Showing posts with label joe wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joe wright. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Direct Download Link For A Dripping Wet, Supposedly Sexy Scene From Atonement

Want to see Keira Knightley wearing something very skimpy and then getting this skimpy underwear soaked right through? I expect some of you do.

If so, why not download a medium or big sized version of the appropriate clip from Atonement, as provided by GQ Online.

Direct Download Links For Five More Atonement Featurettes

Download or watch the new featurettes on Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Joe Wright, the Dunkirk sequence and the three Brionys.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The Greatest Single Shot In The History Of British Film

The Guardian have claimed that Atonement contains what they consider may be the single greatest shot in British film. Er... okay, but excuse me... that's completely nuts.

Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice is such a wretched disaster of a film I have a complete and utter conviction Atonement will ascend to mediocrity at best. The idea of it containing the greatest shot in Brit cinema is laughable.

So, what is this shot? The Guardian describe it like this:

It's a beach scene at Dunkirk, when the dazed James McAvoy makes it back from his mission in France only to stumble into the chaos of the British army in disarray. Wright introduces us to the carnage with a magnificent tracking shot that winds its way through a minefield of devastation.

Oh, I see. I get it. It's one of those.

Period set dressing and costumes - check. Extended tracking moves - check. Explosions and chaos - check.

Yawn.

If you don't share my doubts, you can download the Guardian's podcast in which Wright discusses his apparently mindblowing shot.

Okay, I'll come back to this apparent masterpiece of film craft once I've actually seen Atonement and I can knock it with authority, but in the meantime - what of the other, genuine contenders for the title of Greatest Single Shot in British Film?

Well, as far as tracking shots go, there's several in the canon of Alan Clarke that deserve serious consideration. In fact, there's several in any one of Clarke's later films.

But let's forget tracking shots. They're seldom the best shots in a film - not least because they're incredibly hard to keep constantly relevant.

How about something from early Hitchcock? An embarrassment of riches there, of course. I'm very fond of the final moments of Blackmail, but I won't go into details about them here - that film has an ending I'm so keen to keep from spoiling, I've routinely lied about it for almost two decades.

The big reveal in The Crying Game certainly has the content if not necessarily the form to enter the hall of fame too, I feel.

I'll leave this open to you for now. I'm very keen to get your suggestions. British films only, remember.

Direct Download Link For Working Title's Atonement Featurette

Working Title are pimping Atonement in a full-on fashion. Download their latest hype-mongering clip, which features footage from the film and interviews.