Trevor Hogg profiles the careers of filmmaking siblings the Coen brothers in the second of a four part feature… read part one here. Midway through the writing of the script for Miller’s Crossing, Joel and Ethan Coen attempted to break their creative impasse by composing another story about a playwright suffering from writers’ block. Motivated […]
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Absurdity & Carnage: A Coen Brothers Profile (Part 1)
Trevor Hogg profiles the careers of filmmaking siblings the Coen brothers in the first of a four part feature… Using a Super 8 camera, Joel and his younger brother Ethan were inspired to remake the Hollywood movies being broadcasted on television; their naivety about motion picture production did not hinder their innovative spirit when shooting […]
Rendering Reality: A Robert Zemeckis Profile (Part 3)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of visionary director Robert Zemeckis in the third of a three part feature… read part one and part two. Adapting Winston Groom’s story of a simple-minded man who meets various historical figures from the twentieth century, while wandering in and out of the life of his childhood sweetheart, served as […]
Rendering Reality: A Robert Zemeckis Profile (Part 2)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of visionary director Robert Zemeckis in the second of a three part feature… read part one here. When Bob Gale wondered what it would have been like to have been a high school classmate of his father, Robert Zemeckis decided to develop the concept with him. The main character was […]
Rendering Reality: A Robert Zemeckis Profile (Part 1)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of visionary director Robert Zemeckis in the first of a three part feature… “In my family there was no art,” revealed Chicago-born filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. “There was no music, there were no books, there was no theatre. I grew up in a very working class, lower middle class, blue collar […]
Thoughts on… Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, 2006. Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman. SYNOPSIS: The 1980 classic is reedited to its original director’s vision. Having heard of this film’s very existence when it was released in 2006, I found myself longing to own a copy of it. A fan […]
Burning Brightly: A Jane Campion Profile (Part 2)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of filmmaker and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Jane Campion in the second of a two part feature… read part one. In 1981, Jane Campion watched a teenager perform at the Phillip Street Theatre in Sydney, Australia; the director immediately wanted to cast the young actress in her graduation film. Unfortunately, the […]
Hollywood vs. Britain
Jon Dudley compares Hollywood to the British film industry… “…the American hegemony over cinema in Britain has frequently been blamed for preventing the development of an authentically indigenous cinema” – Tom Ryall American films have dominated global cinema for many decades now. Such is the high number of Hollywood productions being shown in cinemas across […]
Burning Brightly: A Jane Campion Profile (Part 1)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of filmmaker and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Jane Campion in the first of a two part feature… The daughter of Richard Campion, theatre director and co-founder of the New Zealand Players Company, and stage actress Edith Armstrong, Jane Campion was raised in the world of the dramatic arts. The acclaimed filmmaker […]
Resurfacing: A James Cameron Profile (Part 3)
With upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar set to end twelve years of cinema exile for James Cameron, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of the influential Hollywood filmmaker in the third of a three part feature… read part one and two. “I started thinking about the film in two stages,” explained James Cameron on how he approached […]