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We like all sorts of films at Three Monkeys, and our film section reflects this - giving ample space to documentaries and foreign films, alongside the more mainstream. If you're passionate about film, and are itching to write, get in touch - we're on the lookout for someone to bolster our Film section. Submission guidelines are here
Adrien Brody, Oscar winning star of The Piano was one of the stars Peter Jackson specifically wanted for his remake of King Kong. Speaking from the set in New Zealand, Brodey talks about the timeless appeal of the film, and the inspiration he found in Eugene O'Neill's work.
By John Millar
Adrien Brody is looking the worse for wear. The Oscar winning star is normally and rightly regarded as one of Hollywood’s most elegant leading men. He’s so smart and chic in fact that Esquire Magazine named him America’s best dressed man and he’s often seen modelling top of the range designer gear.
Today however 31 year-old Brody is dishevelled and dirty; his clothes might best be described a woebegone because they look as though the man wearing them has been dragged through a hedge backwards.
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When Lisa Henson, daughter of the late Jim Henson, approached Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean to make a fantasy film, in the style of Labyrinth, they jumped at the chance. Even though it involved making a film that would look like $40million on a budget of $4million. Gaiman and McKean explain how MirrorMask came to life.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s name is mentioned in intelectual circles among those who love Spanish cinematographic history beside the names of great directors such as Saura or Buñuel. In his last film, the internationally acclaimed Volver, the ilustrous man from La Mancha guides us on a fascinating walk along legend-filled streets of his childhood. He takes us through the austere La Mancha courtyards and he sorrounds us in the scent of fighting mothers, in the land that the great Cervantes already described in his Quixote. Like Cervante’s mad knight, the characters in Volver seem to have lost their marbles. “It is because of the wind Solano †as the main character mentions, a dry wind that feeds everyday the everlasting mills and that, in one of the last scenes, drives the rubbish containers dancing through the desert streets.
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Lorraine O'Hanlon reviews the 2006 film adaptation of the Alan Moore/ David Lloyd graphic novel V for Vendetta, and finds much to admire behind the movie's mask.
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The World Trade Organisation may not be the funniest transnational administrative body, but as a target for satire, in the hands of the Yes Men, it's tragically comic. Challenging unthinking assumptions about free trade and corporate responsibility, while making you laugh is their modus operandi, and it works! The film The Yes Men documents their adventures as they impersonate the WTO at conferences worldwide. Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men spoke to Three Monkeys Online to explain some of the method behind the madness.
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The 2004 winner of the Pardo d'Oro(Golden Leopard) award at the Locarno International Film Festival was Private, and Italian produced and directed film set in the occupied territories. A psychodrama examining the dynamics of Occupation, with a cast of Palestinian and Israeli actors, filmed in Calabria, Italy, by the son of one of Italy's most famous TV presenters. Director Saverio Costanzo explains the genesis and realisation of this extraordinary film.
No other director in the history of Hollywood has had such a sudden trajectory between fame and infamy. Three Monkeys Online encountered the legendary film-maker, Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate recently in Bologna.
Robert Quinn grew up in a cinema. Really. The son of a film-maker, Bob Quinn, who embarked on a mission to bring film-making to rural, gaelic speaking Ireland, Robert did in fact grow up in a Cinema which doubled as a family home. In the metaphoric sense, though, he has also grown up in the cinema, working his way up through the ranks of Irish film making. He is now an award winning director in his own right, and about to film the life story of Irish rock star Philip Lynott.
Atypical heroines, parochialism, noir as a genre? All up for discussion with Oscar winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores, on the release of his new film Quo Vadis, Baby?, a noir set in Three Monkeys Online's very own Bologna.
Adrien Brody, Oscar winning star of The Piano was one of the stars Peter Jackson specifically wanted for his remake of King Kong. Speaking from the set in New Zealand, Brodey talks about the timeless appeal of the film, and the inspiration he found in Eugene O'Neill's work.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, is the eagerly awaited film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1927 Pulitzer prize winning novel. ...
What tangled web will he weave, and will he get the girl? More to the point, is it worth watching? Three Monkeys Online goes to se...
Ken Loach's film The Navigators recently got an open air screening as part of the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bolog...
Indymedia film-maker, Eamonn Crudden, along with a multitude of others, shot footage at the Genoa G8 meeting in 2001. In the wake...
Australian Director Peter Weir recently opened the Cinema Ritrovato film festival, and took some time out to talk about the...
Sean Walsh has attempted, what for many remains impossible, to film Joyce's novel Ulysses. Mark Harkin spoke to the directo...
A film about Jesus, in Aramaic? Directed by Mad Max Mel Gibson? Many were sceptical of his sanity, but box office returns h...
Holy Cross is a BBC docudrama, directed by Mark Brozel, focussing on events that occured outside Holy Cross school in Northern Ire...
Shane Barry takes a look at the enduring appeal of 2001 a Space Odyssey...
The Lord of the Rings continues to endure, as shown by the massive success of The Return of the King. Brendan McManu...
