SYDNEY -- Rolf de Heer, the Australian director of last year's award-winning aboriginal tragicomedy "Ten Canoes," takes a random detour into banana-peel humor with this black-and-white silent comedy.

MELBOURNE -- Two keenly awaited Oz premieres have been selected to open and close next month's Adelaide Film Festival. By Paul Kalina, The Associated Press MELBOURNE — Two keenly awaited Oz premieres ...

A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it. A comedy in the Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton tradition.

An event picture in its own quiet way, Aussie helmer Rolf de Heer's black-and-white comedy, "Dr. Plonk," is a tribute to silent filmmaking and a sly, Jacques Tati-like satire of modern ways. Bouncing ...

Rolf de Heer is the mad scientist of Australian cinema, a tinkerer who uses whatever is available, renowned for his ability to think outside the box while operating on a low budget. It's wholly in ...

It’s hard not to cheer writer-director Rolf De Heer as an Australian filmmaker who’s happy to take risks and work across genres. Following the success of Ten Canoes – filmed with an Aboriginal cast ...

Rolf De Heer, perhaps relaxing from the extreme directorial hardships of last year's Ten Canoes and the grim themes of The Tracker (2002) and Alexandra's Project (2003), has with Dr Plonk produced a ...

I suspect the Australian writer-director Rolf de Heer thinks a film is worth making only if it involves a high degree of difficulty. It's a risky policy. There's always the chance the drama behind the ...

Dir. Rolf de Heer. Australia 2007. 84 min. Deprived of the frantic mania and destructively anarchic passion that drove the best silent comedies, Rolf de Heer's attempt to revive the genre turns out ...

Until Ten Canoes, Rolf de Heer wasn't known for his sense of humour. Perhaps emboldened by the success of his last film -- made in collaboration with the people of Ramingining -- which brought a ...