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NFSA Restores: The Sentimental Bloke with score by Paul Mac
Title:
NFSA Restores: The Sentimental Bloke with score by Paul Mac
Year
2021
The Sentimental Bloke was adapted from CJ Dennis’ 1915 verse novel by Australian film industry power couple: the legendary director Raymond Longford and superstar Lottie Lyell.
A huge box-office hit with audiences in 1919–20, The Sentimental Bloke is one of the few silent-era Australian films to have survived in its entirety.
The NFSA marked the centenary of this silent film classic with a new digital restoration and a specially composed score by ARIA-award winning musician Paul Mac.
Composer Paul Mac talks about the process of writing the score (ahead of a screening at Arc cinema in Canberra in May 2021).
The film tells the story of Bill (Arthur Tauchert), a wayward Aussie bloke, and his love for Doreen (Lyell).
It was shot on locations including Manly Beach and the-then rough streets of Woolloomooloo, offering a revealing glimpse of Sydney 100 years ago.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.