The western died out in the early 1980s following the monumental disaster of Heaven’s Gate (1980). Not only did it bring a film studio to its knees financially but it made other studios extremely wary of investing in the genre. The underlying reasons though are not so much about the financial profligacy of the film [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Film General'
Westerns – Part 4 – Demise
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Film General
Tags: butch cassidy and the sundance kid·heavens gate·the missouri breaks·the wild bunch·tom horn·westerns
Website Unavailability – Normal Service Resumes
October 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Film General
Apologies. The website has been down for some time due to some malicious code causing problems. I have only just managed to get it back up and running with a little help from Hostgator. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
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New Look
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Film General
Just a quick post about the new look of the blog. I was quite happy with the other look but this is one of the drawbacks (and maybe advantages) of Wordpress. The theme I was using just wasn’t compatible with the new version of Wordpress so…. it has had to be changed. It posed a [...]
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The Dark Side of Mel Gibson
January 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Authorship, Film Directing, Film General, Film Narrative, Film Special Effects
No, I’m not talking about his drunken rants against Jews but the dark side of his more recent films. Has any one noticed that you have to have a fairly strong stomach to watch the films directed by Mel Gibson? Of course you have. You have to wade through a lot of gore.
It obviously started [...]
Tags: apocalypto·braveheart·mel gibson·passion of the christ
The Band’s Last Waltz
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Editing, Film General, Film History, Film Sound
I’m on a roll now. The Song Remains The Same just started me thinking again about pop music films again. It’s funny how one thing leads to another. I’d almost forgotten about probably the greatest film about popular music and culture. And it was made by a bone fide film maker with a host of [...]
The Song Remains The Same
January 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Film General, Film History, Film Sound
I thought I just had to write this piece after having watched The Song Remains The Same on television last night. You probably realise by now that one of my areas of interest is films or movies about popular music and culture. When I saw that this was on the TV last night the closet Led [...]
Tags: led zeppelin·rock documentary
Learning about Cinema
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Cinematography, Film Authorship, Film Criticism and Analysis, Film Directing, Film Editing, Film General, Film History, Film Narrative, Genre
1999 was one of my favourite years. I studied film and the cinema for a year at John Leggott sixth form college in Scunthorpe and ended up with an “A” Level in Film Studies. For years I had avidly watched movies at the cinema and on the television and more recently on video. I had even [...]
Tags: citizen kane·eisenstein·film grammar·Film History·film studies·propp·seven samurai
Free Film Enthusiast Toolbar
August 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Film Criticism and Analysis, Film General, Film News, Screenwriting
I have recently been working on a free toolbar specifically designed for film enthusiasts. And now I have one to launch to the world! It’s fairly basic at the moment but I will continue developing it and adding whatever features I can to it, hopefully, with your help.
As I said it is designed with film [...]
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Pop Music Films – Are The Kids Alright?
August 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Film General, Film History, Genre
Why is it that you don’t see any decent films about pop music any more? In the sixties and seventies there were films like Woodstock, Monterey Pop, The Kids Are Alright and numerous other commercial films covering either pop music events or the rock lifestyle. I suppose the easy answer is that we are in [...]
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Tags: rock documentary·social commentary·the who