Gerald Feil, a cinematographer who worked on Lord of the Flies, Friday the 13th Part III and the Hal Ashby-directed Rolling Stones concert film Let’s Spend the Night Together, died Feb. 9 in Montreal after a short illness, a family spokesman said. He was 87.
Feil also served as a lead cameraman and director for Africa, a four-hour documentary that aired on ABC in 1967 and was hosted by Gregory Peck. As part of the project, he directed and shot an anti-apartheid film that got him was banned from South Africa under its old regime.
Feil explored the art of cinema verité with ...
Feil also served as a lead cameraman and director for Africa, a four-hour documentary that aired on ABC in 1967 and was hosted by Gregory Peck. As part of the project, he directed and shot an anti-apartheid film that got him was banned from South Africa under its old regime.
Feil explored the art of cinema verité with ...
- 2/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Gerald Feil, a cinematographer who worked on Lord of the Flies, Friday the 13th Part III and the Hal Ashby-directed Rolling Stones concert film Let’s Spend the Night Together, died Feb. 9 in Montreal after a short illness, a family spokesman said. He was 87.
Feil also served as a lead cameraman and director for Africa, a four-hour documentary that aired on ABC in 1967 and was hosted by Gregory Peck. As part of the project, he directed and shot an anti-apartheid film that got him was banned from South Africa under its old regime.
Feil explored the art of cinema verité with ...
Feil also served as a lead cameraman and director for Africa, a four-hour documentary that aired on ABC in 1967 and was hosted by Gregory Peck. As part of the project, he directed and shot an anti-apartheid film that got him was banned from South Africa under its old regime.
Feil explored the art of cinema verité with ...
- 2/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Tom Gaman | Written and Directed by Peter Brook
Peter Brook is best known for his work in theatre, but his 1963 screen adaptation of William Golding’s English Lit classic is no quaint repertory effort. Made relatively cheaply (the opening plane crash is literally a photograph of a plane spinning around) with non-professionals in the roles of the children, it’s a remarkably raw and brutal telling of a fable which may be as relevant now as ever before.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, this wartime story concerns a group of evacuating public schoolboys who are stranded on a remote island after their plane crashes. At first it’s all fun and frolics as the kids look forward to their freedom. They nominate a leader, Ralph (James Aubrey). Alpha male Jack (Tom Chapin) isn’t happy about this, and he...
Peter Brook is best known for his work in theatre, but his 1963 screen adaptation of William Golding’s English Lit classic is no quaint repertory effort. Made relatively cheaply (the opening plane crash is literally a photograph of a plane spinning around) with non-professionals in the roles of the children, it’s a remarkably raw and brutal telling of a fable which may be as relevant now as ever before.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, this wartime story concerns a group of evacuating public schoolboys who are stranded on a remote island after their plane crashes. At first it’s all fun and frolics as the kids look forward to their freedom. They nominate a leader, Ralph (James Aubrey). Alpha male Jack (Tom Chapin) isn’t happy about this, and he...
- 8/29/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
By Lee Pfeiffer
Criterion has release a deluxe Blu-ray edition of director Peter Brook's 1963 screen adaptation of William Golding's landmark novel Lord of the Flies. As virtually anyone familiar with literature of the latter half of the twentieth century probably knows, the story involves a group of British schoolboys who are among the refugees deported from England out the outbreak of what is, presumably, a third world war. Their plane is shot down over the ocean but it crashes off shore from a remote island. All of the adults die but the boys miraculously survive and make their way to dry land. Realizing their survival is in their own hands, the boys (the age of whom ranges from pre-pubescent to early teens) set about the task of building shelters. They quickly master the essentials of staying alive and learn to start fires and to hunt and fish with reasonably effective hand-made tools.
Criterion has release a deluxe Blu-ray edition of director Peter Brook's 1963 screen adaptation of William Golding's landmark novel Lord of the Flies. As virtually anyone familiar with literature of the latter half of the twentieth century probably knows, the story involves a group of British schoolboys who are among the refugees deported from England out the outbreak of what is, presumably, a third world war. Their plane is shot down over the ocean but it crashes off shore from a remote island. All of the adults die but the boys miraculously survive and make their way to dry land. Realizing their survival is in their own hands, the boys (the age of whom ranges from pre-pubescent to early teens) set about the task of building shelters. They quickly master the essentials of staying alive and learn to start fires and to hunt and fish with reasonably effective hand-made tools.
- 5/24/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games book series has often been compared with Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels, primarily because both center on a young female protagonist and have become phenomenons for their shared young-adult demo. This is arguably an insult to the novel and the big-screen adaptations, since The Hunger Games is leagues above Twilight in artistic credibility. The sense of familiarity of The Hunger Games goes much further back, recalling everything from William Golding to Phillip K. Dick to even Stephen King. Here are 12 films that come highly recommended, and should be essential viewing for any fan of the Hunger Games franchise.
****
1. Battle Royale
Written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Japan, 2000
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Koushun Takami’s cult novel Battle Royale, adapted for the cinema in 2000 by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is set in a dystopian alternate-universe, in Japan, with the nation utterly collapsed,...
****
1. Battle Royale
Written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Japan, 2000
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Koushun Takami’s cult novel Battle Royale, adapted for the cinema in 2000 by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is set in a dystopian alternate-universe, in Japan, with the nation utterly collapsed,...
- 11/17/2013
- by Ricky da Conceição
- SoundOnSight
It's fascinating to listen to the production woes Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies (1963) faced in the early stages as he teamed with Hollywood producer (and family friend) Sam Spiegel to create, what he wanted to be, a low budget adaptation of William Golding's novel. Instead, as time went on, Spiegel took it upon himself to change the story. As a producer of films such as Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, it was simply not in Spiegel's nature to make a cheap film. The budget began to balloon, art directors were flown around the world to look at islands and even girls were introduced into script rewrites done behind Brook's back as Columbia (whom were initially set to distribute the film) felt the budget had gotten too big for a film about kids. In essence, it was no longer "Lord of the Flies...
- 8/12/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 16, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A group of British boys attempt to govern themselves on an uninhabited island in Lord of the Flies.
The 1963 adventure-drama Lord of the Flies is the first film adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding’s 1954 debut novel.
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, Golding’s legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center.
The novel famously concerns a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results, marking the end of the children’s innocence…and then some.
Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters’ ids. The resulting masterwork earned Brook a nomination for...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A group of British boys attempt to govern themselves on an uninhabited island in Lord of the Flies.
The 1963 adventure-drama Lord of the Flies is the first film adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding’s 1954 debut novel.
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, Golding’s legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center.
The novel famously concerns a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results, marking the end of the children’s innocence…and then some.
Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters’ ids. The resulting masterwork earned Brook a nomination for...
- 4/24/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series has often been compared with Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels primarily because both centre on a young female protagonist and somehow both became phenomenons for their shared young-adult demo. Personally, I think this is both an insult to the novel and the latest big screen adaptation, since The Hunger Games is leagues above Twilight in artistic credibility. The sense of familiarity of The Hunger Games in fact goes much further back, recalling everything from William Golding to Phillip K. Dick and even Stephen King. Here are several films which may or may not have inspired Gary Ross’s big screen adaptation – eleven films which come highly recommended and should be essential viewing for any fan of the soon-to-be billion dollar franchise.
1- Battle Royale
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kinji Fukasaku
2000, Japan
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Japanese author...
1- Battle Royale
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kinji Fukasaku
2000, Japan
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Japanese author...
- 3/26/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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