War Horse (2012) directed by Steven Spielberg is released on the 13th January 2012. Originally written as a children’s book by Michael Morpurgo and adapted successfully as a radio broadcast and a play at the National Theatre, there are high expectations. The story focuses on the relationship between a teenage boy, Albert Narracott (played by Jeremy Irvine) and his horse, Joey, during the First World War. The journey they embark on leads them and the onlooker through the events of the Great War to the middle of No Mans Land. Other members of the cast include Emily Watson (Gosford Park), David Thewlis (Professor Lupin - Harry Potter), and Benedict Cumberbatch (Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy).
These are some of the photos from the official Warhorse website - http://www.warhorsemovie.com/
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| Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and Joey |
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| Jeremy Irvine with Steven Spielberg on set |
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The Artist (2011), shot entirely in black and white, is a silent film set in 1927 in Hollywood. It depicts a romance between a declining male actor and a budding Holywood actress during the transition from silent films to the ‘talkies’. This revival of interest in Silent Films has made me go back and see what I can find…
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| A Screenshot from the film |
Un Chien Andalou (Un perro andaluz/ An Andalusian Dog), 1929
I came across a silent surrealist short film made two years after to the setting of The Artist, in 1929, directed by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and the artist Salvador Dalí. The film doesn’t exactly have a plot; there is a staggered chronological order with the only indicators of time being the opening “Once upon a time” and “eight years later”. The film could be considered as a visual dream, jumping from one seen where a woman’s eye is held open by a man, carrying a razor blade to another scene of a of a man riding his bicycle down the street to an even more bizarre scene of ants crawling out from a small crevice in a man’s hand.
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| The official film poster |
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| The Woman's eye and the man's razor blade |
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"The legendary shot of the eyeball (actually that of a dead calf) being slit by Buñuel." |
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