Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: 546mins Year: Release date: 14/01/2010 RRP: $ 69.99
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World Cinema
The Rolf De Heer Collection provides an ideal introduction to this remarkable and idiosyncratic Australian filmmaker, the recipient of 27 Australian and International awards. Best known for The Tracker and Ten Canoes, Umbrella has assembled De Heer’s first six films: from his auspicious 1984 debut Tail of a Tiger, through to 1997’s “visually stunning” sci-fi fantasy Epsilon (David Stratton), and classics such as Dingo and Bad Boy Bubby in between.
THE QUIET ROOM Synopsis: A young girl is very disturbed about the arguments between her parents. The more they fight, the quieter she becomes, feeling that will help things.
EPSILON Synopsis An alien from Epsilon arrives on earth and is enraged at its environmental disregard and senseless destruction.
TAIL OF A TIGER Synopsis A young boy with a dream, an old man with a memory and a Tiger Moth that changed their lives forever.
INCIDENT AT RAVEN’S GATE Synopsis At Raven’s Gate, cars start and stop without warning, electric power is erratic and friendly pets become vicious. At Raven’s Gate people disappear…
DINGO Synopsis: Rolf de Heer's cinematic ode to the power of music, Dingo stars Colin Friels as John “Dingo” Anderson, a jazz trumpeter and dingo trapper living in the outback who longs to realise his musical dreams in Paris.
Long synopsis: Jazz great Miles Davis made his only acting appearance in this film about a jazz trumpeter who dreams of realising his musical dreams in the Australian outback. Dingo stars Colin Friels as John “Dingo” Anderson, a part-time musician and dingo trapper living in the bush who, after seeing his hero, legendary trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) on tour, longs to travel to Paris and play with the finest American jazz musicians. Frustrated by playing second-rate music in dusty dancehalls, John's dream is compromised by his love for his new family. Dingo must now decide whether he to make the supreme sacrifice for his music. Featuring a stunning, award-winning Miles Davis soundtrack (one of Davis' last recordings before his death), Dingo is director Rolf de Heer's (Bad Boy Bubby, The Tracker) cinematic ode to the power of music.
BAD BOY BUBBY Synopsis Bubby (Nick Hope, in an AFI-winning performance) knows of the existence of only himself and his mother and his universe stops at the walls of the two-room slum he's been confined to for 38 years. So when Bubby sees the outside world for the first time, he encounters a very strange, wonderful and terrible place.
Long synopsis: Confined to a two-room slum for his whole life, Bubby (Nicholas Hope) knows only of the existence of himself and his mother, a religious freak who shares the bath, and her bed, with her son. But when Bubby's long-lost father (an alcoholic priest) returns home, and to his wife's bed, the jealous Bubby is driven to head out into the world. Abused and exploited by everyone from feminists to prison inmates, a policeman, animal lovers and the Salvation Army, Bubby, armed only with the few phrases he's learnt from his mother, has a tough entry into an inhospitable world. But others soon warm to this innocent idiot savant, and Bubby starts to find a place in this poisoned world. An international art house hit that won best film at the Venice Film Festival, Bad Boy Bubby is director Rolf de Heer's (The Tracker, Dingo) quirky cult comedy masterpiece.
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