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Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words
Just published. Hopefully this will be a cracking and informative read. Surprisingly, it’s published by a university press. aestheticsAlessandro De RosachessEnnio Morriconefilmmusic
‘Super Fly’ Remake in the Works
Oh dear, yet another potentially lazy, flat and ham-fisted Hollywood retread is apparently in the works. I’m not saying it couldn’t be a decent effort (the brilliant music is, of course, in place assuming it will be reused) — but in the prevailing climate of hysteria emanating from the various politically “correct” priesthoods and their associated…
La Grand Bouffe
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Blazing Saddles: These are people of the land, the common clay of the new West. You know…morons
What a brilliant a script it was that made “Blazing Saddles.” (And never mind the gags). It is scathing, satirical, funny and bawdy — and still fresh. This is one of Hollywood’s few successfully close-to-the-bone comedies along with To Be or Not to Be — unfortunately poorly remade by Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks: 10 things you…
Whatever Happened to Wim Wenders’ Project to Adapt Percy’s The Second Coming?
A few months ago I made a posting concerning Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Walker Percy. In conversation/correspondence with a filmmaker chum I mentioned that of all Percy’s novels The Thanatos Syndrome would be the most translatable into the modality that is film since it works brilliantly and disturbingly as a thriller on a purely surface level. My…
A Guide for the Perplexed
No, not Maimonides but Werner Herzog. Here’s a review in The Telegraph — Herzog is more a wayfarer than a wonderer. Herzog is a wanderer – on foot, wherever possible – and the sheer amount of information he has gleaned about different corners of the world takes the breath away. Travellers, soldier-poets, artisans, astronauts –…
New Herzog collection
Just released. An extravagance, I know, but if you don’t already have the DVDs this might be the way to go. cinemafilmphilosophical cinemaWerner Herzog
Walker Percy and Peter Handke
One of the many pleasures of publishing with Farrar, Straus, Percy had learned over the years, was receiving copies of their newly published books. Percy usually found a few titles on each season’s list that strongly grabbed his attention, but one book on the fall 1974 list, a collection of two novellas and a memoir…
The Exciting Future of the Canadian Motion Picture Distribution Industry
If you would like to be among the first to learn about the exciting future of the Canadian Motion Picture Distribution Industry and how it will positively benefit the National Film Production Economy . . . You are cordially invited to attend the official mediAm launch presentation to be held at the Nat and Flora…
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