Paul Cox.
Australia.s film community has lost one of its most experienced filmmakers with the passing of Paul Cox on Saturday after a long battle with cancer. Cox, who was 76, created over 49 projects, including features, shorts and documentaries, during his lifetime. He was a standard bearer for the independent film scene in Melbourne, where he made his home after emigrating from The Netherlands in 1965. .With a keen cinematic eye, Paul.s ability to paint a vivid portrait of life, relationships and the world we live in has given us a remarkable time capsule of film to be valued by generations to come,. Film Victoria CEO Jenni Tosi said. .A determined and passionate individual, both personally and professionally, Paul saw the world through a unique lens which inspired his distinctive style of storytelling, whether narrative or factual. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and his many colleagues in the filmmaking community.
Australia.s film community has lost one of its most experienced filmmakers with the passing of Paul Cox on Saturday after a long battle with cancer. Cox, who was 76, created over 49 projects, including features, shorts and documentaries, during his lifetime. He was a standard bearer for the independent film scene in Melbourne, where he made his home after emigrating from The Netherlands in 1965. .With a keen cinematic eye, Paul.s ability to paint a vivid portrait of life, relationships and the world we live in has given us a remarkable time capsule of film to be valued by generations to come,. Film Victoria CEO Jenni Tosi said. .A determined and passionate individual, both personally and professionally, Paul saw the world through a unique lens which inspired his distinctive style of storytelling, whether narrative or factual. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and his many colleagues in the filmmaking community.
- 6/20/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Australian filmmaker Paul Cox, whose films Lonely Hearts and Man of Flowers earned him acclaim as the father of Australia’s indie cinema, has died. His passing was confirmed by the Australian Directors Guild. Though no cause of death was given, Cox had long battled cancer and underwent a liver transplant in 2009. Cox’s cinematic breakthrough came in 1981 with Lonely Hearts, a romantic comedy starring Wendy Hughes and Norman Kaye that won the AFI Award for best film. A…...
- 6/19/2016
- Deadline
Australian filmmaker Paul Cox has died at 76. Regarded as an icon of Aussie cinema — an especially impressive feat considering he was born in the Netherlands and didn’t make his way Down Under until he was 25 — Cox directed a total of 31 feature films: 12 documentaries and 19 narratives. “Innocence,” “Man of Flowers” and “A Woman’s Tale” were among his best-known works. No cause of death has been given, though Cox did survive cancer in 2009 after receiving a liver transplant.
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As noted in a comprehensive RogerEbert.com tribute, Cox once said in an interview that “to also realize we’re going to die one day, to ask questions about death is very important because that makes you more alive and it makes you more of a decent human being.” Full name Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox, he was born on April 16, 1940 in Venlo and had a...
Read More: Engaging With Film At Ebertfest
As noted in a comprehensive RogerEbert.com tribute, Cox once said in an interview that “to also realize we’re going to die one day, to ask questions about death is very important because that makes you more alive and it makes you more of a decent human being.” Full name Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox, he was born on April 16, 1940 in Venlo and had a...
- 6/19/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The Water Diviner and The Dressmaker dominated the feature categories at the 19th Australian Screen Sound Guild Awards held at The Establishment hotel ballroom in Sydney.
Russell Crowe.s drama won the prizes for feature film soundtrack of the year, best sound design and Assg members. choice for best film soundtrack.
Jocelyn Moorhouse.s dramedy was feted for best film sound recording and sound mixing .
The Syd Butterworth lifetime achievement award went to James Currie, whose career spans 38 years and includes A Month of Sundays, Charlie's Country, Red Dog, Ten Canoes, Man of Flowers, Incident at Raven.s Gate and Bad Boy Bubby.
The Principal was named best sound for a TV drama series while Deadline Gallipoli — episode 2 was best sound for a telefeature and Only the Dead best documentary sound.
The Greg Bell student encouragement award was given to Alex Gastrell, a recent North Sydney Tafe graduate. The full...
Russell Crowe.s drama won the prizes for feature film soundtrack of the year, best sound design and Assg members. choice for best film soundtrack.
Jocelyn Moorhouse.s dramedy was feted for best film sound recording and sound mixing .
The Syd Butterworth lifetime achievement award went to James Currie, whose career spans 38 years and includes A Month of Sundays, Charlie's Country, Red Dog, Ten Canoes, Man of Flowers, Incident at Raven.s Gate and Bad Boy Bubby.
The Principal was named best sound for a TV drama series while Deadline Gallipoli — episode 2 was best sound for a telefeature and Only the Dead best documentary sound.
