Category: Newsfront

  • Newsfront (1978, Phillip Noyce)

    Watchable–thanks to good acting and direction–and beautifully designed melodrama about the rugged 1950s Australian newsreel cameramen and their manly pursuit of the capital n news. Sometimes hard to believe melodrama–often involving William Motzing’s music ruining scenes. There’s also the problem with how the authentic newsreel footage mixes in. Very assured, but to no good end.…