07 | November | 2012 | Film Dialogue

Sapphires, The (PG)

The Sapphires is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama film based on the 2004 stage play of the same name which is loosely based on a true story.^[5] The film is directed by Wayne Blair and written by Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs, the latter of whom wrote the play.

The Sapphires is about four indigenous women, Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay (Shari Sebbens) and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell), who are discovered by a talent scout (Chris O’Dowd), and form a music group named The Sapphires, travelling to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for troops during the war. Production began in 2010, with the casting of the four members of The Sapphires and filming taking place in and around Albury in Australia and Vietnam during August and September 2011.

Director: Wayne Blair

Starring: Chris O’Dowd, Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman, Miranda Tapsell, Shari Sebbens

Distributor: Entertainment One

Locations: Saturation

Format: 2D/35 mm

Film Website:

Release Date: 07/11/2012

Argo (15)

Argo is a 2012 American historical drama film directed by Ben Affleck. The screenplay by Chris Terrio is adapted from U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez‘s book The Master of Disguise and Joshuah Bearman‘s 2007 Wired article “The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran.”^[3] The latter deals with the “Canadian Caper,”^[3] in which Mendez led the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran, under the guise of filming a science fiction film during the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis.^[4]

The film stars Affleck as Mendez with Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin and John Goodman in supporting roles, and was released in the United States on October 12, 2012. The film was produced by Grant Heslov, Affleck and George Clooney.

Director: Ben Affleck

Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin

Distributor: Warner Brothers

Locations: Saturation

Format: 2D/35 mm

Film Website: https://www.warnerbros.com/argo

Film Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)

Film IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/

Film Trailer

Argo: Inside Story – Documentary

The Real Story Behind Argo – Documentary

BEN AFFLECK as Tony Mendez in “ARGO,” a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures in association with GK Films, to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.