Making the Transformational Moment in Film
Page 21
Fail-Safe (1964) dir. Sidney Lumet. Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Family Guy (1999- ) dir. various (animated TV series). 20th Century Fox Television.
Fatal Attraction (1987) dir. Adrian Lyne. Paramount Pictures.
Fitzcarraldo (1982) dir. Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog Filmproduktion.
Fort Apache (1948) dir. John Ford. RKO Radio Pictures.
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) dir. Barry Levinson. Touchstone Pictures.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) dir. Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper. American Zoetrope.
Heaven's Gate (1980) dir. Michael Cimino. United Artists.
Holy Boy: Looking for Vincent Ward (unreleased) dir. Perkins Cobb. Clue Productions.
Hondo (1953) dir. John Farrow. Warner Bros. Pictures.
Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan. Warner Bros. Pictures.
In Spring One Plants Atone (1981) dir. Vincent Ward. Vincent Ward Films.
Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg. Universal Pictures.
Lady in the Water (2006) dir. M. Night Shyamalan. Warner Bros. Pictures.
Lost in La Mancha (2002) dir. Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe. Quixote Films.
Love Unto Death (1984) dir. Alain Resnais. Philippe Dussart; Les Films Ariane; Films A2.
M (1931) dir. Fitz Lang. Nero-Film AG.
Map of the Human Heart (1993) dir. Vincent Ward. AFFC; Les Films Ariane; PolyGram Filmed Entertainment; Working Title Films.
Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson. Walt Disney Productions.
Minority Report (2002) dir. Steven Spielberg. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. Mosfilm.
Mister Lonely (2007) dir. Harmony Korine. Love Streams; RPC; O'Salvation; Agnes b; Film4.
Mouchette (1967) dir. Robert Bresson. Argos Films.
Nosferatu (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau. Jofa-Atelier Berlin-Johannisthal.
Now Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper. Warner Bros. Pictures.
Pandora's Box (1929) dir. G.W. Pabst. Nero-Film AG.
Patriot Games (1992) dir. Phillip Noyce. Paramount Pictures.
Patton (1970) dir. Franklin J. Schaffner. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Penny Serenade (1941) dir. George Stevens. Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Rain of the Children (2008) dir. Vincent Ward. Wayward Films; Forward Films.
Rescue Dawn (2006) dir. Werner Herzog. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
River Queen (2005) dir. Vincent Ward. Silverscreen Films; Film Consortium; UK Film Council; New Zealand Film Commission.
Road House (1989) dir. Rowdy Herrington. Silver Pictures.
Roma (1972) dir. Federico Fellini. Ultra Film.
Salt (2010) dir. Phillip Noyce. Columbia Pictures.
Savoy-Hotel 217 (1936) dir. Gustav Ucicky. UFA.
Siegfried (1924) dir. Fritz Lang. UFA.
Soldier Blue (1970) dir. Ralph Nelson. AVCO Embassy Pictures.
Stakeout (1987) dir. John Badham. Touchstone Pictures.
Star Wars (1977) dir. George Lucas. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Lucasfilm.
The Bone Collector (1999) dir. Phillip Noyce. Columbia Pictures.
The English Patient (1996) dir. Anthony Minghella. Miramax Films.
The Last Samurai (2003) dir. Edward Zwick. Warner Bros. Pictures.
The Lion King (1994) dir. Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Walt Disney Pictures.
The Lovely Bones (2009) dir. Peter Jackson. DreamWorks SKG; WingNut Films.
The Massacre (1914) dir. D.W. Griffith. Biograph Company.
The Messenger (2009) dir. Oren Moverman. Oscilloscope; Omnilab Media.
The Navigator, a Medieval Odyssey (1988) dir. Vincent Ward. Arenafilm.
The New World (2005) dir. Terrence Malick. New Line Cinema.
Tie Pacific (2010) dir. various (TV mini-series). DreamWorks SKG; HBO.
The Philadelphia Story (1940) dir. George Cukor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The Quiet American (2002) dir. Phillip Noyce. Miramax Films.
The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford. Warner Bros. Pictures.
The Stalking Moon (1968) dir. Robert Mulligan. National General Production Inc.
The Unloved (2009) dir. Samantha Morton. Film4, Revolution Films; EM Media.
Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott. Paramount Pictures.
Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles. Universal International Pictures.
Troy (2004) dir. Wolfgang Peterson. Warner Bros. Pictures.
Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Paramount Pictures.
Vigil (1984) dir. Vincent Ward. John Maynard Productions.
What Dreams May Come (1998) dir. Vincent Ward. PolyGram Filmed Entertainment; Interscope Communications; Metafilmics.
