In the spirit of academic openness, and because I think they bear reading again, I’ve started to upload pre-publication drafts of my earlier publications, beginning with a piece that took a very long time, and which I felt really satisfied with, but which I also could have (can still) do more.
The article is called ‘Something [...]
A television version of the Hannibal phenomenon I wrote about in the last post: In search of greener international pastures, Top Gear is going on a world tour. BBC News has a short video of the boys crossing Tower Bridge in some kind of armoured vehicle. Not quite sure of the image they’re aiming for [...]
Despite the declarations of epochal change in its tag lines ‘A New Age Has Begun’ and ‘Everything You Know Is About To Change Forever’, the release of Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian in the US this week (5 June in Australia) will show once more that old is gold in media production. The first [...]
In preparation for next week’s class on remakes, I watched James Toback’s first movie as a director, Fingers (1978). I still can’t decide whether my toes curl at Harvey Keitel’s performance because I can’t reconcile this vision of spare youth with the thirty years of characters who are etched in my brain, or because [...]
So I’m thinking about remakes, and discover that Fritz Lang twice remade a Jean Renoir film: Human Desire for La Bete Humaine and Scarlet Street for La Chienne.
I grazed a good piece on sound in Scarlet Street and La Chienne in Forrest and Koos’ edited book Dead Ringers.
And I devoured a wonderful chapter by Matthew [...]