Tag: cinema
A look back at the moving image: From Silence to CGI
There is no doubt that this is the era of the moving image. Since the 1860s, with the invention of the zoetrope, an unstoppable wave of innovation has taken this infant technology and built it into the definitive mode of communication for the twenty-first century. Now we are increasingly unlikely to go a single day…
Oliver Reed: A moment to remember
“Richard Burton was hitting the bottle with Jimmy Hurt the night before his death. He knew it was going to kill him, but he did not stop. I don’t have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop, I’d like to think I would be…
I believe in cinema
I believe in cinema. I believe in the almost infinite potential for cinema to detail, comment upon and engage with the human condition. I believe that cinema at its highest and lowest is perhaps the most revealing cultural artefact of all. I love the fact that, through a nation’s cinematic output at any given period,…
Carrie (2013): New Trailer
A Carrie remake – so why care? Mainly because this one is being helmed by Kimberly Peirce, the director of Boys Don’t Cry. So what does this mean? We can expect a more interesting approach to the representation of women in this version. Probably one that doesn’t rest entirely on a concept of female hysteria.…
The Situation: Is Reality TV the Symptom of a Cultural Disease?
Excuse me for a moment while I rant. I don’t know what free-to-air television is like where you’re from, but I can’t watch it anymore. I’m considering unplugging my television antenna and retreating permanently into the warm comfort of my DVDs, Blu-rays and the infinite possibilities of downloadable content. These days, it seems that there…