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1 84 form y separately published work icon The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann , Craig Pearce , ( dir. Baz Luhrmann ) Australia United States of America (USA) : Warner Brothers Village Roadshow A&E Television Networks , 2013 Z1934236 2013 single work film/TV An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
1 1 form y separately published work icon Legend of the Guardians : The Owls of Ga'Hoole Emil Stern , ( dir. Zack Snyder ) United States of America (USA) Australia : Village Roadshow Animal Logic , 2010 7286205 2010 single work film/TV fantasy

'Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. The film is based on the first three books in the series.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 2 form y separately published work icon Fat Pizza Paul Fenech , Tahir Bilgic , ( dir. Paul Fenech ) Australia : Village Roadshow , 2003 9271553 2003 single work film/TV
1 1 form y separately published work icon Eye of the Beholder Stephan Elliott , ( dir. Stephan Elliott ) United Kingdom (UK) Australia Canada : Filmline Hit & Run Village Roadshow , 1999 Z1837513 1999 single work film/TV crime thriller fantasy

The Eye, an intelligence agent, shadows the same woman, Joanna Eris (who happens to be a serial killer of men), all over the U.S. for more than ten years, without her ever knowing. The Eye, having been through a messy divorce, hallucinates constantly that his lost daughter is with him, and comes to see Eris as a daughter-substitute–or at least a lost child–leading him to act as her guardian angel.

Marc Behm's novel had previously served as the inspiration for 1983 French film Deadly Circuit (Mortelle Randonnée), directed by Claude Miller.

1 form y separately published work icon The Craic Jimeoin , ( dir. Ted Emery ) Australia : Crack Pty Ltd Foster Gracie Geffer Notice Village Roadshow , 1999 19276889 1999 single work film/TV humour

'The misadventures of two Irish lads, Fergus and Wesley, on the run from the Australian Department of Immigration, an IRA hitman and the SAS who have mistaken them for terrorists.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2 4 form y separately published work icon Paradise Road David Giles , Martin Meader , Bruce Beresford , ( dir. Bruce Beresford ) South Yarra : Village Roadshow , 1997 Z1232465 1997 single work film/TV

Paradise Road is based on the true stories of hundreds of English, Australian, and American women imprisoned in Sumatra by the Japanese as the latter swept through South-east Asia in 1942.

The narrative begins with Japanese fighter planes sinking the ship on which the women are attempting to flee Singapore. The captured prisoners face extreme cruelty and hardship, and are forced to seek any means for survival. Two of the women, Adrienne Partier and Margaret Drummond, conceive the idea of forming a choir. Both are both trained musicians, and Margaret has memorised many scores. She writes them down in children's notebooks, and dozens of women, in constant danger of extreme punishment or even execution, conspire to practice surreptitiously. When the choir performs its first number, 'Largo' from Dvorak's New World Symphony, the voices transform the dense tropical air with sweet, haunting strains and the guards, who have come to break up the illegal gathering, sit and listen with awe.

1 form y separately published work icon The Thorn Birds : The Missing Years David Stevens , ( dir. Kevin James Dobson ) United States of America (USA) Australia : The Wolper Organization Warner Brothers CBS Village Roadshow , 1996 Z1687957 1996 single work film/TV Picks up the story of The Thorn Birds from the German occupation of Rome and the Allied landing in Sicily. It follows the main character's eventual return to the endless miles of the Australian outback, where he must confront his passion, faith, and ultimate fate.
1 form y separately published work icon Flipper The New Adventures of Flipper Shane Brennan , Sam Carroll , Elizabeth Coleman , Max Dann , Everett de Roche , Annie Fox , Graham Hartley , Peter A. Kinloch , Jason Herbison , Christopher Lee , Susan MacGillicuddy , Greg Millin , Deborah Parsons , Anne Brooksbank , Sue Hore , Yuki Asano , Philip Dalkin , ( dir. Donald Crombie et. al. )agent Australia United States of America (USA) : Tribune Entertainment Village Roadshow Samuel Goldwyn Company , 1995-2000 Z1881834 1995-2000 series - publisher film/TV children's

An American/Australian co-production, this series was a revival of the original 1964 - 1967 series Flipper.

