A slight but pleasant near half-hour featurette found on the old DVD special edition of THE THORN BIRDS, 'Old Friends New Stories' does a serviceable job at detailing the production of this legendary television film. Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Richard Chamberlain and some of the behind the scenes talent are all on hand sharing their memories of the production. Chamberlain visits some of the shooting locations and Ward/Brown recount their love affair which led to their beautiful marriage. THE THORN…
Favorite films
Recent activity
AllRecent reviews
More-
-
O Construtor de Anjos 1978
An extremely disciplined Bressonian work from Portuguese artist and painter Luís Noronha da Costa, the brief but powerful O Construtor de Anjos (1978) is a hypnotic and eerie production punctuated by da Costa’s unapologetic painterly framing and rigid technique. Running just over 40 minutes and made up entirely of just a handful of shots, O Construtor de Anjos was the final film of da Costa’s brief but memorable film career.
A well-known cineaste, de Costa began making films in the…Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
The Gold of Love 1983
A super-stylish, super-strange masterfully hypnotic film from filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt, 1983’s Das Gold der Liebe (THE GOLD OF LOVE) is a startling work long overdue for a proper HD release. Even via the beat-up old VHS rip that I watched though, this film is truly bewitching and quite unlike anything else I’ve ever seen even though it shares much in common with several other films from this period ranging from Beineix’s DIVA to Scorsese’s AFTER HOURS.
Long before his 1982…
Translated from by -
Lost Angels 1989
Few filmmakers have ever fallen from critical and popular grace as far and fast as British-born director Hugh Hudson. Born to a prosperous London family in 1936, Hudson's early career was especially promising initially as a documentarian and advertiser. Hudson received his first break in feature-length filmmaking when he acted as the Second-Unit Director on Alan Parker's chilling Midnight Express (1978). Within a year of working with Parker, Hudson got his chance to sit in the lead director's chair for…
Translated from by
