Archive for December, 2009
Transcendence and Compassion in Cinema
Mick Innes as 'John' I’m in Ponsonby’s red light district – the portable gazebos we’re using for shade and comfortable eating are the colour of healthy scarlet; appropriate enough, given that today we turn to one of the most troubling...
Into Great Silence: A Quiet Day on Set
Watching and Waiting in the Green Room (Photo by Violaine Barrois) There is a near-deathly still in our improvised green...
How Not to Do It
Fascinating, wince-inducing article in The Guardian this morning - about how a first time producer spent several million on a...
Frugal Film-making on Jervois Road
Tom on set with Director Rosemary Riddell There was a time when the term ‘independent film’ was a near-guarantee of...
Is it, or is it not, A Movie?
Pip Piper, Hanging Around A friend of mine who used to make movies before he realized he was a better...
Where Are My Cigarettes?
Ponsonby Road Let me introduce myself - I'm the new ghost writer for this blog dedicated to the revelation of...
A Dozen Days
It's Tuesday, so it must be week three. Great to have (nearly) a couple of days off. Scary to think...
of place and emotional power, in a
moving, original movie that
deserves to be seen."
