The Australian Academy Award-nominated director doesn’t think much of those who complain when their films miss out on an Oscar.
It’s Oscars week when Academy Award-nominated director Bruce Beresford agrees to meet for lunch, so I suggest a day other than Monday, assuming he will want to watch the glittering ceremony broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre.about a washed-up country singer played by Robert Duvall, he didn’t even attend the gala, despite living in Los Angeles at the time.
He’s caught the bus from his home in Birchgrove to dine with me at his favourite Sydney restaurant, Medusa Greek Taverna in Market Street, where he’s greeted warmly by restaurant staff. Peter Koutsopoulos, the owner, serves us a platter of mixed Greek delicacies he’s chosen for us to nibble on while we chat about the filmmaker’s life journey from a western Sydney housing commission home to Hollywood.Beresford likes public transport because it gives him good reading time.
The boy who spent much of his youth in darkened cinemas in Sydney’s western suburbs speaks with some authority on his film knowledge. While attending the public boys high school in Parramatta he talked his mother into paying to send him to Kings School for his final two years, so he could become the first in his family to go to university.
“I made 8mm films and had to get odd jobs to have the money to get them developed from the chemist. I used to make films with various girlfriends but they all shot through before the film was finished because it was so boring and slow. “Then I did a second McKenzie film funded by Reg Grundy; that was a big mistake. That made it even worse because I was ‘Mr Yobbo’. I was considered the lowest brow in the lowbrow form.”“I won a best director award at the AFIs and I managed to pull myself out of the yobbo class after that.
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