Cinema is littered with airborne accidents – but which are the most memorable?
This week's Clip joint is by James Rawson, a TV and web producer specialising in film journalism and based in Doha. Follow him on Twitter at @jrawson.
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What, dear reader, is the appeal in watching innocent souls hurtle through the sky to their impending death? Is it a deep-rooted concern for the wellbeing of our fellow man? Perhaps a long-standing interest in the effects of high stress on aluminium alloys? Or maybe, just maybe, there's no good reason and we're all a bit weird.
Adjust your seatbelts, adopt the brace position and clutch your rosary beads as we soar through some of cinema's finest aeronautical brown trouser moments.
Air Force One
Before filming Air Force One,...
This week's Clip joint is by James Rawson, a TV and web producer specialising in film journalism and based in Doha. Follow him on Twitter at @jrawson.
Think you can do better than James? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop an email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
What, dear reader, is the appeal in watching innocent souls hurtle through the sky to their impending death? Is it a deep-rooted concern for the wellbeing of our fellow man? Perhaps a long-standing interest in the effects of high stress on aluminium alloys? Or maybe, just maybe, there's no good reason and we're all a bit weird.
Adjust your seatbelts, adopt the brace position and clutch your rosary beads as we soar through some of cinema's finest aeronautical brown trouser moments.
Air Force One
Before filming Air Force One,...
- 1/31/2013
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
More than just a variety of western, spaghetti is the movie food of love, death and lip-smacking slurps
This week's Clip joint is by Jay Glennie, who is currently writing a book of interviews with British Oscar winners. Follow him on Twitter @Britannium
Think of spaghetti and the movies and the chances are an image of a mysterious man with no name in a Sergio Leone western is instantly brought to mind.
But think again! Whether it's egg or durum wheat pasta, spaghetti in particular has proved a pivotal plot device in many of our favourite movies. I'm jumping through hoops (see what I did there?) for these carbohydrate-laden scenes.
The Lady and the Tramp
Spaghetti has never been more seductive than in this scene between a streetwise mutt and a prim 'n' proper Cocker Spaniel. When the Tramp takes his love to the best Italian restaurant in town, Tony's,...
This week's Clip joint is by Jay Glennie, who is currently writing a book of interviews with British Oscar winners. Follow him on Twitter @Britannium
Think of spaghetti and the movies and the chances are an image of a mysterious man with no name in a Sergio Leone western is instantly brought to mind.
But think again! Whether it's egg or durum wheat pasta, spaghetti in particular has proved a pivotal plot device in many of our favourite movies. I'm jumping through hoops (see what I did there?) for these carbohydrate-laden scenes.
The Lady and the Tramp
Spaghetti has never been more seductive than in this scene between a streetwise mutt and a prim 'n' proper Cocker Spaniel. When the Tramp takes his love to the best Italian restaurant in town, Tony's,...
- 10/31/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Screenwriters just love the classroom – so pay attention at the back for the best clips from films focusing on those emotionally turbulent high school years
This week's Clip joint is by James Rawson, a TV and web producer specialising in film journalism and based in Doha, Qatar. Follow him on Twitter at @jrawson.
Think you can do better than James? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Cast your mind back to your teens, if it doesn't pain you too much. Those emotionally turbulent years when everything was changing physically, socially and psychologically; when every other thought was about sex; when you were struggling to learn life lessons but still look cool at the same time.
As an institution, high school has been the vehicle for almost every cinematic genre*, and it's easy to see why screenwriters are...
This week's Clip joint is by James Rawson, a TV and web producer specialising in film journalism and based in Doha, Qatar. Follow him on Twitter at @jrawson.
Think you can do better than James? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, drop an email to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
Cast your mind back to your teens, if it doesn't pain you too much. Those emotionally turbulent years when everything was changing physically, socially and psychologically; when every other thought was about sex; when you were struggling to learn life lessons but still look cool at the same time.
As an institution, high school has been the vehicle for almost every cinematic genre*, and it's easy to see why screenwriters are...
