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  Geoffrey Wright at Hollywood.com
Wright succeeded in portraying the intense, sadly delusional quality of the disenfranchised, under-educated youth but failed to offer a higher tone, an enlightening perspective that would have mitigated his almost romantic presentation of gang members (particularly Russell Crowe's tragic hero who at his hate-mongering worst is hiply glamorous).
Wright returned to disenfranchised youth for "Metal Skin" (1994; released in the USA in 1999), a look into the nightmare life of an Australian industrial park which was so unrelievedly grim that it played like a parody of teenage angst movies.
Wright and company had used a local high school for shooting, "and of course the parents found out and are asking: Why is it that we are trying to give our kids a good education, and they've let these scuzzy Hollywood people in to shoot a puerile, tawdry Z-grade horror film?"
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Geoffrey_Wright/1114965   (0 words)

  
  Metal Skin and the Cinema of Noise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wright reverts to normal speed as Hando tells the terrified teenager "This is not your country", and the gang proceed to beat up the hapless Vietnamese.
Immediately in these scenes Wright has introduced the key themes of the film, and signposted the controversial and problematic issue of spectatorial identification which recurs throughout the remainder of the film and which forms the basis of much of the virulent criticism he and the film received.
Wright prefers to unsettle his audience through story and style, to "engage the senses in a very aggressive way, rather than stand off and have the audience judge the characters at a distance" (11).
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/9/metal.html   (3250 words)

  
 9 in hunt for district justice seat - PittsburghLIVE.com
Wright, himself an attorney, took office in January to fill out the term left by William Ivill III when he resigned last year.
Some candidates believe that Wright hasn't been on the bench long enough to be thought of as an incumbent, and that they are all running for what is an essentially open seat.
Wright was chosen for the position last year in part because as an attorney, he could step directly into the duties.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_125133.html   (598 words)

  
 OZ CINEMA.com : Reviews : Romper Stomper (1998)
Wright's debut directorial effort, also penned by Wright, presents a remarkably poignant character study of a group of Neo-Nazi social outcasts.
Interestingly, Wright's portrayal of this group appears, in many ways, to be a study of the obstacles facing the Aborigines in the 1990s.
This aspect of Wright's approach is largely naturalistic, seemingly allowing the audience to participate in the film's diegesis.
www.ozcinema.com /reviews/r/romperstomper.html   (832 words)

  
 Wrights Wines, Gisborne wine, New Zealand. Delicious organic vegan wine available in Gisborne.
Wrights Wines was established in 2000 by myself, Geoffrey Wright.
At present Wrights Wines purchases grapes from organic and conventional growers in Gisborne.
If I don't reach my dream, this is all right, as long as I live my life honestly and be true to myself, family and friends, not hurting anyone or anything in the process.
www.wrightswines.co.nz /index.php?page=Future   (0 words)

  
 Romper Stomper: Special Edition (1992)
Wright focuses on the actors, and spends a lot of time talking about Crowe, but the film’s most famous participant isn’t the sole emphasis of the track.
Wright also goes over the controversy that surrounded the film plus quite a few other elements in this fairly complete commentary.
Wright focused mainly on the reaction to the film, which was also the biggest issue discussed in Lee’s conversation, though he examines the movie from the point of view of the Vietnamese community in Australia.
www.dvdmg.com /romperstomper.shtml   (2004 words)

