{"id":531,"date":"2007-03-23T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/23\/philip-noyce-on-catch-a-fire\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T00:52:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T00:52:23","slug":"philip-noyce-on-catch-a-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/03\/23\/philip-noyce-on-catch-a-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Noyce on Catch a Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"178\" align=\"right\" id=\"image532\" alt=\"Philip Noyce shooting Catch a Fire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Philip%20Noyce%20shooting%20CAF.jpg\" \/>Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0637518\/\"><strong>Philip Noyce<\/strong><\/a> has had a new lease of life in recent years. Since opting to direct more political films like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0258068\/\">The Quiet American<\/a> <\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0252444\/\">Rabbit Proof Fence<\/a> <\/strong>his work has taken on a new urgency and energy.<\/p>\n<p>His latest is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0437232\/\">Catch a Fire<\/a> <\/strong>which tells the true story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_National_Congress\">ANC<\/a> freedom fighter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Chamusso\">Patrick Chamusso<\/a> and his struggles under the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid\">Apartheid<\/a> regime in South Africa during the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>I recently spoke to Philip about the film and the change of direction in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview here:<br \/>\n[audio:philip_noyce_on_catch_a_fire.mp3]<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Catch a Fire<\/em><\/strong> <em>is released at UK cinemas today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Garth Stead \/ \u00a9 2005 Universal Studios.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/audio\/philip_noyce_on_catch_a_fire.mp3\">Download the interview as an MP3<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/movies\">Get local cinema showtimes for Catch a Fire via Google Movies<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0637518\/\">Philip Noyce at the IMDb<br \/>\n<\/a>> <a href=\"http:\/\/workingtitlefilms.com\/featureProductionDiary.php?featureID=38\">Production diaries about the film at Working Title<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmarktheatres.com\/Stories\/rabbit_frame.html\">An interesting article in which Noyce explains why he made Rabbit Proof Fence rather than The Sum of All Fears<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000LC4C24\/026-8072056-7708448?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=filmdetail-21&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creativeASIN=B000LC4C24\">Buy Catch a Fire on Region 1 DVD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Philip Noyce has had a new lease of life in recent years. Since opting to direct more political films like The Quiet American and Rabbit Proof Fence his work has taken on a new urgency and energy. His latest is Catch a Fire which tells the true story of ANC freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}