John Krasinksi’s aptly named The Quiet Place has been described as ‘a silent film’ by his co-star and wife Emily Blunt. In fact, the film has little more than ninety lines of dialogue throughout. Silence in film moves the emphasis of the storytelling from verbal to visual, the style to ‘show and don’t tell’, [...]
In his book The Art of the Cut, Greg Keast provides a very useful definition of what editing ideally strives to achieve under the heading ‘Breaking the Action’: ‘A large part of editing is taking whole actions or scenes, breaking them into parts, and recombining them in a way that makes the story work [...]
One prevalent element in the horror narrative is that of the monster. Such monsters are the physical embodiments of our fears and they often portray ‘otherness’. With the emergence of disease, economic disaster, natural devastation, and science innovation, society’s fears evolve and with it, the horror genre and the monster. My fascination with horror [...]
Adopted from André Aciman’s novel, ‘Call Me by Your Name’ is no doubt one of the best films of 2017 and will have your heart bursting with all types of emotions that you weren’t even aware you had. Of course, seeing as it’s directed by Luca Guadagnino, the inclusion of beautiful, flawless people experiencing [...]
We all love them. Well if not all, then the majority. Moving images, in sequence, in a dark theatre of a cinema or in the comfort of our computer screens. We watch and we remain seated until the end, or we loose our patience and go for the next browse. Quickly. Or, in a [...]
