Newsfront (1978)
Country: AUS
Technical: col/bw 110m
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes
Synopsis:
In the fifties a movie news reporter covers some of the key stories at considerable personal risk, including the severe flooding in New South Wales.
Review:
Affectionate, convincing, amusing recreation of an art long gone, with a dour but ultimately sympathetic hero and some excellent integration of genuine archive footage with reconstruction. The absence of an over-arching plot makes the excessive length pall in the end, but this is another of the superb creations to come out of Oz in the seventies, and another promising young director who would fritter away his talent on Hollywood potboilers.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/bw 110m
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes
Synopsis:
In the fifties a movie news reporter covers some of the key stories at considerable personal risk, including the severe flooding in New South Wales.
Review:
Affectionate, convincing, amusing recreation of an art long gone, with a dour but ultimately sympathetic hero and some excellent integration of genuine archive footage with reconstruction. The absence of an over-arching plot makes the excessive length pall in the end, but this is another of the superb creations to come out of Oz in the seventies, and another promising young director who would fritter away his talent on Hollywood potboilers.
Country: AUS
Technical: col/bw 110m
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes
Synopsis:
In the fifties a movie news reporter covers some of the key stories at considerable personal risk, including the severe flooding in New South Wales.
Review:
Affectionate, convincing, amusing recreation of an art long gone, with a dour but ultimately sympathetic hero and some excellent integration of genuine archive footage with reconstruction. The absence of an over-arching plot makes the excessive length pall in the end, but this is another of the superb creations to come out of Oz in the seventies, and another promising young director who would fritter away his talent on Hollywood potboilers.