A boyhood glimpse of the Wild Man of Borneo (at the Coney Island Midway, of course) set him on a circuitous and rocky course — one so movingly charted by
a new film biography.
Not exact matches
Science Talk correspondent John Pavlus talks with Jon Amiel, director of the
new Darwin
biography movie Creation, and with Randal Keynes, Darwin's great - great - grandson and one of the
film's scriptwriters.
The
new film, The Man Who Invented Christmas, is an adaption of the non-fiction
biography by Les Standiford on Dickens and how «A Christmas Carol» created the modern day traditions of Christmas.
Rounding out the platter: a «Hong Kong Beauty Stars» animated picture gallery scored with the same sort of abhorrent techno - crap that plagues the
film; a stills gallery that's brief and nudity - free, too; a few promotional stills, posters, and lobby cards; two trailers (a theatrical one and a «
new» one); and a «Production Notes» segment — essentially a synopsis followed by perfunctory cast and crew
biographies.
Haynes revisited the
film in November when he recorded a brand
new commentary track with producer Christine Vachon for the
film's Blu - ray debut and talked with Videodrone about the revisiting the
film, its reverberations with his other fictionalized
biography «I'm Not There» and, as always, what he's been watching.
Disc Features - High - definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping - bin, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu - ray edition - @ «In the Mood for Love,» director Wong Kar - wai's documentary on the making of the
film - Deleted scenes with director's commentary — Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short
film by Wong - Archival interview with Wong and a «cinema lesson» given by the director at the 2001 Cannes
Film Festival - Toronto International
Film Festival press conference from 2000, with stars Maggie Cheung Man - yuk and Tony Leung Chiu - wai - Trailers and TV spots - The music of In the Mood for Love, presented in an interactive essay, on the DVD edition - Essay by
film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the
film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition -
Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two
new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the
film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the
film, an essay by
film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and
film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the
film (Blu - ray edition)
However, this
new story, a
biography of the man who designed some of the Japanese fighter planes used during World War II, clearly doesn't sound like much of a family
film in the way that Totoro or last year's The Secret World of Arrietty are.
Warner Brothers»
new DVD boasts a beautiful
new transfer (perhaps too beautiful — the «News on the March» newsreel sequence now looks too clean), plus full - length commentary tracks by
film Peter Bogdanovich (who wrote the definitive Welles
biography) and
film critic Roger Ebert.
Invite your students to explore Truman's
biography in Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times, and then have them create a plan for a
new introductory
film presentation for the Truman Presidential Museum and Library.
British / Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara's
new project The Humanizer places Roger Casement's extraordinary
biography at the core of an imagined
new Hollywood biopic, while Irish born artist Duncan Campbell is working on his first
film based in the Republic of Ireland, which takes as a starting point a series of American anthropological studies of Gaelic speaking rural communities in Ireland in the 60s and 70s.