Hollywood director returns to Vietnam

Australian-born film director Phillip Noyce will return to Vietnam from May 26 to June 8, to introduce the Vietnamese edition of the Ingo Petzke's book titled “Backroads to Hollywood”, based on his life and career.

Australian-born film director Phillip Noyce will return to Vietnam from May 26 to June 8, to introduce the Vietnamese edition of the Ingo Petzke's book titled “Backroads to Hollywood”, based on his life and career.

Vietnamese edition of the book "Backroads to Hollywood" is released in Vietnam.
Vietnamese edition of the book "Backroads to Hollywood" is released in Vietnam.

The director will have exchanges with Vietnamese students in audiovisual communication and movie lovers will take part in an awards ceremony of the TV Create video clip making contest and Poster design contest with the theme “Phillip Noyce and Vietnam” to be organized by Hoa Sen University in HCMC on May 28.

On the evening of the same day, he will give a lecture and share his experience on filmmaking with Vietnamese filmmakers at BHD Star Cinema. The discussion will be brought to Hanoi on May 31.

Theatergoers will have an opportunity to enjoy the Phillip Noyce directed film titled “The Quiet American” at the Hung Vuong Megastar Cinema in District 5.

Hollywood director Phillip Noyce is famous for his movies "Salt", "The Bone Collector" and "The Quiet”.

He began his career back in the ‘70s as a director of little-seen but widely acclaimed films. Then came 1989’s DEAD CALM, which made a star out of Nicole Kidman, an unknown name and earned Noyce a firm place in Hollywood. He spent the next decade grinding out big-budget films, including the Tom Clancy adaptation PATRIOT GAMES and CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER—movies widely seen but little acclaimed.

With the release of Rabbit-Proof Fence and now The Quiet American, Noyce is suddenly back. Due to his work on those films, he was recently named 2002's Best Director by the National Board of Review and his Quiet American star Michael Caine has been nominated for a Golden Globe.

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