Australian/New Zealand movies: 1996

Decided to go with one update for 1996 which may have been a mistake as it took a lot longer than I was expecting to take. While there's more movies in this update than 1995, there's a lot less sexy scenes but that's not to say there's not any decent stuff for the year. There's great scenes in Broken English, Dead Heart, Fistful of Flies, Lust and Revenge and autobiographical drama Video Fool for Love while there's some brief but excellent scenes from Miranda Otto in Love Serenade and Raelee Hill in Hotel de Love. There's also extensive nudity in the terrible Offspring, which I've recapped in better quality.

1996

Broken English (NZ)

Culture clash drama that goes down a similar road to Once Were Warriors. Nina (Aleksandra Vujcic) is a woman in her early 20s who has settled comfortably into Auckland after leaving war-torn Croatia with her family. The head of the family is Ivan (Rade Serbedzija), a brutal man who is pissed off he is in New Zealand and not at home and his son Darko (Marton Csokas) is heading in a similar direction. He rules the family with an iron fist but has a soft spot for feisty Nina. During a particularly volatile night, Nina goes off the work at a Chinese restaurant and spies Eddie (Julian Arahanga), the new cook and they have a whirlwind romance which leads to them moving in together. Nina has also become involved in a sham citizenship marriage for a friend for some quick cash. When the family have a party, it goes so badly that Eddie leaves her. Then Nina finds out she's pregnant and manages to get back with Eddie but Ivan is not happy and will take desperate measures to keep them apart. Superb movie helped by excellent performances particularly from Vujcic, Serbedzija and Arahanga with a brief appearance from Temuera Morrison.

Nudity from Aleksandra Vujcic during a fairly full-on sex scene that was apparently the reason the movie received a NC-17 rating in America although there's nothing all that explicit.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Broken English here. A preview is below.

Aleksandra Vujcic in Broken English

    
    
    
    

 

 

The Call Up (NZ)

50 minute telemovie about a bunch of New Zealand soldiers who are about to be sent as peacekeepers for the UN in Bosnia as they try to enjoy their last few days before leaving. Pretty typical TV stuff directed by renegade New Zealand director David Blyth.

There's no nudity in The Call Up but there's a fairly lengthy scene with Danielle Cormack in underwear which you can find here.

 

 

Chicken (NZ)

Wacky comedy about a washed-up pop star Dwight Serrento (Bryan Marshall) who's career has hit the skids and is now doing ads for a fast food chicken restaurant. Disappointed with what he's become, he hatches a plan with manager Colette (Ellie Smith) and daughter Vicky (Claire Waldron) to fake his death which has the initial uptick but becomes impossible to keep up the ruse. This isn't helped when a chicken loving psychopath Zeke (Cliff Curtis) decides to hunt Dwight down in revenge for being involved with the fast food restaurant. Add in a bunch of oddball characters including Colette's hyperactive young son and a journalist desperate to catch Dwight out and you've got a ridiculous but fairly fun ride. Lots of silliness, particularly chicken related helped by a truly wild performance from Cliff Curtis who goes to unbelievable lengths to get Dwight. Just a real nutty comedy.

No real nudity in the movie but there's a comical implied nudity scene featuring Joan Dawe who desperately avoids being electrocuted in a bathtub while keeping herself covered.

Joan Dawe in Chicken

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Children of the Revolution

All-star piss-take of post-war communism Australian style. Joan (Judy Davis) is a communist rabble rouser in the 1950s who comes under the attention of both the Russian communists and local authorities. She accepts an invitation to visit Joseph Stalin (F. Murray Abraham) where she has dinner and sex with him and then Stalin promptly dies. Joan is ferried back to Australia and finds out she's pregnant and decides to keep the child and marries long-time admirer Welch (Geoffrey Rush). Years later, her son Joe (Richard Roxburgh) is a left-wing rabble rouser who has a fling with a policewoman Anna (Rachel Griffiths). He becomes the head of the most powerful union in the country but he becomes corrupted by that power. Then doubt emerges as to whether Stalin or a double agent Nine (Sam Neill) is Joe's father. Great cast, great idea, but runs out of steam the longer it goes and becomes a not wholly satisfying piss take on communism.

Rachel Griffiths briefly shows her breasts.

You can find a synopsis with videos from Children of the Revolution here. A preview is below.

