http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/ Film reviews, alternative views and essays on cinema http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/images/rss.jpg http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/ This site is on indefinite hiatus... Fri, 16 Dec 2009 01:06:12 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,10,227 "Adaptation is an extremely important part of the American cinema. Not exactly its own genre, it is at least its own category... Whenever a particularly critically respected, or - equally - deeply loved, novel gets adapted to film, this fact once again becomes a prominent issue..." Tue, 5 May 2009 19:42:57 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,5,226 A group discussion about the strangest, funniest, and most confusing movie trailer you are ever likely to see... Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:09:53 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,4,225 While unavoidably compromised, does this adaptation of the revered cult graphic novel do enough to satisfy the fanboys and uninitiated alike?... Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:22:37 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,3,224 "From the first days of cinema and the Lumiere brothers’ Arrival of a Train cinema has always enjoyed a complex relationship with reality. The camera captures truthfully what is in front of it, yet when projected onto a cinema screen it becomes a reflection of that event that can sometimes be convincing enough to be accepted as real..." Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:46:54 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,3,223 James MacDowell discusses modern romantic comedy in light of the history of romantic love it grew from, and the intertextuality so common in the genre since the 80s. Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:11:32 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,2,222 "This Alternate Take will first deconstruct, as it were, the film’s fantasy of space and place, criticising the specific ways in which it departs from what we might for convenience’s sake call reality. It will then offer an antidote to all this negativity, restoring the film to our good graces through an analysis of its own self-awareness and self-reflexivity in this regard..." Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:03:51 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,2,220 Anna Sloan is torn between distaste and pleasure for a film that is simultaneously glorious and proudly shallow... Sun, 8 Feb 2009 12:52:34 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2009,2,219 Anna Sloan compares the seminal Disney fairytale to Howard Hawks' underrated updating of it, tracing the approach of each to notions of romance and fantasy... Wed, 19 2008 00:54:06 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2008,11,218 This bleak international production mixes a documentary style with social realist drama to powerful, yet tender, effect... Sun, 2 2008 09:57:49 GMT email@alternatetakes.co.uk http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2008,11,217