The Greg Bell student encouragement award was given to Alex Gastrell, a recent North Sydney Tafe graduate. The full...
- 11/23/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Terminal cancer has not prevented the father of Australian indie cinema from making more films. The experience inspired his new work, Force of Destiny
Dutch-born film-maker Paul Cox is known as the father of independent cinema in Australia. An influential voice since the 1970s, Cox rose to acclaim in the 80s with thoughtful, humanistic, often semi-improvisational films such as Lonely Hearts, Man of Flowers and My First Wife.
Related: Lonely Hearts rewatched – endearing misfits find love on their own terms
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Dutch-born film-maker Paul Cox is known as the father of independent cinema in Australia. An influential voice since the 1970s, Cox rose to acclaim in the 80s with thoughtful, humanistic, often semi-improvisational films such as Lonely Hearts, Man of Flowers and My First Wife.
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- 9/24/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Paul Cox, a retrospective of whose films is a part of the 2012 edition of Iffk, is a familiar name to Indian viewers. Virtually every film of his has been shown at some Indian festival or the other. Besides, prior to his advent as a filmmaker, he had spent some time in Calcutta, a fact that he makes much of whenever he is in this country.
Paul Cox. Image Courtesy: onborrowedtime.com.au
Cox is one of the handful of people responsible for Australian cinema coming of age in the 1980s. This old-world romantic with his roots in The Netherlands and now in his early seventies, first visited Australia in 1963 as an exchange student and returned to settle there two years later. He started out as a photographer, which explains for the obvious care that goes into the visual aspect of his films; the tone, the depth, the composition, etc. He...
Paul Cox. Image Courtesy: onborrowedtime.com.au
Cox is one of the handful of people responsible for Australian cinema coming of age in the 1980s. This old-world romantic with his roots in The Netherlands and now in his early seventies, first visited Australia in 1963 as an exchange student and returned to settle there two years later. He started out as a photographer, which explains for the obvious care that goes into the visual aspect of his films; the tone, the depth, the composition, etc. He...
- 12/12/2012
- by Vidyarthy Chatterjee
- DearCinema.com
The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
- 11/2/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Taxpayer-Funded Screen Australia Backs Anti-Murdoch Project Rupert Murdoch seems unlikely to be bothered that unabashed left-wing writer Bob Ellis is co-writing a movie about the publisher entitled The News of the World. Murdoch might, however, ask why Australian taxpayers’ money is being spent to develop the project. Funding agency Screen Australia is giving money to Ellis and his co-writer Stephen Ramsey to support development. No Australian distributor is involved yet. Ellis told Mumbrella the biopic will trace Murdoch’s career from his purchase of the Sydney Daily Telegraph in the 1960s to his buying the now-defunct The News of the World and becoming a U.S. citizen so News Corp could own U.S. TV stations. Ellis’ blog regularly accuses Murdoch of using his media outlets to champion his causes. After penning the screenplay of Newsfront in 1978, Ellis had a burgeoning career in the 1980s with films such as Fatty Finn,...
- 8/30/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Just last week, Landon and I discussed the risk Orson Welles and Rko took in making Citizen Kane, likening it to a major studio making a fictional movie based on Rupert Murdoch at the height of his power. According to Twitch, it won’t be made by a major studio, but an indie outlet is pushing forward with a direct biopic of the media mogul. Screen Australia is investing funds into developing a script called The News of the World, which will focus on Murdoch’s purchase of that same-titled newspaper in the 1960s as a way to tell his life story. Judging by his recent legal problems, it may not come with a Hollywood ending. The screenplay will come from Bob Ellis (Newsfront, Man of Flowers) – who hasn’t been active in filmmaking since the mid-1990s – alongside Stephen Ramsay. The acute danger of a project like this is that it will be far too blunt...
- 8/29/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Something nice happened to us while we were preparing the schedule for Ebertfest 2012, which plays April 25-29 at the Virginia Theater (above) in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. We'd invited Patton Oswalt to attend with his "Big Fan. He agreed and went one additional step: "I'd like to personally choose a film to show to the students, and discuss it." That sounded to me like a splendid idea, embodying the spirit of this festival, which combines the love of good films with volunteerism. This is a rare festival where no business takes place. No films are bought or sold. No deals are signed. It's simplicity itself: We join in a classic 1920 palace, 1,600 of us, and watch a film as it should be seen, on a vast screen with perfect sound. Then we talk about them afterwards. The festival and the theater come to us through the work of countless volunteers from the University and the community of Champaign-Urbana.
- 3/27/2012
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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