Rachel Griffiths in Children of the Revolution

    

 

 

Cosi

Comedy about the out-of-work Lewis (Ben Mendelsohn) who can't get a job as a theatre director until he takes a job to direct a play at a mental institution which comes with great challenges. While trying to get his ideas up, he is outvoted by Roy (Barry Otto) who wants to stage Cosi Fan Tutte. Lewis relents and decides to put his own touch to it as none of the patients can sing except for Julie (Toni Collette) who he becomes attracted to despite being in a relationship with Lucy (Rachel Griffiths) who's probably having an affair with their friend Nick (Aden Young). But through it all, Lewis is able to put together his own production of Cosi Fan Tutte. Not bad movie although it is heavy on the mental patient stereotypes and the love quadrangle gets a bit silly. Cast is heavy with well-known actors including the young stars of Muriel's Wedding and Metal Skin.

No real nudity in Cosi but there's some sexy stuff from Rachel Griffiths with videos available here.

 

 

Dating the Enemy

Body swap comedy where a science reporter Tash (Claudia Karvan) meets a TV host Brett (Guy Pearce) and they hit it off at first but she finds out he's massively self-centred and interested in other women so she dumps him. Then a full moon hits and they end up swapping bodies. This means that they have to spend more time around one another despite hating one another and try to live each other's lives as best they can. Slowly yet surely they begins to tolerate one another to the point where the fall for one another once again. Stock-standard body swap stuff, not really funny but Karvan and Pearce do OK playing one another without making a whole lot of impact. A bit disappointing if anything...

There's no nudity in Dating the Enemy but there's a number of sexy videos which are available here.

 

 

Dead Heart

Another searing culture clash drama, this time about the simmering tensions between white and black people in a remote Indigenous settlement. Local cop Ray Lorkin (Bryan Brown) is having a lot of trouble with the locals but tensions have increased since there was a death of an Indigenous prisoner at his station. To make peace, he allows the father of the dead man to exact Indigenous justice on Lorkin's deputy. Meanwhile, a local school teacher's wife, Kate (Angie Milliken) is having an affair with a young Indigenous man Tony (Aaron Pedersen). One day, Kate and Tony have relations at a sacred Indigenous site and all hell breaks lose. Then Tony is found dead from a suspected heart attack that looks like he has been dealt with by Indigenous law. Ray struggles to keep the peace, particularly when his supposed ally, the local pastor David (Ernie Dingo), seems to be heavily involved with Tony's death. Extremely topical at the time of release with a spate of Indigenous deaths in custody in the early to mid 90s. It's an interesting movie that's helped by some strong performances particularly from Bryan Brown as the flawed copper just trying to keep the peace.

An extensive nude scene from Angie Milliken that is the catalyst for much of the movie's plot.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Dead Heart here. A preview is below.

Angie Milliken in Dead Heart

    
    
    
    
    
    

 

 

The Demons in My Head

Low budget psychological horror thriller, the feature length debut of prolific indie filmmaker Neil Johnson. Travis (Matthew Mariconte) lives in a share house and is having a bad time of it lately after losing his job and also striking out with hot housemate Larissa (Amber Allum). Another housemate Regis (Greg Bowman-Miles) has a long held crush on Travis and desperately tries to get his attention for something more than a friendship. Then a meteorite falls into their yard and with the help of Marcia (Jane Rowland), they crack it open and discover a strange device like a headset that gives it's wearer the opportunity to move things from the multiverse into this dimension. Travis becomes obsessed with it but finds that the things he materialises don't arrive in the way he expected and eventually he brings across creatures called Nephilim which invade the house and attack the housemates. Can they work out how to survive this nightmare? Interesting take on an old parable that is restricted by it's budget but the movie keeps interests despite it's limitations. I've never seen a Neil Johnson movie before but he already seems to have an obsession with nephilim, particularly saying the word that I'd never heard before so many times.

Amber Allum brief shows her breasts during a sex scene. There's a bunch of videos from the movie below.