The show's production is sharply divided between seasons one and two on one side and seasons three and four on the other.

Seasons one and two aired in first-run syndication in the US, as American television networks turned away from funding comparatively expensive one-hour dramas in the late 1980s and 1990s. These two seasons were made in Australia and took advantage of local directors and other crew, but, notably, the script-writers were exclusively American (as far as they have been traced).

For seasons three and four, Flipper left first-run syndication and aired in the US on the new network PAX TV (now Ion Television). These two seasons were also made in Australia and directed by Australians, but for the first time, they also used Australian script-writers: of the writers who have been traced for seasons three and four, all of the season three writers and the majority of the season four writers are Australian.

For full information on the script-writers, see the list of episodes on the film details page of this record.

1 form y separately published work icon Sahara David Phillips , ( dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith ) Australia United States of America (USA) : Village Roadshow TriStar Pictures , 1995 8166533 1995 single work film/TV

After the fall of Tobruk, an American tank unit and Allied soldiers meet in the Sahara Desert, where they find themselves defending a well from German soldiers.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Lightning Jack Paul Hogan , ( dir. Simon Wincer ) United States of America (USA) Australia : Lightning Ridge Village Roadshow , 1994 7288138 1994 single work film/TV adventure humour western

'n the fabled annals of the Old West, the terrifying legend of outlaw Lightning Jack Kane stands tall. Jack is absolutely, definitely and without argument the fastest gun in the West … or at least that's what Jack Kane likes to think. In fact, he's only a legend in his own mind. But Jack wants to change all that. Jack is a wanted man. Ben wants to be wanted. The rapid fire gunslinger and his silent student are about to discover that America can be a land of great opportunity, and lightning can strike twice - if the law doesn't catch up with them first.'

Source: Screen Australia.

2 13 form y separately published work icon Until the End of the World Bis ans Ende der Welt Peter Carey , ( dir. Wim Wenders ) Paris Berlin Australia : Argos Films Road Movies Produktion Village Roadshow , 1991 11653488 1989 single work film/TV science fiction

The year is 1999. On the road to Paris and trapped in a traffic jam as the inhabitants of major cities flee the news of an out-of-control nuclear satellite, a disillusioned woman, Claire Tourneur, encounters Trevor McPhee, a mysterious stranger who is on a dangerous secret mission for his scientist father. When he suddenly disappears, Claire embarks on an obsessive search for him that takes her to the far corners of the earth.

The film is part mystery, part science-fiction. The device that the stranger carries is at first a mysterious object, and its strong attraction to various government agencies and bounty hunters is unexplained. When the disaster feared from the beginning does strike the planet, as an out-of-control nuclear satellite is shot down in orbit, the device becomes a comfort and an addiction for humanity, stripped as they are of their usual electronic conveniences after the satellite's destruction.

1 form y separately published work icon Dead Sleep Michael Rymer , ( dir. Alec Mills ) Australia : Village Roadshow , 1990 Z1870969 1990 single work film/TV horror science fiction

A doctor in a deep-sleep clinic is experimenting on and killing his patients--and only one nurse seems to notice or to care.

1 1 form y separately published work icon Hurricane Smith Peter A. Kinloch , ( dir. Colin Budds ) Australia : Village Roadshow , 1990 6972066 1990 single work film/TV crime thriller

'Hurricane Billy Smith, a black Texan oil rigger, comes to the Gold Coast to tell his sister, Sally Mae, that their mother has died and to take Sally Mae back to the States - but she has disappeared. His search for her leads him into adventures involving an Australian Mafia-style drug and prostitution ring before he finally learns the truth about her.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 30/1/2014)

1 form y separately published work icon The Delinquents Mac Gudgeon , Clayton Froman , ( dir. Chris Thomson ) 1989 Australia : Silver Lining Entertainment Village Roadshow Delinquents Pty Ltd , 1989 Z1415675 1989 single work film/TV crime In a small, conservative, Australian town in the mid-1950s, Brownie and Lola fall in love. Both are well under the age of consent, and their parents attempt to break up the relationship. Brownie and Lola rebel against their elders, and embark on a life of petty crime.
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