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...
Stories From the Set: In The Realm Of The Senses Cathy Brennan September 14, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 40 years ago, In the Realm of the Senses was released, sparking uproar and an obscenity trial. The film's notoriety stems from its explicit, unsimulated sex scenes, yet director Nagisa Ôshima was not...
Stories From The Set: The Tree of Life Jack Blackwell May 3, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set If there’s one label that would never fit Terrence Malick as a director, it’s ‘conventional’. From a 20-year wait for a new film between 1978’s Days of Heaven and 1998’s The Thin Red Line, to not...
Stories from the Set: Doctor Strangelove Phil W. Bayles August 7, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set "Mein Fuhrer... I can walk!" You don’t become one of the greatest auteurs in the history of cinema without doing a few things that make people charitably describe you as being “a few reels short of a...
Stories from the Set: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Tom Bond July 6, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Features, Stories from the Set 4 Comments The Pythons were on top of the world and falling apart. The first three series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had earned them an adoring fanbase and the opportunity to move to the big screen, but internal...