Amber Allum in The Demons in My Head

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Caroline Cleak in The Demons in My Head

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Inga Norgrove in The Demons in My Head

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Fistful of Flies

Coming-of-age drama about the constantly horny Mars (Tasma Walton) who can't help touching herself which drives her typical Italian mother Grace (Dina Panozzo) to despair. This isn't helped by Mars declaring that she never wants to get married. After being caught masturbating when she feigned an illness to skip out on church, Grace gets Mars' father Joe (John Lucantonio) to whip her, leaving bruises over her body. Mars seeks solace with her exiled grandmother (Anna Volska) who hasn't spoken to Grace for years. Grace becomes obsessed with stopping Mars from becoming horny; forcing her to go to confession, taking her to a doctor (Rachael Maza) to get her 'fixed' and finally setting her up with the boy down the road Eno (Mario Gamma) who isn't interested until he sees Mars rebel against her mother. After her father mistakes Mars being friendly with Eno as something more, all hell breaks loose and a series of events occur that unexpectedly brings Mars and Grace closer together. Alright movie that's very melodramatic about highlighting the Italian-Australian experience and the obsession with making girls 'pure' for their husbands. It's an absurd look at Italian-Australian families with some funny scenes coupled with some outright ridiculous scenes which are done fairly well but they don't mix well with some of the more harsher moments making it seem at odds with the overall tone of the movie. Both Tasma Walton and Dina Panozzo (in a role she would become typecast for) are very good.

Tasma Walton shows her breasts in a scene where she explores her body.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Fistful of Flies here. A preview is below.

Tasma Walton in Fistful of Flies

    
    
    
    
    

 

 

Floating Life
aka Fu sheng

Multi-faceted multicultural comedy drama from Hong Kong director Clara Law. An older couple arrive in Australia from Hong Kong with their youngest sons to live with their daughter Bing (Annie Yip) whose already set-up in Australia. Bing refuses to speak English at home and tries to get her younger brothers to do the same but they get used to the Australian way of life quickly. The eldest daughter Yen (Annette Shun Wah) lives in Germany with her German husband but increasingly feels left out of the loop from her family and makes a visit to them in Australia. Older son Gar Ming (Anthony Brandon Wong) is still in Hong Kong and has an affair with Canadian woman Apple (Nina Liu) which ends in her pregnancy. The movie is set in many countries and told over different timelines so it gets a bit confusing the longer it goes but there's some interesting stories along the way and I like how it ends with Bing's story of how she became so stubborn. Clara Law movies were a staple on SBS in the 90s particularly Autumn Moon so it was interesting when she came to Australia and made a movie partially financed by SBS. Her next movie is the Rose Byrne starring The Goddess of 1967.

Brief breasts from Nina Liu (who also has nudity in an episode of The Secret Life of Us) plus some other sexy stuff featured below.

Annie Yip in Floating Life

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Nina Liu in Floating Life

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Emily Kwan in Floating Life

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Hotel de Love

Romantic comedy about two brothers Rick (Aden Young) and Steve (Simon Bossell) who both vie for the affections of British girl Melissa (Saffron Burrows). Rick is in love with her and on the last day she is in Australia, he takes her virginity. Ten years later, the brothers have moved on and have started the Hotel de Love which specialises in romantic endeavours. Wouldn't you know it, Melissa walks in with her fiancé Norman (Peter O'Brien) and both brothers lose their mind now that they have a second chance with her. Meanwhile their parents Jack (Ray Barrett) and Edith (Julia Blake) have come to the hotel to refresh their marriage and become a nuisance for them. There's also the clairvoyant Allison (Pippa Grandison) who both brothers are also interested in. It's chaos at the Hotel de Love. A by-the-numbers romantic comedy where the ending is without doubt.

We briefly see Saffron Burrows breasts with patches over the nipples plus a pretty decent nude scene from Raelee Hill.

You can find a synopsis with collages and videos from Hotel de Love here. A preview is below.

Saffron Burrows in Hotel de Love

    

 

Raelee Hill in Hotel de Love

    
    

 

 

Little White Lies

Channel 10 telemovie where Ellie (Mimi Rogers) is a successful businesswoman whose life is about to be turned upside-down after Tim (Temuera Morrison) approaches her at a party and tells her that her aspiring politician husband Mark (Andrew McFarlane) is having an affair with his wife and shows her a photo of them together. Ellie is taken aback at first but Tim continues to show her evidence of Mark's 'betrayal'. Now convinced, Ellie follows Tim to his house and she is then drugged and wakes up naked and alone with her vest shredded. Ellie is stunned but then she is introduced to the woman who Mark is having an affair with by her actual husband, not Tim. Then she receives photos of her 'liaison' with Tim and he demands a million dollar ransom or her exposes her 'infidelity'. So she tells Mark and they get the police involved but Tim always seems to be one step ahead of everyone and Ellie is going to have to take desperate measures to save herself and her husband. Extremely convoluted movie that piles on the ridiculous plot twists after starting with an interesting idea. Rogers and Morrison play a good cat-and-mouse game but are both beaten by the silly plot which ends in a bloody slaughter because apparently every Australian telemovie in this time needed to be unnecessarily ultra-violent.