  
 Cherry Falls
Wright takes a fresh, frightening and fiendishly funny approach to the teen thriller genre and its two overriding preoccupations: sex and death.
For Australian director Geoffrey Wright, who has been planning to make a film in America, Ken Selden's screenplay was the lure.
Having indeed secured an "R" rating for the film, Geoffrey Wright enthusiastically advises audiences to expect to "thrill to our action scenes, swoon at our romantic and passionate scenes, be terrified at our spine-tingling moments of suspense, and be on the edge of their seats throughout Cherry Falls."
www.biehnteam.com /cherry.html   (1288 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Romper Stomper: DVD: Geoffrey Wright,Russell Crowe,Daniel Pollock,Jacqueline McKenzie,Alex Scott (II),Leigh ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Writer-director Geoffrey Wright's matter-of-fact treatment of this subculture eschews social commentary for visceral immediacy.
The lack of moral position may bother some people, especially in light of Wright's sympathetic treatment of particular members of Hando's racist army, and the cold, hate-driven violence is sometimes hard to watch, but his vivid characters and richly drawn world create a compelling drama for adventurous filmgoers.
Wright takes the hard route and shows skinheads through their own eyes.
www.amazon.ca /Romper-Stomper-Geoffrey-Wright/dp/B00004T109   (0 words)

  
 Trailer and Website for Geoffrey Wright’s Adaptation of Macbeth - Film Junk
Although it may seem a little uncultured of me to say this, I’ve never been particularly taken with the works of Mr.
Baz Luhrmann’s stylized retelling of Romeo & Juliet may have been a big success, but I credit that mainly to the involvement of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes who were both at the peak of their popularity.
Now there is a new version of Macbeth on the way, courtesy of Australian director Geoffrey Wright.
www.filmjunk.com /2006/08/21/trailer-and-website-for-geoffrey-wrights-adaptation-of-macbeth   (0 words)

  
 DVD Review - Romper Stomper: Special Edition
Writer/director Geoffrey Wright simply slaps the story and the message down as a snapshot of a world many of us have never seen, and says, "This is the way it is - deal with it." It's an incredible film, but it's not the type of cross-promotion hit on DVD that Fox is looking for.
Wright also discusses interview tapes he made during his research for the film.
Also on the second disc we also get a retro EPK set of interviews with Wright, Crowe, McKenzie and Tony Lee (who played the lead Vietnamese kid) circa 1992, which was neat to see and hear.
www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/romperstomper.html   (1191 words)

  
 Romper Stomper (1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
When this film originally appeared, writer/director Wright took a great deal of flack in the media for using skinheads as the central characters of the film, without doing much directorial questioning of their ideology and practices.
Wright’s portrayal is realistic, gripping, and allows viewers to draw their own conclusions about the hateful world of the skinheads, instead of bludgeoning the audience over the head with a lot of out-of-place moralizing.
Wright’s commentary track is excellent, sharing his insights gained during his time living with skinheads, technical details about the challenges of shooting the budget on a tight schedule and tighter budget, and personal reminiscence about working with this talented group of actors.
www.needcoffee.com /html/dvd/rstomper.htm   (649 words)

  
 Contact Wright Veterinary Medical Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Geoff Wright was raised in Bethlehem in the upstairs of the Wright Veterinary Medical Center along with three brothers.
She received her BS in Animal Bioscience from the Pennsylvania State University and her VMD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1986.
Wright was raised in Bethlehem and graduated from Muhlenberg College.
www.wrightvet.com /website/form.htm   (977 words)

  
 Mushroom Pictures
Wright is shooting M., the working title of his modern-day retelling of Macbeth set amid Melbourne’s gangland milieu, in just five weeks.
Wright has only helmed one feature, the 2000 horror thriller Cherry Falls, to fruition since departing for Hollywood, and while surviving that troubled shoot — “everybody else got fired,” he recalls — was an achievement, he’s plainly pleased to be back behind the camera.
Written and directed by Geoffrey Wright, and produced by Martin Fabinyi, the feature will be a modern day reworking of the famous play set in the contemporary gangland world of Melbourne.
www.mushroompictures.com.au /news.php   (2512 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Romper Stomper -- Geoffrey Wright - DVD - Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1
Geoffrey Wright, Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock, Jacqueline McKenzie
Russell Crowe (Gladiator, The Insider) gives a mesmerizing early performance in Geoffrey Wright's brutal drama about a group of skinheads in Melbourne, Australia.
As the gang wages an ongoing battle against Asian immigrants, the skinhead's vicious leader (Crowe, in one of his first major roles) and his right hand man (Daniel Pollock) vie for the attentions of a wealthy girl (Jacqueline McKenzie) who's on the run from her sexually abusive father.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=24543011026   (580 words)

