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A movie that drew rave reviews for its fearless and razor-sharp humor, Your Friends and Neighbors is a searing display of today's war between the sexes. Everywhere in the film's screenplay, we encounter the kind of wit used by great Restoration playwrights to expose the hypocrisies in male/female relationships.
Neil LaBute's debut feature, in the company of men, was described by Variety as "a dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of yuppie angst and male anxieties." In Your Friends and Neighbors, male anxiety is again on show, but this time in a much wider context, revealing the rabid desires of all people—regardless of sex—to serve their own interests at any cost.
Inspired by Dostoyevsky's short story, The Double tells the story
of Simon, a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an
indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother,
and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to
change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James,
serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical
double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with
women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.
Death is always the issue-in life, and in the Western. Joel and
Ethan Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a movie of six Western
stories. In each, our common destination is approached by a
different road. Through each, diverse characters hurry for their
final appointment: Oregon Trail-travelers, a gold prospector, a
motley crew of stagecoach passengers, a high-plains drifting bank
robber, even a singing cowboy. These six stories escort them with a
care that either respects, or mocks, the dignity of all. The film
stars Tom Waits, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tim Bake Nelson and Zoe
Kazan and is shot with the harsh grandeur of the classic John Ford
westerns.
This definitive handbook explains how a script is transformed into
a motion picture or television program. Readers will learn the
methodology and craft of the script supervisor, who ensures that
the continuity of a film, its logical progression, is coherent.
The book teaches all vital script supervising functions, including
how to:
.prepare, or "break down" a script for shooting
.maintaining screen direction and progression
.matching scenes and shots for editing
.cuing actors
.recording good takes and prints
preparing time and log sheets for editing
This revision of an industry classic has been updated to reflect
changes in the film industry in recent years, including the use of
electronic media in the script supervisor's tasks. While it is
written for the novice script writer, it can serve as a valuable
resource for directors, film editors, scriptwriters and
cinematographers.
At the centre of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, _Mirror_ is his most complex
and autobiographical film. It stretches the viewer by moving
without apparent effort between past, present and imagined
realities, in a series of episodes which observe neither plot nor
overt logic. The film reconstructs and records iconic memories and
deep emotional impressions in the life of an individual, a nation
and an era. Audience reaction to 'Mirror' was overwhelming and it
came to represent a watershed in many people's lives. It also
occasioned Tartovsky's first open dialogue with his viewers, as
letters poured in to convince him of the importance and need for
his films. It remains to this day most Russians' favourite
Tarkovsky film.
A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, "L'Annee
derniere a Marienbad "("Last Year in Marienbad, "1961) was a
collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel" enfant
terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet. Three people, known only by their
initials, move through the sprawling luxury of a mysterious hotel
and its ornamental gardens. Perhaps M is A's husband and X her
lover. Perhaps '"last year," A promised X she would leave with him.
Or is there something more terrible in the past? An abstract
thriller, a love story, a philosophical puzzle, the film's
deviations are, for Jean-Louis Leutrat, as complex as those of the
human heart.
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An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the 'Moments in
Television' collections celebrate the power and artistry of
television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in
television scholarship. Each 'Moments' book is organised around a
provocative binary theme. Substance / styleoffers fresh
perspectives on television's essential qualities and aesthetic
significance. It reassesses the synergy between substance and
style, highlighting the potential for meaning to arise through
their integration. The book's chosen programmes are persuasively
illuminated in new ways. The book explores an eclectic range of TV
fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse
perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close
analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained,
detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within
historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and
art-historical contexts. -- .
Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world
has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical
movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically
embraced the positive energy of the Star Wars universe as they
followed moisture farmer Luke Skywalker on his journey through a
galaxy far, far away, meeting extraordinary characters like
mysterious hermit Obi-Wan Kenobi, space pirates Han Solo and
Chewbacca, loyal droids C-3PO and R2-D2, bold Princess Leia and the
horrific Darth Vader, servant of the dark, malevolent Emperor.
Writer, director, and producer George Lucas created the modern
monomyth of our time, one that resonates with the child in us all.
He formed Industrial Light & Magic to develop cutting-edge
special effects technology, which he combined with innovative
editing techniques and a heightened sense of sound to give
audiences a unique sensory cinematic experience. In this first
volume, made with the full cooperation of Lucasfilm, Lucas narrates
his own story, taking us through the making of the original
trilogy-Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back,
and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi-and bringing fresh insights into
the creation of a unique universe. Complete with script pages,
production documents, concept art, storyboards, on-set photography,
stills, and posters, the XXL-sized tome is an authoritative
exploration of the original saga as told by its creator.
These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious.
Blood Simple deals with a cuckolded Texan bar owner who hires a slimy private investigator to kill his unfaithful wife and her boyfriend, but this is merely the start of a grisly chain of back-stabbings and murders.
In Raising Arizona, oddly paired criminal H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. In the name of parenthood, the couple kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. While trying to keep their crime a secret, H.I's convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.
Miller's Crossing, set in the era of Prohibition, focuses on Tom Reagan, the trusted lieutenant of irish crime boos Leo, endeavours to keeps the peace when Leo gets locked into a feud with rival mobster Jonny Caspar.
This edition also includes Barton Fink—an intense look at the psychological ruin of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood—which is a masterful culmination of these themes.
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