Starburst Memories: The Face of 1994 – Christian Slater
All I want to do is graduate from high school, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die. – Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) “Christian Slater was pretty […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Dirking about … How do you view?
THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT Here at Dirk Towers, Mrs Dirk and I have been having a mini-film festival that has been running since January and is still in full flow: ScFi […]
DIRK’S FILMSCHOOL: POINT OF VIEW
SEMINAR NOTES Point-of-view shots are similar to the close up as they are a means of representing character subjectivity. Film-makers use Point of View so that the camera as a […]
Dirk’s Five: Going Postal
I’m not sure what exactly this is commemorating, perhaps they’re trying to use pictures of Keira Knightley to divert attention away from selling off Royal Mail for half its market […]
Dirk’s Five: Cinema On The Radio
Is there anybody alive out there? Springsteen, Radio Nowhere After cinema and literature, radio is my next love. I am voracious in my appetite and omnivorous in my diet: I consume […]
CHRIS: Pump Up The Volume (Moyle, US, Canada, 1990)
Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked? In the late eighties there was a great deal of nostalgia for the sixties. There was something […]
Dirk’s Film School: The Close-Up
SEMINAR NOTES Arguably film form is composed of two essential building blocks – The Shot and The Cut – when assembled, the combination of the shot and the cut create […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 