How To Shoot a Film in 5 Days
According to Shane Meadows (and his producer, Mark something-or-other), you get a few mates together (particularly if you’re mates with Paddy Considine), call in a few favours with the Arctic Monkeys, and trust to luck that you get enough usable footage. According to Roger Corman, it’s all about planning ahead.
Still watching films…
…But flagging slightly in the reviewing
The Masque of the Red Death
“It’s time for a new dance”
Comrades
“God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country’s rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction’s doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will, we will be free!”
Nevermore!
Nevermore!
Moon
Moon is, uh, stellar
Morbid Afternoon
An afternoon of death and comedy, featuring corpses that don’t fit in coffins, suicidal furries, numerous ill-fated rabbits, and Hitler at the 1948 Olympics.
The Intruder
A very different film from Corman’s crowd-pleasing Poe adaptations, The Intruder is a sharp dissection of racism in the American South at the time of desegregation. Political commentary disguised as exploitation film, it plays very differently to a modern audience - particularly in Britain - than it would have in 1962, when it barely found [...]