Posts Tagged ‘The Conversation’
An Appreciation – Apocalypse Now
The production of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) has become almost as infamous as the film itself. Hot off the successes of The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), and The Conversation (1974), Coppola had turned into one of the major faces of…
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Looking, Hearing, Spying
In the latest episode of Mark Cousins’s The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a TV show airing here in the UK at the moment, it was suggested that sight—the fulfillment that comes from seeing something—is one of the key underlying themes of the Hollywood films of the…
READ MOREHow Should We Watch A Film?
I’m sure that most readers of this film blog hoped that Father Christmas would have delivered at least one DVD to them for the 25th of December. A few may have gone to the cinema on Christmas day, watching the latest release as part of…
READ MOREEpisode 55 – High Tension
Spencer and John look back on the career of Alexandre Aja in advance of the release of Piranha 3D, they discuss the history of spoof movies, and close out the show with their DVD picks of the week.
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