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2. Gregor Jordan (born 1966) is an Australian film director, writer and actor. [1] Jordan's films include Two Hands (1999), Buffalo Soldiers (2001), and Ned Kelly (2003). Two Hands won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and Best Screenplay in 1999. He has most recently directed The Informers, an American film adapted from ...
Gregor Jordan. Director: Two Hands. Gregor Jordan was born in 1966 in Sale, Victoria, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Two Hands (1999), Ned Kelly (2003) and Buffalo Soldiers (2001).
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Sep 9, 2019 · Australian director Gregor Jordan made his mark on the international scene with a trio of films at the turn of the millennium: the award-winning Two Hands, starring Heath Ledger and Bryan Brown, Buffalo Soldiers, with Joaquin Phoenix and Anna Paquin in 2001 and Ned Kelly, which reunited him with Ledger who led a cast that included Orlando Bloom ...
- Shorts
- Two Hands
- Ned Kelly
- Hollywood
- Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer
- Old School
Jordan became the poster boy for the explosive success that a clever, gothic black comedy short can deliver in terms of providing future opportunities. In pondering his career the director exclaimed, “I guess when you look at the careers of a lot of successful filmmakers – and a lot of filmmakers I admire – when you look at their early careers, you...
Two Hands (1999) was Jordan’s first feature – a much-loved gangster crime caper that is now justifiably considered an Australian classic. It is a quirky crime film mixing a coming-of-age story with romance and black comedy, set amidst sunny beachside vistas and laidback larrikin characters. The film’s vibrant settings conceal a dangerous underworld...
Jordan’s Ned Kelly (2003) is arguably the strongest cinematic adaptation of the Kelly myth. Its lush brooding landscapes and stylish dramatisation blend sequences of intense brutal action with lyrical, uplifting moments such as the public reading of the Jerilderie Letter to hostages during the Euroa bank raid. Jordan frames the fate and actions of ...
Jordan’s work in the US produced a mix of significant and challenging creative projects. It has featured often highly controversial material that has affected the distribution of the films and led to the widespread critical misunderstanding of his ironic style. Both Buffalo Soldiers (2001) andUnthinkable (2010) created controversy for their satiric...
Ian Thorpe: The Swimmer(2012) marked a change of pace and form for Jordan. This was a very small, intimate documentary project that focused on family friend and former Olympic great Ian Thorpe’s attempt to make it back into the Australian Swimming Team for the London Olympics. It started as a personal project without a broadcaster attached. Jordan ...
In 2013, Jordan returned to the shady Sydney world of Two Hands, and crime caper territory, rekindling his working relationship with Bryan Brown in the eight-part television series Old School(Matchbox Pictures). Jordan is billed as one of the directors, writers and executive producers on the series. The story examines the relationship between a ret...
Gregor Jordan (born 1966) is an Australian film director and writer. Jordan's films include Two Hands (1999), Buffalo Soldiers (2001), and Ned Kelly (2003). He has also directed the concert video These Days: Live in Concert (2004) by Australian rock band Powderfinger.
Sep 22, 2003 · Written by Nev Pierce. updated 25th September 2003. The Aussie helmer of crime caper "Two Hands" and acerbic black comedy "Buffalo Soldiers" tackles a legend in "Ned...
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Jul 17, 2003 · Aussie writer-director Gregor Jordan hits the satirical bullseye with "Buffalo Soldiers" - a caustic black comedy starring Joaquin Phoenix as a drug-dealing American soldier stationed in West...
