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Raffaele Caputo

Raffaele Caputo Raffaele Caputo is co-editor of two popular books on Australian cinema, Second Take (1999) and the follow-up volume Third Take (2001). Since graduating in cinema from Latrobe University in 1983, Caputo has been a writer on film for close to 20 years, contributing to various journals and newspapers; and has also lectured at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Latrobe University. He was Assistant Editor of Cinema Papers between 1989 and 1993, and from 1994 to 1998 he worked as Associate Editor of Metro Magazine.

Richard III (Yr 11)
Richard III owes much to its ancestry, to Shakespeare by necessity, but in filmic terms it seems that the choice of the film-makers to modernise the play by drawing parallels to the rise of the Nazi regime in the 1930s, is indeed a self-conscious attempt to re-interpret and modernise Lawrence Olivier's 1955 film production.

Breaker Morant (Yr 12)
Breaker Morant largely deals with the problem of finding justice and determining responsibility for war crimes. In so doing, the film opens the floodgate to so many moral questions: Do soldiers such as 'Breaker' Morant have to follow orders blindly? Are they pawns in a political game? Does the audience's sympathy for Morant too easily excuse his actions? How can we pass judgement on normal men who are subjected to the pressures of abnormal situations?