Trailer Trash For almost as long as there have been movies, there have been movie trailers. In 1913 Nils Granlund, the advertising manager for the Marcus Loew theatre chain, came up with a unique and innovative way of promoting a play called The Pleasure Seekers. He produced a short promotional film for the play [...]
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“I’M GONNA BE A STAR!” (Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson, UK, 1986, 107 mins) “Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I’m inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.” Being a student, it is easy to sympathise with being [...]
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A look at the history of Disney.
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All Roads Lead to Rome In the same way that the real world, from Charlemagne’s Carolingian Empire to the Soviet Union’s Cold War hegemony over half of Europe, has continually sought to recreate some semblance of the Roman Empire, the filmic world has long held a fascination with the opulence, power, and brutality of Ancient [...]
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Ronald Bergan’s two Guardian pieces on the state of film criticism – “What every film critic must know” and “The film critic is dead, long live the film critic” anticipate much of this mini-essay. This piece is no rebuttal, as Bergan’s thesis is sound, but there’s a follow up conversation to be had, namely what [...]
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