Made For TV: Filmwell’s Resident Telephobe Launches New Series
The only good TV I despise television. I have a deep and abiding aversion to the noxious stuff that streams into our homes every day, gushing through cables and flooding into living rooms, family rooms, bedrooms. Trance-inducing, rigidly structured around sales pitches. Story arcs that never land, like endless transcontinental flights that only pretend to have a destination, suspended mid-air by continual complications – whether mundane or melodramatic – until such time... Read More
Did Leigh Film Trigger New Legislation?
Film-makers Shaping The Course Of History Trusted sources speculate that the 2008 hit film Happy-Go-Lucky may have triggered recent FDA approval of ground-breaking new medication, placing director Mike Leigh among a small but influential group of film-makers that includes such luminaries as Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Errol Morris, and Krzysztof Kieslowski. The landmark Errol Morris documentary The Thin Blue Line (1988) challenged the capital murder conviction of Randall Adams,... Read More
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