Coleby, Todd Boyce, Ron Haddrick
Note65%
Magwitch is sentenced to life in New South Wales. He is put on a chain gang run by Solomon Tooth and eventually amasses a fortune.
Kangaroo (1986)
, 1h50Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Drame
Acteurs Colin Friels, Judy Davis, John Walton, Julie Nihill, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Peter Hehir
Note61%
In 1922, an English writer (Colin Friels) migrates to Australia with his wife (Judy Davis). There he resists joining both a paramilitary group and a socialist group, is caught in a riot, sees a death and loses love and friendship.
The Naked Country (1985)
Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Acteurs Rebecca Gilling, John Stanton, Ivar Kants, John Jarratt
Note53%
Attack Force Z (1982)
, 1h33Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Origine Australie
Genres Drame, Guerre, Action
Thèmes La mer, Transport, Politique
Acteurs Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, John Phillip Law, John Waters, Chris Haywood, Sylvia Chang
Note54%
En 1945, détroit de Sambalang. Un officier japonais qui avait tenté de rejoindre les Alliés est retenu prisonnier sur une petite île. Six hommes sont envoyés pour le retrouver le plus rapidement possible…
Duet for Four (1982)
, 1h37Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Acteurs Michael Pate, Wendy Hughes, Michael Preston, Diane Cilento, Sigrid Thornton, Arthur Dignam
Note59%
A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take over his toy business.
The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)
, 1h33Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Drame
Acteurs Gerard Kennedy, Michael Preston, Peter Hehir, Dennis Miller, Michael Caton, Steve Bisley
Note68%
The story involves a gang of rough miners. Tom (Peter Hehir) turns up at the mine looking for a place to hide. He allies himself with the mining foreman Tarzan (Gerard Kennedy) before the big fight.
End Play (1976)
, 1h54Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Thriller
Thèmes La mer, Transport
Acteurs George Mallaby, John Waters, Delvene Delaney, Bud Tingwell, Belinda Giblin, Sheila Florance
Note63%
Hitchhiker Janine Talbort is picked up and murdered by an unseen assailant. Mark Gifford, a merchant sailor on leave, then disposes of the body, attracting the suspicion of his wheelchair bound brother Robert. The police become suspicious of both brothers, who are rivals over their half-cousin, Margaret.
Eliza Fraser (1976)
, 2h10Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Drame, Comédie, Aventure
Thèmes La mer, Transport
Acteurs Susannah York, Trevor Howard, John Castle, John Waters, Abigail, Gerard Kennedy
Note57%
In 1836, Captain James Fraser, and his young wife, Eliza Fraser, sail from Sydney on the Stirling Castle. Captain Rory McBryde, the most notorious rake in New South Wales, manages to get on board and tries to seduce Eliza. Captain Fraser stops off at the penal colony of Moreton Bay which is run by Captain Fyans, who tries to seduce convict Bracefell. Bracefell escapes and hides in Eliza's room; Eliza sleeps with him, thinking he is McBryde, but is not unhappy when she sees who it is. She helps Bracefell escape.
Petersen (1974)
, 1h47Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Drame
Acteurs Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Wendy Hughes, Belinda Giblin, Arthur Dignam, Bud Tingwell
Note64%
Tony Petersen is an electrical tradesman and former football star who is studying arts at the University of Melbourne, and majoring in English. Despite being married to adoring wife Susie, he is having an affair with his lecturer, Trish Kent, and has a fling with student Moira as part of a protest. Trish's husband Charles fails Petersen in his exams and Trish leaves for Oxford. Petersen rapes Trish and returns to his old life.
Alvin Purple (1973)
, 1h37Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Comédie
Thèmes La mer, Sexualité, Transport, Erotique
Acteurs Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran, Abigail, Jacki Weaver, Christine Amor, Dennis Miller
Note55%
Libido (1973)
, 1h58Réalisé par Tim Burstall, Fred Schepisi
Genres Drame
Acteurs Judy Morris, Jack Thompson, Arthur Dignam, Robyn Nevin, John Williams, Penne Hackforth-Jones
Note59%
The four segments of the film average about 30 minutes in length and are presented in the following order.
Stork (1971)
, 1h25Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, Graeme Blundell, Helmut Bakaitis, Madeleine Orr, Dennis Miller
Note57%
Stork is a 6-foot 7 hypochondriac who dreams of revolution and works at General Motors Holden. He is sacked from his job after doing a strip tease at work and goes to live in a share house in Carlton with his friend Westy and two trendy young men, Tony and Clyde, who share the same girlfriend, Anna. Stork loses his virginity to Anna and falls in love with her.
Two Thousand Weeks (1969)
, 1h30Réalisé par Tim Burstall
Genres Drame
Acteurs Mark McManus, Jeanie Drynan, Anne Charleston, Graeme Blundell
Note59%
Will, a writer in his thirties, faces a crisis in his life when he has to choose between his wife and mistress. He is also on the fence about choices in his professional life, something that is accentuated when he meets a childhood friend who has become a successful TV producer in England. He calculates he has two thousand weeks left in his life to achieve success.