Portrait of Kaye: Ben Reed on the Moral Quandaries of the Documentary Form Lydia Rostant June 9, 2021 Features, Independent, Interview There is a common misconception in filmmaking which presumes the director to have total and divine confidence in both their subject matter, and the various processes by which they tell the story. Ben Reed’s...
The Quiet Power of Isla Badenoch’s The Elvermen At Sheffield DocFest Lydia Rostant June 6, 2021 Features, Independent, Interview In Isla Badenoch’s The Elvermen, fish are the size of men and men are of mythical proportions. The film (which premiered on June 5, 2021 at Sheffield DocFest), was shot in a narrow window of time, between...
Todd Stephens, Udo Kier and Linda Evans on Swan Song Rafaela Sales Ross March 28, 2021 Features, Interview, One Off In the realm of great storylines, “A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair” certainly hits the jackpot. Throw in two contrasting legends in the...
Heather Young Discusses Murmur Rafaela Sales Ross February 28, 2021 Features, Interview Screening at this year's Glasgow Film Festival, Heather Young's first feature Murmur is a bleak portrait of loneliness. The director sat down with us to discuss her creative process, touring digital festivals...
History of Horror: How Universal Studios Created Movie Monsters Tori Brazier December 26, 2020 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set What immediate associations pass through your mind when you hear the name Frankenstein? Or Dracula? Is it an image of a flat-headed, neck-bolted green giant? Does Dracula swish around in a cloak and white tie,...
Wrong Lever: How The Emperor’s New Groove Was Almost The Next Lion King George Howarth December 13, 2020 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set In 1994, Disney seemed like it could do no wrong. The release of The Little Mermaid in '89 had kick-started the "Disney Renaissance" and the studio was riding high on the success of a string of musical films...
Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry On His Intimate Score For The Nest Jess Goodman December 2, 2020 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Writer/Director Sean Durkin's first feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), gave Elizabeth Olsen her breakthrough role. Nine years on, his second feature might just do the same for Arcade Fire's Richard...
Disney’s Top 10 “I Want” Songs Anna McKibbin November 24, 2020 Features, Music of the Movies, Top 10 Revisiting films from Disney’s Golden Age can feel like slipping into a pair of well-worn pyjamas. Cosy, soft and, crucially, familiar. Familiarity is the currency Disney exchanges to win over audiences....
Me and the Cult Leader – An Interview with Director Atsushi Sakahara Sophie Maxwell August 13, 2020 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview In 1995 members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo (now named Aleph) deposited bags of sarin gas along Tokyo’s subway line during rush hour. It was an act of domestic terrorism that killed 13 people and has...
Music of the Movies: Hustlers’ Financial Crisis Mixtape Anna McKibbin June 15, 2020 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies The opening lyrics of Janet Jackson’s ‘Control’ are the first words we hear in Lorene Scafaria's 2019 crime caper Hustlers. “This is a story about control,” Jackson declares as the camera rests on...
Best Films Never Made #43: The Beatles and Joe Orton’s Up Against It Tom Bond June 24, 2019 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features In 1967, The Beatles were the most famous band in the world. Maybe they were even the most famous people in the world. Just a year earlier John Lennon had claimed they were “bigger than Jesus”, and it was...
Music of the Movies: The Leonard Bernstein Centenary Edition Carmen Paddock August 23, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies The legendary American composer, conductor, and music educator Leonard Bernstein would have been 100 on 25th August 2018. His career was marked by its mercurial beginning – at the age of 25, he took on a...
Michel Hazanavicius on Redoubtable Louise Burrell May 8, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Based on French actress Anne Wiazemsky's autobiography, Redoubtable is an intimate biopic of a very specific period in Jean-Luc Godard's life. Following his overwhelming success as the leader of French New...
Stories From The Set: A Fistful Of Dollars Rory Steabler April 10, 2018 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set Being long-time fans of Sergio Leone's work, and with a new remaster hitting cinemas, we at ORWAV thought it would be timely to look at how the director made A Fistful of Dollars. His first Western is widely...
Stories From The Set: Requiem for a Dream Thom Denson September 14, 2017 Features, Stories from the Set This weekend sees the release of Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, Mother!, a film in which the New York auteur torments his collaborative (and, to those of us not above the gossip columns, romantic) partner...
