Interview with David Gordon Green, Director of Your Highness

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At a relatively young age for a director (he turned 36 in April) Arkansas-born David Gordon Green has turned out a number of diverse films in a career which is now over a decade old. From his earlier, more consciously arty films with which he first made his name (his 2000 debut, George Washington, and [...]

A Clockwork Evening with Malcolm McDowell, Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan

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I recently had the privilege of attending a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpieceĀ A Clockwork Orange in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the film and to mark the release of the Blu-ray box set ‘Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection.’ What made this particular screening special was an introductory Q&A session with the film’s star Malcolm [...]

Stanley Kubrick: Visionary Filmmaker Collection Blu-ray Review

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Seven films by Stanley Kubrick make up this new Blu-ray boxset, two new to the format and each one a challenging and intriguing work of art. The quality of the films are not in doubt and if you found your way here then there’s a fair chance you know Kubrick’s work so I won’t waste [...]

HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project Wk 7 – New Hollywood

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In the 1950′s and early 1960′s, the Hollwood blockbuster had been born to combat the advent of television. Attendances had begun to dwindle, so the studios created big, epic movies, technicolour, and elaborate musicals, in an attempt to draw the crowds back in. This was initially successful, but as the sixties came in the demographic [...]