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Deadline.com
The Eye of the Storm U.S. rights sold to Sycamore Entertainment...

The Age
The Eye of the Storm nominated for 12 AACTA awards
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TheReelBits.com
The Eye of the Storm wins Jury Prize at Rome International Film Festival...

Hollywood Reporter
A second jury prize, not normally awarded in Rome, was give to Fred Schepisi's Australian film...

The Age
Australian film wins in Rome

TributeMovies.com
Fred Schepisi 'The Eye of the Storm' video interview.

Exclaim! Canada
Schepisi's first film since Empire Falls is almost the perfect storm.

The Age
Alexandra Schepisi had a few awkward family moments in The Eye of the Storm.

Sydney Morning Herald
For Fred Schepisi, there was a driving reason to turn Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm into a film.

ABC TV - At the movies
Four stars each from Margaret & David

Inside Film
The Eye of the Storm wins best Australian feature at MIFF.

Encore and The Age
The Eye of the Storm wins The Age Critics Award

ABC Radio
Fred speaks to Louise Maher (podcast).

ABC TV Arts Nation
A Melbourne Film Festival panel discuss Schepisi's film.

ABC TV Arts Nation
A Melbourne Film Festival panel discuss Schepisi's film adaptation of Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm.

Screen Daily
It's an acting masterclass, and not just from the principals.

SBS
Cruelty, avarice, jealousy, deception, insecurity and lust... all those vices and more are nakedly revealed.

Hollywood Reporter - 22 July 2011
A classy, grown-up drama that explores the emotional wreckage of a dysfunctional family with caustic wit.

The Age - 16 July 2011
Forever femme fatal... Charlotte Rampling is a domineering matriarch on her deathbed in Fred Schepisi's film of an Australian literary classic.

'The Eye of the Storm' screens at MIFF 2011
Fred Schepisi's 'The Eye of the Storm', starring Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis, will screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 23rd July 2011. Tickets on sale in early July...

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
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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