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Amiel Courtin-Wilson's award winning feature documentary BASTARDY has its theatrical season around Australia at Palace Cinemas from 25 June...
Jack Charles is one of Australia's forgotten treasures.
At age 58, Jack is addicted to heroin and living on the streets. Absolutely comfortable with his lifestyle, Jack supports himself with a career as a notorious cat burglar.
For forty years, and with infectious humour and optimism, Jack has juggled a life of crime with another successful career - acting.
Jack founded the first Aboriginal theatre company, and since the 1960s, has performed with Australia's most renowned actors and directors in feature films, TV series and hundreds of plays.
Filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson follows Jack for over seven years, gradually blurring the line between director and accomplice as Jack continually traverses the criminal and acting worlds.
However, the law finally catches up with Jack. When he faces a jail sentence he may not survive, he is forced to decide if he can go straight for the first time in his life.
Provocative, funny, and profoundly moving, Bastardy is the inspirational story of one of the most unsung talents in Australian film and theatre; a self-proclaimed Robin Hood of the streets - Jack Charles.
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Q&A session with Jack Charles, Amiel Courtin-Wilson hosted by John Safran
BASTARDY Q&A Session Melbourne
Special Q&A session with Jack Charles, Amiel Courtin-Wilson hosted by John Safran on Thursday 25 June 6:30pm Kino Cinema, 5 Collins St Melbourne. Book Now!
palacecinemas.com.au
Host:BASTARDY | A Film by Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Time:6:30PM Thursday, June 25th
Location:Kino Cinema
Looking forward to this!
awesome!
should be grouse. john safran and amiel are old friends, so i'm looking forward to seeing what the line of questioning will be.
sounds innarestin
this pretty much sums up Gran Torino
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tonight.
7pm is sold out. apparently another screening at 9pm without q&a
This film features some sweet photo retouching by yours truly.
did you do the mugshots, GA?
some, yah
grouse. i love that little string of his mugshots.
Can't wait to see this. Wish I was going tonight.
Going 7pm, looking forward to it and the q&a
The film was great. It is cool seeing 'the hood' on the big screen and learning more about some of the characters you've encountered over the years. The story of Jack's brother is devastating (the guy who walks around Smith St with his arm over his head).
Q&A was pretty informal (almost lazy) but there were some moments of gold when a former member of the Kew CIB reminisced about his past chasing Jack.
Anyone else go?
I didn't make it last night, which I was a bit bummed about because I would have liked to hear the q&a. MountainMan went though, and I saw it at MIFF last year and once on DVD since. I wish I had been there to hear the cop talk about Jack.
That copper was great! He totally dug it and the bit of banter he had with Jack was awesome.
Bump for go see.
saw this the other week
mostly good
jack charles is a great subject for a doco
but too much coco rosie
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did they just cut the last 30 minutes? or was it edited throughout? it definitely felt like they just bolted on the end credits so that probably explains it.
Surely the filmmaker did the cuts and wouldn't have just hacked the last 30 minutes off? Unless he was too busy. That short Cicada is absolutely tremendous.
I haven't watched the cut version, but I wouldn't be surprised if the scene where he shoots up had to be removed. I had trouble watching it.
hhh, where did you see Cicada? I agree it's tremendous, it's the best thing I've ever seen on screen. Totally ground breaking stuff. Trying to get a copy to show people.
A little more from Uncle Jack on the Radio National Book Show.
Amiel's new film Hail is at the Venice Film Festival. You can watch the press conference for it here
looks fantastic...
Trailer
It's brilliant, history. Screened at SIFF earlier this year also.
Fantastic woolfat... I really can't wait to see it
It's definitely my favorite australian film of the year to date, and really high up there in my favorite films released this year. A really beautiful, incredible, tragic movie.
If you haven't seen it yet woolfat you should watch Cicada
it's the short they made together before doing Hail
I've seen it. pretty amazing stuff.
gotsta see this!
Anyone know a local release date info for Hail? As the offical site doesn't say anything, guess not. Still peeved that MIFF didn't have this, but I'm assuming there was a good reason, Bastardy did so well when that screened at MIFF.
the reason for it was that they helped fund Amiel's documentary on Ben Lee - so it was chosen over Hail. The fact that Hail screened at SIFF the month before wouldn't have helped at all, either.
''they'' - MIFF
it was originally slated for MIFF, along with Ben Lee, but after Venice picked up Hail, they asked that it be withdrawn from the program. Venice don't usually select films that have premiered elsewhere, so it was already being given special treatment.
Also, Venice obviously love the movie. When it was originally selected, they had a spot towards the tail end of the festival, after most of the media would have left for another film festival (maybe Toronto?). This was then changed to 9pm on the Friday night, the second night of the festival, which is prime position. You couldn't ask for a greater endorsement.
All these are reasons which only raise further questions for me, but no point worrying about MIFFs past... just hope it comes to Melbourne soon.
Hail was awesome, saw it at its adelaide premiere. hard to think of a bolder and more audacious aussie film in recent memory; maybe Corroboree but that was way less successful. the dorky 'pure cinematic power' soundbite in the trailer is actually excerpted from my review, lol.
madman have picked it up and have plans to release it... i hope Apichatpong Weerasethkul's Orrizonto jury at Venice gets behind it, something tells me it'll be up his alley.
Excellent news. Gotta love Madman.
However, says here that Jia Zhangke is Pres of this year's Orizzonti. No Apichatpong in sight. There is a fabulously Goth French architect in there though.
hmm, seems apichatpong was replaced by jia since I last checked. oh well, I think Hail's fiction/doco blurring might appeal to jia as well. although that vague descriptor fits nearly every film that gets fest-play these days, so i dunno...