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Gillian Armstrong

Director, Actor

Films to Rent

 
Smokes and Lollies / Fourteen's Good, Eighteen's BetterSmokes 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 CareerMy Brilliant Career (1979) Recommended
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.
StarstruckStarstruck (1982) Aro Favourite
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. SoffelMrs. 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 TideHigh 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…
Last Days of Chez Nous, TheLast 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 WomenLittle 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) Recommended
Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Inspired by the British 7–UP series, film–maker Armstrong completes(?) her anthropological documentary following the lives of three…
Oscar and LucindaOscar 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 GrayCharlotte 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 FlorenceUnfolding 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 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 & LiesLove, Lust & Lies (2009) Recommended
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 UndressedWomen He's Undressed (2015) Recommended
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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