http://www.screenwize.com writing about film Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:17:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There’s nothing quite so nostalgic as going back in time – remembering what could have been, where life’s turning points happened, recalling old loves and best days. The idea of someone starting life old and living life backwards – getting younger each day – seems a strong premise for a ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/323 Occasionally – far too occasionally – a film comes along that once again reminds you of the power of the cinematic experience: how movement, composition, light, colour and music can be stunningly shaped to create the most exquisite drama. Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions) is no stranger ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/320 One of the most prodigious filmmakers of the last forty years, Woody Allen has had as many misses as hits in his long career – particularly in the last ten years. He churns out his films – one a year – and more often than not writes himself into the ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/319 Philip Claudel’s debut feature film I’ve Loved You So Long had its Australian premiere at the Canberra International Film Festival last month and was ranked the second most popular film of the festival, no doubt thanks in part to the performance of Kristen Scott-Thomas as Juliette, its troubled central character. ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/317 Those of you with no children or teenagers in the house, or the houses of anyone you have ever met, may have missed the phenomenon that is High School Musical, the 2006 made-for-TV movie from Disney that broke all sorts of sales and viewing records, and spawned a fairly average ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/314 There have been cries, in this the 50th anniversary year of the Australian Film Institute (AFI), that it hasn’t been a very good year for the Australian film industry, and if box-office is the measure you use to judge success, then something is clearly amiss. The combined takings for the ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/312 About fifty years ago, Twentieth Century-Fox came to the Australian outback to make a film called Kangaroo – a lavish epic in the Western tradition, and the first movie to be shot in Technicolour in Australia. It was an epic tale of an English adventurer, an evil plan to take ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/308 With Bond's action to the left of you and Baz’s epic to the right, you might want to take a dip into this thoughtful and intimate portrait of a man slowly warming to the beauty of life as he shakes off the ghosts of a family lost in the Holocaust. Based ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/307 Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai is well known for his lush stylistics, and the opening sequence of My Blueberry Nights is an exercise in texture, with deeply layered, slow shutter cinematography shot through glass and fabric, all in a glow of reds and oranges and neon blues. Lost in the steam ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/303 The back-to-basics reimagining of the James Bond franchise that producer Barbara Broccoli began with Casino Royale in 2006 continues to pay off with Quantum of Solace. Showbusiness industry newspaper Variety reports the film scored the biggest ever opening weekend for a Bond film, taking in US$70.4M, a whopping 74% up ... http://www.screenwize.com/archives/310