May 2010
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Our Production Company: Parallel Cinema →
Omission is only the beginning. We have more stories to tell about the lives of the others. These strange aliens formed in other cultures who tear themselves away from their roots to start again. We want to tell stories both here in Australia and back in Bangladesh and India.
To warehouse and support our work, we have set up a production entity called Parallel Cinema (www.parallelcinema.com)....
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Announcing Scott Walmsley as Omission Editor →
This is the best part of making a film! I’m really happy to announce that Scott Walmsley (AFTRS ’08) will be joining the team to edit Omission when we wrap in July.
Scott has done excellent work in long form documentaries like the Art of Walking for Tourism Victoria, and…
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Nikhil Banerjee Interview 1985 →
So much wisdom it hurts. Excellent advice on what it takes to become good.
I know he had a legendary temper; did he ever actually lose his temper with you and scold or beat you?
Yes, yes, he has done it to everybody. Even, you know, he was a court musician of Maihar, a small state, he used to teach the king old dhrupad compositions, and one day he actually threw the tabla hammer at him, at the...
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Interview with William Hurt →
Paddy Chayefsky owned his own work. No writer owns his own work. They disenfranchised all artists. They started it in the Twenties and Thirties by buying the writers’ work. The first thing they did to de-ball all of us was buy the writer’s work. They can change any word they want to, they can still slap his name up there and they can still say it’s his idea, that he agreed what they did to...
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An interview with Ritwik Ghatak →
When you prepare to make a film and choose subjects, what do you look for and look at?
People. I look at the struggle and misery of contemporary life. And try to say that “to the best of my ability”. My only concern is men and women of my country. I have nothing else. It does not matter whether my countrymen accept me or reject me. My only subject is my men and women. What else have I got?
What...
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Michael Haneke's Das Wiesse Band (Bright Lights... →
The film itself says nothing about fascism. We simply depict a group of children who absolutize the ideals preached to them by their parents. On the basis of these ideals, the children judge their parents. And when they realize that the parents do not live by the rules they preach, the children punish the parents.3
Michael Haneke
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Interview with Béla Tarr →
You know it’s a long way from my first film till now (laughs). It’s step by step, from film to film, everything is moved a little bit, changed a little bit . . .I often have the feeling that we make always the same movie, just always a little bit better. We try each time to make a little bit better. So the style was never a question, you know, it’s coming from the last movie,...
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Omission Film: Announcing Adam Howden as Omission... →
It’s with great pleasure that we announce that Adam Howden (www.adamhowden.com) will be the Director of Photography for Omission.
Adam (AFTRS Cinematography 09, 7 ACS Awards) has shot such world class short films as Violet (world premiering at Cannes Cinema des Antipodes Program 2010),…
We just brought on a DOP for a short film that I’m making.