Sam Neill and Adrien Brody in Backtrack.
Australian psychological thriller.Backtrack, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Niell, will screen exclusively for one-week at Palace Cinemas from June 16-22.
The limited cinema release will be followed by digital and disc releases on August 3, a non-traditional pattern designed to make the film available to a broader audience across all channels without delay..
Producer Jamie Hilton said he was excited to bring Backtrack to Australian audiences, after selling the film in more than 60 countries..
"Adrien Brody gives a nuanced performance as an Australian psychiatrist, a fresh spin after so many of our stars playing Americans," he said..
"Michael Petroni and his all Australian team have crafted a world class film that is both intelligent and thrilling..
"We hope audiences will enjoy it across all release platforms and are delighted to partner with Palace Cinemas on the theatrical release...
Written and directed by Michael Petroni...
Australian psychological thriller.Backtrack, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Niell, will screen exclusively for one-week at Palace Cinemas from June 16-22.
The limited cinema release will be followed by digital and disc releases on August 3, a non-traditional pattern designed to make the film available to a broader audience across all channels without delay..
Producer Jamie Hilton said he was excited to bring Backtrack to Australian audiences, after selling the film in more than 60 countries..
"Adrien Brody gives a nuanced performance as an Australian psychiatrist, a fresh spin after so many of our stars playing Americans," he said..
"Michael Petroni and his all Australian team have crafted a world class film that is both intelligent and thrilling..
"We hope audiences will enjoy it across all release platforms and are delighted to partner with Palace Cinemas on the theatrical release...
Written and directed by Michael Petroni...
- 4/28/2016
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
“Nothing haunts like the past.” It’s a catchy tag line that attempts to sum up writer and director Michael Petroni’s new film Backtrack, but there more to this mystery/thriller than can be summed up in a single breath. What begins as a moody drama about a troubled psychotherapist quickly reveals itself as a deeper tale of supernatural intervention into the darker underbelly of human nature.
Peter Bower, played with wrenching emotional finesse by Adrien Brody, is struggling with the loss of his daughter while barely holding together his practice and his marriage. Bower blames himself for his daughter’s death, while not entirely clear on what happened exactly. When not in sessions with his own patients, Bower seeks counsel from fellow psychotherapist Duncan Stewart, played by Sam Neill, which only leads Bower further down the twisted rabbit hole that will be come a truly unnerving revelation.
Backtrack...
Peter Bower, played with wrenching emotional finesse by Adrien Brody, is struggling with the loss of his daughter while barely holding together his practice and his marriage. Bower blames himself for his daughter’s death, while not entirely clear on what happened exactly. When not in sessions with his own patients, Bower seeks counsel from fellow psychotherapist Duncan Stewart, played by Sam Neill, which only leads Bower further down the twisted rabbit hole that will be come a truly unnerving revelation.
Backtrack...
- 3/4/2016
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Besides turning up in a Wes Anderson production every now and then, Adrien Brody has been something of a ghost to mainstream moviegoers. I promise he’s still acting, just in movies that have struggled to find wider audiences. You know, like Dragon Blade or American Heist? *crickets* The quasi blockbuster hunk of yesteryear seems to be toying with indie experimentation as of late, picking Michael Petroni’s Backtrack as his latest attempt at underground success. Will this be the Adrien Brody vessel that floats to the top instead of sinking to a dark, watery grave? No, it won’t – but that’s not necessarily the actor’s fault.
The once Predator huntin’ Brody stars as Peter Bower, a psychiatrist who’s struggling to cope with his daughter Evie’s (Emma O’Farrell) unexpected death. Clientele come and go, but all Bower can do is replay the same gruesome scene on repeat,...
The once Predator huntin’ Brody stars as Peter Bower, a psychiatrist who’s struggling to cope with his daughter Evie’s (Emma O’Farrell) unexpected death. Clientele come and go, but all Bower can do is replay the same gruesome scene on repeat,...
- 2/27/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
★★★☆☆ Adrien Brody has never been one to take the predictable route when it comes to his choice of roles. His body of work encompasses an array of unusual characters found in projects ranging from independent to high-profile outings. He consistently surprises, maintaining a quality output with every new venture. Such is the case with Backtrack, where he receives top billing as tortured psychotherapist Peter Bower. Perhaps the singular instance where phoning in a performance may work to ones advantage, Brody puts on his best furrowed brow as he goes through writer/director Michael Petroni's somewhat familiar narrative of a man looking for answers to the supernatural events occurring around him.
