David Williamson

David Williamson

Nacimiento : 1942-02-24, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Historia

David Keith Williamson, AO is an Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.

Perfil

David Williamson

Películas

Face to Face
Producer
Face to Face is adapted from David Williamson's play of the same name which is in turn based on the transcripts from real conflict resolution sessions. The story is about a young scaffold construction worker who is charged with assaulting his boss. By the end of the film, all our assumptions about guilt and blame are turned on their heads. As 10 people sit in a room discussing the turn of events that brought our protagonist to breaking point, twists and surprises reveal that all is not quite as simple as it seems. Michael Rymer directs his screen adaptation of 'Face to Face' (written by Australian playwright David Williamson), as an ensemble piece about 10 very dissimilar Australians bound together by a complex pattern of relationships and shared histories. Hysterically funny and deeply moving, each character's role in the drama peels back another layer as the story digs down to the roots of who these people really are.
Face to Face
Author
Face to Face is adapted from David Williamson's play of the same name which is in turn based on the transcripts from real conflict resolution sessions. The story is about a young scaffold construction worker who is charged with assaulting his boss. By the end of the film, all our assumptions about guilt and blame are turned on their heads. As 10 people sit in a room discussing the turn of events that brought our protagonist to breaking point, twists and surprises reveal that all is not quite as simple as it seems. Michael Rymer directs his screen adaptation of 'Face to Face' (written by Australian playwright David Williamson), as an ensemble piece about 10 very dissimilar Australians bound together by a complex pattern of relationships and shared histories. Hysterically funny and deeply moving, each character's role in the drama peels back another layer as the story digs down to the roots of who these people really are.
Balibo
Writer
Octubre 1975. Indonesia se prepara para invadir Timor Este. Entonces llega la noticia, han desaparecido cinco jóvenes periodistas australianos; se teme por su vida. Cuatro semanas después un veterano periodista, Roger East, llega a la zona para investigar y tratar de localizar a sus compatriotas: llega presionado por un hombre que busca la verdad, o más bien que busca que el mundo no mire hacia otro lado y se olvide de Timor Este, (como, efectivamente, sucedió). Es el joven Ramos-Horta, el mismo que, años después, se convertirá en el segundo presidente del Timor Este independiente.
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Self
Invitado en calidad de fan, el mismísimo Tarantino no duda en amenazarnos con el peor de los infiernos si no acabamos encantados con este documental consagrado al cine de exploitation australiano. Su entusiasmo, y el del resto de excepcionales invitados, al glosar los méritos de un puñado de artistas que convirtieron la Australia de los años 70 y 80 en un paraíso de cine de género, es tan elocuente como extremadamente contagioso. Not quite Hollywood radiografía a mil por hora una época repleta de desnudos frontales, explosiones, casquería, monumentales carreras de coches y sustos de primera y, sobre todo, de mucha ilusión, humor e ingenio.
En la playa
Teleplay
Miniserie de TV. 3 episodios. Versión televisiva de la novela de Neil Shute, ya llevada al cine en 1959, en una memorable película con Gregory Peck. Aquí Rachel Ward y Bryan Brown interpretan a dos amantes que encaran la muerte por radiactividad luego del estallido de la guerra nuclear y la posterior llegada de la nube mortal a Australia.
Brilliant Lies
Author
Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.
Sanctuary
Writer
Bob, a well-known Australian journalist, already wealthy working for US TV, is offered a $3 million dollar deal to stay in the US, for mysterious reasons he returns home. John, an obsessive young academic has spent years writing a book about Bob’s life, loathing him, he demands the truth why Bob returned to Australia. The encounter ignites the most basic emotions in both characters.
Emerald City
Writer
A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.
Touch the Sun: Princess Kate
Writer
Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.
Voices on the Page: David Williamson - Compulsive Playwright
Self
An observational documentary about playwright and writer David Williamson and his work. Excerpts from theatrical performances and films written by Williamson are also shown - including The Removalists, The Club, and Peter Weir's Gallipoli.
The Perfectionist
Writer
Barbara and Steward are happily married and have three kids. But one day Barbara decides that her children are old enough now and she can quit as housewife and start to study. Against the will of her husband she employs babysitter Eric while she attends university. Steward reacts increasingly nervous about the presence of another man in his family and brings their marriage into a crisis.
Phar Lap
Screenplay
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
El año que vivimos peligrosamente
Screenplay
Yakarta, año 1965. Al inexperto reportero australiano Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) se le presenta la oportunidad de su vida cuando lo mandan como enviado especial a Indonesia. En el turbulento escenario de la insurrección comunista contra el presidente Sukarno, conoce a Billy Kwan (Hunt), un enigmático fotógrafo, y a Jill Bryant (Weawer), una atractiva mujer que trabaja en la embajada inglesa.
Gallipoli
Screenplay
Primera Guerra Mundial, 1915. Reza la leyenda del filme: "De un lugar del que nunca has oído hablar llega una historia que nunca olvidarás". Dos amigos australianos, ambos atletas, deciden alistarse para ir a la guerra y les toca luchar contra los turcos en la batalla de Gallipoli.
The Club
Writer
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
Writer
Un viejo capitán y su joven esposa comparten muchas aventuras después de que naufragaron y fueron capturados por los aborígenes en una isla cerca de Australia.
La noche de las elecciones
Writer
El Partido de Don protagoniza a John Hargreaves como Don Henderson, un maestro de escuela que vive con su esposa, Kath (Jeanie Drynan), en 1969. Por aburrimiento, invita a un pequeño grupo de amigos a celebrar una victoria electoral predicha del Partido Laborista Australiano (ALP), mucho para consternación de su esposa.
The Removalists
Writer
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
Libido
Writer
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
Stork
Theatre Play
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....
Stork
Screenplay
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins....