Category Archives: Guest post
Scottish Opera’s Derek Clark on Der Rosenkavalier
Inspired by the recent DVD and Blu-ray release of Paul Czinner’s 1962 adaptation of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, Derek Clark, Head of Music at Scottish Opera, looks at how the filmmakers went about adapting stage performances for the big screen. Continue reading
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Ian Hoey on Taking Off: “A wandering mishmash that is never far from brilliance”
Taking Off is director Milos Forman’s (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) first US feature, a coming-of-age story with a difference. Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry are the parents searching for their runaway teenager who find their own lost youth. … Continue reading
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Guest post: Eddie Harrison on memories and dreams in Local Hero
Eddie Harrison, director of the SMHAFF’s film festival strand, explains why he decided to add one of Bill Forsyth’s best-loved films, Local Hero, to the schedule. Continue reading
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Guest Post: Jack Bell on La Piscine
Film blogger Jack Bell looks back at 1969′s La Piscine and discovers a film that has much going on beneath the surface. La Piscine marries the American consumerist aesthetic style with the chic glamour of the French Riviera in the … Continue reading
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Guest post: Andrew Martin on The Brothers in film and in print
With 1947′s The Brothers out now on Park Circus DVD, Andrew Martin, Curator of Modern Scottish Collections at the National Library of Scotland, offers a glimpse of how the film was promoted over 60 years ago via archival material from the Library’s vaults. Continue reading
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Guest post: Mark Hodgson on Woody Allen’s early comedies
To celebrate the reent Cannes premiere of Woody Allen’s latest film, Midnight in Paris, Mark Hodgson takes a look at Woody’s films in the Park Circus catalogue and remembers six of his films from the 1970s which still make him … Continue reading
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Guest post: Paul Lynch and Grover Crisp on Taxi Driver
Emerging from the seamier side of 1970s Manhattan in a stunning new digital version, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver remains one of the most important films to come from the decade that redefined American cinema. Ahead of Taxi Driver’s release in … Continue reading
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Guest post: Neil Brand on The Black Pirate
A personal project for Douglas Fairbanks, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 1920′s, The Black Pirate (1926) was shot in two-strip Technicolor and impressed audiences of the day with its scale and style. Following Neil Brand’s appearance at the … Continue reading
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Melbourne’s Astor Theatre: where “film” and “cinema” still mean moving images
As Melbourne’s Astor Theatre celebrates its 75th birthday, recently screening the Park Circus-licensed Five Easy Pieces as part of its dedication to classic cinema, Tara Judah explains more about this important part of Australia’s cinemagoing history. Whilst the meaning ascribed … Continue reading
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Guest post: Duane Swierczynski on Hickey & Boggs
Here at Park Circus it’s true to say we love all the films in our catalogue. However, with over 12,000 in there, sometimes one or two can get overlooked. One such film is 1972′s Hickey & Boggs, starring Robert Culp … Continue reading
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