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Interviews | Saturday, 06 March 2010 Written by Jez Conolly
First Person: Heather Millard and Iceland: Future Of Hope
Imagine trying to fund and make a film in a country synonymous in the Press with the global economic crisis. Heather Millard, producer of the Iceland: Future Of Hope project tells Jez Conolly about the inspiration for the film and the highs and lows that the production team have encountered.
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Recommended | Sunday, 28 February 2010 Written by Jez Conolly
Recommended: It's Only A Movie by Mark Kermode
‘Excuse me, aren't you that budding writer for The Big Picture magazine?' inquired the magnificently quiffed traveller, the sweetly pungent aroma of his hair pomade announcing his presence on the cinematographically moody station platform.
‘Indeed I am' replied the writer, ‘what say we shoot the breeze about your new book?'
Features | Tuesday, 23 February 2010 Written by Chris Barraclough
On Location (Disaster Shoot): Twilight Zone: The Movie
In 1981, Steven Spielberg - fresh off the back of Raiders of the Lost Ark - decided to make a movie based on The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling's cult sci-fi series made famous by its shocking twists. To make the project a reality he enlisted help from close friend John Landis, a fellow director who'd enjoyed recent success with Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf In London.
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Features | Friday, 19 February 2010 Written by Jez Conolly
Go-Motion animation: it was all just a blur
I can’t help thinking that, for anyone born in the 1980s and subsequently raised exclusively on a diet of post-Jurassic Park creature realisation, the cinematic work of stop-motion maestro Ray Harryhausen must seem as archaic as Victorian magic lantern shows. What then would they make of Go-Motion, the near-forgotten transitional fossil of animation techniques that briefly plugged the gap between the jerkiness of the Kraken in 1981’s Clash Of The Titans and the perfect computer-generated fluidity of ‘Lasseter-mation’?
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