Geoff Murphy: A Life on Film - I'm taking this bloody car to Invercargill

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The majorly entertaining memoir from a major entertainer - Geoff 'Goodbye Pork Pie' Murphy tells it like it really was in this director's cut of his life and times.

"I'm taking this bloody car to Invercargill!"

It wasthe line that had cinema audiences cheering.Goodbye Pork Pie became an instant classic, and announced the arrival of a major new talent in director Geoff Murphy. With his next two films, Utu and The Quiet Earth, he cemented his reputation as a pioneer of New Zealand cinema, eventually arriving in Hollywood as a gun-for-hire in the super-charged world of studio politics and superstar egos.

He'd come a long way from his days as a struggling school teacher, and then a member of a madcap band of merry pranksters known as Blerta, founded by his great friend andcollaborator Bruno Lawrence. But it was the same sense of adventure -witha healthy dose of Kiwi ingenuity - that defined every stage of his career.

In thiscandid and funny memoir, Geoff Murphy looks back on a life in (and on)film - from do-it-yourself shoots in the 1960s to epic work on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy -and delivers thedirector's cut of atruly remarkable life.

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Geoff Murphy is a leading figure in the new wave of Kiwi filmmakers who emerged in the 70s. His road movie GOODBYE PORK PIE was the blockbuster hit of the NZ film renaissance, and he completed an unsurpassed triple punch with UTU and Bruno Lawrence classic THE QUIET EARTH. Noted for his skill at action, knockabout comedy, and melding genres, Murphy spent a decade directing in Hollywood before returning home. Wellington-based, with wide and deep connections within film and TV industry.