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  OZ CINEMA.com : Reviews : Jimmie Blacksmith
As such, Jimmie is abused and exploited by the white population and ostracised from Aboriginal communities.
Though Jimmie’s story is based on real events, the facts of Australian history have it that for more than one hundred years before Jimmie’s backlash, white Australians violently killed, tortured and persecuted the nation’s indigenous population to the brink of destroying the face.
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith is an intelligent tale whose evocative themes and discourses are as relevant today, in the midst of Mabo and Wik land claims, as they were when the film was released in 1978.
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 The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) is an Australian film directed by Fred Schepisi and based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Thomas Keneally.
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 e-Library - Item Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
CHANT OF JIMMY BLACKSMITH, THE - 00:00:00, 118 mins, 1989.
The very name Jimmy Govenor strikes fear into the hearts of all white people and no expense or effort is spared in hunting him down.
Jimmy thinks that with a white bride on his arm, he will be welcome anywhere.
students.trinity.wa.edu.au /webopac/DisplayBook.aspx?BookID=320.01   (152 words)

  
 The Cry of Jimmy Governor
For Jimmy it was his right to marry a white woman, and he treated her with affection and acceptance, and love for the baby boy to whom she shortly after gave birth.
Jimmy was born on a Mission run by the Anglican Church, baptised at an early age, and had white values instilled into him, along with an entirely false assertion that to be accepted by the whites, you only had to behave like them.
Jimmy's open and accepting manner led him to believe this, and to spend his life in an attempt to belong to that elusive group, but even as he struggled to belong, he was breaking their moral code.
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 Movietime - 20 May 2005  - Tommy Lewis and Yella Fella
Tommy Lewis feels there are considerable parallels between the story of Jimmy Blacksmith - the fl man raised white, but never allowed to be properly part of a white world - and his own story as a yella fella, son of a white father and a traditionally educated Aboriginal mother.
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith was named by a screen directors' poll a few years back as one of Australia's best films.
When Lewis as Jimmy Blacksmith ran amok on screen the scene was shocking, more so because Schepisi switched the film's point of view for this scene from Jimmy and his companion Mort to the victims of the attack.
www.abc.net.au /rn/movietime/stories/2005/1373315.htm   (449 words)

  
 Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Moviefone
Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas Keneally, which was in turn inspired by actual events, this drama is a shocking indictment of the racism inflicted on the...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith deals with these questions both explicitly and implicitly.
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 The borrowers - www.theage.com.au
But I wrote of Jimmy's journey of disappointment and depredation in the first person precisely because, by the early 1970s, I and others were excited by a new awareness that Australia had an ancient map - as Bruce Chatwin would later say, a spaghetti of Iliads and Odysseys expressed in geological terms.
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, By Thomas Keneally
A fictional retelling of the life of Jimmy Governor, who was educated as a Christian and married a white woman; but events led him to murder the family of his white employer in 1900 and flee with his brother Joe.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/29/1062050656844.html   (2126 words)

  
 Book Review - The True Story of Jimmy Governor - [2001] ILB 51; (2001) 5(9) ILB 19
Born close to Denison Town (Talbragar) NSW in 1875, Jimmy grew into a hard working young Aboriginal man. He had been denied any sense of acceptance despite a ready willingness to work and his attempt to adopt a white working lifestyle.
It was undoubtedly the intimate knowledge of country and bush skills of both Jimmy and Joe Governor that enabled them to avoid capture and to make a mockery of their pursuers.
Despite it being one hundred years since the execution of Jimmy Governor, it is abundantly clear from an Aboriginal perspective that racism, prejudice, oppression, contempt and ignorance remain deeply ingrained in the psyche of this country.
www.austlii.edu.au /au/journals/ILB/2001/51.html   (704 words)

  
 "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith" Film Review: Cinephilia - Australian Film & more
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (Fred Schepisi, 1978, Australia)
Set in turn-of-the-century Northern NSW this is a powerful condemnation of the White Establisment's treatment of aboriginals and of racial injustice in general.
Schepisi's solid script, though perhaps a tad too long, undoubtedly benefits from Thomas Keneally's original text, and the film is further enhanced by fine direction and camerawork (photography is by Ian Baker) and an excellent cast.
www.cinephilia.net.au /show_amovie.php?movieid=241   (90 words)

  
 072540471X - The Life of Jimmy Governor by Davies, Brian
Story of Jimmy Governor, an aboriginal who became a bushranger after he married a white woman.
Novelised as "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith" by Thomas Keneally.
The true story behind the Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith.
www.biblio.com /isbn/072540471X.html   (135 words)

  
 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) is an Australian film directed by Fred Schepisi and based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Thomas Keneally.
The novel is based on the life of bushranger Jimmy Governor.
The story is written through the eyes of an exploited Aborigine who explodes with rage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Chant_of_Jimmie_Blacksmith   (157 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - Great Australian Films (Now discussing: Movies you want to see)
Based on a novel by Thomas Keneally, which in turn was based on a true story (ala Schindler's Ark, which was also authored by Keneally), this film is a compelling tale of racial tensions, violence, and Australia.
Directed by Fred Schepisi, the film follows Aboriginal Jimmy Governor (the magnificent Tommy Lewis) from childhood as he is raised by missionaries.
Instead of fitting in with 'white society', as Jimmy hopes he can, he is ridiculed and laughed at for 'taking himself too seriously'.
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 Amazon.com: "Jimmy Blacksmith": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Moviehole.net - Interview : Bryan Brown
The star of such greats as Breaker Morant, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and Newsfront has always supported the thriving filmmaking industry here and encouraging writers, actors and filmmakers to make a go of it Downunder.
And although he toyed with Hollywood for a while in the late (Cocktail, Gorilla’s In the Mist, FX), these days, Brown likes staying on home soil, if only because that’s where all the great movies are now being made.
It is. But what people are forgetting is that when we first started out — say in the last 70’s — all our films were great too, and all did great -The Breaker’s, The Sunday Too Far Away’s, Gallipoli, and Jimmy Blacksmith.
www.moviehole.net /news/63.html   (1089 words)

