Modern Cinema

Emotion v Motion

Creative Accounting #454

The Lady Vanishes X Hitchcock / 1938 = Uncommon Danger X Ambler / 1937

CinemaConnections #1

Me & Orson Welles (& me):

Louis Elman - Sound Casting (my first experience of the film industry, in Dean Street)
Dick Pope - DoP (my first job in the film industry, at Solus in Marshall St)
Jacqueline Hurt - Legals
Marc Samuelson - Producer

Rules of the Movies 3

Butlers are always as evil as the people they work for

(by N age 12 - inspired by Terry Thomas in How to Murder Your Wife)

Creative Accounting #214

Hunger + Garage + In Bruges / Irish = Filmfour + WAITING

Notes: The Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley

Became Phoenix in 1975 when bought by Contemporary Films (owned Phoenix in Jericho, Oxford too)
Was Rex til then
Was The Picture House 1910-1930

In the picture - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Going to the pictures with my gal - Michael Clayton with George Clooney



Kick-off meeting for Medicine Men Online with Zam, Livio and Mike - very excited about this one



Walky talky via the Tate with Jonathan Holmes - a quick epic burst of John Martin

What's up, Daddy-o? - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Playing tennis with the enfants terribles - N testing out his new racket - at Waterlow Park



Home-made Father's Day card - made with 100% love and care



Taking a bunch of kids to the cinema (Odeon Muswell Hill - once truly grand Art Deco) - N (age 10)": the script wasn't good enough" (and he was right) - good viewing fun nevertheless

Rules of the Movies 2

When people drop their shopping, the bag always contains round fruit [by U]

People always have french bread in their shopping (in those brown paper shopping bags)

People always move the steering wheel around, even when they're driving down a straight road [courtesy, much though it pains me to say, of Sky Movies]


Evil butlers have no tongues [by N e.g. Stormbreaker, Goldfinger]

Superheroes with high strength are fat [by N e.g. Fantastic Four, The Incredibles]

Dustin Hoffman will always run given half a chance (e.g. The Graduate, Marathon Man, Kramer vs Kramer)