Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood in the third of a five-part feature (read parts one and two)… “You’ve got to keep stretching out and trying other stuff,” observed actor and director Clint Eastwood. “I could have chosen a lot of scripts that were different than Bronco Billy [1980], that were […]
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Page and Screen – Are our favourite characters more alive in books or movies?
Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… The idea of character is more complicated than we allow ourselves to realise. Of course put simply they are made up, fictional people in stories. But there are those who wish to challenge such a casual assumption. Some say they are merely bundles of words. […]
Ascension: A Tom Hooper Profile (Part 2)
Following his Academy Award nomination for Best Director on The King’s Speech, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Tom Hooper in the second of a two part feature… read part one here. Expecting to do a film about Katharine Graham, the legendary publisher of The Washington Post, British director Tom Hooper found his […]
The Man and His Dream: A Francis Ford Coppola Profile (Part 5)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the fifth of a five-part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. Shot over a course of eighty-six days, Youth Without Youth (2007) is a cinematic adaptation of the novella by Mircea Eliade. Struck by lightning, a timid seventy year old academic […]
Encountering Spielberg: A Steven Spielberg Profile (Part 5)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “I admired [Stanley] Kubrick for the sheer variety of his films,” stated Steven Spielberg of the reclusive and revered American filmmaker. “Paths of Glory [1957] was the best antiwar […]
Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing The Caped Crusader to the Screen (Part Two)
Gary Collinson traces the many screen incarnations of The Dark Knight in the second of a three-part feature… read part one here. Just as Superman’s comic-book debut had led to the creation of Batman almost forty years earlier, the success of Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie (1978) helped plant the seed that would ultimately bring […]
Drawn to Anime: A Hayao Miyazaki Profile (Part 5)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the final instalment of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “Although I have thought about leaving the world of animation many times,” confessed renowned anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, “whenever I see a piece of work that I really […]
Drawn to Anime: A Hayao Miyazaki Profile (Part 3)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the third of a five part feature… read part one and part two. “At Studio Ghibli we currently conduct what we call “product study meetings,” where we select a scenario and all read it,” stated Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in reference to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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