Filmography: a chronological overview of all films/movies/TV series and promo clips
with music/involvement by the Australian artist Simon Bonney.
Date format is DD-MMM-YY.
-Information in grey italics is uncertain-
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1996-2000: Simon Bonney works in the film industry in Los Angeles, CA (US). First (1996-1998) as a truck driver. He obtained his driving licence @ the El Camino trucking school in Palmdale, East LA. As a Teamster he drives 10-wheelers, presumably transporting equipment from and to film sets. Simon has done somewhat similar manual work as a roadie on Scratch Acid's European tour (December 1986/January 1987) and as lighting engineer on the Bad Seeds North American tour (Sep/Oct 1990). |
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NORTHERN EXPOSURE, TV series (1994)
Plot summary: A recently graduated New York City physician, Dr. Joel Fleischman, is sent to practice in the town of Cicely, Alaska. Early episodes deal with Fleischman's culture shock in the small town. |
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UNDERWORLD, a film by Roger Christian (1996)
Plot summary: After spending seven years behind bars, Johnny Crown [Denis Leary] is back on the street, with lots of cash, a psychotherapy degree and a burning desire to find and punish gangsters who had killed his father. One of the people involved is Frank Gavillan [Joe Mantegna], who unwillingly follows Johnny in his demonical and ultraviolent crusade. |
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THE NIGHT CALLER, a film by Robert Malenfant (1998)
Plot summary: An emotionally disturbed woman [Tracy Nelson] works the graveyard shift at a convenience store, and is becoming increasingly fed up with her job. To pass the time, she listens to a late-night San Diego radio show hosted by Dr. Lindsey Roland [Shanna Reed]. She goes to desperate measures to meet this successful radio psychologist, even if it means killing in order to do so. |
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KILL THE MAN, a film by Tom Booker (1999)
Plot summary: Two owners [Luke Wilson and Joshua Malina] of the "Long Shot Copies" shop struggle against a superchain copy store, which opens across the street. Then they start a series of gimmicks and a war against the other copy store, particularly after they are visited by a corporate thug. |
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SUGAR TOWN, a film by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss (1999)
Plot summary: Portrays the Los Angeles music scene, sending up both its sleazy side of sex and drugs and the New Age fake spirituality. The film interconnects several story-lines featuring musicians at various stages of success ranging from aspiring stars to studio players to washed-up rock gods. The cast blends actors with real musicians, who mostly play fictionalised versions of themselves. John Taylor [Duran Duran], Michael Des Barres [Power Station], and Martin Kemp [Spandau Ballet] play has-been stars of the '80s who, now old and forgotten, start a band in an attempt to reclaim their fame. John Doe [X] also appears, along with actors such as Rosanna Arquette and Ally Sheedy. |
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THE LOT, TV series (1999)
Plot summary: Portrays a fictional studio Sylver Screen Pictures during the 1930s and the pursuits of its classic movie stars (such as Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo and Shirley Temple). |
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BUDDY BOY, a film by Mark Hanlon (1999)
Plot summary: The story of an introvert whose religious conviction begins to crumble under the weight of a cruel and strange existence. The film's title character, Francis [Aidan Gillen], lives with his invalid, abusive mother [Emmanuelle Seigner] in a dingy tenement apartment, and has suffered a life of unrelenting misfortune and brutality. Over time, he has withdrawn from the world and into himself, silently observing others rather than interacting with them. His only solace has been his Catholicism. |
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THE THIRD MIRACLE, a film by Agnieszka Holland (1999)
Plot summary: The Vatican sends a priest [Ed Harris] to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood. During his investigation, the priest, who is experiencing a crisis of faith, re-discovers his own purpose in life. |
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DROPPING OUT, a film by Mark Osborne (2000)
Plot summary: Emile Brockton's [Kent Osborne] life has become a meaningless procession of banal activities that prompt him to spice things up the only way he can devise: by killing himself. However, the road to suicide is filled with distractions. |
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THE CROW: SALVATION, a film by Bharat Nalluri (2000)
Plot summary: The third entry in "The Crow" series follows Alex Corvis [Eric Mabius], a death row convict framed for the murder of his girlfriend. Three years later, he is sentenced to death in the electric chair. Soon after the execution, Alex is resurrected by a mystical crow and gifted with supernatural abilities. |
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PUNKS, a film by Patrik-Ian Polk (2000)
Plot summary: The film follows the trials and tribulations of a group of gay African American friends. While black gay life is explored in the film, universal aspects of friendship plays at the plot's forefront. |
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SPANISH JUDGES, a film by Oz Scott (2000)
Plot summary: A con-artist hires two ruthless low-level criminals to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget. |
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THE HEIST, a film by Kurt Voss (2000)
Plot summary: When Jack [Luke Perry], a small criminal, is just out of jail after six months, he has nowhere else to crash then the place where his brother Moe [Richmond Arquette], a penniless jazz musician, lives. Their life suddenly gets a new perspective when they observe a robbed armored car is parked downstairs by three black hardened criminals. |
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PARTNERS, a film by Joey Travolta (2000)
Plot summary: After stealing a briefcase, a drifter finds himself caught in the middle of an international crime caper. |
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ENEMIES OF LAUGHTER, a film by Joey Travolta (2000)
Plot summary: Nerdy-looking Paul [David Paymer] is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal [Judge Reinhold] has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters into a comedic documentary. |
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SADNESS, a film by Simon Bonney (2000/2012)
Plot summary: The short film is made in a style reminiscent of Jean Cocteau. It follows two children [Rose-Lee Bonney and Ben Bonney] as they witness their mother's [Bronwyn Adams] descent into depression and her subsequent escape into a magical otherworld. |
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RABBIT-PROOF FENCE, a film by Phillip Noyce (2002)
Plot summary: Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away "to save them from themselves." Three girls escape and for days they walk the Outback following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. |
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Promo music video clips
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THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE
Recording info: (4:02 mins) |
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DON'T WALK AWAY FROM LOVE
Info: The video recounts the road trip across America (along Route 40) that Simon and his (pregnant) wife Bronwyn took in 1992 from their newly adopted home in Los Angeles to New York (to play a series of acoustic shows). Surprisingly, in this clip, Bronwyn and their daughter (who by 1994 had briefly returned to Australia) are replaced by a lookalike redheaded woman and lookalike girl. |
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EYES OF BLUE
Recording info: (4:48 mins) |
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A SWEETER KIND OF PAIN
Recording info: (5:01 mins) |
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