Michael Philips

Películas

After The Credits
Production Design
We've seen it a hundred times before - boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back, and they live happily ever after. Until the credits roll. And after that, it's a completely different story.
The View from Greenhaven
Production Design
A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Everything Goes
Production Design
A young couple offer to buy the furniture of a middle-aged man whose wife just left him - but they end up with more than they bargained for. Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish and Sullivan Stapleton star in an adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.
The Night We Called It a Day
Production Design
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Días de garaje
Production Design
Una joven banda de garaje de Sidney, Australia, sueña con lo mismo que todas: triunfar en el mundo de la música. Su manager finalmente consigue ponerlos en contacto con un ejecutivo de una importante discográfica, pero los problemas personales entre los distintos componentes del grupo comienzan a aparecer, complicándolo todo... El realizador australiano de origen egipcio Alex Proyas ("El cuervo", "Dark City") dirige esta historia que, a ritmo de música y en clave de comedia, explora los entresijos del nacimiento de una banda de rock, el oscuro mundo de las discográficas y los problemas implícitos de la fama y el estrellato. Proyas, que también es coautor del guión, introdujo aspectos autobiográficos en la historia, de cuando él, siendo un joven que todavía vivía en Australia y formaba parte de un grupo experimental de teclados, soñaba con alcanzar algún día la fama.
Mi marido , mi asesino
Production Design
Nueva Gales del sur. El sargento detective Bob"serpiente" Inkster, trata de averiguar sobre el asesinato de una mujer casada con un empresario croata. Resultó muerta de un tiro en la cama y sospechosamente su marido salió ileso...
El círculo íntimo
Production Design
Jill Fitzpatrick es una detective privado sin empleo. Ansiosa de adrenalina, acepta un trabajo investigando la desaparición de una joven estudiante llamada Mikie. Le sigue la pista gracias a su seductora profesora Diana. Pero no pasa mucho tiempo antes de que Mikie sea hallada estrangulada. Jill se adentrará en una apasionada relación con Diana y juntas buscarán al culpable...
My Mother Frank
Production Design
El guionista de "Contact" y "Babe" hace su debut en la dirección con una historia que mezcla el paso de la adolescencia a la madurez en unos jóvenes con las oportunidades que la vida ofrece a una mujer de mediana edad.
Praise
Production Design
Crónica sobre la peculiar relación sexual entre un fumador asmático y una ninfómana que padece un eczema.
Vacant Possession
Production Design
Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before.
Cody: Bad Love
Production Design
Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.
Cody: A Family Affair
Production Design
Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.
Cody: The Tipoff
Production Design
Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.
Breathing Under Water
Art Direction
BREATHING UNDER WATER is the story of a woman's journey into an imaginary underworld city. The birth of her daughter into an increasingly perilous world has unsettled everything in Beatrice's (Anne Louise Lambert) life. Her growing unease prompts Beatrice to undertake a journey - an investigation into human nature, a confrontation with the fears of our time, and a search for clues that will ultimately give her an answer to the central riddle of the film: why has humankind set the stage for its own extinction? The director’s preoccupation with humankind’s tendency to self-destruct was one factor that lead to the creation of this complex film.
Un mundo aparte
Art Direction
A principios de los sesenta, un matrimonio blanco es acosado y perseguido en Sudáfrica por hacer pública su postura anti segregacionista. El apartheid en el país, es un movimiento con mucha fuerza, y el gobierno considera una amenaza que una periodista blanca comience a protestar contra la segregación racial...