Word: gallipoli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Australian films vaulted to world prominence a few years ago, at the heart of the action was screenwriter David Williamson, whose credits include Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously. Like many a successful artist, Williamson apparently discovered that only part of his soul was committed to artistic integrity. The rest lusted for wealth, fame, power and a sweeping view of Sydney's harbor. This confrontation with the dark side is the central theme of Emerald City, Williamson's winsomely cynical comedy of manners among the media hucksters Down Under. It is now enjoying a deft, engaging production...
...Rothschilds, had been prosperous merchant bankers in Frankfurt since the 16th century. When Jimmy's grandfather Adolph came to London in 1895, he came as a millionaire and bought a mansion off Park Lane. Jimmy's father Frank, who changed his name to Goldsmith, went to Oxford, fought at Gallipoli, sat in Parliament, but found London's wartime anti-German emotions so painful that he moved to France, married a French wife and prospered in the hotel business. He lived in a world of yachts and limousines and casinos, and so did the son born in 1933, Jimmy. When...
Since that time, the hero from Down Under has been busy redefining the meaning of the word "cool" in such films as The Year of Living Dangerously, Mrs. Soffel, Gallipoli, and Mutiny on the Bounty. Last week, as part of a massive promotional campaign for his new film Lethal Weapon, Gibson talked to a group of unheroic media folks in a New York hotel room...
What: No--I mean, in fact in Mrs. Soffel, Tim, in all your other American films, and Gallipoli as well...it seems like in this film, if you'll pardon my inference, you've gone back to the kind of role you first...
...Gallipoli...