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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 5, 2017 6:21:35 GMT
While New Film Wave movements swept ashore in many countries around the world In the sixties ,the Australian film Industry was virtually non- existent, however one Australian film and director did make a notable if somewhat isolated contribution...
Giorgio Mangiamele (13 August 1926 – 13 May 2001) was an Italian/Australian photographer and filmmaker who made a unique contribution to the production of Australian art cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.
Clay his first feature film tells the story of Nick, a murderer on the run who is found as a mud-stained figure lying on a road. He is picked up and given refuge in an isolated home, an artists colony, by a sculptress Margot...
The film was an Independent 1965 Australian drama which Mangiamele financed himself.
Clay is the only notable local film, art film from 1960s Australia, it was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, but lost to The Knack ...and How to Get It,
not surprising the reaction in 1966 Australia was either indifference or outright hostility.
Critics were kinder and wrote of Clay...
Variety noted, "Visually it's frequently a poem brought to life with some breathtakingly poignant and arty shots".
La Cinématographie Française , "Mangiamele has painted in his visual poem the story of an impossible love."
The Australian wrote, "Clay is a film of singular visual beauty . there is a poetry in the treatment, tact and sensitiveness in the direction"
The Age 11.12.64
"... First and foremost the film confirms that Mangiamele is a cameraman of unmistakable world class ..."
The Advocate standouts saying... "Mangiamele is one of the world's master craftsmen in the art of film, a man who really knows how to use a camera to tell a story and whose photography is a joy".
Mangiamele's originality, his bold intention, was to replicate European art-house cinema in Australia, with his photogenic skills, the black and white cinematography displays in almost every frame a striking and impeccable photographic still.
Struggling against racial intolerance and the cultural and filmic desert landscape that existed mid sixties Australia, Mangiamele never earned the respect due. The financial strain and disinterest disillusioned him, he did not make another film until the 1970s when he made his second and last feature, a film which does not come close to his one and only classic film feature, CLAY
only 19 votes at IMDB!
, available in a Mangiamele box set collection
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Post by snsurone on Apr 5, 2017 13:49:50 GMT
Damn!!
I thought it was a new Baskin-Robbins flavor!
;-)
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Post by teleadm on Apr 5, 2017 18:49:27 GMT
While searching a thread searching for something else I stumbled upon an Australian movie called Walk Into Paradise/Walk Into Hell 1958 that also was nominated for a Palm d'Or, this time for director Lee Robinson, and who also lost. Lee Robinson would later be the producer of the TV-series Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo in the 1960s, maybe Australias first exported TV-series (??). Seems that Lee Robinson together with actor Chips Raffety, tried to start up an Australian film production company, aiming both for the local market and for the international markets. American producer Joseph E. Levine purchased the film for distribution, and retitled it to Walk Into Hell. I have not personally seen this movie but for those interested, from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Into_Paradise |
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Post by hi224 on Apr 5, 2017 20:03:50 GMT
Sounds amazing.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 5, 2017 23:42:12 GMT
While searching a thread searching for something else I stumbled upon an Australian movie called Walk Into Paradise/Walk Into Hell 1958 that also was nominated for a Palm d'Or, this time for director Lee Robinson, and who also lost. Lee Robinson would later be the producer of the TV-series Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo in the 1960s, maybe Australias first exported TV-series (??). Seems that Lee Robinson together with actor Chips Raffety, tried to start up an Australian film production company, aiming both for the local market and for the international markets. American producer Joseph E. Levine purchased the film for distribution, and retitled it to Walk Into Hell. I have not personally seen this movie but for those interested, from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Into_ParadiseThanks for your thoughts here teleadam... a surprise to see your mention of the film Walk into Paradise (1956) I have a copy on the way from ordering earlier this week!, looks like a great adventure and exciting on location filming in PNG. I recently saw an earlier Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty collaboration Kings Of The Coral Sea (1954) which is a good adventure story with great location shooting in the North of Australia, and is also noted for it's interesting documentation of pearl shell divers , the luggers they sailed in and the equipment they used. The duo of Robinson & Rafferty formed the Southern International Productions film company in the early 50s and made five features the last in 1959. The success locally and internationally of the two films mentioned above helped finance further productions,and the Australian industry had a promising future, but the following films were box office failures which coincided at the time with the rising popularity of television, the company was liquidated and Australian film production practically disappeared in the 60s... |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 6, 2017 0:35:49 GMT
Giorgio Mangiamele (13 August 1926 – 13 May 2001) was an Italian/Australian photographer and filmmaker who made a unique contribution to the production of Australian art cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.
