| Cinema of Unease/Typically British |
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The Century of Cinema Series: New Zealand and British Cinema
Produced by the British Film Institute, this is a collection of documentaries made by some of the world's leading filmmakers, who offer highly individualized views of the history and development of film in their native country or region.BR>
Single tickets: $5.50, $6.50
Cinema of Unease by Sam Neill (1995, 52 min) and Typically British by Stephen Frears (1995, 73 min). Primarily known as an actor, Sam Neill has a closeted past as a filmmaker at the New Zealand Film Unit. That was before he starred in Roger Donaldson's Sleeping Dogs, the 1977 movie which not only launched Neill in his present career but also kick-started the modern New Zealand cinema. In this touching and revelatory film, Neill returns to directing and to the cities and landscapes where he grew up, finding echoes of his own memories and formative experiences in the emerging national film culture.
In Typically British, Stephen Frears celebrates notable British films and filmmakers and points out that, contrary to Francois Truffaut's observation, the words "British" and "cinema" are actually not "incompatible".
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