How Willingly You Sing

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How Willingly You Sing
Directed byGary Patterson
Written byGary Patterson
Produced byGary Patterson
Cinematography Peter Tammer
Edited byGary Patterson
Production
company
Inch Films
Distributed byMelbourne Filmmakers Cooperative Ltd.
Release date
  • August 1975 (1975-08)
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]

Contents

Premise

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

Cast

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 .

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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.
  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.
  4. 1 2 "INTERVIEW". Filmnews . Vol. 5, no. 10. New South Wales, Australia. 1 November 1975. p. 8. Retrieved 22 August 2020– via National Library of Australia.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
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