https://vimeo.com/145429444 "What determines the meaning or mood of a scene in a Hollywood film? A genre (such as film noir), a star (such as Humphrey Bogart), an auteur (such as John Huston, Howard Hawks, John Cromwell, or Nicholas Ray), or perhaps a simple but evocative object,...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175659650" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Alain Delon with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Pierre Melville, on the set of Un Flic. [/caption] Happy 80th birthday Alain Delon. Alain Delon is a similar kind of actor to Catherine Deneuve, in that both favour precision & economy. Naturally, both worked with Melville. RELATED The...
Read Morehttps://vimeo.com/141763324 Maximilian Le Cain's debut feature film, Cloud Of Skin, is now complete. I'm delighted to say I backed the Indiegogo campaign for this. The film will have it's first public showing at The Cork Film Festival on November 7th. "Deeply haunted by the memory of...
Read Morehttps://vimeo.com/140556093 The trailer for the Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for a series of Jean-Luc Godard books to be translated by Stuart Kendall. Full info here...
Read Morehttps://vimeo.com/139866140 "John Cassavetes is considered the father of American independent cinema for his self-funded productions and fresh, improvisational approach to storytelling and acting. But he doesn't get enough credit for his mastery of cinematic craft. This video essay shows his command of camerawork, lighting and editing...
Read MoreFull details of Noirish Project's Berlin screening are now up on the Ausland website here. Brief details, plus an outline & a statement here: As always, if you’re unable to attend any of the screenings, Noirish Project can now be viewed online, here. https://vimeo.com/74585515 Noirish Project (73 mins,...
Read MoreMutual Admiration Society, the minimalist hitman feature film I co-created with Rouzbeh Rashidi last year, will make it's German debut this month, with a screening at Lichtblick Kino in Berlin - I will be attending. “Surreal and mysterious, in equal parts absurd and intense, Mutual Admiration...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175659588" align="aligncenter" width="800"] HE (feature film, 2012).[/caption] HE will screen at Cafe Kino in Bristol, as part of Scalarama 2015. Full details can be found here "He (2012) is an Irish Experimental film directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi, starring James Devereaux as the main character. The film...
Read MoreSubscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175659579" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour.[/caption] All art is truth. Something cannot be art if it doesn't ring with truth. And the truth is usually provocative, usually uncomfortable - that's why we rarely like facing up to it. The...
Read More[caption id="attachment_175659470" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] On the set of Marcel Carne's Les Enfants De Paradis, 1945.[/caption] Marcel Carne's 1945 film, Les Enfants Du Paradis, is set in the Parisien theatre of the 1840s, a world teeming with "hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers". It's an...
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