Thank you for these wonderful comments, mfpx, and for the introduction to someone who seems to be a great artist, whom I've never known anything about. The idea of a "visual poem" has always intrigued me. Thanks for the introduction to this director. His life sounds like it could make quite a film in and of itself.
and thankyou I appreciate your interest spiderwort. |
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 6, 2017 0:45:10 GMT
Damn!! I thought it was a new Baskin-Robbins flavor! ;-) Or maybe a cocktail like the Louisiana Flip ordered by Lionel Barrymore in "Grand Hotel." |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Apr 6, 2017 6:57:42 GMT
While searching a thread searching for something else I stumbled upon an Australian movie called Walk Into Paradise/Walk Into Hell 1958 that also was nominated for a Palm d'Or, this time for director Lee Robinson, and who also lost. Lee Robinson would later be the producer of the TV-series Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo in the 1960s, maybe Australias first exported TV-series (??). Seems that Lee Robinson together with actor Chips Raffety, tried to start up an Australian film production company, aiming both for the local market and for the international markets. American producer Joseph E. Levine purchased the film for distribution, and retitled it to Walk Into Hell. I have not personally seen this movie but for those interested, from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Into_Paradise The success locally and internationally of the two films mentioned above helped finance further productions,and the Australian industry had a promising future, but the following films were box office failures which coincided at the time with the rising popularity of television, the company was liquidated and Australian film production practically disappeared in the 60s... Hardly. Australia produced one feature film a year on average in the 1950s, and maintained that average in the 1960s. Around 1969 or so the number of films increased greatly. By 1971 around 20 a year were being made. I actually looked up every year for Australian film on IMDb from the 1930s to early 1980s, so I have a good idea about how many films were being made. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 7, 2017 2:58:37 GMT
Hardly. Australia produced one feature film a year on average in the 1950s, and maintained that average in the 1960s. Around 1969 or so the number of films increased greatly. By 1971 around 20 a year were being made. I actually looked up every year for Australian film on IMDb from the 1930s to early 1980s, so I have a good idea about how many films were being made. The thread here was introduced in the opening sentences as, New Wave movements in the sixties the headline a play on words, Australian Ripple (wavelet, small wave). The definition of New Wave movements runs something like this... Cutting Edge, a group of people or artistic works introducing new styles or ideas, in particular more Individualistic and Stylistically Innovative Films. In the context of this reflection, Australian filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele and his art house film Clay was introduced, for both stand alone and,did draw international attention & recognition, the ripple from the meagre output of 1960's Australian film production. Quantifying the number of films was never a consideration here Quality and international relevance associated with the sixties New Wave era is at the core of the Headline and Thread topic , but off course I appreciate all input. The seventies is another story all-together, and for Australian film, is regarded as the New Wave era. |
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Post by gunshotwound on Apr 7, 2017 3:40:52 GMT
While New Film Wave movements swept ashore in many countries around the world In the sixties ,the Australian film Industry was virtually non- existent, however one Australian film and director did make a notable if somewhat isolated contribution...
Giorgio Mangiamele (13 August 1926 – 13 May 2001) was an Italian/Australian photographer and filmmaker who made a unique contribution to the production of Australian art cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.
Clay his first feature film tells the story of Nick, a murderer on the run who is found as a mud-stained figure lying on a road. He is picked up and given refuge in an isolated home, an artists colony, by a sculptress Margot...
The film was an Independent 1965 Australian drama which Mangiamele financed himself.
Clay is the only notable local film, art film from 1960s Australia, it was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, but lost to The Knack ...and How to Get It,
not surprising the reaction in 1966 Australia was either indifference or outright hostility.
Critics were kinder and wrote of Clay...
Variety noted, "Visually it's frequently a poem brought to life with some breathtakingly poignant and arty shots".
La Cinématographie Française , "Mangiamele has painted in his visual poem the story of an impossible love."
The Australian wrote, "Clay is a film of singular visual beauty . there is a poetry in the treatment, tact and sensitiveness in the direction"
The Age 11.12.64
"... First and foremost the film confirms that Mangiamele is a cameraman of unmistakable world class ..."
The Advocate standouts saying... "Mangiamele is one of the world's master craftsmen in the art of film, a man who really knows how to use a camera to tell a story and whose photography is a joy".
Mangiamele's originality, his bold intention, was to replicate European art-house cinema in Australia, with his photogenic skills, the black and white cinematography displays in almost every frame a striking and impeccable photographic still.
Struggling against racial intolerance and the cultural and filmic desert landscape that existed mid sixties Australia, Mangiamele never earned the respect due. The financial strain and disinterest disillusioned him, he did not make another film until the 1970s when he made his second and last feature, a film which does not come close to his one and only classic film feature, CLAY
only 19 votes at IMDB!
, available in a Mangiamele box set collection
I have never heard of Mangiamele or his movie CLAY. I don't know that much about Australian cinema except from the 1970s onward. Years ago when I was researching a book I discovered that Australian cinema began in the silent era. At the time I had no idea Australian cinema was that old. In the course of my research I found out about the existence of 3 Australian cinematographers who if memory serves me correctly were brothers and their careers began in 1908, 1911 and 1912.
