Category Archives: Film
Colour and Costume: Jane Fonda in The Morning After
I like the atmospheric, colourful density provided by L.A. in The Morning After, interspersed with sunlit vast open spaces. It’s part of the storytelling. Because form follows function. Sidney Lumet wanted to use saturated colours because “living in Los Angeles was part of the debilitating influence on the character played by Jane Fonda. I wanted all colour exaggerated: reds redder, blues bluer.” Read More
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Editorial: Keep the Sweat Off
photo: movie still, Luke Wilson as Richie Tenenbaum in “The Royal Tenenbaums” | Buena Vista Pictures The Editorial: thoughts, short stories or essays about the world of cinema It’s clay season! So let’s talk tennis in film. Wes … Read More
April Newsletter: On Authenticity. In Films and Real Life
It’s refreshing to read someone say what he thinks without restraint. It’s a joy to read a great artist. Woody Allen’s Apropos of Nothing is hilarious and irreverent, full of amusing quips and snide remarks, like his best scripts. It’s been a long time since I enjoyed an autobiography so thoroughly. A lot has to do with his brilliant writing and self-deprecating humour, of course, but most of all with his honesty and authenticity. Read More
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Emotionally Caged and Extravagantly Clad: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
With every act, there is a change of costume and wig, and with it, Petra assumes a new identity, each one dictated by her will to power, or egotism, or possessiveness, or desperate obsession. Read More
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Read Instead…in Print
Jean Cocteau’s collection of writings about cinema is bold, witty and discerning. He questions some of the most fundamental concepts about cinema. He disregards critics and places his faith in the audience and the collective experience of movie going. Read More
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