Table of Contents
Foreword Gillian Armstrong viii
Introduction xi
Chronology xx
Filmography xxiv
Fred Schepisi Sue Mathews/1984 3
Devil's Playground: An Interview with Fred Schepisi Brian McFarlane / 2015 22
Playboy Interview: Fred Schepisi Rennie Ellis/1982 27
Fred Schepisi: The Australian Director Talks about His New Controversial Film, Barbarosa Michael Sragow/1982 42
Altered States in the Great White North James Verniere/1983 45
Fred Schepisi: Taking Hollywood by Drizzle David Edelstein/1984 48
Man of Plenty Brent Lewis/1985 52
Man of Plenty David Stratton/1986 56
Dialogue on Film: Fred Schepisi American Film/1987 61
The Making of Evil Angels: Director Fred Schepisi Talks About Private Moments, Public Realities and Dingoes Philippa Hawker/1988 67
The Man Meryl Streep Trusts Rennie Ellis/1989 72
Fred Schepisi Peter Malone/1998 79
Fred Schepisi: "Pushing the Boundaries" Scott Murray/1990 86
A Cinematic Gallant Stephen Schiff/1993 102
Last Orders: An Interview with Fred Schepisi Cynthia Fuchs/2001 114
Fred Schepisi on Last Orders Tom Ryan/2001 120
Fred Schepisi on It Runs in the Family Tom Ryan/2003 127
Shooting Dialogue as Action-An Interview with Fred Schepisi Fincina Hopgood/2011 138
All against One and One against All: Fred Schepisi's Outsiders Dan Callahan/2014 147
Fred Schepisi on Making Movies-"What I'm Most Interested in-Always-Is the Humanity of the Piece" Tom Ryan/2015 153
Appendices
Planning and Problem-Solving: An Interview with Ian Baker Tom Ryan/2016 178
Key notes: an interview with Paul Grabowsky Tom Ryan/2016 183
Additional Resources 189
Index 192