Dirking About … The Great Unread
The long Summer nights are playing havoc with my viewing schedule. There are fences to fix. Beer to drink. My ‘To Watch’ pile is about to topple over and drown […]
The long Summer nights are playing havoc with my viewing schedule. There are fences to fix. Beer to drink. My ‘To Watch’ pile is about to topple over and drown […]
When I took to Twitter for suggestions of the greatest Tracking Shots for Dirk’s Film School STUDENT NOTEBOOK, I was struck that when it comes to a good tracking shot […]
SEMINAR NOTES Tracking shots typically involve moving the camera on a platform running on tracks, towards a subject or away from it or from side-to-side. R.W. Paul devised panning and […]
“If anything goes wrong, at least this time, I’ll have witnesses.” – Terry Gilliam (in THE HAMSTER FACTOR, AND OTHER TALES OF TWELVE MONKEYS It appears that Terry Gilliam is […]
PROF DOM-DIRK RECOMMENDS One hundred years ago this year the feature film came in to it’s own when the Italian’s got there first with the epic “Cabiria”, a year later […]
SEMINAR NOTES The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of a human bladder – Alfred Hitchcock It was the development of the ‘Latham Loop’ that […]
Two thirds of The Dirk Malcolm Alternative have packed their bags and headed for the hills for adventures in EXTREME CAMPING. Yes, it’s time for the annual Village People Fan […]
One of the themes of this list of post-STAR WARS films is the ‘autobiographical film’: the struggle to present ‘the personal’ in a medium that is collaborative, expensive and ‘in […]
“And all the grown-ups will say, “But why are the kids crying?” and the kids will say, “Haven’t you heard? Rick is dead! The People’s Poet is dead!” And then […]
SEMINAR NOTES When G.A.Smith remade the Louis Lumiere’s L’ARROSEUR ARROSÉ (1895) as THE PRACTICAL JOKE (1998) he gave more prominence to the chase of the young boy who douses the […]