  
 The Tracker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Tracker (David Gulpilil, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Rabbit-Proof Fence) has the job of pursuing The Fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen: The Fanatic, The Follower and also The Veteran across the outback.
Jimmy Kimmel's favorite guest is getting super busy, playing a mob mole in Martin Scorsese's The Departed and a CIA agent in December's The Good Shepherd.
The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character remains unknown, assists them in their quest.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/10001826-tracker/about.php   (354 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith: Books: Thomas Keneally,Bruce Kerr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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Keneally's fictionalised account of the life of Aborigine Jimmy Blacksmith is a multi-layered masterpiece.
His prose is fluid and deceptively simple as ever, but the subject is dark and dangerous.
www.amazon.com /Chant-Jimmy-Blacksmith-Thomas-Keneally/dp/1863406484   (891 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith: Books: Thomas Keneally,Bruce Kerr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Amazon.ca: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith: Books: Thomas Keneally,Bruce Kerr
The Australian idiom, combined with Kerr's accent--both are wildly appropriate--made it necessary for this listener, an American jogger, to go through the first tape twice.
The aboriginal chant with which the recording opens is repeated at the close, by which time the music is freighted with meaning.
www.amazon.ca /Chant-Jimmy-Blacksmith-Thomas-Keneally/dp/1863406484   (203 words)

  
 A Farewell to Arms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
To read Gossip from the Forest is to have been there at the meeting at Conpi`egne, illuminated by the imagination of a remarkable novelist."
Thomas Keneally is the author of eight novels, The Place at Whitton, The Fear, Bring Larks and Heroes, Three Cheers for the Paraclete, The Survivor, A Dutiful Daughter, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, and Blood Red, Sister Rose.
His awards are the Miles Franklin Award for Best Australian Novel, the 1970 Australian Bientenary Novel Prize, and the Royal Society of literature Award (1973).
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 Yellow Fella - CAAMA Shop
Set of 4 of CAAMA's best compilations from their 25th Anniversary Issue.
In 1978, Tom Lewis appeared in the Australian feature film, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith.
The life of the character he played was hauntinly close to his own, a young, restless man of mixed heritage, struggling for a foothold on the edge of two cultures.
www.store.caama.com.au /p/81366/yellow-fella.html   (224 words)

  
 TIME.com: Up from Down Under -- Dec. 4, 1978 -- Page 1
In Caddie, a young mother leaves her philandering husband and struggles to keep herself and her children alive as she descends into a Dickensian lower-class world.
In The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, a 19th century fl man is finally maddened by the mindless cruelty and patronization of the dominant group and goes on a murderous rampage.
Different as they are in story, mood and style, these films are linked by overriding similarities.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,912294,00.html   (635 words)

  
 An Interview with Ken Sallows
He moved into the film world as an assistant editor on Fred Schepsi's The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1978).
We fought for a number of things that we thought were right for the film.
In particular the Jimmy and Chopper sequence in the council flat which is quite a long sequence.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/14/sallows.html   (5967 words)

  
 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
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 The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith - DVDs & VHS - MovieMail UK
Jimmie Blacksmith, a young aborigine, is shunned by the towns white population, despite his Christian education.
Jimmie falls for a white girl, Gilda, and marries her when she becomes pregnant, but when Gilda gives birth to a 'white' child, she is encouraged to leave her husband.
When his employer refuses him food and payment, this final act of cruelty pushes Jimmie over the edge.
www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/5456   (242 words)

  
 Ruth Cracknell @ Filmbug UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
She has delighted television audiences with her role in ABC TV's Mother and Son and recent theatre credits include Lettice & Lovage, Lost in Yonkers, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Tom And Viv and David Williamson's Emerald City.
Screen credits include the recent Spider And Rose, the film version of Emerald City and Fred Schepsi's The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith.
Tell us what you think of Ruth Cracknell in the Filmbug forum...
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 Great Cinema Moments#18: - The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith by Denis Joe O'Driscoll
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 Best Australian Movies » Triponic’s Best of   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Respected contenders:Sunday Too Far Away,Newsfront,Mad Max,The Devil’s Playground,Breaker Morant,The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith,Crocodile Dundee.
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 E-mail Article: The Great White Guilt - Jimmie Blacksmith's Cry for Freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
E-mail Article: The Great White Guilt - Jimmie Blacksmith's Cry for Freedom
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Article URL: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/australian_cinema/5075 Title: The Great White Guilt - Jimmie Blacksmith's Cry for Freedom Description: Examination of the portrayal of indigenous Australians on film, using The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith as a case study.
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 Movies @ Big Movie Zone -- Movies, Movie Reviews, Trailers, Movie Showtimes and More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He then wrote and directed an Australian Broadcasting Commission TV series, Wayzgoos, and docu-dramas The Secret Discovery of Australia and Lawrence of Arabia: The Master Illusionist.
Caulfield was performance director for the acclaimed Australian feature films Storm Boy and The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and for children in the feature film My Brilliant Career.
He later directed his own feature, Fighting Back.
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