Shane Danielsen Shane Danielsen i(A14673 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 form y separately published work icon The Convert Lee Tamahori , Shane Danielsen , ( dir. Lee Tamahori ) Australia New Zealand : Jump Film & TV Brouhaha Entertainment , 2023 26890872 2023 single work film/TV

'1818: After participating in the slaughter of innocent civilians during an uprising in colonial Ceylon, British soldier Thomas Munro resigns his commission and takes holy orders; soon after he’s on a ship bound for New Zealand, a newly-appointed lay preacher to a fledgling community which has as yet, no protection from the Crown.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 Ranch Dressing Shane Danielsen , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , November no. 183 2021; (p. 60-62)

— Review of The Power of the Dog Jane Campion , 2021 single work film/TV
1 Like No Actor Ever Shane Danielsen , 2021 single work
— Appears in: The Monthly , June no. 178 2021; (p. 58-60)
'I can’t tell you the first time I saw John Wayne or Marilyn Monroe – but I remember exactly when I first saw David Gulpilil. It was in Storm Boy, Henri Safran’s 1976 family classic, to which our fourth-grade teacher took us one weekday morning. The occasion now escapes me, though I seem to recall it was around Christmas; nor can I quite place the cinema. (Was it the Lyceum on Pitt Street?) But the shock of Gulpilil’s first appearance onscreen was unforgettable. I sobbed when Mr Percival died – unlike that wretched remake, the original Storm Boy was a terrific movie – but once that anguish faded, what lingered was mostly a kind of bewildered fascination. That Fingerbone Bill guy… who was he? Were there others like him, beyond the Sydney suburbs I knew?' (Introduction)
1 Once upon a Time in the North Shane Danielsen , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , February no. 174 2021; (p. 56-58)

— Review of High Ground Chris Anastassiades , 2019 single work film/TV
'High Ground, the long-awaited second feature from Stephen Maxwell Johnson (Yolngu Boy), opens with an extraordinary image: a vista shot of Nimbuwarr, a sacred rock in Arnhem Land, from high above, as a red sun declines behind it and insects buzz on the soundtrack like a piece by Alva Noto. The best drone shot in recent Australian cinema (and Christ knows there’s been enough of them), it’s also the only one that actually adds something to the story; mesmerising, almost otherworldly, it functions as a codicil for the narrative that follows. Man’s capacity for evil is vast, it seems to say. But this country is vaster still.' (Introduction)
1 Kills, Frills and Kelly Aches Shane Danielsen , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , February no. 163 2020; (p. 56-58)

— Review of True History of the Kelly Gang Shaun Grant , 2018 single work film/TV
'The arrival of a new Ned Kelly anything, be it book, film, play or even opera, is bound to provoke questions. Chief among them might be “Really? Another one?”… but this, I concede, is a less than charitable view. More useful, perhaps, to ponder precisely which version we’ll be getting, such is the unusual malleability of this particular tale.' (Introduction)
1 In-House Job Shane Danielsen , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , July no. 146 2018; (p. 60-61)

'I remember people being surprised that I liked Kenny. As if it were somehow beneath me, somehow irreconcilable with the Godard- and Bergman-loving poseur they clearly believed me to be. It was irritating.' (Introduction)

1 Ticking to a Different Clock Shane Danielsen , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , February no. 141 2018; (p. 66-68)

'We make Westerns for the same reason the Inuit make igloos: because the landscape disposes us to. The immense sky, the rust-coloured earth, the vast, barren spaces of our interior ... how could Australian filmmakers not feel compelled to use these! Hollywood claims the genre as its own, as distinctly American as jazz and school shootings, bat history argues otherwise: the first Australian feature film - the earliest feature-length narrative film in the world, in fact - was Charles Tait’s The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in 1506. (And two years before that came a sort, Bushranging in North Queensland, made by the Salvation Army's Melbourne-based Limelight Department. Which, improbably enough, was one of the first dedicated film studios on the planet.)' (Introduction)

1 Lowlife in the Suburbs Shane Danielsen , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , June no. 134 2017; (p. 52-53)

'Like the majority of Australians, I grew up in the suburbs - the southern suburbs of Sydney, to be precise; I was a Kogarah boy. I had no idea, at the time, that I was inhabiting a dismal purgatory, a haven for provincial smallmindedness, hypocritical piety and low-level kink, from which I could either escape (to the city or, better, overseas) or face the slow extinction of my finer feelings... How could I know? I’d read none of the books, seen none of the movies that might foster this belief. I don’t believe the phrase “the Australian ugliness” was ever uttered, either at my primary school or in my parents’ house. Only later, better read and more aware, did it occur to me that I was supposed to despise the things I had cherished. And then, obediently, I did.' (Introduction)

1 Desert Storm Shane Danielsen , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , June no. 112 2015; (p. 48-51)

— Review of Mad Max : Fury Road George Miller , Nico Lathouris , Brendan McCarthy , 2015 single work film/TV
1 On the Road Shane Danielsen , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Monthly , June no. 101 2014; (p. 53-54)

— Review of The Rover David Michôd , 2013 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon Errors of the Human Body Eron Sheean , Shane Danielsen , ( dir. Eron Sheean ) Germany United States of America (USA) : Instinctive Films High5 Films XYZ Films , 2013 6092985 2013 single work film/TV science fiction thriller

'Seeking a new laboratory to pursue his controversial genetic research, Dr Geoff

Burton takes up a position at the world-renowned Institute for Molecular Cell Biology

& Genetics in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most top-secret

project – a human regeneration gene – has the potential to make something

miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years. But when he

uncovers a conspiracy amongst his colleagues, he finds instead something quite

different: a terrifying new virus, with potentially devastating consequences for

humanity – and for Geoff, who is not only its first victim, but its unwitting source.'

Source: Official website (http://errorsofthehumanbody.com/about/). (Sighted: 26/6/2013)

1 Cinema's Quest for the Write Stuff Shane Danielsen , 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 August 1997; (p. 24)
1 For Whom the Belles Toil Shane Danielsen , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 April 1994; (p. 22)
1 Long and Winding Road Movie Shane Danielsen , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 October 1992; (p. 3s)

— Review of Until the End of the World Peter Carey , 1989 single work film/TV
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