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Flickering Myth Film Class: How to Open Strongly

October 8, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

In the latest instalment of Flickering Myth’s film class, Tom Jolliffe looks at how to open strongly… It takes a great deal to get an audience to succumb to your film. You need to keep their attention for the entirety of the film. The best way to hook them in of course is to open […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Brazil, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Get Out, Manhattan, Scream, Spectre

The Essential Jared Leto Films

October 4, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the essential Jared Leto films… Concluding our build up to Blade Runner 2049 with a series of essentials on the principal cast, we finish with Jared Leto. A musician/actor who seems to have been around for a while now, ageless and when perusing his CV you will find that he’s not […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: American Psycho, Blade Runner 2049, Dallas Buyers Club, Fight Club, Jared Leto, Mr Nobody, Requiem for a Dream

The Essential Ryan Gosling Films

October 1, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Continuing in the build up to Blade Runner 2049 [read our review here], Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the essential Ryan Gosling… In the past decade, Ryan Gosling has seen something of a transformation. He’s developed into an actor who can be relied upon to deliver a note worthy performance. He’s gone from being […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner 2049, Crazy Stupid Love, Drive, la la land, Only God Forgives, Ryan Gosling, the big short, The Nice Guys

The Essential Harrison Ford Films

September 29, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

In the build up to the release of Blade Runner 2049 [read our review here], Tom Jolliffe looks at the essential films of the key cast, starting with Harrison Ford… A long, varied and fine career has seen Ford become iconic in two franchises in particular (and indeed the upcoming reprise of Rick Deckard could […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, the fugitive, Witness

Flickering Myth Film Class: How To Do An Ensemble Film

September 20, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

In the latest instalment of Flickering Myth’s film class, Tom Jolliffe looks at how to pull off an ensemble film… The art in pulling off the ensemble film. It’s a tricking balance. In the vast majority of cinema you may be limited to one or two clearly defined protagonists with a cast of supporting artists. […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, American Pie, Glengarry Glen Ross, Stand By Me, The Expendables

Getting Naked Again: Revisiting Mike Leigh’s Naked

September 13, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at Mike Leigh’s 1993 film, Naked… The other day I attended a special screening at The Prince Charles Cinema in London. It was part of a specially curated selection of films (from NFTS) devoted to the vile and unlikeable. The first film of the series was Mike Leigh’s 1993 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: David Thewlis, Ewen Bremner, Lesley Sharp, Mike Leigh, Naked

Flickering Myth Film Class: Using Colour

September 10, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

In this instalment of Flickering Myth’s Film Class, Tom Jolliffe looks at intentional use of colours in film… When it was discovered that film stock could have colour painted onto it, though painstaking and meticulous, it opened up a new dimension in cinema, previously locked into black, white and grey. It allowed a film-maker to […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Suspiria, The Cook, The Cook The Thief The Wife And Her Lover, The Thief, The Wizard of Oz, Vertigo

Movie Review – Circus Kane (2017)

September 7, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Circus Kane, 2017. Directed by Christopher Ray. Starring Jonathan Lipnicki, Tim Abell, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Ted Monte, Victoria Konefal, and Nicole Arianna Fox. SYNOPSIS A reclusive circus master invites a group of social media stars to his house of haunts. Anyone who can make it out before being scared into submission will earn $250,000 – […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Christopher Ray, Circus Kane, James Cullen Bressack, Jonathan Lipnicki, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Nicole Arianna Fox, Ted Monte, Tim Abell, Victoria Konefal, Zack Ward

Flickering Myth Film Class: How To Edit Action

September 6, 2017 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe begins a series of film classes. This week, featuring a guide on how to edit action scenes… In a new recurrent series, Film Class, I will take you through a guide on various topics relating to all manner of differing film aspects. From everything in front, or behind the camera, during shoot or […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Desperado, Hard Boiled, Seven Samurai, Taken 3, Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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