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Monthly Archives: August 2011

31/08/11 Cult Australian Cinema

September sees the release of The Eye of the Storm, directed by Fred Schepisi and based on the novel by Patrick White. It’s Schepisi’s first film in eight years (not including the award-winning HBO mini-series Empire Falls), and his first film made in Australia since A Cry in the Dark in 1988. MarvMarsh takes a [...]

30/08/11 Shake Your Money Maker

MarvMarsh looks at the history of big finance on screen Gordon Gekko; Larry the Liquidator; the Duke brothers. They may sound like professional wrestlers but what they actually are is nothing like as honest and noble. They are cinema’s money men. The people at the top of the writhing pile of maggots that is the [...]

26/08/11 Mostly Links – 26 August 2011

By Niall Anderson To finish Cinema Week on Mostly Film, here is a list of cinemas in the UK threatened with closure or outright demolition. Most of them have action groups or accounts you can donate to. If you’re in the area affected, or just concerned about the preservation of cinemas in general, please consider [...]

25/08/11 It’s Just A Name These Days

Ricky Young has 33 questions about Torchwood that Russell T. Davies MUST ANSWER Oh, what exquisite pain it is to be a Torchwood fan. You’ve certainly put us through the wringer over the years, Mr. Davies. Designed as a taboo-busting, Who-flavoured love-letter to US genre shows, Torchwood has survived on its energy and charm, all [...]

24/08/11 Cinema Week: The Future of Cinemas

Ron Swanson: Uncle Frank and I were approached to write this piece because we both work in the film exhibition industry, and have an immediate professional insight into the issues that are going to affect in what happens in your local multiplex or arthouse over the next five or ten years. We hope you’ll excuse [...]

23/08/11 Cinema Week: My Favourite Cinema

For many of us, our favourite cinema memories are of the cinemas of our childhood, because  the old local cinemas, many of them (now lost) Art Deco mini-masterpieces, gave us all our first taste of the magic of cinema, the romance of the flickering screen. For others they are of the fleapit of more recent [...]

22/08/11 Cinema Week: Astoria7, Swiss Centre Nil

Spank The Monkey visits an old cinema come back from the grave What happens to old cinemas when they die? I’ve lived in London for over a quarter of a century, and I’ve seen a few go in my time. As discussed on this very site recently, the Scala has been a music venue for [...]

19/08/11 Mostly Links – 19 August 2011

By Niall Anderson Mostly Film noticed a few years ago that a lot of what was coming into the cinema and onto TV was strongly retrospective in tone. There were lots of beards and frock coats. There were a surprising number of films (well, two) about fin de siècle magicians. There were violently bollocky reworkings [...]

18/08/11 The Last Policeman

Indy Datta ponders what The Guard means for Irish cinema Irish cinema is almost as old as the medium itself – the Lumière Cinematographe played in Dublin mere months after its Paris debut in 1896 – but viewed from the other side of the Irish sea, the history of Irish cinema has always seemed to [...]

17/08/11 Mostly Records – August 2011

by Jim Eaton-Terry Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch the Throne This was never going to be as dazzling as it ought to be, and only mildly disappointing is about the best possible reaction to these two finally making an entire album together.  There’s a distinct sense of two artists doing what they do – [...]

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