It really should come as no surprise, that Saw 2 turned out to be a hit. It is the long awaited sequel to a sleeper cult hit. As the article says, the...
... wrote: Hitchcock shot both visions, I believe, without telling the studio, then got some extra time out of them to finish the job. (Ken Mogg and Pat...
Yuval Legendtofski wrote: "Adrian Martin rated it as one of the 'better' horror films last year, and probably gave it his best 'rating' over every other horror...
... Preminger's decision to go with Trumbo made Douglas' possible. It all happened around the same time. __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase:...
... This is essentially correct. But I believe the reason Douglas has continually felt he could make this claim is that while Preminger announced using Trumbo...
I would have thought I was alone on this. I'm a 69er, but younger and older cinephiles don't seem to exhibit the same barriers I encountered right off the bat...
In the recent book "The Cinema of Michael Powell. International Perspectives on an English Film-Maker", ed. by Ian Christie & Andrew Moor (BFI), there is an...
... Perspectives ... Studios." ... When Zoetrope was flush, lots of Europeans were invited by Coppola's consiglieri, Tom Luddy, who was transitioning from head...
... Coppola's ... Pacific Film ... Coppola salon and ... was ... about whgich ... (probably) for The ... their ... kind of a ... I can support this since I saw...
please pardon the cross post... The Delvaux Rendez-vous a Bray box set has arrived, and I have new- found respect for the Boomerang label, which I'd found to...
... Yes Ingo is Otto's brother and he did his own part to break the blacklist by hiring Ring Lardner Jr. to write MASH. __________________________________ ...
Your words make it sound cheap... Accomplices? the manipulation is now a base plot! Which part do you assign to the editor here? Yes, McCarey IS sentimental....
It's not the emotionality I'm responding to, but an apprehension toward button pushing, i.e. being meant to respond in specific, pre- calculated ways at each...
In the McCarey case, I wouldn't imagine there to be anything nefarious about a greater degree of manipulation. It would just feel didactic or pushy, and as...
... Coppola's ... Pacific Film ... salon and ... I recently interviewed Tom Luddy on his various Godard-related activities. A truly fascinating guy. The...
... search ... What about sensesofcinema.com; screeningthepast.com; rouge.com or any other internet journals which would welcome this fascinating material? ...
Is there an example of an film director who is NOT manipulative? Doesn't all film depend upon choices and sacrifices in the pursuit of the director's...
... No. ... Ys. So I ... And what we know irrespective of what the director puts before us. I am ... I'd say that's far truer of the latter than the former."My...
... Coppola's ... Pacific Film ... salon and ... was ... Godard quotes Powell by way of a still from PEEPING TOM in HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA. It's also there that...
This all depends on how you define what "realist" films are, and what they aren't. Your primary concern is on film content (and in particular, class and...
Van Sant discovered Alan Clarke and never looked back. Which is great, coz Clarke has an irreverent, energised yet restrained anarchist style that his other...
... I recommended GpGII re: L'histoire. As I recall the project is extensively detailed, with previsualizations etc. I never heard of Godard's group...
... There are a pair of references to THE STORY in GpGII, but you might be thinking of Colin MacCabe's book Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics from 1980. JLG's...
... interestingly ... Now that'sfascinating. I worry about Terence. He's such a dear, sad man. And a great, great artist. "The Long Day Closes" is my favorite....
... If memory serbes, Godard mentioned this to Colin MacCabe, the film's producer, in a BFI publication devoted to a BFI conference. That's where I saw it,...
... He also said it to CdC in the interview re: Notre Musique. Actually, I think Vincent Ostria wrote a good review of DVSL in CdC, but he has always been an...
Doesn't Vincent Ostria write for Les Inrocks now? I recall seeing his name over there, though he doesn't always get the most space. Jonathan Takagi ... ...