Wrath of Gods (2006) dir. Jon Einarsson Gustafsson. Artio Productions.
Wristcutters, a Love Story (2006) dir. Goran Dukic. No Matter Pictures; Crispy Films; Adam Sherman; Halcyon Pictures.
The author acknowledges the copyright owners of the motion pictures from which frame grabs have been used in this book for purposes of commentary, criticism and scholarship under the Fair Use Doctrine and in accordance with the guidelines of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Fair Usage Publication of Film Stills, 1993). No endorsement or sponsorship of this book by the copyright holders of the motion pictures from which they have been reproduced is claimed or implied.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Auerbach, Erich (1968) Mimesis (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press)
Badham, John and Craig Modderno (2006) I'll Be in My Trailer: The Creative Wars Between Directors & Actors (Studio City CA: Michael Wiese Productions)
Ballinger, Alexander (2004) New Cinematographers (New York: Collins Design)
Barrie, J. M. (1987) Peter Pan (New York: Henry Holt and Company)
Belting, Hans (2007) Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights (New York: Prestel)
Berger, John (1985) “Afterword” in Hugh Brody and Michael Ignatieff, Nineteen Nineteen (London: Faber and Faber)
Bergerey, Benjamin (2002) Reflections: Twenty-One Cinematographers at Work (Hollywood: ASC Press)
Biddick, Kathleen (1998) The Shock of Medievalism (Durham NC: Duke University Press)
Biskind, Peter (2005) Down and Dirty Pictures (London: Bloomsbury)
Bollas, Christopher (1993) Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience (London: Routledge)
Booker, Christopher (2004) The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (London: Continuum)
Boorman, John et al. (1995) Projections 4: Film-makers on Film-making (London: Faber and Faber)
Bordwell, David (2006) The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (Berkeley CA: University of California Press)
Brabazon, Tara (2002) Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women (Sydney: UNSW Press)
Bruno, Giuliana (2007) Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art Architecture, and Film (New York: Verso)
Burch, Noël (1973) Theory of Film Practice (London: Secker & Warburg)
Carroll, Lewis (1865 & 1871; 2009) Allce's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (London: Penguin Books)
Caruth, Cathy (1996) Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, History (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press)
Cavell, Stanley (1979) The World Viewed (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press)
Cupitt, Don (1987) The Long-Legged Fly: A Theology of Language and Desire (London: SCM Press)
Deleuze, Gilles (2005) Cinema 2: the Time-Image (London: Continuum)
Didion, Joan (2004) Where I Was From (London: Harper Perennial)
Frost, Jacqueline B. (2009) Cinematography for Directors (Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions)
Gilbert, Helen, ed. (2001) Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology (New York: Routledge)
Gulino, Paul Joseph (2004) Screenwrittng: The Sequence Approach (New York: Continuum)
Heinlein, Robert (1988) “Elsewhen” in Assignment in Eternity Vol.1 (London: Hodd
er and Stoughton), pp. 89-127
Herman, David (2009) Basic Elements of Narrative (London: Wiley-Blackwell)
Holloway, John (1979) Narrative and Structure: Exploratory Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Hollyn, Norman (2009) The Lean Forward Moment (Berkeley CA: New Riders)
Koestler, Arthur (1975) The Act of Creation (London: Pan Books)
Konijn, Elly A. (2000) Acting Emotions (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press)
Lesy, Michael (1973) Wisconsin Death Trip (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press)
Lewis, Jon (1995) Whom God Wishes to Destroy…Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood (Durham: Duke University Press)
Lévy, Pierre (1998) Becoming Virtual (New York: Plenum)
Macnab, Geoffrey (2009) Screen Epiphanies (London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan)
Mamet, David (1992) On Directing Film (New York: Penguin)
Marks, Dara (2007) Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc (Studio City, CA: Three Mountain Press).
