AL CLARK

**One of Australia’s most revered film producers shares his life and career in his two recent memoirs, ‘Time Flies‘ and ‘Time Flies Too‘.**

ABOUT AL CLARK

Al Clark was born in Huelva, Spain, and educated at two Scottish boarding schools and one English university. Once a journalist at Time Out magazine, then publicity director of Virgin Records in London, he has written four books, produced 20 feature films – including Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Blessed and Red Hill — and been on the juries of several international film festivals. Appointed to the boards of the Australian Film Commission (1989-1992) and later Screen Australia (2014-2017), he was the recipient of the 2013 AACTA Raymond Longford Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Sydney.

TIME FLIES TOO

Al Clark

Published by Brandl & Schlesinger | October 2022
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Time Flies Too is the sequel to 2021’s beguiling and absorbing memoir Time Flies by Al Clark, who in its last paragraph married and settled in Australia.

These new recollections playfully explore his adjustment to life in a new country, the labyrinth involved in making films, the gifted collaborators he encountered along the way, and the work itself — notably one of Australia’s most enduringly successful movies (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert). It completes the journey of a solitary boy who fell in love with cinema, and of the man who strove to bring it to life.

TIME FLIES

Al Clark

Published by Brandl & Schlesinger | May 2021
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Time Flies is an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a childhood in a remote mining village in Southern Spain, the dislocating shock of a Scottish boarding school education, and a remarkable introduction to working life in London at Time Out, then at Virgin, both at the peak of their maverick self-confidence. A tireless spokesman for the record company, and an improbable mouthpiece for the Sex Pistols at the time of their greatest fame and vilification, he later went on to produce numerous notable films, several classics among them.

Review of Time Flies Too
"A warm-hearted, witty and insightful page turner from one of Australia’s leading producers, sharing the highs and lows and the behind-the-scenes dramas of some of our most loved and respected films. A tale of optimism and ingenuity."