Tag: film
In the Realm of the Senses: Sex and Cinema
Here in the States, they say the hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball. In film, the hardest thing may be to film a good, honest sex scene. There are plenty of reasons for this. Unless you routinely scatter banana peels around your home, sex is the closest most of us are…
Disruptive Distribution: Joss Whedon and the Release of ‘In Your Eyes’
It’s always worth paying attention to Joss Whedon. The writer, producer and director responsible for the Marvel movie franchise also plays the independent movie game, contributing projects such as Much Ado About Nothing (2012) and The Cabin In The Woods (2012) between massive blockbusters. This year’s Tribeca Film Festival saw the premiere of his latest…
The Good, The Bad, The Screenwriter
To write a screenplay means dedicating yourself to hard, arduous and often frustrating work, as well as hour upon hour of pen-gnawing, wall-staring and creeping self-doubt. And when the first version is finally ready, you, as the writer, know that the editing process will inevitably take at least as many hours of dedication. Your screenplay…
Paul Morrissey: Flesh, Trash, Heat and the Undead
“Don’t say “Warhol films” when you talk about my films! Are you so stupid, you talk to people like that? I have to live through this for fifty years. Everything I did, it’s Warhol this, or he did them with me. Forget it. He was incompetent, anorexic, illiterate, autistic, Asperger’s — he never did a thing in…
Opera vs. Cinema: It’s not a Remake, it’s Reimagined
It was Milos Forman’s Amadeus (1984) that introduced me to classical music. The film is like an appetiser, offering its audience a small taste of Mozart’s operas – a sliver of music and costumed spectacle that leaves you hungry for more. The last third of Foreman’s film is deeply intertwined with the opera “Don Giovanni”…