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'''''How Willingly You Sing''''' is a 1975 low budget Australian feature film. It was shot over four weeks.<ref>[http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/tammer.html Peter Tammer biography at Melbourne Independent Filmmakers] accessed 5 October 2013</ref>
'''''How Willingly You Sing''''' is a 1975 low budget Australian feature film. It was shot over four weeks.<ref>[http://www.innersense.com.au/mif/tammer.html Peter Tammer biography at Melbourne Independent Filmmakers] accessed 5 October 2013</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213733112 |title=HOW WILLINGLY YOU SING |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=8, |issue=13 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 March 1976 |accessdate=22 August 2020 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
==Premise==
Simon Dore is a young a young architecture graduate who tries to find himself in society.
==Cast==
*Gary Patterson as Simon Dore
*Isaac Gerson
*Jim Robertson
*Jerry Powderly
*Morris Gradman
*Braham Glass
*Allan Levy
==Production==
Gary Patterson had just made ''Retreat Retreat''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213732734 |title=FEATURING this month |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=5, |issue=10 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 November 1975 |accessdate=22 August 2020 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>

Patterson said "My movie doesn't really have an angle, its just sort of biographic in a way. Objectively biographical enough to interest other people. The only line that I think might be relevant is the one we approached before on humour and comedy."<ref name="gary">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213732723 |title=INTERVIEW |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=5, |issue=10 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 November 1975 |accessdate=22 August 2020 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
==Reception==
''Filmnews'' called it "an extraordinary film."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213733031 |title=HOW WILLINGLY YOU SING. |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=5, |issue=9 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 October 1975 |accessdate=22 August 2020 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>

Colin Bennett of ''The Age'' said it was " "crammed with marvellous ideas — throwaway verbal gags and facetiousdialogue, diverting paradox and Lewis Carroll logic . . . Gary is really a one-man band: clown-mime, cartoonist, parable teller, ukelele strummer, as well as writer, director and editor with a well timed sense of the absurd." <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213732732 |title=NOW. PROGRAM: |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=5, |issue=10 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 November 1975 |accessdate=22 August 2020 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>

Patterson said "The first third of the film is recognizable funny, cliched stuff, laugh inducing, structured comedy, and obviously the weakest. But thats alright, because its
autobiographic and representative of that old stvle of comedy I used to do on stage."<ref name="gary"/>


Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op were unhappy with the film's treatment in Sydney.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213735018 |title=[?] OF MINUTES OF THE 1975 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AT 6 p.m., DECEMBER 8,1975. |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=6, |issue=10 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 October 1976 |accessdate=22 August 2020 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213735215 |title=THE HODSDON REPORT |newspaper=[[Filmnews]] |volume=7, |issue=5 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 June 1977 |accessdate=22 August 2020 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
==Awards==
The film shared the award for creativity at the 1976 AFI Awards with ''[[Pure Shit]]''.
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0073129}}
*{{IMDb title|0073129}}
*[https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b72a3f8aa How Willingly You Sing] at BFI
*[http://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/how-willingly-you-sing ''How Willingly You Sing''] at Oz Movies
*[http://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/how-willingly-you-sing ''How Willingly You Sing''] at Oz Movies


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How Willingly You Sing
Directed byGary Patterson
Written byGary Patterson
Produced byGary Patterson
CinematographyPeter Tammer
Edited byGary Patterson
Production
company
Inch Films
Distributed byMelbourne Filmmakers Cooperative Ltd
Release date
August 1975
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12,000

How Willingly You Sing is a 1975 low budget Australian feature film. It was shot over four weeks.[1][2]

Premise

Simon Dore is a young a young architecture graduate who tries to find himself in society.

Cast

  • Gary Patterson as Simon Dore
  • Isaac Gerson
  • Jim Robertson
  • Jerry Powderly
  • Morris Gradman
  • Braham Glass
  • Allan Levy

Production

Gary Patterson had just made Retreat Retreat.[3]

Patterson said "My movie doesn't really have an angle, its just sort of biographic in a way. Objectively biographical enough to interest other people. The only line that I think might be relevant is the one we approached before on humour and comedy."[4]

Reception

Filmnews called it "an extraordinary film."[5]

Colin Bennett of The Age said it was " "crammed with marvellous ideas — throwaway verbal gags and facetiousdialogue, diverting paradox and Lewis Carroll logic . . . Gary is really a one-man band: clown-mime, cartoonist, parable teller, ukelele strummer, as well as writer, director and editor with a well timed sense of the absurd." [6]

Patterson said "The first third of the film is recognizable funny, cliched stuff, laugh inducing, structured comedy, and obviously the weakest. But thats alright, because its autobiographic and representative of that old stvle of comedy I used to do on stage."[4]

Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op were unhappy with the film's treatment in Sydney.[7][8]

Awards

The film shared the award for creativity at the 1976 AFI Awards with Pure Shit.

References

  1. ^ Peter Tammer biography at Melbourne Independent Filmmakers accessed 5 October 2013
  2. ^ "HOW WILLINGLY YOU SING". Filmnews. Vol. 8, , no. 13. New South Wales, Australia. 1 March 1976. p. 11. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. ^ "FEATURING this month". Filmnews. Vol. 5, , no. 10. New South Wales, Australia. 1 November 1975. p. 1. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  4. ^ a b "INTERVIEW". Filmnews. Vol. 5, , no. 10. New South Wales, Australia. 1 November 1975. p. 8. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  5. ^ "HOW WILLINGLY YOU SING". Filmnews. Vol. 5, , no. 9. New South Wales, Australia. 1 October 1975. p. 4. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  6. ^ "NOW. PROGRAM:". Filmnews. Vol. 5, , no. 10. New South Wales, Australia. 1 November 1975. p. 6. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  7. ^ "[?] OF MINUTES OF THE 1975 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AT 6 p.m., DECEMBER 8,1975". Filmnews. Vol. 6, , no. 10. New South Wales, Australia. 1 October 1976. p. 10. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  8. ^ "THE HODSDON REPORT". Filmnews. Vol. 7, , no. 5. New South Wales, Australia. 1 June 1977. p. 11. Retrieved 22 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

External links

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