Posted in Directors, Hollywood, The Future of Film, Westerns on Mar 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Oh goodie! The western is back! As Peter Wild notes in his interesting article in this month’s Moviemail catalogue, there’s something of a revival in cowboys. 3.10 to Yuma, Seraphim Falls, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are all set in the old west; The Proposition might be Australian but is […]
Posted in Directors, Hollywood, Lists, Stars, The Future of Film on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Hi, glad you could make it. Take your seats. The fight’s about to start. In the red corner, there’s Mark ‘Lethal’ Lawson. He wrote a piece for The Guardian recently, saying how future generations will regard ours as a golden age of movies, comparable to the 1940s and the 1970s. He cited things like No […]
Posted in The Future of Film on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Gosh, is it 2008 already? Yup, it’s another new year, smelling factory-fresh, with nary a scratch on it. As with all new years, there are certain proprieties to be observed: chiefly, trying to predict what the year will look like at the other end, when it’s held together by sticking plaster and we’re impatient to […]