  
 Alibris: Geoffrey Wright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Abbeys and priories are both types of monastery and the author traces the history of monasteries in Britain from Anglo-Saxon times to the Dissolution under Henry VIII.
The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and...
by Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, and Wright, Neil, and Crick, Julia C., and Burgerbibliothek Bern.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Geoffrey_Wright   (266 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Romper Stomper (1992)
That is not to say that director Geoffrey Wright doesn't intentionally make things seem that way.
Wright, who has yet to make a large splash in America, does a fine job in only his second film.
Wright does tend to pause for a few moments during the track, but never enough to become a problem.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=770   (1075 words)

  
 Preview Online - Feature Article - Cherry Falls
Nick Roddick talks to director Geoffrey Wright as he nears the end of filming an offbeat teen horror movie called Cherry Falls which, he says, boasts the genre's first liberal psychopath.
It's 6.30 in the morning in Richmond, Virginia, and Geoffrey Wright sounds like someone who has been up all night.
This is not particularly surprising, because Wright has been shooting nights almost since production started on Rogue Pictures' movie, Cherry Falls, in the second week in March.
www.preview-online.com /may_june/feature_articles/cherry_falls/cherry_falls_pg1.html   (404 words)

  
 BBC - collective - Peter Geoffrey Wright
Peter Geoffrey Wright's reviews and conversations are linked to from this page.
Links to other pages that Peter Geoffrey Wright publishes on Collective will appear here.
Peter Geoffrey Wright's latest weblog entry will appear here.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A2233162   (334 words)

  
 ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES: "Summer Stream": Classical CD Reviews-March 2000 Music on the Web(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
These consist of a suave waltz, an attractive pizzicato perpetuo (an alternative to the oft-performed "playful pizzicato" of Britten's Simple Symphony perhaps?), a Pastoral with its roots deep into the English tradition and finally a scuttling scherzetto which tests the string ensemble to the limits of their virtuosity.
Geoffrey Bush's three-movement Divertimento is much more serious in vein as is immediately apparent from the more advanced harmonic language of the opening Deciso.
Two very appealing short pieces for strings and harp by Geoffrey Wright follow, the second of which, Cock-a doodle Dandy, is as wittily scored as its name suggests.
www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2000/mar00/summerstream.htm   (332 words)

  
 Romper Stomper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Director Geoffrey Wright ostensibly refuses to take a moral stance on the neo-Nazi skinheads' behavior.
It is also felt that the film, which uses flashy camera techniques and propulsive music to tell its story, ends up aestheticizing the violence it portrays.
Geoffrey Wright was formerly a film critic in Australia.
www.videoflicks.com /titles/1045/1045892.htm?23134   (582 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Russell Crowe's Breakthrough Performance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is Geoffrey Wright's harrowing examination of violence and terror among neo-Nazi skinheads in contemporary Australia that was critically acclaimed and lauded for its depiction of Australia's racist subculture.
Geoffrey Wright's chilling debut film is a harrowing examination of violence and terror among neo-Nazi skinheads in contemporary Australia.
Led by the coldly charismatic Hando (Russell Crowe), a gang of white supremacist Melbourne skinheads wreak havoc on the city's Vietnamese community.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=19579   (519 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Romper Stomper (1993)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I actually like this film and as a student of film, was challenged and excited watching how Geoffrey Wright put this film together.
Geoffrey Wright PUSHES us into Hando's (Crowe) violent, hate-filled world, but he also shows us the loneliness and the stupidity of that world.
His characters are given to us, to think about as we will, and when he merely shows us what their hatred breeds, we're allowed to look down on them from the hills above and watch them as they die on the beach.
amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068TQ4?v=glance   (1695 words)

