The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
By Steven Zeitchik and Borys Kit Opening night films aren't easy -- especially when they have to be Canadian. So we should go easy on "Passchendaele," the movie (pronounced "Passion-dale") that kicked off the festivities north of the border Thursday...
Notes from Underdog. (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
(Continuing my countdown of tips and tricks for budding screenwriters on the way to my script workshop: Sept 6 at Fort Mason in San Francisco; discount if you register before tomorrow!)d Subplots are an integral part of just about any...
Celebutopia (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Happy Birthday to “Bring It On: All Or Nothing” actress Hayden Panettiere (1989), French singer Alizee (1984), The Prodigy singer Liam Howlett (1971), System of a Down singer Serj Tankian (1967), “The Matrix” actress Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), “Sex and the City” star Kim Cattrall (1956), The Clash singer Joe Strummer (1952; d. 2002), Australian film [...]
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Stormont is of course on holiday but the executive also seems to being doing nothing much apart from infighting. In today's Irish Times the DUP’s Peter Weir blames “narrow party-political reasons” for the lack of executive meetings and a DUP source confirmed Our message is aimed at Sinn Féin.” On thhe other hand according to the same Irish Times report Catriona Ruane has requested a special executive...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens reviews Second Sight's Region 2 Deluxe Edition of Picnic at Hanging Rock and finds possibly the definitive SD edition. The three-disc release includes both the director's cut and the longer original version.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS in Northern Ireland were last night at loggerheads over responsibility for official delays in business.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens revisits Peter Weir's first feature, The Cars That Ate Paris. This Region 2 release from Second Sight is the first time the film has been commercially available for home viewing in the UK in its original aspect ratio.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
By Robert W. Butler, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Jul. 20--Sun Smith-Foret doesn't just watch movies. She plays them over and over, absorbing their rhythms and colors, emotions and subtexts.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
IT IS not being overly cruel to Bertrand Bossu to suggest that his career has taken an altogether different path to that of Jim Leighton more than two decades ago.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
TODAY'S match between Aberdeen and Manchester United is not a run-of-the-mill pre-season friendly. If it was, then Pittodrie wouldn't be packed to the rafters and ther
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
TODAY'S match between Aberdeen and Manchester United is not a run-of-the-mill pre-season friendly. If it was, then Pittodrie wouldn't be packed to the rafters and ther
notcoming.com | Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Peter Weir’s 1986 film The Mosquito Coast , from a novel by Paul Theroux, is a movie of a particularly peculiar breed: the kind that seems more suited to being talked about than watched. Go ahead and discuss it in the context of Weir’s other work, or screenwriter Paul Shrader’s, or star Harrison Ford’s. Compare it to the novel on which it’s based, or to Fitzcarraldo and Swiss Family Robinson and Heart...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Second Sight, £18.99) The Cars that Ate Paris (Second Sight, £15.99)In the Name of the King (Metrodome, £15.99)
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
On his blog, the BBC’s Mark Devenport tells us that they “had been given a heads up” for this afternoon’s Assembly debate. Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was to warn of potential meltdown.. again. He is off to London.. again. But then the DUP’s Peter Weir intervened on a point of order.. Let’s hope they have the footage.. Then, as Gerry was about to get to his killer quote, Peter Weir jumped to his...
/Film (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
History books say that Australia was founded by criminals, crabs and derelicts, therefore why shouldn’t its cinema reflect such ribald and humble beginnings? The new documentary, Not Quite Hollywood, takes a look at “Ozploitation” (what a sweet word) from the eyes of endless players (Jamie Lee Curtis, George Miller, George Lazenby) and admirers—yeah, you just [...]