Arthur Higgins (active 1911-1946) - www.imdb.com/name/nm0383329/reference
Ernest Higgins (active 1908-1922) - www.imdb.com/name/nm0383382/reference
Tasman Higgins (active 1912-1944) - www.imdb.com/name/nm0383495/reference He photographed Errol Flynn's first movie In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
This all has very little to do with the subject of this thread but it did trigger my memory of the Higgins trio and I thought it might be interesting to some.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 7, 2017 4:12:40 GMT
While New Film Wave movements swept ashore in many countries around the world In the sixties ,the Australian film Industry was virtually non- existent, however one Australian film and director did make a notable if somewhat isolated contribution...
Giorgio Mangiamele (13 August 1926 – 13 May 2001) was an Italian/Australian photographer and filmmaker who made a unique contribution to the production of Australian art cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.
Clay his first feature film tells the story of Nick, a murderer on the run who is found as a mud-stained figure lying on a road. He is picked up and given refuge in an isolated home, an artists colony, by a sculptress Margot...
The film was an Independent 1965 Australian drama which Mangiamele financed himself.
Clay is the only notable local film, art film from 1960s Australia, it was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, but lost to The Knack ...and How to Get It,
not surprising the reaction in 1966 Australia was either indifference or outright hostility.
Critics were kinder and wrote of Clay...
Variety noted, "Visually it's frequently a poem brought to life with some breathtakingly poignant and arty shots".
La Cinématographie Française , "Mangiamele has painted in his visual poem the story of an impossible love."
The Australian wrote, "Clay is a film of singular visual beauty . there is a poetry in the treatment, tact and sensitiveness in the direction"
The Age 11.12.64
"... First and foremost the film confirms that Mangiamele is a cameraman of unmistakable world class ..."
The Advocate standouts saying... "Mangiamele is one of the world's master craftsmen in the art of film, a man who really knows how to use a camera to tell a story and whose photography is a joy".
Mangiamele's originality, his bold intention, was to replicate European art-house cinema in Australia, with his photogenic skills, the black and white cinematography displays in almost every frame a striking and impeccable photographic still.
Struggling against racial intolerance and the cultural and filmic desert landscape that existed mid sixties Australia, Mangiamele never earned the respect due. The financial strain and disinterest disillusioned him, he did not make another film until the 1970s when he made his second and last feature, a film which does not come close to his one and only classic film feature, CLAY
only 19 votes at IMDB!
, available in a Mangiamele box set collection
I have never heard of Mangiamele or his movie CLAY. I don't know that much about Australian cinema except from the 1970s onward. Years ago when I was researching a book I discovered that Australian cinema began in the silent era. At the time I had no idea Australian cinema was that old. In the course of my research I found out about the existence of 3 Australian cinematographers who if memory serves me correctly were brothers and their careers began in 1908, 1911 and 1912.
Arthur Higgins (active 1911-1946) - www.imdb.com/name/nm0383329/reference
Ernest Higgins (active 1908-1922) - www.imdb.com/name/nm0383382/reference
Tasman Higgins (active 1912-1944) - www.imdb.com/name/nm0383495/reference He photographed Errol Flynn's first movie In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
This all has very little to do with the subject of this thread but it did trigger my memory of the Higgins trio and I thought it might be interesting to some.
Thankyou Very Much gunshotwound , I will be very interested to follow those links and learn of this trio of Higgins brothers. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 7, 2017 5:30:58 GMT
manfromplanetx I always enjoy a good introductory opening sentence and OP title . Yours gets an A+. Australian Ripple: While New Film Wave movements swept ashore in many countries around the world In the sixties ,the Australian film Industry was virtually non- existent. 
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Post by teleadm on Apr 21, 2017 15:50:16 GMT
While searching a thread searching for something else I stumbled upon an Australian movie called Walk Into Paradise/Walk Into Hell 1958 that also was nominated for a Palm d'Or, this time for director Lee Robinson, and who also lost. Lee Robinson would later be the producer of the TV-series Skippy - The Bush Kangaroo in the 1960s, maybe Australias first exported TV-series (??). Seems that Lee Robinson together with actor Chips Raffety, tried to start up an Australian film production company, aiming both for the local market and for the international markets. American producer Joseph E. Levine purchased the film for distribution, and retitled it to Walk Into Hell. I have not personally seen this movie but for those interested, from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Into_ParadiseThanks for your thoughts here teleadam... a surprise to see your mention of the film Walk into Paradise (1956) I have a copy on the way from ordering earlier this week!, looks like a great adventure and exciting on location filming in PNG. I was just curious how the movie turned out !?! If it's been delivered... |
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