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The Timeline is incomplete; and highlights the period
up to and including Perfect Strangers (34). There
are some ** marking comments/necessary alterations
on the
electronic files where additions can also be made.
1. We have given each film a number (except Ophelia
and a couple of commercials): see Referencing Code
For Films.
2. All material found at Blair Street
for films up to and including (34) Perfect Strangers
was
annotated
and
filed.
3. The boxes are arranged as shown
on the list inside each box, and items are arranged alphabetically
within
files.
4. Not every item noted in the Film
List is present in the boxes. The Film List – up
to War Stories - includes items from every source we
could find:
National
Bibliography, theses, GP’s physical files.
We have not viewed some “GP archive” items,
simply transcribed their details e.g. from a thesis
list.
5. We have prioritised some items
as “Key
References” and
labeled others as “Publicity”. However,
it has not always been possible to differentiate
absolutely; we tended to define printed material
as a key reference
if it provided analysis of a film or its making,
or biographical
information not included elsewhere.
All dates when film first screened
1. The Animals and
the Lawn Mower (1972)
2. Draw Me a Circle (1973)
3. Mojak
Kojak (1975)
4. Creeps on the Crescent (1976)
5.
[Whose School?] (1977)
6. Toheroamania (1978)
7. Dat’s
Show Biz (1978)
8. Water the Way You Want it (1978)
9.
All the Way Up There (1979)
10. Learning Fast (1980)
11. Hold Up
(1981)
12. How I Threw Art Out the Window
(1982?)
13. Patu! (1983)
14. Taking Over (1982)
15. Making Utu
(1982)
16. The Only One You Need (1983) music
clip
17. Angel of the Junk Heap (1983)
music clip
18. Aspects of Utu (1983) educational
video
19. Mind Out (1984) educational video
20.
Imagine (1984)
21. Mr Wrong/Dark of the Night (U.S.
title) (1985)
22. Kai Purakau/The Story Teller (1987)
23.
Ruby and Rata (1990)
24. Married (1992)
25. Bread and Roses
(1993)
26. War Stories Our Mothers Never
Told Us (1995)
27. Hone Tuwhare/ akaNo Other Lips
(1996)
28. Survivor Stories (1998)
29. Punitive
Damage (1999)
30. Getting To Our Place (1999)
31.
Wahine Requiem (2001)
32. Titless Wonders (2001)
33. Coffee
Tea or Me? (2002)
34. Perfect Strangers (2003)
35. Lands
of Our Fathers (2005)
O Ophelia
AF Absent Friends (TV commercial)
PP
Parallel Paths (TV commercial)
Standard
8 mm colour separate sound
20 mins
Film Archive Ref: F28036
The
story of a wonderful place where everyone lived happily
and the grass never needed cutting, being
disrupted by
a travelling lawn mower salesman.
GP: “Became
a film maker when my friend, Suzanne, who had
shot the film, eloped, leaving me with a pile
of little yellow film cans and an overenthusiastic
drama group anxious to see their film.”
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document
(ends 1978) Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston
(1992)
MA Thesis
University of Auckland 39-40
Screened on standard 8mm projector/old Faregraph
(?) tape recorder in the psychiatrists’ library
Fulbourn Hospital Cambridge and to the Royal College
of Psychiatrists
Annual Conference in Cambridge 1974.
Beryl – one of the actors – striding round
the corridors of Fulbourn, thrusting herself into
the faces of unsuspecting visitors and asking in a
very loud
voice “Have you seen my film?”
Standard 8 mm colour sound
stripe
30 mins
Film Archive Ref: F80997
Documentary
about art therapy with severely handicapped patients
at Cell Barnes Hospital, London. Commissioned
by the hospital’s nurse training school.
GP: “I
shot it, lit it, recorded sound, edited it, and ruined
it with an overwritten commentary.”
