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11 Hollywood Close-Ups

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2008-06-06 10:21:50 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
Hollywood, that dream factory of too many happy endings, overwrought social dramas, mercilessly unfunny comedies and inane action-adventure extravaganzas, is often just plain clueless ... especially when it comes to real life. And yet, occasionally they get life absolutely spot on, dead aim, bull's-eye right. But when does this actually happen?...
 
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: If The SF/F Community Ran Hollywood...

2008-01-02 00:29:26 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...Hollywood to produce quality science fiction With most television shows on hiatus due to the writers strike, it's a good time to reflect on the quality of the genre shows of this past TV season. If you ran Hollywood, what changes would you make? What would stay the same Chris Roberson Chris Roberson's novels include Here, There & Everywhere ,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration

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2008-05-03 19:19:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...Hollywood's Censor , Thomas Doherty's biography of PCA honcho Joseph I. Breen. Doherty is a good writer and the book is intelligent and amusing. He obviously developed a real affection for his subject, and if the Siren in no way came to share that affection it's no reflection on Doherty. This is, however, a frustrating book. Like a pre-Code...
 
 
 
 
 
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HOLLYWOOD ASIAN: PHILIP AHN AND THE POLITICS OF CROSS-ETHNIC PERFORMANCEThe Evening Class Interview With Hye Seung Chung

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2008-06-10 13:31:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Hollywood cinema, race and multiculturalism in American popular culture, feminist and postcolonial film theories, Asian American media, East Asian/Korean cinema, and global Cold War cultures In Fall 2008 she will be joining the American Studies faculty at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Previously, Professor Chung taught in the Department...
 
 
 
 
 
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More Than Hollywood Dreams: An Interview with Henry Jaglom

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2008-01-02 10:21:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
...Hollywood -- have neglected to focus on AG: Did you have a shooting script? You have a reputation for working loose with actors HJ: Thats a myth about me, really. I work loosely with the actors, but I had a 122 page script. Working loosely entails encouraging actors to use, sometimes, their own language, or to go off into a different...
 
 
 
 
 
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TCM: Race and Hollywood: Asian Images In Film

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2008-05-17 15:15:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Hollywood: Asian Images In Film . The festival comes on the heels of TCM's highly successful 2006 look at African-American images in film and its 2007 examination of gay images in film Joining TCM's Robert Osborne to host Race and Hollywood: Asian Images In Film will be Dr. Peter X. Feng , editor of Screening Asian Americans and author of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Vanity Fair's Hollywood ~ Episode 4 (1998)

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2008-02-07 17:59:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
...Hollywood" cover photo has reminded me that I've shirked my Hollywood Historian duties for a month now. If you missed previous episodes of my Vanity Fair Hollywood cover investigation here's 1995 , 1996 and 1997 and you'll be caught up In 1998, photographer Annie Leibovitz threw us for a loop. Boys and Girls. What a concept --but it was the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Frank Borzage and the "Classical Hollywood Style"

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2006-08-28 18:30:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Hollywood Style " of the 1930s and 40s is often referred to as if it were a monolith. The achievements of Hollywood auteurs from the era, whether Chaplin or Welles, Hawks or Hitchcock, are usually illustrated in terms of their divergence from this so-called "invisible style". Less often discussed are the contributions individual directors...
 
 
 
 
 
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As Bangkok Dangerous release near, Pangs are loving Hollywood

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2008-08-31 08:05:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Hollywood release of the North America's autumn movie cycle, opens in Thai cinemas on September 4, and elsewhere on September 5 Directed by Oxide and Danny Pang as a remake of their 1999 debut film, it looks to be a Hollywood-tailored reimagining, with big explosions and the unstoppable force of nature that is Nicolas Cage and his ridiculous...