Tag: 20110120
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Shaolin
Despite a brief renaissance in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Chinese film (and in particular, martial arts) has been strangely absent from Australian cinema screens over the last few years. Not since the world’s love affair with Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – which in turn led to wide releases of Hero and…
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The Fighter
David O. Russell has continually pushed the Hollywood conventions over his short but illustrious career. Although beginning his career with indie comedies Spanking the Monkey and Flirting with Disaster, it was with the controversial yet heavy-hitting and darkly comic Gulf War action film Three Kings (1999) that put the director on the map. Yet since his…
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The Green Hornet
In an interview with Total Film several years ago, legendary comic book creator Alan Moore said that “The main reason why comics can’t work as films is largely because everybody who is ultimately in control of the film industry is an accountant”. Those accountants have certainly been counting their receipts over the last few years,…
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Black Swan
Director Darren Aronofsky is not known to play by traditional Hollywood rules. After attending both Harvard University and the AFI, Aronofsky went on to create his debut feature π (or Pi) for a mere $60,000. The film, about a mathematician on the brink of insanity, defied expectations and sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1 million,…
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