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp
document (ends 1978) Shepard, D Writing a Woman
Film Maker’s Life and
Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA
Thesis University of Auckland 4
Used by Dr Elizabeth Greene in her teaching about art
therapy on St Albans School of Art Dip Art therapy
post-graduate course.
Super 8 mm colour (sound stripe)
12 mins
Film Archive Ref: 28037
Funded by British
Film Institute – Education Fund.
Simple sight gag cops and robber story. End product
of experimental drama with deaf students at Brixton
College
of Further Education.
GP: “By carefully building
the soundtrack, profoundly deaf students were able
to communicate in beautifully
flowing sentences – an aim that for them
was most important as they were educated without
extensive use
of sign.”
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd.
(ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled 10pp document
(ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life
and Work: A Biofilmograpy of Gaylene Preston (1992)
MA Thesis
University of Auckland 4
Screened to the student body at Brixton College
of Further Education 1975
Super
8 mm colour (sound stripe)
20 mins
Film Archive Ref: No
Funded by
British Film Institute – inadvertently.
A woman walks along the road, hears a piano
and is lured into this house by an
inexplicable force...
GP: “Our flat’s … Christmas
movie.” Made
with Nick Kavanagh.
Gaylene
Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled
10pp document (ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film
Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography
of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 42
Screened many times on the wall of 17 Stockwell
Park Crescent.
Screened 1977 Red Mole Cabaret, Carmen’s
Balcony, Wellington
1/2” high
density b & w videotape
20 mins
Film Archive Ref: No
director:
GP
camera: Mike Biko
GP: “About community use
of the Beresford Street Primary School, where classes
for Pacific Island parents
learning English language were
included alongside their children’s usual primary
school activities.” Commissioned
by Darcey Nicholas through the
Auckland WEA outreach programme.
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae
[“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative] Self-pencilled
10pp document (ends 1978) Shepard,
D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography of
Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 58
This film was shown to try and help save
the school fromdemolition. Ultimately
unsuccessful
in stopping
the bulldozers.
16mm
colour reversal
12 mins
Film Archive Ref: No
director:
GP
producer: John O’Shea
camera: Rory O’Shea
sound: John Van Der Reyden
editor: John Kiley
Pacific Films/ TVNZ production
The
story of the local toheroa season, told from the
toheroa’s
point of view. For the Shoreline series.
Gaylene Preston Curriculum
Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative]
Self-pencilled 10pp document
(ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing a
Woman Film Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography
of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA
Thesis University of Auckland
60-63Distribution
GP: “Screened
February 1978 on TVNZ’s
Channel 1, unfortunately
during a massive North island
failure
of the national grid. This
power cut means I have never
seen this
film in
colour completed,
as we edited on black
and white dupe print off
the reversal original.”
Listener listing Sunday February
? 1978
16
mm colour reversal
10 mins
Film Archive Ref: No
director:
GP
producer: John O’Shea
camera: Rory O’Shea
sound: John Van der Reyden
editor: John Kiley
Pacific Films/ TVNZ productionIn
the style of the ‘Look
at Life’ documentaries
of the 1950s, a light-hearted
look
at the
animal hospital,
Napier Marineland.
For the Shoreline series.
Gaylene Preston Curriculum
Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Preston, G [Narrative]
Self-pencilled 10pp
document (ends 1978)
Shepard, D Writing
a Woman Film Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography
of Gaylene Preston (1992)
MA Thesis University of
Auckland 60-63
Channel 1 TVNZ
Listener listing
Sunday February
?
16
mm colour reversal
10 mins
Film Archive
Ref: No
director:
GP
producer:
John O’Shea
camera:
Rory O’Shea
sound:
John Van
der Reyden
editor:
John Kiley
Pacific
Films/
TVNZ productionWater
classification
explained.
For the
Shoreline
series.
