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...Meadows' attempts to humanize skinheads is a world away from the knee-jerk negative characterizations that informed cinema's previous depictions of the subculture as uniformly racist and violent. While it may be true that far-right parties no longer play any part in Britain's mainstream political discourse, other extremist movements are rising in Europe. And with the invasion of Iraq and rise in Islamophobia, Meadows suggests that This is England could be as much a warning for England's present as it is a depiction of its past...
...rather hated the ratings system he created and sustained. Kirby Dick's documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated makes a good case for the prejudice the MPAA showed in favor of major-studio product and against the more adventurous indies. Francis Coppola once said that all of modern cinema, from art films to blockbusters, uses only about 5% of the medium's potential artistic vocabulary. We may need another revolution - not of content but of the means of distribution - to allow filmmakers to explore the other...
...points out (in Jamestown: The Buried Truth), in 19 days and in a June swelter they cut and split more than 600 trees weighing 400 to 800 lbs. each and set them in a triangular trench three football fields long and 2 1/2 ft. deep. In 2004 New Line Cinema built a replica of the fort for its film The New World and did it in about the same amount of time--with power tools...
...great film critic Andrew Sarris once referred to the tendency of filmmakers to quote their own work as "self-reverential cinema." But Wright and Pegg borrow smartly from everyone else; why not from themselves? It thickens the parodic texture, gives a kick to their cultists; and besides, the jokes are funny. If American film-comedy writers have any sense, they'll start stealing from Hot Fuzz...
...Schoonmaker lamented some of the lost skill and appreciation for black-and- white cinema. Her primary advice for aspiring filmmakers was to study older films, as both she and Scorsese have done from a young...