Poster for my upcoming short film.
[♔] Favourite Movies of All Time
→ Donnie Darko (2001)
“A storm is coming, Frank says. A storm that will swallow the children, and I will deliver them from the kingdom of pain. I will deliver the children back to their doorsteps, and send the monsters back to the underground. I’ll send them back to a place where no-one else can see them, except for me. Because I am Donnie Darko.”
the problem with historians and films…
too many times I have watched a film set during a particular period of history or based on historial events and after the film heard a history student say…
“well of course it didn’t happen like that” or “well that isn’t what happened” or words to that affect and it is in that moment I feel a little sad; like they have missed the point that it is a film.
Now I am not saying that all films should be historically inaccurate, on the contrary it is nice when historians are employed and consulted to get the costumes right and events correct. However it is still a film.
There are several points I wish such people would consider;
* it is a film not a piece of factual evidence
* Films are a form of art and entertainment amongst other things
* Most historical films are only based on something that happened and never at any point scream and shout at the audience that this is the truth
* Films show a POV
* Even historians can be wrong and many historians will have different opinions or bias historial events and figures.
and lastly;
* How do you know what happened? You may have a good idea but….were you there? No.
I say this in regard mostly to one of my favourite movies Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola which is a stunning and beautiful example of post modernism in film. The movie itself is based on a biography of Marie’s life by historian Antonia Fraser. Many historians dislike Fraser’s biography because she is one of the few that shows favour towards the doomed Queen and tries to show her life from another point of view which many historians before disregard.
The Company of Wolves - 1984
A rework of the classic fairy tale red riding hood, it combines horror and fantasy in a magical and spell-binding way. Full of sexual connotations and metaphors for puberty and becoming a woman it tells the tale of a grandmother who warns her granddaughter of men whose eyebrows meet in the middle…
A masterpiece from an entertainment, film theory and psychological/sociological studies point of view.
"Cinematograph is a writing with images in movement and with sounds."
— ~ Robert Bresson Notes sur le Cinématographe (via directingfilm)
Poster for the film ‘Warhorse’ (2011) Released: 13th January 2012
Directed: Steven Spielberg
I have just been to Vue Cinema, Lowry - Manchester to see this and it is amazing. It is a touching film that reminds you constantly of two things a. the great sacrifice people made in war time and b. that the film is about the horse and not the characters. It took me a while to get used to all the characters that were introduced and then how quickly the story progressed and they were in the past but it makes a point.
It is a beautiful tale of friendship, bravey, courage and strength.
(Source: mistermarvel, via neuwerk)
