Archive for January, 2010
New Zealand Film
Recent news is that the NZ government contributed nearly $45m in the form of tax credits to the film Avatar. This is not some shonky one-off deal for James Cameron, but simply the application of the Large Budget Screen Production...
Musique
There's been a lot of discussion about the sort of music we might use for the film. As I've said...
A Post on Post
I'm reading a great book on editing called The Conversations - which is literally a series of conversations between Walter...
Responsibility
I've been holding off commenting on Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds because I know my take on the film is out of...
Collaborators
Just been watching Martin Scorcese's speech at the Golden Globes, which is well worth a look - you can see...
Seeing things
It always seems to me a work of magic when people capture beautiful images. It's a great art to be...
In a mad world…
For a few years the strapline we've used for The Insatiable Moon has been Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's quote: "In a...
New Territory
We are now into the solid work of post production. Our editor, Paul Maxwell, is beavering away at Images &...
Doing Good
In the course of shooting The Insatiable Moon there were a number of problems that needed addressing. One of them...
of place and emotional power, in a
moving, original movie that
deserves to be seen."
