Category Archives: Film Making
April 12, 2012 Hair Apparent
By Tindara Sidoti-McNary Do you remember the acclaimed nineties BBC drama that brought actors Christopher Eccleston and Daniel Craig to popular attention? I recall it fondly as ‘Our Wigs in the North’. You see, friends, I have a problem with hair and make-up. The anachronistic mullet, the dreadful syrup, the misplaced pout; I cannot rest [...]
Tags: Carry on Matron, film making, Hair, Make up, No Country for Old Men, Our Friends in the North, Pride and Prejudice, The Departed, Tom Jones
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March 19, 2012 There’s Always Two Lawyers: Kenneth Lonergan on screenwriting
by Paul Duane Kenneth Lonergan, a big, disorganised-looking, mop-haired, slightly put-upon-looking man, sits at the front of the auditorium. He’s looking at the audience, they’re looking at him, and nobody speaks. The guy who’s doing this Q&A with Lonergan, director Damien O’Donnell, is nowhere to be seen – it transpires he’s looking for a small [...]
Tags: anna paquin, Dublin International Film Festival, kenneth lonergan, margaret, mark ruffalo, you can count on me
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March 12, 2012 Yesterday’s Men
by FIONA PLEASANCE I know what you’re thinking. You’ve clicked on a link, and now there’s a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. “Oh no,” you sigh, “not another bloody article about those retro-juggernauts, The Artist (2011) and Hugo (2011) and what it all means for Hollywood. That’s so last month!” Well, perhaps. [...]
Tags: ben kingsley, hugo, jean dujardin, martin scorcese, Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
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January 16, 2012 Rewriting History with Lightning – DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation
by Philip Concannon “In the brief span of six years, between directing his first one-reeler in 1908 and The Birth of a Nation in 1914, Griffith established the narrative language of cinema as we know it today.” – David A. Cook, a History of Narrative Film (2004) “DW Griffith, when you come right down to [...]
Tags: Birth of a Nation, DW Griffith, film making, history, racism
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January 6, 2012 Mostly Links
by Susan Patterson Mostly Links is back and this week it goes colour. Mostly Links has been pondering why so many films are so blue. And orange. If you’re wondering what we mean think CSI Miami. And then some. Mostly Links first pondered this after seeing Carancho (dir: Pablo Trapero, Argentina, 2010), and wondering why everyone [...]
Tags: Carancho, color, color theory, colour, colour theory, craft, editing, film making, Miss Bala, Winter's Bone
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September 2, 2011 2011: A Film Odyssey
Philip Concannon previews More4′s history of film and cinematic innovation “At the end of the 1800s, a new art form flickered in to life. It looked like our dreams.” The Story of Film is a story told through moments; images thematically linked to tell us how this art form, created by inventors and visionaries in [...]
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August 30, 2011 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 [...]
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August 15, 2011 The Passion of the Kinski
Philip Concannon The title of Klaus Kinski’s memoir is Kinski Uncut, but that’s not strictly accurate. When the actor first attempted to publish his autobiography in 1988, under the title All I Need is Love, a lawsuit from Marlene Dietrich (who had taken offence to his depiction of her as a lesbian) ensured the book [...]
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August 3, 2011 Attack of The Clones: Hollywood’s new originality
By Ron Swanson Striding through a wasteland of bloated sequels and wasted comic book adaptations comes this blockbuster season’s one true warrior of originality. Ignore the name; Super 8 is not a (seventh) sequel to Rainn Wilson’s twisted comic book movie. Instead, it’s a collaboration between one of the finest young filmmakers to be embraced [...]
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July 26, 2011 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.
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