| Reference Type |
The Bulletin
journal
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| Title |
Good Work Lacking in Direction |
| Author(s) | Sandra Hall |
| Volume |
99 |
| Page Number |
65 |
| Comments |
An incisive view into what Hall perceives as director Michael Thornhill's weaknesses in attempting a relentlessly social-realist film such as 'The F.J. Holden'. |
| Synopsis |
Sandra Hall opens the article with the statement that "...when Michael Thornhill was writing film reviews for The Australian he seemed most to enjoy mauling the moralisers, those most obviously afflicted with the desire to be seen as saying something. His libertarianism was plain in everything he wrote. It made him an interesting reviewer, and one day it ought to make him an interesting filmmaker. But not yet"(65).
Hall continues stating that "'The F.J. Holden', a 'value-free' tale of life as led by the young of Sydney's western suburbs is an accomplish piece of naturalism"(65)
HOWEVER, "...it's so scrupulously value-free, so willing to allow every member of the audience to range free with his own interpretations that it seems in the end to be suffering from a soft-centredness brought on by wanting to be all things to all people'(65). |
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