Fred Schepisi

Interviews

Tom Ryan

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781496811479
• eBook ISBN: 9781496811486
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

In the New Yorker, Stephen Schiff has described Fred Schepisi (b. 1939) as "probably the least-known great director working in the mainstream American cinema—a master storyteller with a serenely muscular style that can make more flamboyant moviemakers look coarse and overweening." Schepisi's launch in Australia during the country's film renaissance of the 1970s and his ongoing international work have rightfully earned him a reputation as an actors' director. But he has also become a skillful stylist, forging his own way as he works alongside a talented team of collaborators.

This volume includes twenty interviews with Schepisi and two with longtime collaborators, cinematographer Ian Baker and composer Paul Grabowsky. The interviews trace the filmmaker's career from his beginnings in advertising, through his two early Australian features—The Devil's Playground and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith—to his subsequent work in the United States and beyond on films as various as Plenty, Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark, The Russia House, Six Degrees of Separation, Empire Falls, Last Orders, and Eye of the Storm. Schepisi's films are diverse thematically and visually. In what is effectively a master class on film direction, Schepisi discusses his creative choices and his work with actors and collaborators behind the scenes. In the process, he provides a goldmine of insights into his films, his filmmaking style, and what makes him tick as an artist.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

10BA tax incentive scheme

20th Century Fox

2000 Weeks (1969)

Adams, Phillip

Adventures of Barry McKenzie, The (1972)

Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)

Alien (1979)

Allen, Karen

Allen, Woody

All in the Family (TV series, 1971–1979)

Altered States (1980)

Altman, Robert

Alvin Purple (1973)

Andorra (novel, 1997)

Ann-Margret

Armstrong, Gillian

As I Lay Dying (novel, 1930)

Associated Film Distribution (AFD)

Assumption College, Kilmore

Atkins, Eileen

Atlas Shrugged (novel, 1957)

Australian Actors Equity

Australian Art Orchestra

Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)

Australian Experimental Film Fund

Australian Film, Television, and Radio School (AFTVRS)

Australian Film Development Corporation (AFDC)

Australian Film Institute (AFI)

Australia’s “film renaissance”

Avedon, Richard

Ayers Rock

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Backroads (1977)

Baker, Ian

Ball of Fire (1941)

Barker, Ian

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Bazin, Andre

Beatles, The

B.E.F. Distributors (British Empire Films)

Beilby, Peter

Beresford, Bruce

Bergman, Ingmar

Big Bend National Park, Texas

Big Chill, The (1983)

Bilcock, Jill

Billy Bathgate (1991)

Binoche, Juliette

Bisset, Jacqueline

Blair, Ron

Blue Danube, The (waltz, 1866)

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Bowie, David

Boyd, Russell

Brammer, Graham

“Breaker” Morant (1980)

Breckman, Andy

Brickman, Marshall

Brides of Christ (TV series, 1991)

Bruce Clarke’s Jingle Workshop

Bryson, John

Bryson cinema, Melbourne

Buddy Holly Story, The (1978)

Bunuel, Luis

Burke, Simon

Burstall, Tim

Burwell, Carter

Busey, Gary

Caine, Michael

Cameron, Peter

Canadian National Film Board

Cannes Film Festival

Cannon Films

Cantrill, Arthur and Corinne

Carden Advertising, Melbourne

Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974)

Caswell, Robert

Catcher in the Rye, The (novel, 1951)

Caulfield, Michael

Chamberlain, A...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Filmography
• Fred Schepisi
• Devil’s Playground: An Interview with Fred Schepisi
• Playboy Interview: Fred Schepisi
• Fred Schepisi: The Australian Director Talks about His New Controversial Film, Barbarosa
• Altered States in the Great White North
• Fred Schepisi: Taking Hollywood by Drizzle
• Man of Plenty
• Man of Plenty
• Dialogue on Film: Fred Schepisi
• The Making of Evil Angels: Director Fred Schepisi Talks About Private Moments, Public Realities and Dingoes
• The Man Meryl Streep Trusts
• Fred Schepisi
• Fred Schepisi: “Pushing the Boundaries”
• A Cinematic Gallant
• Last Orders: An Interview with Fred Schepisi
• Fred Schepisi on Last Orders
• Fred Schepisi on It Runs in the Family
• Shooting Dialogue as Action—An Interview with Fred Schepisi
• All against One and One against All: Fred Schepisi’s Outsiders
• Fred Schepisi on Making Movies—“What I’m Most Interested in—Always—Is the Humanity of the Piece”
• Appendices
• Additional Resources
• Index