No nudity in Little White Lies but there's a few sexy scenes featuring Mimi Rogers which you can see below.

Mimi Rogers in Little White Lies

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Love and Other Catastrophes

Low budget comedy that was a minor hit locally and launched the careers of Frances O'Connor and Radha Mitchell. Over one day things are about to become tangled for a group of university students. Mia (Frances O'Connor) and Alice (Alice Garner) need a new housemate and put the word around. Mia is in a weird relationship with Danni (Radha Mitchell) that seems to be sputtering to an end, no thanks to Danni's constant companion Savita (Suzi Dougherty). Mia also wants to swap out of a film class run by a belligerent professor (Kim Gyngell) who will only sign her transfer form if another professor signs it first and that ain't happening. Then when Mia finally manages to get that signature, the professor dies of a heart attack before signing the form leaving her in limbo. Alice hasn't had a proper relationship in 3 years but takes the interest of Ari (Matthew Dyktynski) who seems distracted by something. Meanwhile, Michael (Matt Day) is looking for a new place to stay but seems to be hitting the wall with where he can go and coupled with his all-round awkwardness, it's going to be a long while before he finds a place. Oh and there's the party at Mia and Alice's in the evening where everyone's going. Not a bad little comedy, obviously influenced by the movies director Emma-Kate Croghan loves including a whole lot of Woody Allen. Feels very student film at times but mostly overcomes this with engaging plot lines and characters. Being a while since I've seen it but I quite like the bureaucratic nightmare Mia goes through and how they solve it. Holds up quite well. Always surprised Croghan only ever made one other movie (Strange Planet).

No nudity in Love and Other Catastrophes but there's a couple of videos from the movie below.

Frances O'Connor and Radha Mitchell in Love and Other Catastrophes

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Alice Garner in Love and Other Catastrophes

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Love Serenade

Light comedy about two sisters Dimity (Miranda Otto) and Vicky-Ann (Rebecca Frith) living in a small town on the Murray River who's lives are about to change when a DJ, Ken Sherry (George Shevtsov), arrives to work at the local radio station. He moves into the house next door and both sisters fall for him. And he enchants the two women so much that they both sleep with him and then claim to be his significant other. But it turns out that Ken isn't all that he's cracked up to be and his façade begins to unravel. Not a bad little movie that's helped by good performance by the three leads but the real stand-out is Shevtsov, an underrated actor who brings the sleaze so well it almost make him endearing.

Brief breasts from Miranda Otto plus other sexy scenes.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD videos from Love Serenade here. A preview is below.

Miranda Otto in Love Serenade

    

 

 

Lust and Revenge

Paul Cox strikes again, this time with a light satire of the art world co-written with comedian John Clarke (who also co-wrote Lonely Hearts together). A new wing of a gallery is being opened by businessman George Oliphant (Chris Haywood) and he commissions celebrated sculptor Lili (Victoria Eagger) for a new piece. With George's daughter Georgina (Claudia Karvan), Lili decides on an ordinary looking man Karl-Heinz (Nicholas Hope), as her model. This works out well for him and his wife Cecilia (Gosia Dobrowolska) as he's getting $10,000 and they might be able to live in a Dutch cottage like they planned. But it turns out to be nude modelling which Karl-Heinz isn't worried about but he knows Cecilia is. Cecilia is deeply into a dodgy religion run by a charlatan Baba Charles (Norman Kaye). Cecilia finds out what's going on and unsurprisingly isn't happy but she accepts it only because she can push her husband into spruiking to George about getting funding for the dodgy religion. George then wants a bigger sculpture and all hell breaks loose. Not the best movie and plays on a lot of obvious clichés in the art world/psychiatry/fringe religions that it feels a little lazy. As a result, it may be Cox's most accessible movie as a lot happens, is fast-paced (for a Paul Cox movie) and plays like a jaunty comedy while not being all that funny.

A couple of nude scenes from Claudia Karvan including faking a nude sculpture plus a nude scene from Gosia Dobrowolska where she is drugged and ends up on heat and posing for the redesigned sculpture, showing a fair amount of nudity.

You can find a synopsis with videos from Lust and Revenge here. A preview is below.

