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Going Down (1983 Film)
''Going Down'' is a 1983 Australian film about young people living in a share house.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p144 One writer said of it that "no film I've seen has better captured the chaotic heartbeat of the young sensation-seeker's Sydney." The film's one-liner reads: "Four women friends leave behind the feral days of youth after a night of uncontrolled excess in inner-city Sydney during the early 1980s." Release The film was self-distributed and ran for 14 weeks in Sydney but performed poorly in Melbourne. accessed 13 October 2012 References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Mann
Tracy Mann (born 1957) is an Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won an Australian Film Institute award in 1980 for movie '' Hard Knocks'' . She has also won awards in her home country for her work in mini-series ''Sword of Honour'' and 2005 movie comedy '' Hating Alison Ashley''. Early life Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1957, Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in 1970s soap opera '' The Box''. She is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing a character who ended up behind bars, deaf biker's moll Georgie Baxter in ''Prisoner''. Mann played the lead role of guitarist / singer Carol Howard in the 1984 ABC-TV series ''Sweet and Sour'', and also played the lead role in police drama ''Skirts'' (1990). Television Other TV appearances include ''Glenview High'', ''The Sullivans'', ''The Young Doctors'', ''Arcade'' (she played Susie Blair, Syd Heylen and Aileen Britton's daughter), ''Holiday Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Argue
David J. Argue (born 1959) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as Snowy in '' Gallipoli'' as well as the lead role in the 1993 film '' Hercules Returns'' and Dicko in the 1983 film ''Razorback''. Filmography Films Television *''The Restless Years'' (1977) *''Winners'' (1985) *'' Raw Silk'' (1988) *'' Pirates Island'' (1991) *''Cluedo'' (1992) *'' Stark'' (1993) *''Newlyweds Newlyweds are people who have recently entered into a marriage. The time frame during which a married couple is considered newlywed varies, but for social science research purposes it may be considered as up to six months into the marriage.Rebecca ...'' (1994) (Two episodes) *'' Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left'' (1994) *'' Correlli'' (1995) - episode "An Early Release" *'' The Beast'' (1996) *'' Water Rats'' (1997) - episode "One Dead Rat" *'' On the Beach'' (2000) External links * Australian male film actors Australian male television actors Living people Australian ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haydn Keenan
Haydn Keenan (c. 1951) is an Australian producer, writer and director. Select credits *''27A ''27A'' is a 1974 Australian drama film directed by Esben Storm. At the AFI Awards it won in the Best Actor (Robert McDarra) and Best Fiction (Haydn Keenan) categories. Plot Bill McDonald is a middle aged alcoholic who is sentenced to six week ...'' (1974) - producer *'' Going Down'' (1983) - producer, director *'' Pandemonium'' (1987) - director *''Persons of Interest: The Asio Files'' (2012) (documentary) accessed 21 November 2012 References External links *Street Smart Films - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Screen Online
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then National Library of Australia, Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Comedy-drama Films
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia Australian is an historic unincorporated community on the Fraser River in the Cariboo Country of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name is derived from that of the Australian Ranch, one of British Columbia's first ranching oper ..., an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Films
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazism, Nazi war crime, war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for 1983 Australian federal election, elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s English-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
