ORWAV Oscars 2019: The Nominations Tom Bond February 19, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off It's a good time to be a film fan, and unusually, it's a pretty good time to be an awards fan too. Aside from the chaos unfolding within Academy HQ as they change the format of the broadcast (then change it...
In the White City: Remembering Bruno Ganz Patrick Nabarro February 18, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off The common access points to Bruno Ganz for many Anglo-American commentators seem to be his iconic performances in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire (1987) and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall (2014). While those are...
Cutting the Oscars Was a Stupid Solution to a Serious Problem Calum Baker February 17, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion You're already up to date, I'm sure. Mostly because, even if you weren't up to date, everything's gone back to normal anyway so it doesn't matter. Recap: After warning last year that the 91st Academy...
Cut! Why the Academy Awards Broadcast Needed Editing Stephen O'Nion February 14, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Tinseltown and its suburbs, Film Twitter, are in uproar this week. The awarding of Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Film Editing and Best Live Action Short are all to be done during...
Breaking the Biopic Formula Carmen Paddock February 6, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion This week sees the UK release of On the Basis of Sex, a biopic covering the education and early court cases of esteemed US Supreme Court Justice and living legend Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It joins a long line of...
The Changing Face of AI in Anime and its Western Remakes Liz Gorny February 5, 2019 Analysis, Close-Up, Features "I am who?” Tima, the child robot of Rintaro's Metropolis (2001), asks just before she plunges from the edge of a high-rise tower and Metropolis collapses around her. She is parroting the first words ever...
Scene Stealers: Linda Cardellini in A Simple Favor Rory Steabler February 1, 2019 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Peter Farrelly's Green Book may be a politically regressive movie directed by a onetime sex pest, but at least it also wastes three very talented actors. Viggo Mortensen has been a household name since his...
Bryan Singer, the Oscars, and Separating the Art From the Artist – Debate Tom Bond January 31, 2019 Analysis, Debate, Features Bohemian Rhapsody was recently nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture, and while many have queried that on grounds of merit, a more urgent worry is the presence of director Bryan Singer. He was...
The Most Dangerous Games: Cinema’s Best Puzzles Sophie Maxwell January 29, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 For some, the thought of being trapped in a small room with a limited time to solve puzzles and escape is sheer nightmare fuel. Maybe your boss thinks such activities are the perfect team-building exercises....
How to Train Your Dragon’s Refreshing Approach To Disability Phil W. Bayles January 28, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off The How to Train Your Dragon movies are far and away the best work DreamWorks Animation have ever produced. For one thing, they’re simply gorgeous to look at, bursting with vibrantly designed creatures and...
Oscar Nominations 2019: The Full Rundown Calum Baker January 22, 2019 Analysis, Features, One Off, Opinion 10 years ago, Bradley Cooper may as well have been nobody. Then he starred in The Hangover. Then... uh... The Hangover 2. But six brief years since his "serious film" breakout Silver Linings Playbook, the...
The Hand That Holds the Pen: The (Un)Importance of Cinematic Historical Accuracy Carmen Paddock January 14, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion Roughly a third of the way through Colette, currently in UK cinemas, Keira Knightley’s titular author muses that ‘the hand that holds the pen writes history.’ This line – featured prominently in the...
Seriously Funny: 10 Times Comedians Played it Straight Thom Denson January 10, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 With the upcoming releases of both Stan & Ollie and Beautiful Boy, starring funnymen Steves Coogan and Carell respectively, it felt as good a time as any to shine the light on a selection of other...
Why Period Films Are So Underrated Sarah J January 9, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion It is the beginning of Pride and Prejudice. The protagonist, Elizabeth Bennett (Keira Knightley), is reading a book as she walks through the English countryside. The house comes alive not because it’s been...
Debate: Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, or Buster Keaton? Carmen Paddock January 8, 2019 Analysis, Debate, Features Stan & Ollie – a lovingly constructed biopic of an ageing Laurel and Hardy – hits cinemas this week. To celebrate, One Room with a View’s Naomi, Louise, and Tom have come together to argue the merits...