Gaylene
Preston
Curriculum
Vitae
[“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Preston,
G [Narrative]
Self-pencilled
10pp
document
(ends
1978)
Shepard,
D Writing
a Woman
Film
Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography
of Gaylene Preston (1992)
MA Thesis University of
Auckland 60-63
Channel
1 TVNZ
March
1978
Listener
listing
Sunday
? Marc
16mm
Eastman
colour
negative
27
mins
Film
Archive Ref:
F10232
director
and co-producer:
GP
co-producer
and lighting
cameraman: Warrick
Attewell
editor:
Dell King
music:
Wayne Mason
Valhalla
Films. Funded
by CIP
and the
Ministry of
Recreation and
Sport
The story
of an
impossible dream
which became
reality when
Graeme Dingle
and Bruce
Burgess, a
24 year
old with
cerebral palsy
climb Ruapehu
together.
Auckland
City Art
Gallery; A
Series Devised
by Roger
Horrocks: 5
Gaylene Preston
(1984) Auckland
City Art
Gallery
Fenwick,
A “Ex Coast Girl Developing Film on Deafness” [?
Star] nd np (GP archives)
Fenwick,
A “Film Shows World as Disabled See it” (1980)
Auckland Star 10 December
“
Film on Disabled Wins Award” 10 December np
(GP archives)
Gaylene
Preston
Curriculum
Vitae
[“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
[“Gaylene Preston…received a trophy”]
(1984) New Zealand Woman’s
Weekly 30 July 45
George,
E “Getting it Right” [Readers
Review] nd np (GP archives)
“
Grey- Born Girl Behind Latest TV Film Hit” nd
np (GP archives)
“
May I Draw Your Attention To…” The Evening
Post 11 July np
“
Preston – Another Movie”– [A newspaper
article – GP’s
own archive]nd
Shepard,
D Writing
a Woman
Film Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography
of Gaylene Preston (1992)
MA Thesis University of
Auckland 63-66; and
bibliography
250
“
Sorry, Gaylene” [Truth]
Whelan, B “Film Captures the Plea of Disabled” nd
np (GP archives)
Released
in New
Zealand cinemas
as the
short for
Middle Age
Spread and
later, in
February 1980,
screened on
television. Also
shown on
television networks
in the
United States,
Britain, Holland,
Sweden, Denmark,
Malaysia and
Switzerland.
The
film was
shown on
Swiss television
to open
the International
Year of
Disabled Persons.
Distributed
in the
United States
by Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
Won
special jury
prizes at
the Banff
Festival of
Mountain Films
(1980) and
the Festival
International du
Film Alpine,
Les Diablerets
(1980)
Bradwell,
J “Her Film is a Hit” (1980) New
Zealand Women’s Weekly
3 March 11
Fenwick,
A “Seeing The World as Disabled Do” (1980)
The Nelson Evening Mail
19 December 10
Fenwick,
A “Film Producer Focuses on a Different
Angle” nd. np (GP
archives)
Dashfield,
P “Climb Film Earns Special Award” (1981)
Dominion 19 March 10 – see
big blue book
Fenwick,
A “Ex Coast Girl Developing Film on Deafness” nd
np The Greymouth Evening
Star (GP archives)
“
Film Shows World as Disabled See it” (1980)
Auckland Star 10 December np
Mayne,
W “Film-Maker Applauds System” nd
np (GP archives)
“
Movie Captures Aucklander’s Mountain Triumph” (1979)
The Dominion 5 July 6
“
Way Up There… and Down Again” (1980)
The Daily Telegraph 16 February 10
Whelan,
Barry “Film Captures the Plea of the Disabled” (GP
archives)
Vincent,
R “[Wellington Film Maker]” nd
np (GP archives)
16mm
Eastman colour
negative
48
mins
Film
Archive Ref:
F5723
director
and producer:
GP
lighting
camera: Alun
Bollinger
and
Ian Paul
editor:
Dell King
Gaylene
Preston
Productions.
Funded
by
CIP, Department
of Education,
Ministry
of
Sport and
Recreation
Made
over
a
two-year
period.
Students
at
a Masterton
school
were
filmed
and
talk about
their
lives
and ambitions
over
a
year as
they
leave
school
and
start
work,
most enduring
a period
of unemployment.