- 1/31/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
A by-the-numbers supernatural thriller fails to conjure up any original scares
Adrien Brody sees dead people in this derivative Australian chiller about a psychologist haunted by the loss of his daughter. Writer/director Michael Petroni plays it by the book, putting Tab A into Slot B as Brody’s Peter Bower goes on the trail of repressed memories and guilty secrets, with passable if wholly predictable results. Sam Neill adds a touch of careless class to a hokey supporting role.
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Adrien Brody sees dead people in this derivative Australian chiller about a psychologist haunted by the loss of his daughter. Writer/director Michael Petroni plays it by the book, putting Tab A into Slot B as Brody’s Peter Bower goes on the trail of repressed memories and guilty secrets, with passable if wholly predictable results. Sam Neill adds a touch of careless class to a hokey supporting role.
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- 1/31/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Adrien Brody’s psychoanalyst heads to his creepy home town to find repressed memories in Michael Petroni’s effective, if unoriginal, shocker
Here’s a nifty little scary movie from Australian writer-director Michael Petroni. It’s a bit derivative, with borrowings from a handful of other films, but there are some nasty moments. Adrien Brody plays Peter Bower, a psychoanalyst who in the time-honoured manner of films like this has lost a child. He was showing her how to ride a bike, got distracted by something in a shop window – and the result was tragic. And yet something else in the event has triggered a new horror, perhaps connected with his grief and perhaps not. Bower realises that all the patients he has been treating since his daughter’s death are ghosts: people who died in 1987, a date that is of great significance to him, if he did but know it.
Here’s a nifty little scary movie from Australian writer-director Michael Petroni. It’s a bit derivative, with borrowings from a handful of other films, but there are some nasty moments. Adrien Brody plays Peter Bower, a psychoanalyst who in the time-honoured manner of films like this has lost a child. He was showing her how to ride a bike, got distracted by something in a shop window – and the result was tragic. And yet something else in the event has triggered a new horror, perhaps connected with his grief and perhaps not. Bower realises that all the patients he has been treating since his daughter’s death are ghosts: people who died in 1987, a date that is of great significance to him, if he did but know it.
- 1/28/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, Robin McLeavy, Bruce Spence, Jenni Baird, Anna Lise Phillips, Chloe Bayliss, Olga Miller, Michael Whalley, Malcolm Kennard, Matthew Sunderland, Suzie Steen | Written and Directed by Michael Petroni
Don’t look now, but a man begins to experience strange visions following the death of his child. After realising that the majority of his patients are ghosts (like a reverse Sixth Sense) psychologist Peter Bower (Adrien Brody) heads to his spooky old hometown in the hope that he can uncover the mystery behind it all.
Moody, intense Brody is the main draw for this low-key supernatural thriller, its effective Gothic vibe making it stand out from the chaff like Nicolas Cage’s Pay the Ghost (I say that with love) or the litany of 101 Films releases just like it (said with less love, but there’s still some). The level of class extends to the presence of one Sam Neill,...
Don’t look now, but a man begins to experience strange visions following the death of his child. After realising that the majority of his patients are ghosts (like a reverse Sixth Sense) psychologist Peter Bower (Adrien Brody) heads to his spooky old hometown in the hope that he can uncover the mystery behind it all.
Moody, intense Brody is the main draw for this low-key supernatural thriller, its effective Gothic vibe making it stand out from the chaff like Nicolas Cage’s Pay the Ghost (I say that with love) or the litany of 101 Films releases just like it (said with less love, but there’s still some). The level of class extends to the presence of one Sam Neill,...
- 1/28/2016
- by Joel Harley
- Nerdly
Backtrack Trailer. Michael Petroni‘s Backtrack (2015) movie trailer stars Adrien Brody, Sam Neill and Robin McLeavy. Backtrack‘s plot synopsis: “Psychologist Peter Bower’s life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right. Backtrack is […]...
- 1/21/2016
- by Marco Margaritoff
- Film-Book
Michael Petroni's psychological thriller Backtrack will have its Australian premiere at Moonlight Cinemas after postive reviews at Tribeca Film festival earlier this year.
Starring Academy Award winner, Adrien Brody (The Pianist) and three time Australian Golden Globe nominee Sam Neill (Merlin), Backtrack will premiere December 6 in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
The Screen Australia backed film is directed by Michael Petroni; best known for his work on the Academy Award nominated film The Book Thief (2013), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) and Australian film Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002) starring Guy Peace and Helena Bonham Carter.
The film follows psychologist Peter Bower's (Brody) as his life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been treating are ghosts..
Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right.
Petroni...
