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The Australian - 7 July 2010
It was one of those things that is meant to happen and so seldom does in this country. Fred Schepisi is making a film of Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm with Charlotte Rampling as Elizabeth Hunter, the old matriarch who lies dying in her Centennial Park mansion, and Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis as her two children who can't wait for her to die...

Sydney Morning Herald - 19 May 2010
Patrick White film a winner, enthuses Rush... "I mean we have a maestro filmmaker like Fred Schepisi directing it... And you couldn't find a more extraordinary collection of actors...
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Sydney Morning Herald - 22 April 2010
Schepisi hoping for the perfect Storm... Filming a Patrick White novel is not easy, but the director relishes the challenge...

The Australian - 21 April 2010
Fred Schepisi directs top cast in Patrick White project... Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Charlotte Rampling will star in The Eye of the Storm, an adaptation of Patrick White's novel...

Hollywood Reporter - 19 April 2010
Schepisi returns home for 'Storm'...

Encore - 19 April 2010
Schepisi returns with The Eye of the Storm...

IF - 19 April 2010
Schepisi film begins Melbourne shoot...

Moviehole - 18 April 2010
Schepisi, Rush in Eye of the Storm...

Variety - 10 February 2010
Fred Schepisi is onboard to direct "The Eye of the Storm," an adaptation of Australian Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White's 1973 novel...

New York Times - 23 December 2009
Bob Fosse, the choreographer, theater director and filmmaker... The short list of Fosse contemporaries and successors who made commercial films with comparably inventive structures includes Fred Schepisi ("A Cry in the Dark," "Six Degrees of Separation")...

The Age, Melbourne, Australia - 4 April 2008
Fred Schepisi's new local venture... Director Fred Schepisi hasn't made a film in Australia for 20 years, since he turned Meryl Streep into Lindy Chamberlain in Evil Angels. Since then he has toiled overseas, among many projects directing Sean Connery in The Russia House and Donald Sutherland in Six Degrees of Separation...


The Eye of the Storm
'The Eye of the Storm' is currently being filmed in Melbourne, Sydney and Far North Queensland. Based on the novel by acclaimed author Patrick White, 'The Eye of the Storm' is about children finally understanding themselves, through the context of family... read more

 

 

 

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