Renny Manne Cont 4 ...

Yah. Cinema has had a bigger impact on our lives than virtually any other institution.

I can’t tell you where I definitively caught the bug. Taking the North Road Bus to the Elsternwick Esquire for the Jason and the Argonauts Saturday matinee really made me feel good.

Reading those reviews in Listener-In TV … and then actually having Ivan and Jim discussing films on live TV, (Two on the Aisle …just preceeding Three on the Outer … sheer heaven).

Perhaps it was that first screening of Singing In the Rain at RMIT …or perhaps it was having Susannah York over to dinner at my parents when we were shooting Eliza Fraser.

Yeh, I don’t know where it definitively struck … but it stuck.

Ever since then I’ve been producing Feature Films, publishing and or editing magazines about film … or just bashing anyone’s ear I could find about some program that moved me.

Thanks to Rhythmic Pulsar …I get to bash big time.

In terms of the things I like, my tastes are very

eclectic. It’s not just the story or characters that affect me, it can also be how the content is strung together. It can be the cinematic vocabulary … it’s punctuation, alliteration.

For me the art is not just the ‘object’ at the other end of the story. Quite often, it’s the journey itself. How do we get to the other end.

Some of the journeys can be ‘roller-coaster’ rides, (Mad Max 2, Road Warrior; and The Terminator 2), and some of the rides can be Carousels (Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction) …and some of the journeys can be ‘gossamer’ flights to the stars, ‘feel-good movies’  (The Goodbye Girl and ET).

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