Of course we work with the psychology of the audience. We know it differs from that of its individual members. In cutting films great comedy directors like Hawks and Preston Sturges allow for the group reactions they expect from the audience, they play on these. Hitchcock has made this his ...
Years ago at the RNCM there was a wonderful performance of The Marriage of Figaro. Stephan Janski did the directing and Tim Reynish was the conductor. (I am choosing this performance because of the personal connection I had to the performers). The role of Figaro was played by Darcy Bleiker ...
"We were particularly concerned with the ‘credibility’ of the [foam rubber] suit," admitted Wise, "because, as Gort walked away from the camera, you could see the rubber creasing on the back of his knees. We did everything we could to eliminate that, but there wasn’t any way we ...
around 1960. Actually, there's nothing very out-of-the-ordinary about this. Periods in cultural history are typically constituted retrospectively. Writers around 1922 - Joyce, Eliot, Brecht and the rest - might have thought of themselves