Claudia Karvan in Lust and Revenge

    
    
    
    

 

Gosia Dobrowolska in Lust and Revenge

    
    
    
    

 

 

Mr. Reliable

Being 6 years since Nadia Tass and David Parker made The Big Steal (although Tass made the Martin Short vehicle Pure Luck in the mean time) but they're back for the second of two movies released in the 1990s about the Wally Mellish hostage siege in 1968 (first being 1994's Shotgun Wedding). Wally Mellish (Colin Friels) has just been released from prison and has decided to go straight. After buying a derelict house, which he fixes up, he meets Beryl (Jacqueline McKenzie) and they fall in love and move in together with her young son. Looking to spruce up the place, he goes to the junkyard and steals a Jaguar hood ornament and goes home. Next morning, the police come around, attempt to kick the door in and Wally gets one of his guns and fires a warning shot. Then he gets Beryl and her son and threatens to kill them if the police stay. The cops call in a hostage situation, but there hasn't been a hostage situation for many years and none of the cops know what to do. The police commissioner decides to take on the job personally, but even he doesn't seem to know what to do. Meanwhile, the media and a large crowd surround the area trying to get in on the fun. During the hostage situation, Wally and Beryl decide to get married. A pretty funny movie that pokes major fun at the incompetency of the event and the police and fits into the Tass/Parker formula perfectly, even if it takes very large liberties with how it all happened. Although that ending, if it didn't happen for real, would be an extremely large leap of faith.

No nudity in Mr. Reliable but there's a few videos of Jacqueline McKenzie from the movie available here.

 

 

Offspring

A contender for the worst Australian movie ever made. Maria (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick) is an actress who has become engaged to her leading man co-star Ben King (Robert Mammone). Her mother Rosa (Chantal Contouri) asks to see them and while Maria is reluctant as she is estranged from her mother, Ben convinces her. Things start off badly with Rosa insisting on separate rooms and Maria doesn't have her heart in it and seems to be excessively drinking and self-medicating. Rosa also begins to act strangely, going to an upstairs room every night and then coming onto Ben. Maria then wakes up and tells her side of the story to Ben which involves horrible sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather which is cheered on by Rosa. Ben and Maria decide to leave, but not before one last cup of tea... Sordid incest drama that's heavy on the sleaze and light on the substance with a truly ridiculous plot. There is so much talk of sexual abuse and ambivalent sexual behaviour that it's incredibly tough to like Offspring. Rosa is such an evil bitch (played quite well by Chantal Contouri) that her demise is most welcome. But Offspring's biggest issue is that it's almost 80 minutes of exposition. There is so much talking to describe the situation that I couldn't help but beg for someone to do something to shut the ones speaking up.

Extensive nudity from Gabrielle Fitzpatrick plus some body double nudity from Polly Wynne who is way too tall to be a double for short Chantal Contouri.

I've decided to redo the videos from a better copy of the movie I got off of Tubi but sadly the sound is much too high and I couldn't do much about it. It's not unbearable, just far too loud and noisy but that's Tubi's fault. You can find my original collages from Offspring here. I was hoping to redo them too but ran out of time.

Gabrielle Fitzpatrick in Offspring

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Chantal Contouri in Offspring

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Polly Wynne in Offspring

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Romeo + Juliet
aka William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Baz Luhrmann does Shakespeare and does a pretty fine job of putting his own touch on it. You know the plot of Romeo + Juliet, I ain't repeating it, it's always the same. Probably the only Luhrmann movie I've ever really liked and I know I'm an outlier on that.

While this is very much an American movie, it's does have Australian producers so it's here on a technicality.

There's no real nudity in Romeo + Juliet but there are some nip slips from both Claire Danes and Diane Venora.

You can find a synopsis with HD videos from Romeo + Juliet here. A preview is below.

Claire Danes in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

      
   

 

Diane Venora in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

      

 

 

Shine

Crowd-pleasing biopic about David Helfgott (Noah Taylor as a teen, Geoffrey Rush as an adult), a child prodigy on the piano who struggles to overcome his violent, demanding father Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl). David goes to London on a scholarship and becomes a recognised pianist but he struggles with the fame that comes with it and eventually succumbs to schizophrenia which leaves him wallowing in mental institutions for over a decade. When he finally leaves, he meets Gillian (Lynn Redgrave) and falls in love while finally returning to the piano. Typical inspiring overcoming the odds biopic that is better for Rush's eccentric Oscar-winning performance. He really throws himself into it like nothing else.

