CD: Blackwood (2014)
For this ghost tale, Lorne Balfe conjures his inner Philip Glass and has a lot of fun with spiraling, elliptical minimal patterns and thematic material…
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Retelling the saga of The Bounty (1984) + Take Me to Pitcairn (2013)
Reviews of the ever-enigmatic saga of The Bounty (1984), new on Blu from Twilight Time + Julian McDonnell’s witty documentary Take Me To Pitcairn (2013).
BR: Bounty, The (1984)
Originally drafted as a two-part film project by director David Lean and screenwriter Robert Bolt in 1977, the lavish adaptation of Richard Hough’s book Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian went as far as building a full-scale replica of the HMS. Bounty ship for Dino De Laurentiis’ production, but things went sour…
Film: Take Me to Pitcairn (2013)
British actor and world’s smallest kite seller Julian McDonnell decided to plan a trip to the island of Pitcairn, known for highly specific attributes: the tiny rock where Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers fled with a handful of Polynesian men and women after the infamous mutiny on the HMS Bounty, back in 1789…
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014) + Chisholm ’72 (2004)
Reviews of She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014), Mary Dore’s detailed chronicle of the women’s movement playing at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema + Shola Lynch’s Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed (2003) on DVD from Fox.
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