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FILM DIRECTOR Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013)





FILM DIRECTOR Nagisa Oshima




Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013), a Tribute by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith


A further post in FSFF provides further tributes and a list of online material



January 30, 2013 Posted by | Nagisa Oshima | | Leave a comment

FILM DIRECTOR HITCHCOCK The Birds





FILM HITCHCOCK Julian Jarrold The Girl



The gulls are the people, you see, and she is the bird.


Hitchcock on Tippi Hedren in Julian Jarrold’s The Girl.



stuff:

[1] Jim Crace, Guardian Review 29 Dec 2012 : Beauty and the beastly Hitchcock: a peerless study of sexual obsession


[2] Deborah Orr, Guardian, 28 Dec 2012:
If only Alfred Hitchcock himself could have directed The Girl
–The BBC-HBO drama about Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren was fascinating, but it lacked the psychological drama only the man himself could have provided


More as I find them


screenwriter : Gwyneth Hughes > 2008 BBC profile.



January 14, 2013 Posted by | Hitchcock | , , , , , | Leave a comment