http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector.jpg The Film Blog of Brian Trenchard-Smith, Quentin Tarantino's favourite Director. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:17:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Very few directors have final cut. It's great that Kathryn Bigelow protected her vision by demanding and receiving the coveted I Did It My Way.                           THE HURT LOCKER tensely depicts the heroism of a bomb squad and through it reveals our adrenaline fueled addiction to war. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2010/03/02/the-hurt-locker-final-cut-marketing-censorship-directors-vision-and-related-issues/                   A good crowd showed up for the Midnight show, a few more than the July screening. Show of hands indicated about 75% of the audience had not seen it before, and came because of the recommendation of friends or internet reviewers. They got all the jokes, they gasped at the ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/12/11/stunt-rock-32-years-on-still-makes-them-laugh-and-gasp/ For a filmmaker, a Hollywood Happy Ending is when your last film gets you the next one. Here's the face of a happy man.                       He is Kurando Mitsutake, writer/producer/director/star of SAMURAI AVENGER - THE BLIND WOLF, which won Best Film and Best Special Effects at the recent Fantastic Planet Sydney Science ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/11/30/creative-vision-rewarded-past-and-present-plus-stunt-rock-screens-this-friday-midnight-new-beverly-cinema/ One day, in a parallel universe, when President Palin declares martial law (now there's a movie...) I shall probably be indicted for my 39 (and counting) Crimes Against Cinema (I'm an enthusiastic recidivist). The Prosecutor will inevitably ask me the question: "When did you first decide to make films?" ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/11/28/why-make-movies-part-1/ I know how hard it is to make a movie, especially when the budget is the smell of an oily rag. So I bring that perspective to this new role, a judge at a film festival, FANTASTIC PLANET SYDNEY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FILM FESTIVAL to be precise. All the films ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/11/11/fantastic-planet-sydney-science-fiction-fantasy-film-festival/ Director Adam Green sent this full-blooded infomercial to the Masters of Horror circle. I thought I would pass it on. I laughed, but then I am a sick and wicked puppy.                     Adam Green and Paul Solet have interesting IMDB profiles. They are determined fellows. Watch them rise. http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/10/15/dont-you-hate-infomercials-heres-a-halloween-treat/ For those budding action directors out there, I offer some thoughts to spark internal debate. I'm in favor of quick cutting, but against turning a fight scene into a blizzard of telephoto images. My cinema brain likes to process fast, but in order to maximize my enjoyment of the sequence, my ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/09/29/seeing-is-believing-in-action-scenes-a-hairs-breadth-escape-bikes-rule/                                             I am about to start shooting ARCTIC BLAST starring Michael Shanks on Monday. Preparations are in high gear, but I am taking the time to enjoy a second viewing of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS this weekend and watch a Tasmanian audience enjoy it. Recently El Q presented my Vietnam war movie THE ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/08/24/go-see-quentin-tarantinos-wry-take-on-world-war-two-inglourious-basterds-its-great-fun/ Here’s the opening scene from a screenplay for a World War II movie…                         EXTERIOR CLIFF TOP SUNDOWN Superimpose title: CRETE, GREEK ISLANDS, 1941. A Messerschmitt strafes an Australian Army truck as it hurtles up a steep wooded incline towards the cliff edge 200 yards away. The bullets strike the gas tank and the back ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/07/27/cunning-stunts-no-spoonerism-intended-a-cunning-stunt-master-rock-and-roll-and-those-wild-and-wacky-days-of-ozploitation-movies-that-were-not-quite-hollywood/ Bicycles, Testicles, and French Nicole Kidman…the rush of speed on the senses, the power of the pedal on the environment. Movie trivia from the genre trenches. Is an homage a rip off or a celebration? I prefer to think of imitation as the sincerest form of flattery. All genre directors try ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thegenredirector/2009/07/20/bicycles-testicles-and-french-nicole-kidman%e2%80%a6/