Film: So Long at the Fair (1950)
Producer Antony Darnborough took two pokes at directing in 1950, starting with The Astonished Heart and So Long at the Fair, albeit co-directing both with the aid of then-newcomer Terence Fisher,..
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Tom Roston’s I Lost It at the Video Store
Book review and podcast interview with author Tom Roston on “I Lost It at the Video Store: A Filmmaker’s Oral History of a Vanished Era” (The Critical Press).
Book: I Lost It at the Video Store: A Filmmaker’s Oral History of a Vanished Era (2015)
The current state of the classic home video store as an endangered species has inspired a variety of authors to pen curated histories of an era that’s either vanished wholeheartedly in towns and cities, or still survives as feisty mom & pop, bricks and mortar shops…
Kings and Desperate Men (1981) + Scanners Q&A Visual Podcast + Book Signing
In this follow-up National Canadian Film Day post, I’ve added links to a visual version of the Scanners Q&A / Editor’s Blog podcast, HD extracts of the pulsing images, a film review of Alexis Kanner’s Kings and Desperate Men (1981), and book signing news.
Film: Kings and Desperate Men (1981)
As co-writer/ director Alexis Kanner recounted in a live 1984 interview at Britain’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) Theatre, Edmund Ward’s original story and script needed a bit of goosing, transforming it from a TV-level hostage drama to something with greater feature film scope, but an assortment of challenges ultimately hindered…
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