The Big Picture Magazine
For Issue 7, Scott Jordan Harris met Michael Medina, a New Jersey-based painter whose astonishing canvasses are profoundly influenced by film. Here’s the first of two online continuations of their conversation. Many painters are often referred to as ‘filmmakers’ painters’. (The influence of Caravaggio on Martin Scorsese, for example, is well known.) Are there any […]
To link in with the article in issue 7 of The Big Picture about Hollywood screen actor Lionel Stander’s stand against the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy era, Jez Conolly asked Lionel’s daughter Bella to reflect upon her father’s career and legacy. JC: What would you say is your father Lionel’s most […]
In part two of their interview, Scott Jordan Harris talks to Amanda Norman about horror photography, her less obvious influences and why she doesn’t make movies. Many of your main influences are immediately obvious from your work, but I suspect some are not. In part one of this interview, we talked about the effect on […]
We’re all detectives now, thanks to today’s photo and video technology. We can all isolate single frames of footage, blow them up, enhance them and present them as evidence of something or nothing from the comfort of our laptops for the edification of who knows who on the web. And the filmmakers know that. Boy, […]
Scott Jordan Harris meets Amanda Norman, a British photographer endlessly inspired by macabre movies. Horror photography is a fascinating field. Sports photographers photograph actual sports, and nature photographers photograph actual scenes from nature – but horror photographers do not photograph actual horrors. Instead, they craft fictionalised images of the atrocious and the eerie that are […]
Sean Wilson roots out a common thread running through the Coen brothers films and examines the varying degrees of devilish interplay at work in the battle between good(ish) and evil. Aghast and stunned, Fargo’s detective Marge Gunderson (Oscar-winning Frances McDormand) is escorting dangerous psychopath Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare), to prison. He has just put his […]
The continuation of an interview with Heather Millard, producer of Iceland: Future Of Hope. Do you get a sense that Iceland’s filmmakers have a role to play in pulling the country back from the brink? We strongly believe that Iceland’s filmmakers can play a strong role in re-building Iceland’s economy not only through potential income […]
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. What’s the history of the […]
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 […]