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A Short History of the Period Drama, Part Three: Tear Up the Script (or, the present day)

Sophie Wing
June 15, 2014
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Long before the superhero movie took the words "gritty reboot" and revolutionised a genre, period drama was working quietly away in the background doing exactly the same thing. As the '90s gave way to a...

A Short History of the Period Drama, Part Two: Merchant Ivory (or, the ’80s and ’90s)

Sophie Wing
June 8, 2014
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Ask someone what they think of when you mention 1990s period drama and they might just say "Merchant Ivory" - even if they don't know what that means. Launched in 1961, the production powerhouse has become...

A Short History of the Period Drama, Part One: Faith to the Text (or, the 1940s)

Sophie Wing
June 1, 2014
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Period piece. Costume drama. Historical epic. Any way you slice it, it's been around about as long as cinema itself. Of course, in those days what we now consider quintessential period drama was practically...

Behind The Rules Of Dogme 95

Cameron Ward
May 29, 2014
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- "Thus I make my VOW OF CHASTITY" - Dogme 95 (sometimes known as Dogma or Dogma 95) was an avant-garde movement in film production started by Danish-born directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in...

Big Screen/Small Screen: Orphan Black, Dr Strangelove, and a lot of Buster Keatons

Calum Baker
May 19, 2014
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With the recent return of BBC America's brilliant cloning drama Orphan Black - and its award-winning star Tatiana Maslany - we explore the long tradition of screen actors playing several different characters...

O Father, Where Art Thou? – Part 3: The Superhero Film

Chris Davies
May 9, 2014
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From Ancient Greece to Star Wars, the Bible to Breaking Bad, throughout history the father figure has been a major feature in dramatic storytelling. This is especially evident in film, but in post-9/11...

O Father, Where Art Thou? – Part 2: The Historical Epic

Chris Davies
May 7, 2014
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From Ancient Greece to Star Wars, the Bible to Breaking Bad, throughout history the father figure has been a major feature in dramatic storytelling. This is especially evident in film, but in post-9/11...

O Father, Where Art Thou? – Part 1: The Combat Film

Chris Davies
May 5, 2014
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From Ancient Greece to Star Wars, the Bible to Breaking Bad, throughout history the father figure has been a major feature in dramatic storytelling. This is especially evident in film, but in post-9/11...

Big Screen/Small Screen: Mad Men and the Movies

Calum Baker
April 12, 2014
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From The Apartment to Planet of the Apes, by way of Lane Pryce’s beloved The Bridge on the River Kwai: In advance of the Mad Men Season 7 premiere this Sunday, ORWAV takes a look at all things cinematic in...

Conspiracy And Corruption – Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Cameron Ward
March 24, 2014
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- "My most grievous fault" - Mea maxima culpa - my most grievous fault. American documentary director Alex Gibney is long known for his meticulous examination of deep-seated institutional corruption....

The Celluloid Ceiling: International Women’s Day In Film

Sophie Wing
March 8, 2014
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HOLLYWOOD Hey, you. Do you know how much 2013's female-fronted movies made at the box office? No? Care to guess? With their totals combined, major Hollywood films like Gravity, The Hunger Games: Catching...

Absurdity And Violence in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth

Cameron Ward
February 17, 2014
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
- "The animal that threatens us is a cat." - Yorgos Lanthimos' darkly subversive 2009 drama Dogtooth offers no easy answers. In this respect, and many others, this freakish tale of parental autocracy...

The Unique Body Horror Of American Mary

Cameron Ward
January 29, 2014
Analysis, Close-Up, Features
- "She’s an artist." - Following on from the Grindhouse-inspired Dead Hooker in a Trunk, Jen and Sylvia Soska (Twisted Twins Productions)'s American Mary rejects the tired cliches of "feminist...
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