  
 Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls (Part 2 of 2)
Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls (Part 2 of 2)
Releasing an unrated director’s cut with the gore reinserted would make this a better film for sure, but it still wouldn’t be enough to actually make it good.
Horror Movies - Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls (Part 2 of 2) - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/5196/76692
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/5196/76692   (609 words)

  
 The Tailor of Panama (2001): Geoffrey Wright, Pierce Brosnan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson - PopMatters Film Review
Andy Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) is a British spy who has recently screwed up (actually, he has been discovered having an affair with a diplomat's wife) and been dispatched to Panama, an assignment that on its face, looks like it will be dull and dreggy.
Among these, the most gossipy is Henry (Geoffrey Rush), a self-exiled British tailor who spends much of his time hobnobbing with the tiny nation's wealthy denizens, drunks, and assorted official has-beens.
On meeting Andy, Henry describes the local scene to him as "Casablanca without heroes." Indeed, between the divey bars and the brothels (where Henry and Andy spend some awkward minutes on a magic-fingers bed, discussing business and looking very silly), the place is both depressed and depressing.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/t/tailor-of-panama.shtml   (1079 words)

  
 Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls (Part 1 of 2)
Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls (Part 1 of 2)
Of course, after dealing with the ‘Hollywood Inquistion’ (aka the MPAA, a heinous group led by the modern day Torquemada Jack Valenti) for a year, all of the gore wound up on the cutting room floor.
Horror Movies - Geoffrey Wright's Cherry Falls (Part 1 of 2) - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/5196/76688
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/5196/76688   (454 words)

  
 ROMPER STOMPER, Maximum Russell Crowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Director Geoffrey Wright submitted the first draft to the AFC in 1986.
To cut costs, the film was shot on Super 16 film rather than 35 mm film, and principal photography was kept to six weeks.
Director Geoffrey Wright is a former film critic.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Cinema/1501/index6.html   (466 words)

  
 NCW--Wright Morris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Long regarded as one of the most gifted American writers, WRIGHT MORRIS was the author of over thirty-three award-winning books, among them the National Book Award in 1956 for his novel A Field of Vision.
For Morris has no single voice, nothing like the kind of assertive style that marks a paragraph, wherever it is found, by Stanley Elkin or Saul Bellow or Vladmir Nabokov.
He was born in Central City, Nebraska on January 6, 1910 and died in April 1998.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /NCW/morris.htm   (336 words)

  
 Geoffrey Wright
Geoffrey Wright was a chorister with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy for the First London Repertory Season (December 1906-August 1907), appearing on occasion as Major Murgatroyd in Patience (July) and Annibale in The Gondoliers (July and August).
He was a chorister with that Company for much, if not all, of the July 1909-June 1910 season.
Over a decade later, Wright returned to the D'Oyly Carte organization:this time spending six seasons, from July 1920 to July 1926, as a member of the D'Oyly Carte Repertory Opera Company chorus.
math.boisestate.edu /GaS/whowaswho/W/WrightGeoffrey.htm   (0 words)

  
 About NeuroSonics, Inc. - Management Bios
Wright is a composer, performer, researcher, and entrepreneur who holds several patents for sophisticated brain-wave man/machine interfaces used to control and communicate with computers in highly expressive ways.
Wright also directs the Office of Technology Transfer at the Peabody Institute/Johns Hopkins University where he directs the Computer Music Consort (a professional Digital Arts Performing Ensemble) and the Combined Laboratory for Auditory Interdisciplinary Research (CLAIR).
His composition for various media (including orchestral and chamber music as well as computer music, dance and multimedia) have been performed in the US, Europe, and Asia.
www.neurosonics.com /about-bios.html   (207 words)

  
 PmWiki | Cookbook / FlickrAlbum
I believe that the script will look up only by username.
In any event, if the username has two words, you'll need to use single quotes, as in user='Geoffrey Wright', not double quotes.
I tried it with a couple of user names and it does seem to work.
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