Beattie, K “ ‘First Say and Last Cut’:
A Conversation With Gaylene Preston” (1996) New
Zealand Journal of Media Studies 3:1 4-16
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd.
(ends 1983)
Auckland City Art Gallery; A Series Devised by Roger
Horrocks: 5 Gaylene Preston Auckland City Art Gallery,
1984
“
Having to Learn Fast” (1981) The Dominion 2 October
np
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and
Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 63-66, discussion 95-114; and
bibliography 250
“
TV Records Changes Faced by six Makora Students” (1981)
Wairarapa Times-Age 30 September
Sharon Crosbie interview
for National Radio nd
Screened on New Zealand television.
16mm Eastman colour negative
24 mins
Film Archive Ref: F46068
director/co-producer:
GP
story: GP
screenplay: GP and Michael Anthony Noonan
lighting cameraman: Ian Paul
music: Jan Preston
editor: Jamie Selkirk
co-producer: Dave Gibson
cast: Chris Orr, Lorraine Schriener,
George Theobald
Gibson Films in association with Gaylene
Preston Productions. Funded by New Zealand Film Commission;
International
Year of Disabled Persons
A parable designed to
question community attitudes to the disabled. A blind
man, a deaf woman, and
a spastic film critic witness the robbery of
a cinema.
In the
ensuing
panic their information is ignored because
people cannot see past their disabilities. The second
part of the
film consists of an interview with the lead
actors
who are
themselves deaf, blind and spastic.
GP:” The
film grew out of the Rehabilitation Film Festival
I attended in New York. The International Year
of the Disabled [in New Zealand] wished to
commission
a film but I wanted to remain independent.”
Bryan, L “Trying To Communicate” [?November
1982] Listener np GP’s own archive
“
Crime … and Communication” (1982?) The Hawkes
Bay Herald – Tribune November (GP archives)
“
Disabled Folk in Mystery Story” nd np (GP archives)
“
Fine Piece of TV” np, nd (GP archives)
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
“
Gaylene Preston Wins Two Awards” nd np (GP archives)
“
Hold Up-Review” (1984) New Zealand Women’s
Weekly 30 July 45
“
Hold Up With a Message” (1982) The Daily Telegraph
4 November 6
Reilly, C “Hold Up-Review” (1982)
NZ Listener 11 December 112
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene
Preston (1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 72-73, discussion 95-114;
and bibliography 250
Whelan, B “ ‘Hold-up’ Better Than
Most Films on Disabled” np, nd (GP archives)
Screened TV1 4 November 1982
Distributed in the United
States by Learning Corporation
VHS: Visual Production
Unit Dept of EducationVoted Best Overseas Film ATOM
(Australian Teachers
of Media) 1983;
Best Overseas Film for under 12 year
olds Rehabilitation Film Festival (New York)
1983; First Prize
Dramatization category Rehabilitation
International World Congress
Lisbon 1984
The film also featured
in a teaching resource package aimed at making youngsters
more
aware of disabled
people and their disabilities.
Bryan, L (1983) “Quietly Observing” (1983)
Listener 22 January 16
Fenwick, A “Ex Coast Girl Developing Film on Deafness” nd
np The Greymouth Evening Star (GP archives)
Lamb, R “Type Cast – With a Purpose” (1982)
New Zealand Women’s Weekly 1 November
52
Neville, P “Hold Up, Her First Job” (1982)
New Zealand Women’s Weekly 1 November
53
Look in Blue Book
Experimental video
10mins (unfinished)
Film Archive Ref: F29591
producer/director/writer:
GP
cast: Shirley Grace
funded by Queen Elizabeth II
Arts Council
A young woman hitchhiker is
picked up by a rather strange man (call him
Art) who talks art-talk
obsessively. She has to throw
him out the window
and drive to
Taihape
herself (offering him a Mintie
first). Made for the Sexuality
exhibition, Women’s Gallery
Wellington.
