The ORWAV Playlist – July 2015 Calum Baker July 2, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Jayson Jackson Talks Nina Simone and Netflix Phil W. Bayles June 26, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview A record producer by trade, Jayson Jackson's first film project is What Happened, Miss Simone?, a frank and intimate exploration of Nina Simone. We sat down with Jackson at the end of Sheffield Doc/Fest to...
Coming Out As A Muslim: An Interview With Parvez Sharma Phil W. Bayles June 22, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview In A Sinner in Mecca, director Parvez Sharma documents his Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca - knowing that, as an openly gay man, he could be executed just for setting foot in Saudi Arabia. We sat down with Sharma...
London Road – Interview with Anita Dobson Tori Brazier June 9, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Anita Dobson stars in new musical London Road, alongside Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy and the entire cast of the original theatre production, which had two successful runs at the National Theatre. Based on...
The ORWAV Playlist – June 2015 Calum Baker June 2, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
12 Rounds With Soldier In Blue Hugh Blackstaffe May 31, 2015 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features For our latest 12 Rounds, One Room With A View met up with Charlie Rotherham. The reason we're speaking to Rotherham is that he is the co-founder of Soldier in Blue, a company that offers what it calls a...
Music of the Movies: Bob Dylan Eddie Falvey May 24, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Here is a question: was there a greater popular musician in the twentieth century than the inimitable Bob Dylan? Here is one answer: no there was not. Somewhere in the corner of a crowded bar a debate is...
The ORWAV Playlist – May 2015 Calum Baker May 5, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Best Films Never Made #25: Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried Tom Bond April 17, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features Holocaust comedy. Two words to make you leave the page in disgust or read on with extreme curiosity. If you’ve got any sense, you will have done the latter, because Jerry Lewis’ 1972 film The Day the...
The ORWAV Playlist – April 2015 Calum Baker April 2, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Every four weeks, ORWAV explores the movie month ahead through the medium of song! Upcoming releases, notable births and anniversaries and a general celebration of the films, directors, technicians and...
Why The Oscars Should Acknowledge Stunt Professionals Hugh Blackstaffe March 18, 2015 12 Rounds, Behind The Curtain, Features It is time for an Academy Award category that acknowledges the work of stunt professionals. They have been a crucial feature of cinema, instilling shock and awe into audiences since the early 1900s, and they...
Music of the Movies: Joni Mitchell Rachel Brook March 11, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies Celebrated Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has recorded twenty two albums in a career spanning more than forty years and ranging across the genres of folk, jazz, and pop. She’s even been named...
Desiree Akhavan Talks Appropriate Behaviour, Girls and Directing Yourself Cameron Ward March 8, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Interview Desiree Akhavan's feature debut, Appropriate Behaviour, follows Shirin (Akhavan), a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her lesbian...
ORWAV’s Official Playlist for Your Oscars Party Calum Baker February 22, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Music of the Movies 1 Comment It's finally here: the biggest night of the year (narrowly beating Martin Luther King Day). If you're anything like us, you'll be having a stellar bash to celebrate the ultimate rewarding of your favourite...
Best Films Never Made #24: Robert Zemeckis’ The Toon Platoon Phil W. Bayles February 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features If Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit were made today, the sequel would be greenlit and in pre-production before the end of opening weekend. Originally released in 1988, its groundbreaking mix of...
