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Monthly Archives: July 2011

29/07/11 CAMERA OBSCURER: The Return of the Mostly Film Book Club

By Niall Anderson “Next time you see a Spitfire in a museum, run your fingers over its skin… you might be touching a vanished masterpiece.” When producer Cecil Hepworth went bankrupt in 1924, his entire stock of film negatives was melted down and turned into waterproof resin for military aircraft. Many of these negatives were [...]

28/07/11 First Among Sequels – Twelve Underrated Follow-Ups

Mostly Film contributors pick the best of the-ones-after-the-famous-one. Subject to outrage, this will be an occasional series.

27/07/11 Air Con: The Death of Flight Sims

By Richard Flight! The dream of man from when Daedalus first made wings for his son without first performing a full risk assessment. Shooting things! Man’s other dream, sadly realised a lot earlier. Despite the enduring appeal of these dreams, why is it that the once dominant genre of combat flight simulations now survives only [...]

26/07/11 Confessions of a soundtrack fan

By Victor Field The two most annoying experiences I’ve ever had in all my years of being a soundtrack fan both involved people who were supposed to be selling me the things.

25/07/11 Legally Scorned: Films as Musicals

By Lissy Lovett I was watching Legally Blonde a few weeks ago on TV and it seemed like it was missing something. It took a little while to work out what it was but then it hit me – there weren’t any songs.  Legally Blonde: The Musical opened at the Savoy Theatre in London a [...]

22/07/11 Mostly Links – 22 July 2011

By Niall Anderson As every Cineplexer knows, summer is the season of revamps and remakes, and this summer is as full of them as any. But there are revamps and then there are revamps. Choose, for example, from the following:

21/07/11 Looking Back into Darkness: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

By Philip Concannon Simon Srebnik should have died in 1945. As a teenager, Srebnik was a prisoner at the Chelmno extermination camp, where he managed to stay alive thanks to his agility and melodious singing voice, both of which pleased the SS guards. Two days before the Soviet troops arrived, the guards began killing all [...]

20/07/11 The Music of 2011 So Far

Mostly Film contributors discuss the music of the year so far after the jump …

19/07/11 Mostly Minor Characters

Mostly Film writers pause and reflect on the blink-and-you’ll-miss em parts that make the film work. Kronsteen – From Russia With Love. By Paul Duane In a vast hall, a creepy, languid character resembling Ren the cartoon chihuahua plays chess against somebody who seems to be called Canada MacAdams. Kronsteen has only one word of [...]

18/07/11 Manchester International Festival 2011: Art

by Ann Jones Until recently I had always considered Marina Abramović to be formidable to the point of scariness and possibly not entirely of sound mind. Her work is extraordinary and utterly compelling but its intensity and seriousness seemed to leave no space for the woman herself to have a sense of humour. But then [...]

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