Starring Academy Award winner, Adrien Brody (The Pianist) and three time Australian Golden Globe nominee Sam Neill (Merlin), Backtrack will premiere December 6 in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
The Screen Australia backed film is directed by Michael Petroni; best known for his work on the Academy Award nominated film The Book Thief (2013), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) and Australian film Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002) starring Guy Peace and Helena Bonham Carter.
The film follows psychologist Peter Bower's (Brody) as his life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been treating are ghosts..
Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right.
Petroni...
- 11/30/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Currently in its tenth year, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival (Tad) is set to run from October 15 – 23 in its home, Scotiabank Theatre. Tad provides essential viewing for genre film lovers, offering a mix of horror, sci-fi, and potential cult-movie classics. Staying on top of all twenty films (as well as the festival’s numerous shorts) is an arduous task, so here is a list of five must-see films that will be screening at Tad 2015.
Deathgasm (Friday, Oct 23 – 9:30pm)
Heavy metal and the occult is a match made in heaven hell, and Jason Lei Howden’s feature film debut, Deathgasm, plays with all the tropes associated with the death-metal genre. Since its SXSW premiere, Deathgasm has been winning over both critics and fans with its lowbrow slapstick humor, endearing characters, and gory visuals. With Deathgasm, Tad has the perfect midnight madness genre picture on its hands, and the festival programmers are savoring this one,...
Deathgasm (Friday, Oct 23 – 9:30pm)
Heavy metal and the occult is a match made in heaven hell, and Jason Lei Howden’s feature film debut, Deathgasm, plays with all the tropes associated with the death-metal genre. Since its SXSW premiere, Deathgasm has been winning over both critics and fans with its lowbrow slapstick humor, endearing characters, and gory visuals. With Deathgasm, Tad has the perfect midnight madness genre picture on its hands, and the festival programmers are savoring this one,...
- 10/15/2015
- by Victor Stiff
- SoundOnSight
Adrian Brody in Backtrack..
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Five Aussie films will vie for the $100,000 CinéfestOZ Film Prize, with two of the entries to have their Australian premiere at the Festival in August.
Backtrack, Now Add Honey, Pawno, Putuparri and the Rainmakers and The Daughter have each been selected out of over 30 submissions to make up the shortlist for the prize, now in its second year.
The winner will be announced at the Festival on Saturday 29th August, 2015.
The Film Prize is awarded to the producer of an Australian feature film (including feature documentaries) and last year was taken out by Robert Connolly for his family feature Paper Planes.
The film, which Connolly also directed, went on to enjoy huge success at the Australian box office and will be released by distribution companies Lionsgate in the UK and in North America by Eone.
The finalists for this year.s prize were determined by five...
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Five Aussie films will vie for the $100,000 CinéfestOZ Film Prize, with two of the entries to have their Australian premiere at the Festival in August.
Backtrack, Now Add Honey, Pawno, Putuparri and the Rainmakers and The Daughter have each been selected out of over 30 submissions to make up the shortlist for the prize, now in its second year.
The winner will be announced at the Festival on Saturday 29th August, 2015.
The Film Prize is awarded to the producer of an Australian feature film (including feature documentaries) and last year was taken out by Robert Connolly for his family feature Paper Planes.
The film, which Connolly also directed, went on to enjoy huge success at the Australian box office and will be released by distribution companies Lionsgate in the UK and in North America by Eone.
The finalists for this year.s prize were determined by five...
- 7/20/2015
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Adrien Brody sees dead people — so, so many dead people — in Backtrack, an Australian hybrid of The Sixth Sense and every thriller to ever feature “retrograde amnesia” as a laughable plot device. In Michael Petroni’s nonsensical mystery, Brody is Peter Bower, a therapist who’s still grieving over the traffic-accident death of his daughter, and who comes to realize that every one of his patients (including Sam Neill’s psychologist, and a spooky, screamy young girl) is dead, and in fact died on the very same date in 1987.
That’s also the day that Peter, as a kid, was involved in a train accident that killed scores of innocents — a connection that motivates Peter to go back home, visit his drunken ex-cop fa...
That’s also the day that Peter, as a kid, was involved in a train accident that killed scores of innocents — a connection that motivates Peter to go back home, visit his drunken ex-cop fa...
- 4/22/2015
- Village Voice
Landing between SXSW and the Cannes Film Festival, it would be easy to overlook the Tribeca Film Festival, but that would be a mistake. The festival has developed a reputation for being the place where hidden gems are discovered, and where movies that weren't on the radar before, suddenly fly into view. One that could gain some attention is the supernatural "Backtrack," and today we have an exclusive clip from the film. Written and directed by Michael Petroni ("Till Human Voices Wake Us"), and starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, the story follows psychologist Peter Bower, whose life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are ghosts, which leads to uncovering a terrifying secret from his past. In this exclusive clip, Peter witnesses first hand the fear that grips his clients and is appropriately spooked by what he sees. "Backtrack" will have its...
