Geoff Murphy
Yönetmen · 1946 – 2018 · Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
Geoff Murphy was a successful New Zealand filmmaker best-known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s. He directed a string of big-budget Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second unit director on all three movies of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He has also worked as a scriptwriter, assistant director, special effects man, schoolteacher and trumpet player. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoff Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film4.7AksiyonKomediAraştırmacı gazeteci Alf Winters (Morrison), Amerikalı kız arkadaşı Melissa Jones (Eilbacher) ile Auckland havalimanında buluşur. Alf'in evinin önüne park ettiklerinde ev havaya uçar. Kısa sürede, bilinmeyen kişilerin onları öldürmek istediği anlaşılır ancak polis ya şüpheci davranır ya da sorumluların adamıdır. İkili, Yeni Zelanda'yı arşınlarken peşlerindeki takipçilerle kovalamacaya girer; araba kovalamacaları, uçak kazaları, kurşunlar ve patlamalarla mücadele ederler.
Film7.0SavaşMaceraIn New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty. The warrior Te Wheke fights for the British until betrayal leads him to seek utu (revenge). The settler Williamson in turn seeks revenge after Te Wheke attacks his homestead. Meanwhile Wiremu, an officer for the British, seems to think that resistance is futile.
Utu
1983 · 33 votes
Film6.6DramRewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as renewing family ties. He is seeking an identity and a permanent place to call home yet desperately hiding a secret from his past. Oddly enough there is one person with whom he finds peace of mind. She is an old woman known as Kara. A special relationship develops between Rewi, Kara and Kara’s great granddaughter Awatea.
Mauri
1988 · 4 votes
FilmBelgeselTV MovieDirector Geoff Steven's personal perspective on the Kiwi cinema renaissance of the 1970s. It traces the development of the local film industry from the ‘she'll be right' days when filming permits were unknown, and all that was needed to get a picture up were a Bolex camera, enthusiasm and ingenuity.
Film10.0KomediA series of sketches about Kiwi extraordinaire Fred Dagg's secret mission to find a "bionic sheep" which has been lost by the government.
Dagg Day Afternoon
1977 · 1 votes
FilmBelgeselMaking of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.
Making Utu
1983
Film6.0KomediKorkuBefore the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and criminals, and began making films. This freeform short about running late is an early product of varied schemers who were key in the Kiwi film renaissance. Geoff Murphy plays the man in a hurry, and Bruno Lawrence is Dr Brunowski. Warning: final credits not to be trusted.
Film10.0KomediThe story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
Wild Man
1977 · 1 votes