Bruno Lawrence
Nacimiento : 1941-02-12, Worthing, West Sussex, England
Muerte : 1995-06-10
Historia
Born David Charles Lawrence in Worthing, West Sussex, England, he migrated with his family to New Zealand in 1946, settling in New Plymouth before moving to Wellington in 1948.
Lawrence spent most of his life in New Zealand, but also worked extensively in Australia. He was a renowned jazz and rock drummer, playing drums in many bands, including Max Merritt & The Meteors, Quincy Conserve,Blerta, and The Crocodiles. His last recording was with Bernie McGann, Larry Gales and Jonathan Crayford on "Jazz at the St. James" in 1989.
In the early 1970s, Lawrence founded Blerta ("Bruno Lawrence's Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition"). The multi and theatrical co-operative toured New Zealand and in parts of Australia. Blerta saw him performing alongside many people he would work with later as an actor, including director Geoff Murphy, and actors Martyn Sanderson and Ian Watkin.
Rex Devlin
A small town, on State Highway 1, where nothing ever happens...then Rex Devlin dies in a suspicious car wreck and a mysterious stranger moves into the Temuka Hotel. Why is one of the world's biggest multinational corporations so desperate to buy a dowdy little backwater petrol station? Has Oscar Devlin really come all the way home from Los Angeles to sort out his meager inheritance, or is it Frankie he's come to see?
Self
Numero Bruno is a warts and all biography of widely popular actor, musician and counter-cultural hero Bruno Lawrence. Lawrence's intense, charismatic screen presence was key to ground-breaking Kiwi films, Smash Palace, The Quiet Earth and Utu. Directed by Steve La Hood, this documentary features interviews with family and friends, and liberal excerpts from Lawrence's film and musical work, including performances by 70s alternative Aotearoa icons Blerta and clips showcasing his seminal collaborations with Geoff Murphy.
Mr. Palzetti
Gino Pallazetti is in love with Lucia Petri and his career as a stand up comedian is about to take off.
Teddy
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.
Detective Sr. Sgt. Terry Batchelor
Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew member, he must convince the police superintendent (Neill) that this is an act of terrorism. Determined not to allow outside forces to threaten their harbor, the police embark on a pursuit of the persons responsible. The events that follow nearly bring down an allied nation's government.
Robert, Carey's Father
Comedia que se acerca al espíritu y al humor de las películas inglesas de la Productora Ealing. Un enredo muy humano y unos diálogos chispeantes, en un film en el que Hopkins (El silencio de los corderos) cambia por completo de registro para interpretar a un estricto consejero económico contratado para reflotar una pequeña empresa en la que nadie da ni golpe.
Self
Director Geoff Steven's personal perspective on the Kiwi cinema renaissance of the 1970s. It traces the development of the local film industry from the ‘she'll be right' days when filming permits were unknown, and all that was needed to get a picture up were a Bolex camera, enthusiasm and ingenuity.
John Peterson
After her father's death, Anna Peterson and her family move from Australia to her father's ancestral home in New Zealand.
Bosun
Australia. Años 50. Brownie y Lola son dos jóvenes que se enamoran. Los padres de ambos se opondrán a su relación e intentarán separarlos.
Det. Sgt. Ray Birch
Tras la muerte de su joven esposa Claudine en un accidente de tráfico, la vida del profesor Morris Martin se convierte en un infierno. Incapaz de aceptar su pérdida, perseguido por los recuerdos y por extrañas teorías conspirativas, el profesor Martin comienza una indiscriminada serie de crímenes. Tom Stewart, un ambicioso reportero de investigación que sigue los casos, no tarda en entrar de lleno en el obsesivo mundo del asesino. Sin embargo, lo peor aún está por llegar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Detective Sergeant Batchelor
Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.
A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.
Sonny
Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
Nat Molloy
After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her daughter Stevie. The farm has been going bad lately, so Matt starts smuggling Marijuana for a drug connection. When Danny joins him on one of his flights, the two-seater crashes in the middle of nowhere. Since his father is wounded, he has to conquer the jungle alone in search for help.
Mac
Kids on an outing in the forest come up against a mysterious hermit who lives on the other side of a bridge, and he is definitely not happy to see them.
Original Music Composer
A murderous black comedy set in the 1960s. Sam (McCauley) and his small band of hard-drinking and eccentric friends are having a night of it when a drunk truck driver, Jack (Bach), attacks Sam's Maori wife Sue (O'Brien). In the struggle, Sam and friends end up killing Jack. None of them regrets this, but it has been observed by Miriam (Gruar) who decides to blackmail Sam. Jack's brother Joe (Napier) comes looking for revenge and ends up being killed by Basil (Spence). Their jobs at the freezer works are terminated, and Basil has his own idea about how to get out of their troubles.
Zac Hobson
El científico Zac Hobson experimenta con una fuente de energía de extraordinario poder: un cinturón de fuerza que rodearía todo el planeta. Pero el experimento resulta mal, envía a la casi totalidad de la población a una dimensión desconocida, y el cinturón acaba sin dejar ni rastro de los seres vivos de todo el planeta. Aunque al principio Zac se desespera pensando que es el único hombre que queda vivo sobre la faz de la Tierra, pronto localiza algún superviviente más.
Author
El científico Zac Hobson experimenta con una fuente de energía de extraordinario poder: un cinturón de fuerza que rodearía todo el planeta. Pero el experimento resulta mal, envía a la casi totalidad de la población a una dimensión desconocida, y el cinturón acaba sin dejar ni rastro de los seres vivos de todo el planeta. Aunque al principio Zac se desespera pensando que es el único hombre que queda vivo sobre la faz de la Tierra, pronto localiza algún superviviente más.
Matt Sawyer
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.
Tex
Un niño es hipnotizado por un cientifico para que mate a sus padres y después encerrarlo en una institución mental. Pero él volverá para vengarse...
Writer
Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
Peter Daley
Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
Tyson
Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to the wild horses as a source of income. With rope and snare - and the help of an experienced horse catching team - Sam and Sara's example, the rough ex-loggers learn to respect a delicate balance between the wild horses and their catchers. The best stallions are left to breed and their riding horses are retired back into the wild herds.
Self
Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.
Williamson
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Maori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.
Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and the boys need to smuggle his body back to their farm and make it appear that he died there to satisfy a clause in his will or else they won't inherit the property.
Willie
Es el siglo 21, las Guerras del Petróleo han hecho un desastre del planeta y la tierra, fuera de las principales ciudades, no tiene ley. Después de que Hunter acude en ayuda de Corlie, quien escapó del malvado Straker, la lleva a la pacífica comunidad de Clearwater. Desafortunadamente para los ciudadanos de Clearwater, Straker tiene la plena intención de recuperar a Corlie.
Barker
En un lago en lo alto de las montañas de Nueva Zelanda, el cazador Gibbie Gibson descubre un avión extraviado de la II Guerra Mundial. Cuando está a su alrededor, una banda de delincuentes le sigue y pone en peligro a él ya su hija, porque saben que hay 50 millones de dólares en el avión. El piloto del helicóptero, Barney, ayuda a Gibbie en su lucha contra de ellos, arriesgando su vida por ello.
Writer
Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left.
Al Shaw
Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left.
Mulvaney
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
Writer
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
Wild Man
The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
Bruno
The Italian Job meets cheap jugs and a student union gig in this early heist tale from Geoff Murphy (Goodbye Pork Pie). The plot follows some university students — short on exam fees and beer money — and their scheme to crack a campus safe.