McGowan, Todd (2007) The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (Albany: State University of New York Press)
McKee, Robert (1999) Story (London: Methuen)
Naficy, Hamid (2001) An Accented Cinema: Exile and Diasporic Filmmaking (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press)
Proust, Marcel (1913-27; 2003) In Search of Lost Time (New York: The Modern Library)
Rancière, Jacques (2006) “The Child Director” in Film Fables (New York: Berg), pp. 63-70
Said, Edward (1993) Culture and Imperialism (London: Chatto & Windus)
Sarris, Andrew (1962/3) “Notes on the auteur theory in 1962” in Film Culture no. 27, pp.1-8
Sebald, W.G. (2004) On the Natural History of Destruction (New York: The Modern Library)
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1990) The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues, edited by Sarah Harasym (New York: Routledge)
Stewart, Kathleen (2007) Ordinary Affects (Durham: Duke University Press)
Taine, Hippolyte (1872) History of English Literature (New York: Holt & Williams)
Taylor, Timothy D. (2007) Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World (Durham: Duke University Press)
Thanouli, Eleftheria (2009) Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration (London: Wallflower Press)
Thomson, David (1991) “The True Story of Perkins Cobb, King of the One-Shots” in Movieline, April, pp. 50-54
Thomson, David (1992) “Perkins Cobb Revisited” in Movieline, April, pp. 44-47, 88-89
Thomson, David (1997) Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts (New York: Vintage Books)
Truffaut, Francois (1954) “Une certaine tendance du cinema Francais” in Cahiers du Cinema no. 31, pp. 15-29
Vogler, Christopher (1992) The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structures for Screenwriters and Storytellers (Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions)
Ward, Vincent, Kely Lyons and Geoff Chapple (1989) The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, screenplay, with foreword by Nick Roddick (London: Faber and Faber)
Ward, Vincent, with Alison Carter, Geoff Chapple and Louis Nowra (1990) Edge of the Earth: Stories and Images from the Antipodes (Auckland: Heinemann Reed)
Ward, Vincent, with Lani-rain Feltham and Louis Nowra (2010) The Past Awaits: People, Images, Film (Nelson NZ: Craig Potton Publishing)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
Born in 1956, Dan Fleming is the same age as Vincent Ward. Growing up in Northern Ireland during the “Troubles,” Dan found respite in his local cinema, chaired a cinephile film society that screened three films every week, and learnt to make 16mm films of his own. He then gained the first doctoral degree to be awarded by a Scottish university in the new subject of film studies. Ironically, however, he abandoned film and joined the early “Sony Portapak” revolution, becoming a community video activist and practitioner. While working with community groups and educators to help develop hands-on media literacy using the new video technologies, Dan edited the grassroots journal of the Association for Media Education in Scotland (AMES) and taught video art and documentary at a community college. Over the next twenty-five years, Dan became Professor and chair of two university film and media studies departments, first in Ireland and then in New Zealand where he currently lives. Along the way, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship and a Distinguished Teaching Award, wrote three books, lectured in Brazil, dabbled in screenwriting, held a Research Fellowship at British Telecom in the team trialing Video on Demand systems, presented at 17 international conferences, edited a textbook, and raised alpacas. Dan is a member of the University Film and Video Association. The London Times Educational Supplement called his first book “a work that perfectly meets the moment.” Dan says that “meeting the moment” is one theme of his work in general. Another is his belief that the cinematic image still has the power to return to people a capacity for experience that other modern technologies have tended to take away. For more information, please visit http://www.transform-film.info
Thaw Naing, co-creator of the “graphic novel” section of this book, was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1986 and grew up in Fiji and New Zealand. He attended Massey University in New Zealand, specializing in illustration, and has illustrated for a wide range of projects including children's books and graphic novels. Thaw has also worked in film as a concept designer. He lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. For more information, please visit http://www.thawnaing.com
* * *
(Portraits on this page painted by Thaw Naing.)
{ THE MYTH OF MWP }
In a dark time, a light bringer came along, leading the curious and the frustrated to clarity and empowerment. It took the well-guarded secrets out of the hands of the few and made them available to all. It spread a spirit of openness and creative freedom, and built a storehouse of knowledge dedicated to the betterment of the arts.
The essence of the Michael Wiese Productions (MWP) is empowering people who have the burning desire to express themselves creatively. We help them realize their dreams by putting the tools in their hands. We demystify the sometimes secretive worlds of screenwriting, directing, acting, producing, film financing, and other media crafts.
By doing so, we hope to bring forth a realization of ‘conscious media'which we define as being positively charged, emphasizing hope and affirming positive values like trust, cooperation, self-empowerment, freedom, and love. Grounded in the deep roots of myth, it aims to be healing both for those who make the art and those who encounter it. It hopes to be transformative for people, opening doors to new possibilities and pulling back veils to reveal hidden worlds.
MWP has built a storehouse of knowledge unequaled in the world, for no other publisher has so many titles on the media arts. Please visit www.mwp.com where you will find many free resources and a 25% discount on our books. Sign up and become part of the wider creative community!
Onward and upward,
Michael Wiese Publisher/Filmmaker
MEDIA PROFESSIONALS SCREENWRITERS INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
MICHAEL WIESE PRODUCTIONS GIVES YOU INSTANT ACCESS TO THE BEST BOOKS AND INSTRUCTORS IN THE WORLD
FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND DISCOUNTS, CONNECT WITH US ON WWW.MWP.COM