Monthly Archives: June 2011
30/06/11 Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011
by Uncle Frank and Matthew Turner Uncle Frank This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival has taken a battering from some quarters, and a fair bit of that is justified. But to write the whole festival off as a spent force, as some have done, is premature. Yes, there were things wrong with the festival this [...]
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29/06/11 Smashing the Glass Slipper
by Emma Street There is probably no film studio more closely associated with fairy tales than Disney. Since the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937 there has been a string of heroines in search of happily ever afters, although not without some barren spells, like the 30 years from the poor [...]
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28/06/11 Passing Through: Mike Nelson’s “Coral Reef” and Mark Wallinger’s “Threshold to the Kingdom”
by Ann Jones It’s often easy to get lost in one’s own thoughts looking at a piece of art; paintings and photographs can suggest stories or remind us of familiar narratives but it’s up to us to fill in the gaps and, while we might be lost in the moment, we’re inevitably on the outside [...]
Tags: Coral Reef, Mark Wallinger, Mike Nelson, Threshold to the Kingdom
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27/06/11 Sydney Film Festival 2011 – Memoirs of a Subscriber
by Preposition Joe It’s ten a.m. on a cold, wet Sunday, and indie film director Miranda July has stepped onto the stage of Sydney’s State Theatre to talk to us about her film The Future. But first, she gushes … I can’t believe, she says, so many people have come out in the cold and the rain [...]
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24/06/11 Mostly Links – 24 June 2011
by Indy Datta It’s not like I don’t remember how insanely duff John Lasseter’s original Cars was. It’s not like I have no sympathy for all my friends who’ve had kids in the years since it came out and have had to contend with its surprise emergence as the Mouse’s irresistible merchandising juggernaut. But its just [...]
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23/06/11 Betty Blue Eyes
by Viv Wilby Cameron Mackintosh must be a confident man. Exit the theatre after a performance of his latest production, Betty Blue Eyes, and you’re accosted by the front-of-house staff trying to flog you tie-in merchandise. Red t-shirts bearing that suddenly ubiquitous wartime slogan ‘Keep calm and carry on’ amended to spell out quotes from [...]
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22/06/11 Mostly Pop – June 2011
by Mr Moth Nicola Roberts – Beat of my Drum Nicola Roberts was always my favourite Girl Aloud, in spite of the repeated criticisms slung at her – she can’t dance! She doesn’t smile! She can’t sing! – so when I became aware that she was launching a solo career I can honestly say [...]
Tags: avril lavigne, jason derulo, music videos, nicola roberts, saturdays, toploader
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21/06/11 L.A. Noire
by Indy Datta This post is about narrative in Rockstar Games’ period crime blockbuster video game L.A. Noire, and as such contains spoilers for it, and also for Grand Theft Auto IV and Heavy Rain. And Chinatown. And Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Tags: L.A. Noire
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20/06/11 Life Classes – Making a Low Budget Movie
by Simon Aldous Earlier this year, with my film-making partner Robin Morgan, I completed my second feature film Life Classes, made in my spare time for £10,000. Twenty years ago that would have been something to truly brag about. When Robert Rodriguez made El Mariachi for $7,000 people were disbelieving. But with the availability of [...]
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17/06/11 Mostly Links – 17 June 2011
by Indy Datta Even as we speak, Mostly Film’s roving reviewers Matthew Turner and Uncle Frank (not, as far as I know, Matthew’s actual Uncle Frank) are subjecting themselves to a punishing screening, partying, and Nando’s eating schedule that will ensure that our forthcoming coverage of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011 will be second [...]
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