Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill

Cinema of Unease
Directed by	Sam Neill, Judy Rymer
Written by	Sam Neill
Produced by	Paula Jalfon Grant Campbell Vincent Burke
Starring	Sam Neill
Cinematography	Alun Bollinger
Edited by	Michael Horton
Music by	Don McGlashan, The Mutton Birds, John McNicholas, Ross Chambers, Mike Hedges
Distributed by	Top Shelf Productions
Release date	July 1995
Running time	56 mins
Country	New Zealand
Language	English
Budget	$466,000

Cinema of Unease is the New Zealand contribution to the British Film Institute's Century of Cinema Series. Written and directed by Sam Neill, the title refers to the dark and brooding nature of many of New Zealand's most notable films, which Neill considers a reflection of the nation's struggle to find, or form, its own identity. It won Best Documentary in the 1996 TV Guide Film and Television awards. It also screened at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

films featured/discussed:

• The Te Kooti Trail
• One Hundred Crowded Years (1940)
• Journey for Three (1950)
• Country Lads (1941)
• Broken Barrier (1952)
• Reach for the Sky (1956)
• The Roy Rogers Show#37 (1956)
• Runaway
• Wayleggo (1965)
• Dont Let It Get You (1966)
• Soldier Boys (1967)
• This is New Zealand (1970)
• The Seal Hunters (1973)
• Sleeping Dogs (1977)
• Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)
• Bad Blood (1981)
• Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)
• Carry Me Back
• The Scarecrow (1982)
• Smash Palace (1982)
• Patu! (1983)
• Utu (1983)
• Vigil (1984)
• Came a Hot Friday (1985)
• The Lost Tribe (1985)
• The Quiet Earth (1986)
• The Navigator (1988)
• An Angel at My Table (1990)
• Braindead (1992)
• Bread and Roses (1993 film)
• Desperate Remedies (1993)
• The Piano (1993)
• Jack Be Nimble (1994)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994)
• Once Were Warriors (1994)
• The Last Tattoo (1995)

External links

• Cinema of Unease at IMDb
• Cinema of Unease at NZ On Screen includes a 12-minute excerpt.