Paul Humfress
- 2002
Australian singer and songwriter Paul Kelly stars in (and wrote part of the musical score for) this unusual musical, which combines folk and country influences with the aboriginal sounds of the Outback to tell the story of a lost child and the divergent efforts to find her. A simple farmer (Paul Kelly) and his wife (Kaarin Fairfax) are the proud parents of a beautiful little girl (Memphis Kelly). One night, Father tells the girl a bedtime story in which dreamers answer the siren song of the moon; fascinated by the story, the restless girl wanders out of the house in the night to follow the moon, and in the morning her parents discover she is gone. After the father reports his daughter missing, the authorities put together a search party, including Albert (Kelton Pell), an Aborigine police offer with remarkable tracking abilities. The farmer, however, is a prejudiced man, and objects to having a black man on the search team, no matter what his abilities may be. Offended, Albert leaves the police force behind, and sets out to find the girl on his own; soon, the girl's mother joins him, convinced that Albert's knowledge is more valuable than her husband's ignorance. Produced for Australian television, One Night the Moon received its American premier at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Kelly, Kaarin Fairfax, (more)
- 2001
Albert Einstein's first wife Mileva Marie Einstein is the focus of this PBS production that explores her history, her marriage to the physicist, and the controversial theory that she was responsible for aiding him in some of his biggest discoveries. Despite their 15-year marriage, Mileva is rarely mentioned in Einstein's writings and their relationship devolved into one of constant feuding and chronic illness, as she found herself in and out of hospitals. But recently uncovered letters and documents suggest that Mileva had a hand in developing some of her husband's theories, and that he subsequently downplayed her role in his work, and even his life. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. When this film was released, it was the only English-made film to have required English subtitles, and it is an early film by the noted experimental and outspokenly homosexual director Derek Jarman, who died in 1994. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, (more)
