All You Need to Make a Movie is a Gun and a Red Dress – MOTHER'S RED DRESS 4
Hey there folks – as Gareth mentioned on yesterday’s show I’ve been having some fun on the set of new pic MOTHER’S RED DRESS: MOTHER’S RED DRESS 1 MOTHER’S RED DRESS 2 MOTHER’S RED DRESS 3 Thought I’d post some more photos for ya to prove that really, all you need for a movie is [...]
Youngblood on Film: The Emerging Genre of Cinema Anima
In the 90′s and 00′s, a group of international directors began to shape a new genre of cinema . . . unaware of each other or the synthesis they were fumbling towards. They were filmmakers from cinematically-marginalized countries such as Vietnam, Hungary, South Korea, Iran, Taiwan, Mexico, and Thailand. They admired the plot-light, mood-heavy cinema [...]
TFT 117 – CLASH OF THE TITANS / THE DHAMMA BROTHERS / ALICE IN WONDERLAND / On Editing
TFT 117 – CLASH OF THE TITANS / THE DHAMMA BROTHERS / ALICE IN WONDERLAND / On Editing – – – DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: CLASH OF THE TITANS / THE DHAMMA BROTHERS / SABOTEUR / ALICE IN WONDERLAND / THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND
TFT 107 – THE FILMS OF 2010 PREVIEW / PRODIGAL SONS / KIM REED INTERVIEWED
This Episode Is Now Members Only – Click Here to Find Out Why DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: PRODIGAL SONS / CLANCY BROWN / WHITE RIBBON / CACHE / DAYBREAKERS / LEGION / EDGE OF DARKNESS / WHEN IN ROME / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST / THE PROPHET / FROZEN / I LOVE YOU PHILIP J. [...]
Cinema Splits In Two: the Real vs. the Unreal
Yeah we all know about computer assisted imagery – it’s everywhere in moving pictures – heck, some folks even go to the movies just for the effects alone. But I don’t know if peoples out there really know how much the new technology has invaded the cinema system – and this invasion I would argue doesn’t just [...]
A Week in the Life of The Film Talk, Part 5
‘Ya gots ta move wid’ da times’ Busy times here at TFT – with me in New Zealand and Jett in the Big Sleepy, we’re separated by what Bram Stoker’s Dracula might call ‘oceans of time’ – I’m in tomorrow, he’s in yesterday, and today hasn’t happened yet. The world is changing… But we have [...]
Frugal Film-making vs. How Not to Do It
I’m writing from New Zealand, where I’m happy to be observing the creation of ‘The Insatiable Moon’, a film based on Mike Riddell’s 1997 novel. It’s eye-opening to see the process that I’ve been criticising for so long – as Jett says, it’s HARD to make a movie. I can see that now :) Some [...]
The Insatiable Moon: One of the Best Films of Next Year?
I’m going to turn 35 in January, which feels old enough to consider myself a man, inexperienced enough to still feel irresponsible; halfway to still being younger than Warren Beatty, alive enough to reflect on what really matters. And what really matters? Friendship. If, as my amazing friend John O’Donohue often said, our identities are [...]
Cinema is Collapsing? So What Are You Gonna Do About It?
(My thoughts on the below were cross-posted at Current – to read Current readers responses click here) Don’t know about you but I was excited to hear that Francis Ford Coppola thinks cinema is collapsing: “The cinema as we know it is falling apart,” says Francis Ford Coppola. “It’s a period of incredible change,” says [...]
Less is More: Or How to Make Your Films More Interesting with the Help of the Easy Surreal
Last month I was all about that most exciting and entertaining of films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly As promised in the above post I attended the screening at the Belcourt Theatre. I was there, sitting in one of the slightly collapsed, saggy yet homey, misshapen cushioned seats of Nashville’s Best Cinema, ready [...]
Charles Darwin Can't Get No Respect (With a Jay Leno Minority Report)
And so we turn to the news on a Monday morning: Things are going just fine in the world of dumbed down culture – I just heard a story on NPR suggesting that the writers of Jay Leno’s new TV show might struggle to deal with the fact that they’re on just before the news. [...]
David Carradine and Haskell Wexler – Film Making as Collaboration
Film Making is a collaborative art. Want proof? Check out this description of this ‘Bound for Glory’ panel gone awry, (link courtesy of Higgins who made my day with this link), featuring the late David Carradine and revered cinematographer Haskell Wexler: Bound for Hell, Or Glory? David Carradine and the Feistiest Film Panel Ever In [...]
