Film Articles published in Three Monkeys Online
Volver by Don Pedro from La Mancha
Pedro Almodóvar’s name is mentioned in intelectual circles among those who love Spanish cinematographic history beside the names of great directors such as Saura or Buñuel. In his last film, the internationally acclaimed Volver, the ilustrous man f
Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr Lazarescu
There’s a recurrent phrase in Cristi Puiu’s most recent film, the significance of which will not immediately be obvious to viewers outside Romania. In this story of a retired and widowed engineer’s last hours there’s a small matter on which one do
Viva Zapatero! – Towards a new type of information in Italy?
Viva Zapatero received a twelve minute standing ovation at the 2005 Venice film festival. It's been labelled Italy's Fahrenheit 9/11, as it is an explosive documentary. Satirist Sabina Guzzanti reacted to being forced into exile from the St
The Making of MirrorMask
When Lisa Henson, daughter of the late Jim Henson, approached Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean to make a fantasy film, in the style of Labyrinth, they jumped at the chance. Even though it involved making a film that would look like $40million on a budge
Filming the Occupation. Director Saverio Costanzo presents Private
The 2004 winner of the Pardo d'Oro(Golden Leopard) award at the Locarno International Film Festival was Private, and Italian produced and directed film set in the occupied territories. A psychodrama examining the dynamics of Occupation, with
Battling the Past - an encounter with Michael Cimino
No other director in the history of Hollywood has had such a sudden trajectory between fame and infamy. Three Monkeys Online encountered the legendary film-maker, Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate recently in Bolo...
Cinegael Paradiso, The story of a second generation Irish film director. Robert Quinn in interview
Robert Quinn grew up in a cinema. Really. The son of a film-maker, Bob Quinn, who embarked on a mission to bring film-making to rural, gaelic speaking Ireland, Robert did in fact grow up in a Cinema which doubled as a family home. In the metaphoric sense,...
Quo Vadis, Salvatores?
Atypical heroines, parochialism, noir as a genre? All up for discussion with Oscar winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores, on the release of his new film Quo Vadis, Baby?, a noir set in Three Monkeys Online's very own Bologna....
Eugene O'Neill, the Monkey, and Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody, Oscar winning star of The Piano was one of the stars Peter Jackson specifically wanted for his remake of King Kong. Speaking from the set in New Zealand, Brodey talks about the timeless appeal of the film, and the inspiration h...
Playing Fay Wray - Naomi Watts on the set of Peter Jackson's King Kong
One of cinema's most iconic moments has to be Fay Wray struggling in King Kong's fist. Stepping into her role, in Peter Jackson's upcoming remake of the classic is English actress Naomi Watts. It's a role quite unlike any of her other films, such as 21...
Moulding a Monster - Peter Jackson talks about King Kong
Scarcely five years ago people scoffed at the idea that The Lord of the Rings could be filmable, and succesful. After the critical and commercial success of TLOTRs, Director Peter Jackson has turned to another seemingly impossible task - re-...
Identity correction - Yes Men style. Interview with Andy Bichlbaum.
The World Trade Organisation may not be the funniest transnational administrative body, but as a target for satire, in the hands of the Yes Men, it's tragically comic. Challenging unthinking assumptions about free trade and corporate responsibility, while...
The Corporation as a psychopath. Film-maker Jennifer Abbot in interview
A film on an economic and legal topic, that mixes interviews with Milton Friedman and Michael Moore, and has taken over $3 million at the box office. Sound improbable? Think again. The Corporation is one of the most talked about films around at the moment...
Dogville - a review
No stranger to controversy, Lars Von Trier managed to whip up yet more when he set his last film Dogville in a fictional American town. Bill Quigley looks at the controversy, and, more importantly, the film....
A set of moving paintings – Making The Bridge of San Luis Rey. An interview with Director Mary McGuckian.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, is the eagerly awaited film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1927 Pulitzer prize winning novel. Tony Blair quoted it in the memorial for September 11th victims, and it has taken on a new resonance, but Irish Director Mary...
Identity Crisis? Spiderman 2 a review.
What tangled web will he weave, and will he get the girl? More to the point, is it worth watching? Three Monkeys Online goes to see Spiderman, the sequel....
Political Tragedy. The Navigators by Ken Loach
Ken Loach's film The Navigators recently got an open air screening as part of the Cinema Ritrovato festival in Bologna. How does an Italian audience react to a film about British Rail privatisation?...
Berlusconi's Mousetrap - an interview with Eamonn Crudden
Indymedia film-maker, Eamonn Crudden, along with a multitude of others, shot footage at the Genoa G8 meeting in 2001. In the wake of the dramatic events there, including widespread police brutality on a scale unimaginable in a western democracy, he put t...
Master and Commander. Peter Weir and the filming of Master and Commander, the far side of the world.
Australian Director Peter Weir recently opened the Cinema Ritrovato film festival, and took some time out to talk about the filming of his latest film Master and Commander....
Bloom
Sean Walsh has attempted, what for many remains impossible, to film Joyce's novel Ulysses. Mark Harkin spoke to the director for Three Monkeys Online....
The Passion And The Propaganda. Mel Gibson And The Passion Of The Christ
A film about Jesus, in Aramaic? Directed by Mad Max Mel Gibson? Many were sceptical of his sanity, but box office returns have shown shrewd business sense. Yet the debate rages about the ideological content of the film. Marie Sandland looked at the...
Holy Cross - The Dilemmas of docudrama
Holy Cross is a BBC docudrama, directed by Mark Brozel, focussing on events that occured outside Holy Cross school in Northern Ireland in 2001. In interview with Three Monkeys Online magazine, Director Mark Brozel talks about the process of making the fil...
2001 - A retrospective
Shane Barry takes a look at the enduring appeal of 2001 a Space Odyssey...
The Lord of the Rings - A Christian allegory??
The Lord of the Rings continues to endure, as shown by the massive success of The Return of the King. Brendan McManus S.J sees a strong Christian allegory running through Tolkien's masterpiece...
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