{"identifier":"AT-Palm_6311368426112","browse_author":"Albie Thoms (Director) and Albie Thoms Productions PtY LTD (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350922228,"description":"Four characters, all misfits of a sort, cross paths over one weekend on the northern beaches of Sydney. Leilani (Amanda Berry) is a runaway 16-year-old; Larry (John Flaus) is a Bondi private eye who's looking for her; Joe (Ken Brown) needs to score some LSD to get him out of trouble. Paul (Bryan Brown) is unemployed and broke, until he steals a gun. \"Palm Beach is an innovative and underrated film - a low-budget feature with a formally complex structure, but a very open, loose feel. It combines various genre elements \u2013 the detective novel, the surfing movie, the documentary, the polemic - with the kind of experimental risk-taking that has rarely been possible in Australian cinema. Indeed, the film's attempts to get funding were regularly refused over five years, largely because director Albie Thoms - one of the founders of Ubu Films, Sydney's pre-eminent experimental film groups of the 1960s - insisted that much of the script be improvised by the actors. The film was eventually shot on a low budget and on 16 mm, and money to blow it up to 35 mm was only granted when Thoms could demonstrate he had made a coherent film. Producer, director, script, editor: Albie Thoms Photography: Oscar Scherl Sound: Michael Moore, Rick Creaser, Dubbing Mixer: Julian Ellingworth Music: Terry Hannigan Cast: Nat Young - Nick Naylor, Kenneth Brown - Joe Ryan, Amanda Berry - Leilani Adams, Bryan Brown - Paul Kite, Julie McGregor - Kate O'Brien, John Flaus - Larry Kent, Bronwyn Stevens-Jones - Wendy Naylor, David Lourie - Zane Green, Peter Wright - Rupert Roberts, John Clayton - Eric Tailor, Lyn Collingwood - Mrs. Adams, Adrian Rawlins - David Litvinoff, P.J. Jones - Detective Sgt., Robinson Mick Eyre - Magazine Editor, Jim Roberts - Art School Dean, Cathy Power - Art School Student, Mick Winter - Board Polisher, Tony Hardwick - Boardshop Owner, David Elfick \u2013 Projectionist Language - English","videoId":6311368426112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"Palm Beach","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"AT-Palm","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/23b5b536-7d27-4685-80c4-4dd38035a590/00e7b17b-6b1e-4efc-84f7-20c1d8553260/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"experimentalDramaPerformance , Experimental drama performance , directingForScreen , Directing for screen , directorsScreen , Directors (screen) , experimentalFilm , Experimental film , featureFilm , Feature film , filmmakingAndProduction , Filmmaking and production , creativeWriting , Creative writing , playwriting , Playwriting , composers , Composers , musicalComposition , Musical composition , soundAndAudioInPerformanceArt , Sound and audio in performance art , photographicTechniques , Photographic techniques , art , Art , drama , Drama , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature , made_19701979 , 1970\u20131979 , english , English , australia , Australia , video , Video , music , Music , oceania , Oceania , literature , Literature , performanceArt , Performance Art , photography , Photography , made_19001999 , 1900\u20131999 ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":1979,"publisher":"Albie Thoms Productions PtY LTD","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"AT-Palm","facet":["art","artsAndLiterature","australia","composers","creativeWriting","directingForScreen","directorsScreen","drama","english","experimentalDramaPerformance","experimentalFilm","featureFilm","filmAndCinema","filmmakingAndProduction","literature","made_19001999","made_19701979","music","musicalComposition","oceania","performanceArt","photographicTechniques","photography","playwriting","soundAndAudioInPerformanceArt","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Albie Thoms~Albie Thoms Productions PtY LTD"}