GP: “I shot
a slide show of images to be
superimposed onto the ‘car’s’ back
window but ran out of time
and resources so that in the
end
it screened
in the exhibition without that embellishment.”
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae
[“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film
Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene
Preston (1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 74
Shown at Women’s Gallery,
Wellington
16mm colour
110 minutes (and 82, 50 min versions)
Film Archive Ref:
producer/director:
Merata Mita
co-ordinators: Gerd Pohlmann, GP (middle New Zealand),
Martyn Sanderson
principal photography: Barry Herbert
editor: Annie Collins
sound: Gerd Pohlmann
music: diatribe
Awatea Films. Funded by Queen Elizabeth
II Arts Council, National Catholic Commission for Evangelisation,
Justice and Development, World Council of Churches
and anti-apartheid
groups such as HART and CARE
Film of the 1981 battle
of people in New Zealand to stop the Springbok Tour.
Forbes, C “Racists take Issue With Film Grant” (1982)
New Zealand Times 28 November 6.
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”] nd.
(ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life and
Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 74-76
Winner International Students’ Prize Leipzig Festival,
MRAP Prize Anti-Racist Festival in Amiens. Screened at
many other film festivals including London, Los Angeles,
Tashkent, Honolulu and Toronto.
Cubey, M “Patu!” (1983) Salient 5 September
7
16mm Eastman colour negative
24mins
Film Archive Ref: F1445
co-producer/co-director:
GP
co-producer/co-director/editor: Dell King
lighting cameraman: Rory O’Shea
Twenty-five 16-year-old
girls who know nothing about the sea, ships, or one
another, get the chance
to take over the Spirit of Adventure, a 100-ton square-rigged
schooner, sailing her under their own selected
captain.
GP: “I consider this film rather more
Dell’s
project than my own.”
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life
and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston
(1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 76-77
Screened TV1 22 February 1983
16mm
Fuji colour
48mins
Film Archive Ref: F4936
producer/director:
GP
cameras: Alun Bollinger, John Toon and Murray Milne
editor: Simon Reece
music: Jonathan Crayford
For Scrubbs & Co
Watches
the making of Geoff Murphy’s feature film
and discusses some of the issues which
emerge in exploring New Zealand’s racial past.
GP: “Non-narrative
documentary, which went down surprisingly well
with the general population who, as
it turns out, don’t mind if there
isn’t
an actual linear story.”
Dekker, Diana “Wellington Film Maker Compares French,
NZ Riot Squads” (1983) The Evening Post 16
May np
“
First Glimpse of ‘Utu’ nd np (GP archives)
Gaylene Preston Curriculum Vitae [“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life
and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992)
MA Thesis
University of Auckland 78-81, discussion 95-114;
and bibliography 250
Screened on New Zealand’s TV2,
Tuesday, 25 January 1983; Triangle
Television 199?.
Bryan,
L “Quietly Observing” (1983) New
Zealand Listener 22 January 16
“
TV Show Tonight” nd. np (GP archives)
Look in
Blue Book.
16mm
colour reversal finished on video
music clip; 10 mins
Film Archive Ref: F22878
producer/director:
GP
lighting cameraman: Alun Bollinger
editor: Simon Reece
music: Neighbours
Blackball Films. Funded by the
Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Film Fund and
TVNZ.
GP: “A gripping story of Love gone
sour, of robberies and rescues and the long arm
of the law…shot on
various locations
very familiar to me in Blackball and Greymouth.
The
entire crew worked for free and the people
of Blackball contributed
heaps.”
“
Film-Maker Wins $5,000 Grant” (1983) The Dominion
6 January 1
Gaylene Preston
Curriculum Vitae
[“B”]
nd. (ends 1983)
Shepard, D Writing
a Woman Film Maker’s Life
and Work: A Biofilmography
of Gaylene Preston (1992)
MA Thesis
University of Auckland 86
Screened on TVNZ’s Radio With Pictures, distributed
in the United States by Jo Jones and King. Purchased
by Entertainment Network in the United Kingdom and in
pubs there via large-screen videos.
