Monthly Archives: August 2013
Telluride day 3: broadening my perspective
Well I did make it to the screening of THE PAST last night and have woken up this morning feeling ambivalent about the movie and with some thoughts about the Telluride Film Festival as a whole and what it means … Continue reading
Telluride day 2: I buy some very expensive cheese
By the time the guy on the Friday market stall had given me a taste and told me it had won third prize in a contest in Montana, I was already handing over the twenty dollar bill. Goat’s cheddar. I … Continue reading
Telluride
To get to the 40th Telluride Film Festival high in the Colorado Rockies (where I’m afraid the word awesome is for once not out of place) I took a tiny rattling twin-prop aeroplane from Denver. The preflight safety talk was … Continue reading
We made the book cover!
“Now a major motion picture” in big letters along with the artistes’ names on the front cover of the film tie-in edition of John Banville’s novel, THE SEA. When you get round to the back, you find “director Stephen Brown” … Continue reading
Tuscany
Castello Ginori di Querceto is a medieval film set where the extras are all grim faced grandmothers. It will be a jolt to transfer from this ancient world to Telluride in three days time. The moment the angel lands … Continue reading
Films and boundaries
When I came out of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ONLY GOD FORGIVES, I hated it and spent the rest of the evening discussing why. But now I’m not so sure. The next day I was still thinking about it – this … Continue reading
Thinking about film
Thinking a lot about the fray that I’ve finally entered by directing a movie… where do I want to be? Somewhere between Wenders and Campion? Too arty? No…. these are just two of my notional mentors and, believe me, I … Continue reading
Notes on THE SEA 