Gillian Armstrong

Director, Actor

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Story of Kerry, Josie and Diana 14-47, The (Smokes and Lollies; Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better; Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces; Not Fourteen Again; Love, Lust & Lies) (1975-2009): Dir. Gillian Armstrong; The complete documentaries of Gillian Armstrong's series on the lives of three working class Adelaide women, introduced as 14–year–olds…
Smokes and Lollies / Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's Better (1975-1980): Dir. Gillian Armstrong; The first of five documentaries Gillian Armstrong directed on Adelaide women Kerry, Josie and Diana, this introduces the fresh–faced trio as…
My Brilliant Career (1979): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Sam Neill; Landmark Australian film, with Judy Davis as a determinedly independent femme in the late 19th century. From the novel by Miles Franklin.
Starstruck (1982): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Jo Kennedy; A fabulous, overlooked Aussie musical in which an ambitious barmaid lives out her dreams to be a singing star in the new wave–inflected early…
Mrs. Soffel (1984): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine…; Sombre though interesting drama set in 1901 Pittsburgh about a woman who helps one of the inmates of her prison warden husband.
High Tide (1987): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Judy Davis, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels; The director of MY BRILLIANT CAREER encores with Judy Davis for this bittersweet exploration of mother–daughter relations at a bleak coastal…
Bingo, Bridesmaids and Braces (1988): Dir. Gillian Armstrong; Taking a cue from the British 7–UP series, Gillian Armstrong's anthropological documentary follows the lives of three working–class…
Last Days of Chez Nous, The (1992): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Kerry Fox; Kerry Fox seduces the French husband of her sister who's away trying to resolve her relationship with her father. Like SWEETIE, it's beautifully…
Little Women (1994): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Claire Danes…; Impeccable version of Louisa May Alcott's classic of American girlhood updates the warm–hearted saga of four sisters and their…
Not Fourteen Again (1996): Dir. Gillian Armstrong; Inspired by the British 7–UP series, film–maker Armstrong completes(?) her anthropological documentary following the lives of three…
Oscar and Lucinda (1998): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds…; The Booker Prize–winning novel, by Australian literary wunderkind Peter Carey, is spun out into a sunlit daydream of unlikely personages and…
Charlotte Gray (2002): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon; WWII France is the backdrop for a love–triangle in this well–made, though sappy war–romance, Cate Blanchett providing a compelling…
Unfolding Florence (The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst) (2006): Dir. Gillian Armstrong; Profiling eccentric Sydney personality Florence Broadhurst, dir. Gillian Armstrong reveals the lives less ordinary of Australia’s leading interior…
Death Defying Acts (2007): Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Saoirse Ronan…; Handsomely mounted period romp from Aussie director Gillian Armstrong in which the illustrious escape–artist Harry Houdini (Pearce) becomes…
Love, Lust & Lies (2009): Dir. Gillian Armstrong; The fifth film in the documentary series about the lives, hopes and dreams of three lively, working class Adelaide girls (now aged 47) since they…
Women He's Undressed (2015): Dir. Gillian Armstrong; Indeed "fabulous" documentary about the life of the Australian costume designer and three–time Oscar winner Orry–Kelly, who despite his…

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