If Adventure Has A Name…
Here’s a nice tribute to one of cinema’s greatest heroes, Indiana Jones, eminent archaeologist, academic, and adventurer by Clara Darko. Good news for Crystal Skull haters (hey, it has its moments!)...
View ArticleThe Making of Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
To wind up our coverage of Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom on this, the 30th anniversary of its original U.S release, here is the making of documentary from 1984 (pt.1 of 6) Enjoy, and quit...
View ArticleUnscene Is Believing: Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom
Temple Of Doom scriptwriters Bill Huyck, Gloria Katz, and director Steven Spielberg deliberated over several iterations for the sequence where Indy, Willie and Short Round escape a poisonous night out...
View ArticleScene Is Believing: Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Peruvian Temple set, stage 4, Elstree Studios “Throw me the whip.” “Throw me the Idol.” Ever since Goldfinger, the James Bond series has come up with a spectacular opening pre-credit sequence....
View ArticleScene Is Believing: Jaws
The Indianapolis speech There’s an old truism that goes “If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage.” That doesn’t necessarily mean a screenplay arrives at day one, take one, fully formed,...
View ArticleIndiana Jones 4 And Echoes Of The Past
“It’s like poetry, it rhymes” – Creator George Lucas, not content with his Star Wars Ring Cycle, also got Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg in on the act, casting back to earlier films in the...
View ArticleThe Great Unmade? Not Tonight, Josephine: Kubrick’s Napoleon
Kubrick. Napoleon. Two outstanding generals in their own fields, a marriage of subject and auteur that director Stanley Kubrick believed would be “the greatest film (n)ever made.” But endless...
View ArticleEvolve or Die: Jurassic Park 3
Dr. Grant: With the best intentions? Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. In Steven Spielberg’s seminal 1993 blockbuster, Jurassic Park, it was established that...
View ArticleRenegade Commentary: Raiders Of The Lost Ark
What do you do when you can’t get hold of a commentary by a favourite director on one of his best films? Record your own, I suppose. Darren Dochterman, a 30-year veteran concept artist and visual...
View ArticleParadise Lost: A tribute to Empire of the Sun
During the early 1980s Steven Spielberg’s body of work were mainly studies in innocence, with a deep desire contained within to remain just so. Then in the mid 1980s something happened. Spielberg was...
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