{"identifier":"JH-One_6312279488112","browse_author":"John Hughes (Director), John Hughes, Early Works (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video)), John Hughes (Screenplay by) and Paul Davies (Screenplay by)","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350899117,"description":"Walter Benjamin is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, yet his work is relatively unknown to many. Benjamin, who died escaping the Gestapo in 1940, has been increasingly recognized by artists and thinkers the world over. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, Benjamin was a well-known writer and broadcaster in pre-Hitler Germany before he was forced into exile in 1933 when he fled to Paris. \n One Way Streetis both an exposition of Benjamin\u2019s ideas and a search for Benjamin the man in locations as diverse as the academics of Moscow, the bookstores of New York, Parisienne arcades and the cemetery in a Spanish costal village that has become a place of pilgrimage for Benjamin devotees. Scholars discuss the impact of Benjamin\u2019s work, and the combination of interviews, stylized reconstruction and archival film results in a dynamic portrait of one of the 20th century\u2019s most influential thinkers. Director: John Hughes Writers: John Hughes, Paul Davies Narrator: Ningali Lawford. Cast: Margaret Cameron, Nico Lathouris, Wally Maloney, Mark Rogers, Louise Smith. Interviewees: Susan Buck-Morss, Michael W. Jennings, Danny Karavan, Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Gary Smith, and others. John Hughes is one of Australia\u2019s most respected documentary (and drama) film directors, his work having won many awards. The films are usually Australian in orientation, examining art, cultural politics and history. The work is often intensely research driven; the films are serious investigations into their material. also they have cinematic creative flair. His credits are numerous, starting in the early \u201870s with short films such as Nowhere Game, through to acclaimed documentaries in the \u201880s such as Film-Work, to the narrative feature What I Have Writtenin the \u201890s, and onto the recent award-winning documentaries The Archive Project (2006) and Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens In Australia (2009). Hughes was honored with Film Australia\u2019s coveted Stanley Hawes Award, for Achievement In Documentary in 2006, and the inaugural Joan Long Award from the Australian and New Zealand Film History Association (2006). Paul Davies graduated from UQ in 1972 with a BA (Hons) and MA in English Literature, and two years later trained as a script editor at Crawford Productions, where he arrived in time to witness the killing of Homicideand the birth of many Sullivans. He has since written for a dozen different drama series, including Stingers, Blue Heelers, and Something in the Air. Two plays, Storming St. Kilda by Tram (Currency Press) and On Shifting Sandshoes, received Awgies (Australian Writers Guild Awards), as did Return of the Prodigal, an episode of the ABC series, Something in the Air. Storming Mont albert by Tram was first produced by Theatre Works, and was performed on many trams for more than a decade in both Melbourne and Adelaide, helping to pave the way for other site-specific plays, including: Breaking up in Balwyn (1983) on a riverboat, Living Rooms (1986) in a family mansion, and Full House/ No Vacancies (1989) in a former boarding house. Paul was a foundation member of Theatre Works, and co-director of the celebrated low budget short drama Exits, 50 minutes, 1981. He has worked on a number of John Hughes\u2019 projects. 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