Jack Nicholson plays Robert Dupea, once a promising concert pianist, now a drifter between oil rig jobs, late night bars and motels. When he hears that his father is ill, he takes his first trip in three years to his family home, where revelations, bitter hurts and some kind of healing awaits him. Swerving in and out of love with his waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) but mostly in a state of anger towards the world, Bobby is one of ’70s Hollywood best-crafted characters. Screenwriter Carole Eastman was one of the only women to pen such a leading ’70s film as this, and was Oscar-nominated for this work, which remains the peak of her career. Iconic for its penetration of young Americans’ Vietnam era disillusionment and re-evaluation, and for the scene in which Dupea plays a beat-up piano in the back of the truck in which he’s hitching a ride.
US 1970 Dir. Bob Rafelson, Scr. Carole Eastman 98min
Lilian Franck has been creating documentary films together with Robert Cibis in the international market for ten years. Theirfilms examine universal themes through the power of unique personal stories. Pianomania is their latest and BEV caught up with Lilian to talk about it.
Beautiful Kate is an evocative tale of love and desire. The film recounts the sexual awakening of three siblings growing up in isolation, interwoven with the emotional journey of reconciliation between a father and son. Shot through with an ethereal beauty, the past is brought sharply into focus as guilt and recriminations finally give way to forgiveness.
Rachel Ward has starred in numerous international films and television series of the last 20 years, including Against All Odds, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, After Dark, My Sweet, and The Umbrella Woman, to name a few. She has been the recipient of several international drama awards and nominations including a Golden Globe nomination for the mini series On The Beach. In October 2007, the ABC series Rain Shadow, in which she stars, premiered. In 2000 Rachel put her wealth of experience and knowledge of the art of film making into writing and directing.
Beautiful Kate is Rachel Ward’s feature film directorial debut. She has previously directed three award-winning short films: Blindman’s Bluff, The Big House and Martha’s New Coat.
Catherine Breillat is an award winning French Director - she is also a screenwriter and novelist. She is known for exploring issues of sexuality, gender conflict and sibling rivalry - and has been the subject of controversy over the years. Her latest filmBluebeard, is a reworking of a Charles Perrault fable.
Birds Eye View caught up with Catherine to talk about it.
During our 2010 festival, Birds Eye View launched the latest in our series of training labs for women filmmakers. This time, our focus was animation. Through our 2010 programming research we discovered that although the first ever feature animation, The Adventures of Prince Achmed was made by a women, Lottie Reineger…very few women followed in her footsteps. In fact only a handful of feature animations have been made by women since this form came into play. And so, we decided to tackle this head on.Read the full story
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