- 3/26/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Screen Australia has committed more than $450,000 in development funding across 19 feature films.
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
Psychological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner, will also receive funding.
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
Psychological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner, will also receive funding.
- 11/19/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Over $450 000 in funding will be spread across 19 feature films following an announcement from Screen Australia today.
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
.Pyschological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner,...
Of the 19 projects, six are new to Screen Australia.s developmental slate, while the other 13 will continue to receive support.
The new projects include the drama script Clive, about a privileged man whose life is transformed after a serious accident, and Em, a comedic take on Jane Austen.s classic Emma.
Clive comes from writer/director Natasha Pincus, producer Bridget Ikin and executive producer John Maynard.
Em will be set in 1950s rural Australia and comes from writer Matthew Dabner, director Kate Riedl and producers Karen Radzyner and Anna Vincent.
.Pyschological thriller Lonely Girl will also receive developmental support. Written by Lynne Vincent McCarthy and produced by Samantha Jennings, the project was also supported through Screen Australia.s Springboard Program.
The crime drama My Country, written by Sam Meikle and Serhat Caradee and produced by Matthew Dabner,...
- 11/19/2012
- by Emily Blatchford
- IF.com.au
Brendan Cowell
Writer and actor Brendan Cowell will make his feature film directorial debut with the adaptation of his play Ruben Guthrie - the story of a wild-boy agency creative who burns himself out.
Cowell’s project is among 19 films to receive a cut of the $450,000 development support from Screen Australia.
Cowell has teamed up with Yael Bergman, producer of I Love You Too, which starred Cowell, and executive producers Laura Waters and Andrea Denholm.
The film’s synopsis reads: “By day, 29-year-old Ruben Guthrie is the wunderkind creative at one of Sydney’s hottest boutique ad agencies; by night, he is one of Sydney’s most notorious party boys until he jumps off a hotel roof into a wading pool and nearly kills himself. Over the next 12 months, Ruben tries to build a life around AA, cups of tea, inner growth and sex with a reformed addict. His friends,...
Writer and actor Brendan Cowell will make his feature film directorial debut with the adaptation of his play Ruben Guthrie - the story of a wild-boy agency creative who burns himself out.
Cowell’s project is among 19 films to receive a cut of the $450,000 development support from Screen Australia.
Cowell has teamed up with Yael Bergman, producer of I Love You Too, which starred Cowell, and executive producers Laura Waters and Andrea Denholm.
The film’s synopsis reads: “By day, 29-year-old Ruben Guthrie is the wunderkind creative at one of Sydney’s hottest boutique ad agencies; by night, he is one of Sydney’s most notorious party boys until he jumps off a hotel roof into a wading pool and nearly kills himself. Over the next 12 months, Ruben tries to build a life around AA, cups of tea, inner growth and sex with a reformed addict. His friends,...
- 11/19/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
A musical from Red Dog director Kriv Stenders, a feature about the choir of hard knocks directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and an untitled project from Joel and Nash Edgerton are three of 16 features that have received a share of $400,000 in development support from Screen Australia. Of these 16 projects, ten are new additions to the development slate, while the remaining six have been receiving ongoing assistance. Screen Australia.s head of development Martha Coleman said in a statement that the calibre of features was outstanding. .There.s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our filmmakers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting..
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
Synchronicity, which is written by Marissa Goodhill,. produced by Leesa Kahn and Catriona Hughes and has Kriv Stenders attached as director, is a musical set to the songs of Kylie Minogue. It follows 17-year-old Kylie...
- 5/15/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
Some of Australia’s biggest names in film-making have received funding for new projects in the latest round of Screen Australia’s single-project feature development.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
The funding round for script development has supported 16 projects totalling $400,000, ten new projects and six which receive continued support.
Martha Coleman, Screen Australia’s head of development said: “The calibre of feature projects coming to the Development Department is outstanding. There’s a general acknowledgement from the marketplace that our film-makers have raised the bar and I think the next wave of films in the coming years will be really interesting.”
Film-makers include Julia Leigh, the Edgerton brothers, Abe Forsythe and Kriv Stenders.
Julia Leigh is to direct her second film, Disquiet following on from Sleeping Beauty, which won best direction in a feature film at the Australian Director’s Guild Awards on Friday night. The psychological horror will be adapted by Leigh from her book of the same name.
- 5/14/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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