Ted Kotcheff
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AICN-Downunder: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, THE FRENCH KISSERS, THE STRENGTH OF WATER, BRIGHT STAR, plus more!...IN FRIGHT, an extended NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD scene about the film, a piece on the great Chips Rafferty, a commentary with director Ted Kotcheff and editor Anthony Buckley, and, most impressively, a comparison between the original print and the... In this article: Samson and Delilah, Bright Star, DVD, Wake in Fright, American Pie, Blu-Ray, and New Zealand film |
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Wikipedia | October 09, 2009
Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931), sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director , who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a...
In this article: Sydney Newman, Wake in Fright, Armchair Theatre, First Blood, Macedonia, Drama, and British Film Institute
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The Hollywood Reporter | September 30, 2009
AFI Fest sets Halloween programming
...6 Theatres in Hollywood on Oct. 31. The line-up will consist of Joe Dante's 3D movie "The Hole," Sean Byrne's "The Loved Ones," Ted Kotcheff's "Wake in Fright" and Michael Stephenson's "Best Worst Movie." "The Hole" will be the first...
In this article: The Hole, Halloween, Bong Joon-ho, Paul Morrisey, Wake in Fright, and Hollywood
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thestar.com | September 18, 2009
Today's TIFF mini reviews
...259 Richmond St. W. LB Wake in Fright (Recommended) 40 years ago, before the rise of the Australian film industry, director Ted Kotcheff (then a Torontonian working in England) went to Australia to make this film about a young teacher...
In this article: Scotiabank, Roy Thomson Hall, Max Manus, Ben Mendelsohn, and Wake in Fright
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TIFF reviews: Coming attractions
...Sept. 19, 6:15 p.m., Varsity. LB *Wake in Fright 40 years ago, before the rise of the Australian film industry, director Ted Kotcheff (then a Torontonian working in England) went to Australia to make this film about a teacher who...
In this article: Scotiabank, Ryerson University, Daniel Ellsberg, Dog, Oscar, Cumberland, and Victoria College
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Barney, the Italian version
...turns out that Richler did spend a significant chunk of time in Rome. According to his longtime friend Ted Kotcheff (who directed Duddy Kravitz), he and Florence Mann moved to Rome from London in 1959, shortly after breaking up with their...
In this article: Mordecai Richler, Robert Lantos, Paul Giamatti, Rome, Rachelle Lefevre, Barney's Version, Italy, and Quebec
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boston.com - Latest movie news | August 20, 2009
Not Quite Hollywood
...that peaked in the 1970s and 1980s. They argue, in part, that it was a reaction against the British and North American movies, like Ted Kotcheff's 1971 thriller "Wake in Fright'' (ne "Outback'') that made the country and its people appear...
In this article: Dennis Hopper, Saw, Mad Dog Morgan, Wake in Fright, Mad Max, and VH1
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Raising Caine and Rock's locks
...in which filmmakers discuss the movies that inspired them or marked a turning point in their career, journeyman Canadian helmer Ted Kotcheff will show and then talk about Wake in Fright (a.k.a. Outback), his 1971 Aussie nightmare...
In this article: Chris Rock, Michael Caine, Wayne Gretzky, Peter Berg, Neil Jordan, Norman McLeod, and Dirty Harry
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Sydney Morning Herald - Entertainment | June 28, 2009
Wake In Fright
In the end it was a co-production - an Australian company associated with Bobby Limb and a US subsidiary of Westinghouse. The director, Ted Kotcheff, was Canadian, the screenwriter Jamaican. Evan Jones had worked with Kotcheff on the 1969 film...
In this article: Australia, Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Jack Thompson, Paradise Lost, and Westinghouse
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Film made Scorsese gasp
...scenes of a kangaroo hunt. I t was almost 40 years ago that he was in the wilds of Australia shooting Outback. But director Ted Kotcheff has never forgotten the brutality of the kangaroo hunt so disturbingly well caught in this hard,...
In this article: Wake in Fright, Martin Scorsese, God, Australia, Sydney Film Festival, Westinghouse, Canada, and Kenneth Cook
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Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch | April 30, 2008
PopWatch Trivia: What do 'Law & Order: SVU,' 'Weekend at Bernie's,' and 'First Blood' have in common?
The answer is not Idolatry. (Although, that would be amazing.) It's that the same man, Ted Kotcheff, who directed First Blood, also directed Weekend at Bernie's (!) and is now an executive producer on 200-episode-old Law & Order: SVU. That...
In this article: Billy Wilder, Law & Order, First Blood, Louis B. Mayer, William Holden, George Segal, Weekend at Bernie's, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and Fedora
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Ted Kotcheff (sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto is a Canadian film and television director of Bulgarian descent, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood.
The son of immigrants from Macedonia, after graduating in English Literature from the University of Toronto, Kotcheff began his television career at the age of twenty-four when he joined the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with television still very much in its infancy in the country. Kotcheff was the youngest director on the staff of the CBC, where he worked for two years on shows such as General Motors Theatre before in 1958 leaving Canada to live and work in the United Kingdom.
He was inspired by his compatriot Sydney Newman, who had been the Director of Drama at the CBC and had moved across to the UK to take up a similar position at ABC Television, one of the local franchise holders of the ITV network who also produced much of the nationally-networked programming for the channel. At the ABC, Newman oversaw as producer the popular Armchair Theatre anthology drama programme, and he employed Kotcheff as a director on this series, for which he directed several plays between 1958 and 1960.
As well as directing for Armchair Theatre during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kotcheff also directed several productions for the theatre, and in 1962 directed his first feature film, Tiara Tahiti. He went on to direct other features during the decade, including Life at the Top (1965) and Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969).
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