Garry Maddox
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- Oct 1, 2026
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‘Real snow, real ice, real crevasses’: The letter than inspired Tom Hiddleston to shoot the Everest film Tenzing (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Tom Hiddleston remembers exactly how long it took him to commit to playing legendary mountaineer Edmund Hillary in Tenzing, a moving Australian-led film about the historic first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953. “Immediately,” he says. “Honestly.” The British actor had just read what he calls a beautiful letter from Australian director Jennifer Peedom who, after making the 2015 documentary Sherpa,
‘Disgusted’: Ugly row over the loss of a major award at Australia’s version of the Oscars (opens the original)
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An ugly row has broken out over the removal of one of the major awards from the country’s version of the Oscars, with Mad Max director George Miller saying he has taken it away in “disgust” and the Australian Film Institute insisting it made the decision. The latest development in a bitter dispute between the institute and Miller, its patron of 25 years, centres on the Byron Kennedy Award for outstanding creative enterprise, which has been won by the likes of Jane Campion, Baz Luhrmann and Cathe
Armie Hammer is back after being cancelled. But his choice of film is problematic (opens the original)
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“Some people are able to grow without cataclysmic events befalling them and some people need an anvil dropped on their head,” former Hollywood star Armie Hammer says. “I guess I’m the latter.” The 40-year-old American’s once-promising career took off in 2010 when, aged 24, he played both Winklevoss twins in The Social Network then starred in The Lone Ranger, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Call Me By Your Name as well as the play Straight White Men on Broadway. But the anvil fell on him in July 2021
‘Speed and confidence’: Why this Hollywood director says getting older offers a creative edge (opens the original)
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At 76, Phillip Noyce is as busy as ever. The Australian director of Dead Calm, Patriot Games and Rabbit Proof Fence, who has just shot the Viola Davis thriller Ally Clark in the US, thinks there is an advantage in getting older as a filmmaker. “How a director puts together scenes and builds a 100-minute feature length story is a complex equation, involving both experience and speculation,” he says. “I can pretty much use my experience to shorten the speculation, often finishing a day’s shoot a c
Clinical trial based on Richard Scolyer’s treatment offers new hope for brain cancer patients (opens the original)
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There is new hope for brain cancer patients with an Australian clinical trial based on Professor Richard Scolyer’s experimental treatment opening for newly diagnosed patients. Just weeks after the former Australian of the Year’s death, which came three years after he was diagnosed with a highly aggressive glioblastoma, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne has confirmed the trial has started in this country. When it opened in the United States earlier this year, Scolyer said he was “inc
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