FILM

Rip It Up, Issue 55, 1 February 1982, Page 22

FILM

While Warren Beatty's film about the Russian Revolution, Reds, has opened to universal acclaim but slow ticket sales, the Russians are continuing on their version of the events narrated in John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World'. At one time Beatty's film was to a conjoint production deal with the Russians but "artistic differences" saw the pack break down ... Australia's biggest budget movie to date. The Man From Snowy River, created something of a furore in Oz when Kirk Douglas was brought into the cast to help make the movie an easier international sale. Douglas met-

considerable resistance to the idea of an American in this screen adaption of one of Australia's most famous poems ... the biggest

selling Australian movie to date, Mad Max, ran off with the Grand Prize at the Paris Science Fiction Festival.. For a cost of $350,000 Mad Max has now returned $27 million. Not surprisingly Mad Max 2 is now on release ... part three of the Star Wars story. The Revenge of The Jedi, began shooting last month in London. The now familiar cast are this time directed by tyro Richard Marquand from a script by Lawrence Kasden ... Edith Head, perhaps Hollywood's most famous costume designer, died last year at the age of 82. Her remarkable career began in the silent film era and continued on into such recent movies as Carrie and The Man Who Would Be King: Head won eight Oscars ... director Nicholas Roeg is at work on Eureka, described as a murder mystery, with Gene Hackman. Script is by Paul Mayersberg ... David Lean is set to direct Passage to India based on E. M. Forster's novel ... prize for most fated film of recent memory must go to Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. The film is based on the true story of a South American rubber magnate who, at the turn of the century, built an opera house on a mountain top in Brazil. Actor Jason Robards was forced out of the film by a stomach virus. This meant the