Fred Schepisi
1) Roxanne
Publisher
Columbia Tri-Star Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
C.D. Bales has an astonishingly long nose. He harbors a secret love for a beautiful astronomy student who is attracted to another man.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Alex is trying to deal with a midlife crisis, while feeling caught in the middle of his familial obligations. While successful, Alex sometimes feels as if he's under the shadow of his father, Mitchell, a successful attorney. Mitchell has recently survived a stroke, and Alex and Mitchell want to mend their relationship while there's still time.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, Paul (Will Smith) deftly penetrates the world of art-dealing New York urbanites Ouisa and Flan Kittredge (Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland). But as Paul’s tangled web of dropped names and near-fame begins to unravel, he provides his hosts with much more than just the ultimate cocktail party anecdote – he sets in motion a series of events that will alter the course of their lives! Ian McKellen and Mary Beth...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **Palm Springs International Film Festival**.
Publisher
Film Art Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented feature documentary about one of the world’s leading film artists – Australian film editor Jill Bilcock. Her work on beloved films such as *Strictly Ballroom, Romeo+Juliet, Muriel’s Wedding, The Dressmaker, Road To Perdition, Japanese Story, Moulin Rouge!, Red Dog* and *Elizabeth*, has established her as one of the world’s most daring and in-demand editors, highly sought after by leading international film directors and top...
7) Empire Falls
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A blue-collar restauranteur struggles to keep his family, business, and community together.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This Australian film classic, the feature film debut of Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark), is a semi-autobiographical drama of a 13-year-old boy’s struggles at a Catholic seminary in the 1950s. Tom (Simon Burke) is a student gripped with Catholic guilt as he struggles with his nascent sexual yearning and his divine calling. The seminary, run by a group of Brothers also torn between their vows and human desire, follows a harsh code of religious...
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When ruthless media mogul Rod McCain acquires England's Marwood Zoo, he sends his sexy marketing executive and his lecherous son to whip the place into shape, but they discover Marwood's straitlaced director has already implemented his own harebrained scheme to boost attendance: from now on the zoo will do away with cute, cuddly animals and display only "fierce creatures."
10) The Russia house
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1990
Language
English
Description
A Soviet book editor sends a manuscript to a British publisher, unwittingly drawing them both into a game of international espionage.
11) I.Q
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c1994
Language
English
Description
A professor, who happens to be Albert Einstein, plays matchmaker for his niece who wants to marry a genius -- but her perfect match is a local auto mechanic.
Author
Series
Secret River volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1813, after serving eight years of a life sentence in the penal colony of New South Wales, convict Will Thornhill and his wife Sal stake a claim of land on the remote and beautiful Hawkesbury River. But Sal develops a life threatening illness and misunderstandings with the local Indigenous people overshadow their new life.
Author
Series
Secret River volume 2
Language
English
Description
Will's increasing desperation to hold onto 'his' land despite the resistance of the local Indigenous people, leads to conflict with Sal, who wants to leave their Hawkesbury settlement. Driven by the fear of losing everything he has worked for, Will is drawn into a brutal incident which will haunt him forever.
14) I.Q
Author
Language
English
Description
Legendary scientist Albert Einstein (played here by Walter Matthau) takes a break from theoretical physics to try to set up his intellectual niece with a handsome auto mechanic in this romantic comedy. The movie's central conceit is that Einstein's brilliance extends to matters of the heart, allowing him to immediately sense that Ed Walters (Tim Robbins), a bright, lower-class mechanic obsessed with Popular Science Magazine, would be perfect for his...