About the Film From his screenplays for such blockbusters as The Fugitive and G.I. Jane to his directorial efforts including the sci-fi classics Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, filmmaker David Twohy has long enjoyed playing with established genres as he designs his signature stories. For A Perfect Getaway, it was an exotic location…
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An Education Movie Production Notes (2009)
About the Film The extent to which I never asked him questions is astonishing in retrospect – I blame Albert Camus…One of the rules of existentialism as practised by me and my disciples at Lady Eleanor Holles School was that you never asked questions. Asking questions showed that you were naïve and bourgeois; not asking…
The Accidental Husband Production Notes (2009)
Greta later comes to Emma’s book launch, because her husband, Herr Karl Bollenbecker (Keir Dullea) is planning to liquidate Richard’s publishing house. Greta meets Emma during the banquet and tells her of the same. Patrick still has the annulment papers, so he comes to the book launch. Not knowing what else to do, Emma pretends…
Adam Movie Production Notes (2009)
Theory of Mind THEORY OF MIND: Noun. 1. the ability to conceive of mental states – beliefs, desires and intents -in others and to understand that your beliefs, desires and intents are different from everyone else’s. What happens when you fall in love with someone for whom love itself is an alien concept? In the…
Adventureland Movie Production Notes (2009)
About the Production It’s a mad, mad world of Whack-A-Mole, Root Beer Pong and Horse Derby, but for James Brennan, the sweet, smart but strung-a-bit-too-tightly hero of ADVENTURELAND, his mortifying summer job at Adventureland amusement park is about to become a full-scale initiation into the sublime oddities and wonders of adult life. For even as…
Alien Trespass Production Notes (2009)
About the Film Despite the fact that we live in an era when technology has made even the most fantastical film special effects possible, sci-fi enthusiasts in particular, and film lovers in general, are still drawn to the wonderfully imaginative and original low-budget science fiction movies Hollywood produced in the 1950s – from “It Came…