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 […]
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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: 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 […]
Starburst Memories: A Pictorial History of Horror by Denis Gifford
Following the B-Movie’s Film School, I have been on the hunt for further examples of genuine second features (rather than those films that embody the ‘spirit of the Bs’). As […]
Dirk’s Five: Bueller? Bueller? Anybody? Anybody?
When John Hughes passed away in 2009, we screened FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF by way of a tribute, at one of our monthly Dirk Nights. Dom-Dirk is not a fan. […]
DIRK’S FILM SCHOOL: SLAPSTICK
SEMINAR NOTES “What’s funnier than watching someone fall over? Watching a dozen people fall over.” Mack Sennett (Producer of Keystone Studios who made his career from slapstick comedy) Slapstick dominated […]
CHRIS: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Hughes, US, 1986)
“The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads – they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.” – Grace, the school secretary John Hughes is a […]
The Dirk Malcolm Alternative 