Brief nudity from Lynn Redgrave.

You can find a synopsis with HD videos from Shine here. A preview is below.

Lynn Redgrave in Shine

    

 

 

Turning April

Canadian co-production about a put-upon wife April (Tushka Bergen) who is married to an ambitious political operator who is too busy with his career than be with his wife and daughter. April is left alone and bored so she starts doing a little shoplifting and one day she is caught by a store manager but as he brings her back to the store, it is robbed by a ragtag bunch who accidentally take April hostage. The gang have no idea what to do with April until Leif (Aaron Blabey) gets through to her. After a few days, the ragtag bunch start to get sick of her but April wants to stay and with the help of Leif, she becomes involved in their next 'heist'. Meanwhile, her husband could care less about her. April and Leif fall for one another and the heist goes, well, not at all. The gang want to get rid of April but she suggests on more heist of her father's place, who is a stamp collector but he's with April's daughter and... The movie is mostly forgettable, it doesn't know whether it wants to be serious or a comedy and fails at both. The ragtag crew is mostly pushed to the background once April and Leif get together and the husband is so selfish that he dumps his daughter with her paedo grandfather whose wife conveniently died a few days earlier. The movie doesn't seem to have a point and ends in an open-ended way.

Technically you can see Tushka Bergen's bottom in a long shot but there's also further sexy stuff in the movie.

You can find a synopsis with VHS videos from Turning April here. A preview is below.

Tushka Bergen in Turning April

 

 

Video Fool for Love

Autobiographical movie from film editor Robert Gibson (a lot of stuff including for George Miller who produces the movie). Robert is a 40-something man who films everything in his life on a video camera. In the early 1990s, he's going out with April but she moves to England for a while. They stay together but Robert can't help himself and meets Gianna and falls madly and deeply in love with her, so much so that they move in together while he's still with April. Eventually he breaks it off with April but only after she finds out. Robert is so deeply in love with Gianna that he proposes to her and she accepts but that is the catalyst of Gianna realising that maybe this is not what she wants. Ooof, Robert is really hard to like although he tries real hard to edit his movie in a way that you should like him. I don't know what it is. Maybe his leaving April on the line as he carries on passionately with Gianna or just that he films every fucking thing including jacking off in a sperm bank, Also found out he directed Snow: The Movie, which I absolutely despise. Just a hard movie to like.

There's nudity from Gianna Santone and a bunch of pixelated unknowns. Wonder what made Gianna sign off appearing in this movie because she could've easily have just said no considering how their relationship ended.

Gianna Santone in Video Fool for Love

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April Ward in Video Fool for Love

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Unknown in Video Fool for Love

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What I Have Written

Ooof, I don't have much of a memory of this movie at all although I do remember it being fairly sexual in content while not showing all that much plus it was extremely arty. It's really being a while since I've seen this.

Brief nudity from Angie Milliken and Gillian Jacobs.

You can find a synopsis with videos from What I Have Written here. A preview is below.

Angie Milliken in What I Have Written

    
    

 

Gillian Jones in What I Have Written

    
    

 

There's also a bunch of movies that had nothing to cap including Rolf de Heer's The Quiet Room, Cate Shortland's debut movie Parklands, the Indian/Australian drama Jhumka, drama The Inner Sanctuary, telemovie The Territorians and Hollywood movie The Phantom. There's a 3 second scene of Joy Smithers in a bikini from a distance in River Street, hardly worth capping plus there's plenty of cleavage from actresses in the feminist revolution drama Resistance (made in 1992 but released in 1996) that is directed by Toecutter/Immortan Joe himself Hugh Keays-Byrne. There's also nothing to cap in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners.

Also there's a few movies I couldn't get a hold of including telemovies Natural Justice: Heat plus I've seen Whipping Boy but don't have a decent copy of it. There's also the New Zealand family movie Flight of the Albatross which I doubt would have anything to cap anyway.

Looking very much like they'll be two updates for 1997 even with a number of movies still to check out.

 

Tags: Joan Dawe, Mimi Rogers, Annie Yip, Nina Liu, Emily Kwan, Amber Allum, Caroline Cleak, Inga Norgrove, Frances O'Connor, Radha Mitchell, Alice Garner, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Chantal Contouri, Polly Wynne, Gianna Santone, April Ward