TV and Film
The TV miniseries Rose Against the Odds was produced in 1991 - a period drama of Rose's life story starring Paul Williams and Telly Savalas. It was released as a feature film in 1995.
In 2008, after nearly three years of conducting interviews with Rose, his family and friends, Melbourne filmmaker Eddie Martin premiered his feature-length documentary Lionel at the Melbourne International Film Festival. After a brief theatrical run, a shorter version of the film premiered on SBS television on 28 November 2008.
Read more about this topic: Lionel Rose
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“I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film.”
—David Cronenberg (b. 1943)