16mm
colour negative
music clip; 3mins
Film Archive Ref: no
director: Gaylene Preston
camera: John Whitteron
For the Sydney based group “TRIBE”.
Commissioned by CBS Australia. Shot on location
in various Sydney rubbish dumps. GP: “I did this
for my sister who is the lead singer in the clip.”
Shepard,
D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life
and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston
(1992) MA Thesis
University of Auckland 86-87
Several repeat screenings on
Australian TV video shows.
29 mins
Film Archive Ref: F10426
interviewer:
GP
producer: Geoff Murphy/ Scrubbs & Co
with the assistance
of New Zealand Film Commission, Thorn EMI Video,
Todd Motors
NZFA Ref: F10426
GP interviews
Geoff Murphy about the making of Utu.
Key References
New Zealand educational only
3/4 “ Hiband
video
24mins
Film Archive Ref: F5220
director/producer:
GP
art director: Gerry Luhman
music: Jonathan Crayford
editor: Simon Reece
writer: Simon O’Connor
cast: Tim Diamantis, Jane
Wright, Clayton Brown, Sophie Siers, Bruno Lawrence,
Ian Fraser,
Produced for the New Zealand
Health Education Resources Project
Sharon, Brian, Amanda
and Angus read the advertisement. Sounds interesting.
They apply.
In a building
that looks like a rubic cube on the outside
and NASA
control centre on the inside, they meet
Mr Big. An Orwellian “Big
Brother”, he promises them the
world. But gradually they find that there
are
fishhooks in his promises
and they have decisions to face and to
make.
GP: “I don’t really
think of that film as mine. That was
commissioned by the Education Department
and it was a video not a film. It was
specifically
for educational use and was never screened
on television. It was like making an
industrial video. I interpreted
the script as best I could. I’m
not sure I pulled it off very well.”
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s Life
and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene Preston (1992)
MA Thesis University of Auckland 87
VHS: Visual Production Unit
Dept of Education
16mm
Eastman colour negative
* mins
Film Archive Ref: F8567
director:
GP
producer: Graeme Cowley
lighting cameraman: Graeme Cowley
A documentary covering
the visit of anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott
to Wellington.
Sponsored by the International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear
War.
GP: “Television wouldn’t touch
it. They said they’d done Helen Caldicott
and the nuclear issue. We transferred it to video
and it had been well used
by peace groups. A lot of the information
wasn’t
new in comparison with films like If
You Love This Planet but I think it was useful
for the people who commissioned
it. I didn’t spend much time on
it. That was a kind of favour for the
physicians down the road who needed
a record of Helen Caldicott’s time
in New Zealand. I can’t believe
we shot it almost in the middle of the
pre-production for Mr Wrong.
Shepard, D Writing a Woman Film Maker’s
Life and Work: A Biofilmography of Gaylene
Preston (1992)
MA Thesis
University of Auckland 88
Given away with stickers on
the video that said “please
copy this”.
35mm colour
88 mins
Film Archive Ref: F5276
director/producer/:
GP
producer: Robin Laing
screenplay: GP, Geoff Murphy, Graeme Tetley
photography: Thom Burstyn (colour)
camera: Alun Bollinger
art director: Mike Becroft
editor: Simon Reece
sound recordist: Ken Saville
music: Jonathan Crayford
cast: Heather Bolton, David
Letch, Margaret Umbers, Suzanne Lee, Gary Stalker,
Danny Mulheron, Perry
Piercy, Philip Gordon, Michael Haigh, Kate Harcourt
Preston*Laing
Productions in association with the New Zealand Film
Commission and Barclays NZ Ltd
A genre-bending thriller
about a young woman who buys a haunted car, based on
a short story by
Elizabeth Jane Howard. Released in the United States
as Dark
of the Night.
