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...uncolonized by the New Hollywood. The best directors have been wooed to the U.S. to make the same kinds of films but bigger, and without all those people who talk funny and drive on the wrong side of the road. Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful...
Directed by Bruce Beresford...
Screenplay by Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy and David Stevens
...GETTING OF WISDOM Directed by Bruce Beresford Screenplay by Eleanor Witcombe...
...school is a microcosm of colonial society: the rich Anglified girls lording it over a poor Aussie with a quick wit. Laura doesn't fit: she is too thin and gawky, too smart and eager. In an attempt to see Laura's world through her eyes, Director Beresford turns the other girls into vaudeville minxes and betrays a weakness for the ingratiating visual cliché. But the film sparks to life when Laura falls in with-and into heroine-worshiping love with-Evelyn (Hilary Ryan), a beautiful, dark-eyed senior classwoman who is everything Laura hopes to become...