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Exits (film)
''Exits'' is a 1979 Australian drama-documentary directed by Paul Davies (writer), Paul Davies. It centres on the effect of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, 1975 dismissal of the Labor Government of Gough Whitlam on a handful of characters wandering around Melbourne. It is the earliest of several treatments of the event, which include ''Home on the Range (1982 film), Home on the Range'' (Gil Scrine, 1982) and ''The Dismissal (miniseries), The Dismissal'' (1983).http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/readingroom/serial/AJCS/1.2/Cunningham.html "The only filmic treatments of the events of 11 November 1975, ''Exits'' (Paul Davies, Pat Laughren, Carolyn Howard, 1979) and ''Home on the Range'' (Gil Scrine, 1982) circulate marginally as independent 'political' films, each with tangential, though significant, modes of intersection with the politics of the dismissal. ''Exits'' situates Gough Whitlam, Whitlam's dismissal in terms of its existential impact on the lives of 'ordinary' people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Davies (writer)
Paul Michael Davies is an Australian television script writer, novelist and playwright, who has worked on a number of Crawford Productions, Crawford television series. He has written several plays for the Theatreworks (Melbourne), TheatreWorks theatre company, a leader in staging situation theatre. Television work Paul Michael Davies was born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales in 1949. He took his BA with Honours from the University of Queensland and his MA in 1973. He began tutoring at James Cook University before taking a script writing role at Crawford Productions, Crawford Television Productions in Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia in 1974. He was a script editor and writer on the police television series, Homicide (Australian TV series), Homicide (1974-1975), before moving to work on the Crawford series The Box (Australian TV series), The Box (1975-1976) and The Sullivans (1976-1978). He also contributed to scripts for Against the Wind (miniseries), Against the Wind (1978), Sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by John Kerr (governor-general), Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia, governor-general who then commissioned the List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition, leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party, as prime minister to hold 1975 Australian federal election, a new election. It has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history. The Labor Party under Gough Whitlam came to power in the 1972 Australian federal election, election of 1972, ending 23 consecutive years of Coalition (Australia), Liberal-Country Coalition government. Labor won a majority in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives of 67 seats to the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then- governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general. Whitlam was an air navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force for four years during World War II, and worked as a barrister following the war. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1952, becoming a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Werriwa. Whitlam became deputy leader of the Labor Party in 1960, and in 1967, after the retirement of Arthur Calwell, was elected leader of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of Local Government Areas of Victoria#Municipalities of Greater Melbourne, 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong Ranges, and the Macedon R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home On The Range (1982 Film)
"Home on the Range" ( Roud No. 3599) is an American folk song, sometimes called the "unofficial anthem" of the American West. Dr. Brewster M. Higley (also spelled Highley) of Smith County, Kansas, wrote the lyrics as the poem "My Western Home" in 1872 or 1873,Moanfeldt, Samuel (May 1935). "Report of Samuel Moanfeldt of His Investigation o the Music Publishers Protection Association" Reprinted in Mechem, Kirke, "The Story of Home on the Range" (pp. 313-339), ''Kansas Historical Quarterly'', 17(4), pp. 332-339, November 1949. https://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1949/1949november_mechem.pdf#page=24 with at least one source indicating it was written as early as 1871. On June 30, 1947, "Home on the Range" became the Kansas state song. In 2010, members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 western songs of all time. A rendition of the song is one of the seven fight songs of the University of Kansas, and is traditionally played by the Marching Jayhawks uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Scrine
Antidote Films is a Brisbane-based independent film distributor, formerly known as Gil Scrine Films, specialising in arthouse films and social documentaries. Established in 1973 as a vehicle for distributing the documentaries of Gil Scrine, today the company is the Australian distributor for films from all over the world. History Faced with limited distribution options for his political documentary ''The Bad Society'' (1973) profiling the late Jim Cairns, producer Gil Scrine decided to distribute the film himself. He created Gil Scrine Films as the commercial entity to represent the film. The company continued to serve as theatrical representation for Scrine’s documentaries over the next decade; ''Home On The Range'' (1982), ''Buried Alive: The Story of East Timor'' (1989), ''Strangers In Paradise'' (1989), and ''A Thousand Miles From Care'' (1991). In 1992 the Canadian producers of '' Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media'' – an independent documentary in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dismissal (miniseries)
''The Dismissal'' is an Australian television miniseries, first screened in 1983, that dramatised the events of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. It was partly written and directed by the noted film makers George Miller and Phillip Noyce as well as ''Mad Max'' screenwriter Terry Hayes, with cinematography by Dean Semler. The miniseries comprised six one-hour episodes. It was originally broadcast by Network Ten, beginning on 6 March 1983 (the day after the 1983 federal election), and was also broadcast in the United Kingdom. It was voted the 19th-best Australian television show on the '' 50 Years 50 Shows'' list. In the 1970s, there were several attempts to make a film based on the same story called ''King Hit,'' written by Erwin Rado and Bruce Grant. Phillip Noyce and Paul Cox were both attached as directors for a time.David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p212 Cast * Max Phipps as the dismissed Labor Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Films
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: International Major events * March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, '' Take Down''. * March 5 – Production begins on '' The Empire Strikes Back''. * March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. * May 25 – '' Alien'', a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. * May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke. * May 31 – '' The Muppet Movie'', Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom. * June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. * June 27 – 20th Century Fox P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