“
Actually, We Wouldn’t Mind if They Bombed Texas” (1986)
Daily News 7 May 51
Archibald, L [“What Christine Should Have Been…”]
(1986) Aquarian Arts Weekly nd np GP’s own archive
Avid, D “Movies- Mr Wrong” (1986) Race
Gender Class 3 57
Bailey, B “Film” (1986) La Gazette 6 Juin
Bailey, B “Part II of Femme Fest” (1986)
La Gazette 5 Juin
Balham, D “Film - Mr Wrong” (1985) Salient
October p11
Ballantyne, S “Mr Wrong” (1985) New Zealand
Woman’s Weekly 23 September 19
Ballantyne, S “Long-Distance Cinema Goers” nd
New Outlook 57-58
Beesley, M “Cinemas Close the Door on Kiwi Films” (1985)
8 O’Clock 21 September 7. (Distribution issue)
Bennet, P “Panorama HB to See Hit Thriller” (1986)
The Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune 11 March 18
Bollinger, A “16 Upwards” (1984) Onfilm
December 2(1) 34-35
Bollinger, H “Wild Wellington Weather Right for
Film Mr Wrong” (1984) The Greymouth Evening Star
4 August 1.
Breslin, R “Fill’er up and Check the Stiff
in the Back Seat” (1986) Daily News 2 May 5
Calder, P “NZ Films in Festival” (1985)
The New Zealand Herald 6 July section 2 p4
Campbell, G “Mr Wrong” (1988) Listener
17 December 17
“
Cannes Buyers Snap NZ Films” nd np (GP archives)
Chetwin, S “Mr Wrong Duo Take Matters into Own
Hands” (1985) The Evening Post 14 September np
Clark, H “Right On With Mr Wrong” (1985)
Auckland Star 27 July B4
Clark, H “Mr Wrong Turns Out So Right” (1985)
Auckland Star 26 October B4
Clarke- Reynolds, M “Mr Wrong” (1985) Salient
October p11
Coke, M “Getting it Right with Mr Wrong” (1984)
Evening Post 1 September 13
Coke, M “Low Budget High Profile” (1986)
Onfilm June 17-18
Coughlan, K “Right Movie Needs a Rich Hero” (1985)
Life Times nd np GP’s own archive
Cowan, S “Let the Jaffas Roll” (1985) [Cania?]
24 July 10
Crist, J “Dark of the Night is a Dandy Little
Thriller” (1986) Television Preview-New York
5 May np
“
The Critics Rave” (1986) Details [?47] GP’s
own archive
“
Dark of the Night” (1986) Downtown Magazine 7
May 28-A
Dart, W “Film” (1985) Rip it Up September
n98 42
“
Determined Film Maker” (1986) Daily Telegraph
15 March 1
Dieckmann, K “Cinemascoop” (1986) NYTalk
3:26 May np GP’s own archive
Dunphy, L “Back on the Boards” (1990) More
August n86 32-34
Ellis, M “Gaylene Preston – Coaster of
Tenacity Making a Name in Film World” nd. np.
(GP archives)
England, J “Right on Mr Wrong” (1986) The
Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune Weekender 15 March
17.
