Gideon Raff, the Israeli Creator of ”Homeland” – Israeli TV series have relatively laughable budgets compared to American shows. Whereas an episode of a hit like “Mad Men” reportedly costs $2.5 million, the average per-episode budget of an Israeli show is about fifty thousand dollars, according to Raff. (“Hatufim” is exceptional in averaging a hundred …
Jatka lukemista ”Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 31.12.2012 – 1.01.2013”
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE (UK’69): Some poetic images, Savalas as a kick-ass Blofeld, and an unusually strong Bond girl. — Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) December 1, 2012 Features a fancy melee scene that reminds me of the ones in You Only Live Twice. — Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) December 1, 2012 (To my eye You Only …
Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law – NYTimes.com – Television isn’t an insurrectionist force in India. It’s a relatively young medium struggling to adapt to a vast viewing audience that respects tradition and suspects change. Like many an Indian bride, television here occasionally tests the boundaries but mostly finds its way by following the rules …
Jatka lukemista ”Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 27.12.2012 – 28.12.2012”
The Campy TV World of Ryan Murphy – what is appealing about Murphy’s shows: his Tourettic impulse to offend, even in the midst of the sweetest love story. Camp originated as a private language, in an era when survival as a gay man meant learning to break codes—of male and female behavior, of normality and …
Jatka lukemista ”Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 24.12.2012 – 26.12.2012”
David Bordwell: Trade secrets from David O Selznick – These norms were seldom stated outright. Were Selznick less interfering, less prone to hesitate between alternatives, less obsessed with minute details, we would not know as much about the workings of the system he sought to rule. He distilled into typescript and double carbons many notions that …
Jatka lukemista ”Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 22.12.2012 – 23.12.2012”