- 10/24/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Five readers discuss the films they believe have best depicted older people
From 6 July 2012 you'll be able to watch the documentary Ping Pong online exclusively with guardian.co.uk/film. Ping Pong follows eight people with a combined age of 700 as they head to China to compete in the over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia.
Two of the film's stars, Terry Donlon, 83, and Les D'Arcy, 91, spoke to the Guardian earlier this week. The spirit and competitiveness conveyed by both men indicates how markedly different they are to the clichéd image of old age pensioners that cinema often puts across.
To mark the release of Ping Pong, earlier this week we asked readers to give their thoughts on the films that have done a decent job of representing older people. Below are five of our favourite responses. But what do you think? Which films in your opinion have best portrayed old age?...
From 6 July 2012 you'll be able to watch the documentary Ping Pong online exclusively with guardian.co.uk/film. Ping Pong follows eight people with a combined age of 700 as they head to China to compete in the over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia.
Two of the film's stars, Terry Donlon, 83, and Les D'Arcy, 91, spoke to the Guardian earlier this week. The spirit and competitiveness conveyed by both men indicates how markedly different they are to the clichéd image of old age pensioners that cinema often puts across.
To mark the release of Ping Pong, earlier this week we asked readers to give their thoughts on the films that have done a decent job of representing older people. Below are five of our favourite responses. But what do you think? Which films in your opinion have best portrayed old age?...
- 7/4/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Suffering withdrawal symptoms after Euro 2012? This week's clip joint tackles the best football scenes in cinema
This week's Clip joint is by Ashley Clark, who also wrote Clip joints on breaking the fourth wall, mirrors and arguments. He runs the film blog Permanent Plastic Helmet. You can follow it on Twitter at @PPlasticHelmet, and/or him @_ash_clark.
Think you can do better than Ashley? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop an email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
As the dust settles on tiki-taka titans Spain's soaraway success at the Euro 2012, our thoughts have turned to football's ever-complex relationship with film. Blessed with a fast pace and unpredictable rhythms, the action of the game is rather difficult to capture authentically without looking fake or telegraphed, but that hasn't stopped a number of film-makers trying their luck. Others, meanwhile, have simply used the raw...
This week's Clip joint is by Ashley Clark, who also wrote Clip joints on breaking the fourth wall, mirrors and arguments. He runs the film blog Permanent Plastic Helmet. You can follow it on Twitter at @PPlasticHelmet, and/or him @_ash_clark.
Think you can do better than Ashley? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop an email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
As the dust settles on tiki-taka titans Spain's soaraway success at the Euro 2012, our thoughts have turned to football's ever-complex relationship with film. Blessed with a fast pace and unpredictable rhythms, the action of the game is rather difficult to capture authentically without looking fake or telegraphed, but that hasn't stopped a number of film-makers trying their luck. Others, meanwhile, have simply used the raw...
- 7/4/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinema's best examples of the fine art of chucking a table
This week's Clip joint is by James Rawson, a TV and web producer specialising in film journalism and based in Doha. Follow him on Twitter at @jrawson.
Think you can do better than James? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop and email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
"Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers." So reads Matthew 21:12, offering proof, if proof were needed, that sometimes you just need to grab the edge of a table and send it hurtling across a synagogue. Even Jesus couldn't resist.
Two thousand years and the table-flip phenomenon now boasts its own emoticon (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻) as well as some truly bizarre Japanese video games. However, the most glorious...
This week's Clip joint is by James Rawson, a TV and web producer specialising in film journalism and based in Doha. Follow him on Twitter at @jrawson.
Think you can do better than James? If you've got an idea for a future Clip joint, pop and email over to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk
"Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers." So reads Matthew 21:12, offering proof, if proof were needed, that sometimes you just need to grab the edge of a table and send it hurtling across a synagogue. Even Jesus couldn't resist.
Two thousand years and the table-flip phenomenon now boasts its own emoticon (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻) as well as some truly bizarre Japanese video games. However, the most glorious...
- 6/27/2012
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
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