http://ceel.org.uk/culture/film-theatre/krzysztof-kieslowski-the-decalogue-25th-anniversary-retrospective-by-kieron-connolly/
A still from Decalogue 3, my favourite in the cycle.
Sunday, 30 November 2014
You can read my article on the work of film-maker Krzyzstof Kieslowski and the Decalogue 25th Anniversary Retrospective at London's ICA at ceel,org.uk (Central and Eastern European London Life and News):
http://ceel.org.uk/culture/film-theatre/krzysztof-kieslowski-the-decalogue-25th-anniversary-retrospective-by-kieron-connolly/
A still from Decalogue 3, my favourite in the cycle.
http://ceel.org.uk/culture/film-theatre/krzysztof-kieslowski-the-decalogue-25th-anniversary-retrospective-by-kieron-connolly/
A still from Decalogue 3, my favourite in the cycle.
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Not an interview with a film-maker, but a plug. My book DARK HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD - A CENTURY OF GREED, CORRUPTION AND SCANDAL BEHIND THE MOVIES was published in April 2014.
It's available in print through Chapters Indigo (Canada) and Barnes & Noble (USA) and on iBooks.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/dark-history-of-hollywood/id845212625?mt=11
About the book
In the century since it produced its first feature film, Hollywood has presented itself as the glamorous home to the beautiful and talented. But, since its very creation, there has been a dark side to Tinseltown.
Right from the beginning the Dream Factory created a hothouse of excess – too much money, too much adulation, too much expectation and too much ego. Some actors would trade sex in the, often vain, hope of career advancement, mobsters muscled in on the unions and extorted the studios, whose heads kept suspiciously close ties to the police and the Press. Meanwhile, it’s Tinseltown’s accountants who appear to be among Hollywood’s most creative people, managing to ensure that even the Star Wars films don’t show a profit. And though Hollywood’s stars have always been indulged, once their moment in the limelight has passed, their fall can be cruel.
From the setting up of the studios by the movie moguls to the corporations that run them today, from drug addictions to McCarthy-era witch-hunts and on to the Mob, Dark History of Hollywood is the story of sex, murder and suicide, ambition and betrayal, and how money can make almost everyone compromise.
Intensively researched, fully illustrated and superbly entertaining, Dark History of Hollywood reveals that the stories behind the silver screen are at least as gripping as many of those on it.
It's available in print through Chapters Indigo (Canada) and Barnes & Noble (USA) and on iBooks.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/dark-history-of-hollywood/id845212625?mt=11
About the book
In the century since it produced its first feature film, Hollywood has presented itself as the glamorous home to the beautiful and talented. But, since its very creation, there has been a dark side to Tinseltown.
Right from the beginning the Dream Factory created a hothouse of excess – too much money, too much adulation, too much expectation and too much ego. Some actors would trade sex in the, often vain, hope of career advancement, mobsters muscled in on the unions and extorted the studios, whose heads kept suspiciously close ties to the police and the Press. Meanwhile, it’s Tinseltown’s accountants who appear to be among Hollywood’s most creative people, managing to ensure that even the Star Wars films don’t show a profit. And though Hollywood’s stars have always been indulged, once their moment in the limelight has passed, their fall can be cruel.
From the setting up of the studios by the movie moguls to the corporations that run them today, from drug addictions to McCarthy-era witch-hunts and on to the Mob, Dark History of Hollywood is the story of sex, murder and suicide, ambition and betrayal, and how money can make almost everyone compromise.
Intensively researched, fully illustrated and superbly entertaining, Dark History of Hollywood reveals that the stories behind the silver screen are at least as gripping as many of those on it.
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