Blog posts by year and monthFebruary 2011
Posts (14)
A Pfister full of Oscar
For all my Inception rejection dejection, there was one joyous highlight in an academy awards notable otherwise only for a slip of the tongue. Plus, how did you do on the Kermode Awards challenge?
5 live review: Confessions
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Confessions. Go to Mark on 5 live for more reviews and film debate. You can hear Mark talk about the latest films on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 live every Friday 2pm-4pm. The programme is also available...
Writing Lesson
How do you write for film? Not how do you write scripts, but how do you make someone look good when they are writing on film? In a new movie about the trial surrounding the first performance and publication of Allen Ginsberg's epic beat culture poem Howl, James Franco shows us one version. In Terry Gilliam's take on Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp offers up another. The question is, can anyone write well on screen ever?
Those Upcoming Oscar Winners in Full
But there are not just the Academy Award predictions to consider... who and what are to be blessed with those all important Kermodes?
5 live review: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. Go to Mark on 5 live for more reviews and film debate. You can hear Mark talk about the latest films on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 live every Friday 2pm-4pm. The programme is also available as a podcast.
The Pfister Factor
Besides a magical rapport with a camera, what else do Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Joe Dante, Curtis Hanson, Ron Howard, Nicolas Roeg and even Timur Bekmambetov have in common with Academy Award nominee Wally Pfister, the brilliant cinematographer who makes Christopher ...
5 live review: True Grit
5 live's resident movie critic Dr Mark Kermode reviews True Grit. Go to Mark on 5 live for more reviews and film debate. You can hear Mark talk about the latest films on Kermode & Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 live every Friday 2pm-4pm. The programme is also available as a podcast.
Get Carter 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago, movie star Michael Caine, playwright and actor John Osborne, Swedish siren Britt Ekland, and a who's who of British character actors were brought together under Mike Hodges' clean direction to create a very fine gangster movie indeed. As gritty and downbeat as the Ted Lewis nove...
Brighton Rock and Roll
In his new take on Brighton Rock, director Rowan, son of Roland, Joffé has shifted the setting forward in time to the early 1960s. A stellar cast that includes Sam Riley, Angela Riseborough and Helen Mirren (not to mention the great Phil Davis) look fantastic in the seedy seaside setting. But isn't this more than an updated tribute to Graeme Greene and the hallowed 1947 movie? Isn't there another iconic Brighton movie being exhumed for (scooter and motorcycle) parts?
