Today, we’re looking at texts within texts; shows within shows; films within films. We’ve got everything from Shakespeare to balls.
Category Archives: Craft
Ctrl+Alt+Action
Phil Concannon watches Late Shift and ponders the idea of the interactive movie and watching with your phone switched on.
More-tages
After yesterday’s spectacular start to our look at great movie montages we CUT TO part-two now.
Montages for a Monday Morning
We here at Mostly Film understand your problem. You want to read the Blog, but you’re rushed off your feet; so much to do, so little time. So what do we do? In the classic movie manner, we give you a Montage Sequence: one handy package of compressed time with one overriding outcome: great Montage Sequences.
A box full of stars
Blake Backlash celebrates the 160th birthday of William Friese-Greene by looking inside The Magic Box.
Warning: Combustible Celluloid
In some places they mark they start of advent by turning on the Christmas Lights. At MostlyFilm we prefer to blow things up. Here are some of our most incendiary writers on their favourite movie explosions.
London on Film – London Symphony
While the film world’s eyes are turned towards London for the LFF, Alex Barrett talks about his ambitious new film project about the city, and explains how you can get involved.
Nothing to declare
Niall Anderson watches Al Pacino deconstruct Oscar Wilde’s most difficult play, and himself
See Rome, And Live!
Niall Anderson sees a new restoration of Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 classic, Rome: Open City
We Are What We Are
Stake Land director Jim Mickle’s remake of a cult Mexican horror flick about a very peculiar family discombobulates Scout Tafoya and gets him thinking.
