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Like the books they are based on, the film adaptations of Frank Herbert’s Dune are an ever-expanding story in themselves. At the very beginning, they were a few mild shots at adapting Dune, which involved names like David Lean (because…
Continue reading All DUNES before DUNE (TV and Movies, from Jodorowky’s to Villeneuve’s)
A post to bid goodbye to a guy who has shown us what acting can do. Extensively. Max Von Sydow is one of the actors whose work has made a bigger impression on me. Not only his very renowned Bergman…
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Nestor Almendros, John Alcott, and Roger Deakins. Of this great triad of Gods of Cinematography, only Deakins is still with us, working at full throttle. Nestor Almendros Spanish by birth (Catalan to be exact), Cuban by adoption, French by most…
The Star Wars Canon is Inhabited by Zillions of Books. This is a selection of a few books which, in my opinion, comprehend very well the soul of the main Star Wars films. This is not about those fiction books…
Orson Welles (1915-1985) Started as a Wunderkind, a very young actor and a revolutionary director in theatre and radio. Later on, he would move into movies. This took place in 1941 with Citizen Kane, for many the best film ever. The…
Frederic Raphael: There’s a lot of talk. You want a lot of talk? Stanley Kubrick: I can’t say what I want. I want to do Arthur’s story (Schnitzler’s “Traumnovelle”), but in New York, now. That’s all I can tell you.…
Continue reading How Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT Was Written
The tension that raised between the master of horror Stephen King and the master of film Stanley Kubrick about the movie The Shining is a well-known story. Let me summarise here the basic tale. This story starts at the end…
Continue reading King Vs Kubrick: From THE SHINING to DOCTOR SLEEP
Akira Kurosawa was a filmmaking genius. A few years ago, when I was working in Madrid, I heard that there was, in some foundation, an exhibition of the Akira Kurosawa’s storyboards and film costumes. I went. It was one of…
During the filming process, the First AD is the guy in charge. Or the woman. He/she organises the shooting, what will be filmed and when. His/her mission, to harmonise the production requirements with the director wishes, which is never easy,…
Parody is an Excellent Tool for Criticism. In another post, this one in particular, I recommended the “Honest Trailers” as a way to analyse movies: by making fun of plot holes, inconsistencies and poorly scripted scenes, they review a movie… In a…
Continue reading “How It Should Have Ended”: The Amazing (Super) Power of Parody
