Recent content by Kimo

Some really balanced views here...Thanks for this. Good luck with your shoots, Lilith, and mdifilm. Yeah, it's a boon, as they say, to get to know good casting directors...They all talk to each other so it can never hurt to have word of your production running through their particular pipeline...

This is the kind of feedback I was waiting for. Great stuff. On the "prestigious" point...I recently watched a short film (2mins) made by a director who had never done 'big movies.' Yet this two person cast included Saffron Burrows and Jack Davenport. The film was really, really good. It was...

Thanks for the replies. All valid points, and yes prestigious casting directors can be a link to prestigious agents representing prestigious actors. How about that Mike Hodges leaning, however? That he has never used casting directors, and never will? His reasoning is that casting choices are...

Hi all, I'd like to run the issue of casting directors by you guys. Anyone who's listened to the commentary of Get Carter, by Mike Hodges, will possibly recall his thoughts on the subject of casting directors. What are the thoughts and feelings of people who use this site? Regarding...

Woah! Just who are you getting at here? If not understanding language and it's use is going to be a continuation on this thread (It really shouldn't be), how about getting your punctuation in somewhere, because that is something that cheeses people off too...!

Of course there is always the lo-tech approach that Brando used to portray Mark Antony...He took recordings of British actors reading his lines. He got a handle on the accent that way. But then he was Brando... And then the guys who read for him were only Richard Burton, and John Gielgud...

Clive, I noticed (I'm sure you did too) the local media reference as regards publicity for a film. You've mentioned this, I think, elsewhere on indietalk. Wasn't there some footage of NP on TV? I didn't get to see it but was that BBC? Was there radio publicity too? What exactly is[I] local media...

Let's hope that the film (No Place) does get it's deserved listing, Clive. Besides, "The Ed Wood of the North-East" has a listing! And for anyone else's info' this 1st feature for Clive is better than most of the films that have originated from the same region...

Very funny...! By the way Clive, have you heard of Andreas Willy? I believe he teaches the Philosophy of Linguistics at Cambridge. He wrote a book on The Birds (By Aristophanes). Need I say more? I like the colour that's here already. It's got to be a good thing for those with limited colour...

How about Robocop? The first one. Written by Frank Miller; eventually dir. by Verhoven. If I'm not mistaken, that's a film which made money.

This is one of those threads that had to turn up. The ol' porno has had one precedent however. Amazing yet seemingly true, low-cost production technologies have usually been used in porn (Since it's "Boogie Nights" era) prior to the legitimate film-maker. It's amazing what you pick up from...

I'm in on this. I'll look to read the screenplay before see the film. It's one of those I've not gotten around to seeing yet anyway.

Of course! LOL.!! You're right on the money with being capable of spotting a decent script, and descerning the differences between it and a not-so-decent script. It's an essential skill. I'd stress this point: When an actor hasn't been doing much for a while, she, or he is most likely to end...

On that bbc note, try looking on their website for accents.

The guys in Frasier are supposed to have a bit of that snooty Boston accent, but more so the younger brother... On the accent thing. There are websites out there for help on this kind of thing, but I couldn't tell you which to use. As an US-dude, in the main what you will need to be able to do...