“
Fear and Herstory” (1985) Dominion 20 August
6
Festival Focus “Mr Wrong For Ms Right!” (1985)
The Business of Film in Cannes 14 May 30
“
Film Clips-Dark of the Night” (1986) Aquarian
Arts Weekly 29 April 28A
“
Film Reviews- Mr Wrong” (1985) Variety 24 April
np
Gelmis, J “A Haunted Car Driven With Vengeance” (1986)
Newsday May 2 Weekend 5
Goodman, W “Film: ‘Dark,’ Blue Jaguar
With a Ghost” (1986) The New York Times 2 May
np
Gosden, B “Mr Wrong 1984” [Film Festival
?] (GP archives)
Gosden, B “Premiere Cinema” (1985) [Film
Festival ?] np (GP archives)
Gosden, B “Mr Wrong” (1985) Wellington
Film Festival – Embassy Theatre 20 July (GP archives)
Gosden, B “Mr Wrong” (1985) Auckland Film
Festival Programme 25 July
Granger, S [“Beware of used cars that look too
good to be true… ?1986] WMCA, WICC Connecticut
Broadcasting Co
Green, P and Cole, J “Women’s Film, Television & Video
forum reports a speech by Gaylene Preston” (1988)
Broadsheet September n 161 p 34- 38
Hall, S “Strokes and Art Attacks - The Making
of Mr Wrong” (1985) Broadsheet September 132
51-53
Hardy, A “Tales of Ordinary Goodness” (1989)
Illusions November 14-21
Hoffman, J “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” (1986)
Village Voice 6 May 68
“
Hot Friday, Hanlon Top Finalists” (1986) The
Evening Post 8 May 20
Hughes, L “Mr Wrong – Reviewed” (1985)
Agenda September 9 np
“
In Pursuit of Excellence” The Daily Telegraph
15 March 5
Irvine, B “Mr Wrong Gets it Right” (1986)
The Press 10 March 14
“
It’s All Going Right For Mr Wrong” (1986)
[The Evening Post ?] 30 January np (GP archives)
“
Kiwi Flicks” – Kiwi Films’ School
Tour (1987) Tearaway April 11
“
Kiwi Spine Chiller” nd. np. (GP archives)
Knowles, M “Movie Guide” (1986) The Evening
Post 14 February np (GP archives)
Leslie, S “Women Strong on NZ Thrillers” (1988)
The Evening Post 22 June np (GP archives)
“
Living Goes to the Movies- Ninth Festival Hits Town” (1985)
The Christchurch Star 23 July np
Maiberger, E, Montaug, H and Richheimer,
J “The
Critics Rave” (1986) ‘Details’ Magazine-
Movies May p47
Martin, H “Driving Irony” (1985) Listener
19 October 40
Martin H and Edwards, S New Zealand Film
1912-1996 (1997) Auckland, Oxford University
Press 118
McDonnell, B “Viewing a Great Year for the British” (1987)
North and South December 171-173
McLean, J “Mucking about with Movies” (1985)
Dazzle October/ November n2 5-6
Mr Wrong Scrapbook (GP archives)
May, S “Genre Bending” (1985) OnFilm 24
April 8; and cover image
“
Mr Wrong” (1990) A Season of New Zealand Films
2 December 20
“
Mr Wrong – [Film Festival]” (1985) Wellington
City July 48
Murphy, R “Peelings From the Big Apple” (1986)
Onfilm April 3 59
“
New Zealand Contingent- Cannes Festival” (1985)
Variety 1 May 379
“
New Zealand Films at Cannes” (1985) Variety nd
p384 (GP archives)
Nicolaidi, M “76 Views and Two Festivals” Wellington
City Magazine (1985) December 70-71
Nicolaidi, M “Slaps On the Back” (1985)
Wellington City Magazine September 50-51
Nicolaidi, M “Gaylene Scores Big With Her Mr
Wrong” (1985) Evening Post 14 September np (GP
archives)
O’Shea, J “Her Film Puts Fear into Focus” (1985)
Auckland Star Magazine 3 July Section B1, 16
Outlook (1985) Dominion 20 August (Newspapers
in Education reprint GP’s own archive)
Parker, J “Critics Choice” (1985) Metro
July 183
Parker, J “Two from America; Two from New Zealand.
Both Good. Mr Wrong” (1985) Metro 1 October 38
Peterson, G “Mr Wrong on Right Track” (1985)
Dominion 4
“
Phantom of the Movies” (1986) Daily News 7 May
51
“
Review” (1986) Playboy April p19
“
Quatre Femmes, Quatre Pays” (1986) La Presse
7 Juin np
Sayle, J “Innocence and Fear: Feminine Fear & Masculine
Menace in Mr Wrong” (1989) Illusions 12 22-24
Seton, J “Meg and the Space Invaders –
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