Writing on Screen: How Biopics Portray Authors Sophie Maxwell May 2, 2019 Analysis, Close-Up, Features In his essay on Richard Eyre’s Iris Murdoch biopic Iris for the Guardian, Martin Amis claims that ‘very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.’ These supposed...
Best Films Never Made #8: John Boorman’s The Lord of the Rings Patrick Taylor January 19, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 3 Comments If anything can be learned from Peter Jackson’s celebrated trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most famous work, it is that one does not simply adapt a 1200-page novel for the big screen overnight. The road to the...
The Hobbit As Three Films: Why Peter Jackson Is Right Chris Davies December 18, 2013 Analysis, Features, Opinion 2 Comments With the recent release of The Desolation of Smaug, Peter Jackson’s second instalment of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the argument “I don’t see why it needs to be three films when it’s such a small...
