Word: film-within-a-film
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...videos of their accounts on YouTube than barricade themselves in a farmhouse. And while “Diary” is not the most terrifying of Romero’s films, it provides a strong and compelling commentary on human nature in the age of new web technology. Although shot entirely with handheld cameras, “Diary” is presented as a polished film-within-a-film. Romero forgoes the hyperrealist tone of recent horror film “Cloverfield” and cult classic “The Blair Witch Project?...
...Feng, maker of smash hits Be There or Be Square and Sorry Baby, is China's most commercial filmmaker. Although Big Shot is his biggest project to date, this is not one of his more coherent efforts. He should either have explored the film-within-a-film theme more fully, or played for giggles; the two make discordant bedfellows. Characters drift from serious to incredibly silly. Sutherland shuffles around the Forbidden City, pontificating on Bernardo Bertolucci, on how to mix Western and Eastern cinematic culture and make the combination appeal to both audiences. Ge You delivers the movie...
...everything from performing to generating projects, he makes it look so spectacularly easy. Mikhail Baryshnikov's latest undertaking is a movie called A Time to Dance, which is currently filming in Bari, Italy. The idea started when Baryshnikov went to Director Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) and proposed that they film the 19th century ballet Giselle together. Ross suggested expanding the concept to include a film-within-a-film plot about the world's greatest male dancer and the love affairs he has while filming a performance of Giselle. Baryshnikov did not find that hard...
...Woman, he looked to Pinter for a translation. The challenge for the scriptwriter came in maintaining the mood and contrasts of the Fowles book without clumsily injecting a modern narrator. The choice of Pinter was well-made, for he transforms the book-within-a-book into a film-within-a-film with a minimum of messiness. His screenplay respects the intent of the original novel, whose 20th-century structure of author's conceits and devices framed a haunting story of 19th-century romance and passion. By telling the Victorian story, then weaving a parallel story around the romance...
...literary and structural artifices that characterize her new movie The French Lieutenant's Woman. Corliss, who also wrote last year's cover story on the prime-time television soap opera Dallas, found Harold Pinter's transmutation of John Fowles' multilayered novel into a film-within-a-film a challenging experiment. Concludes Corliss: "Because of its complexity and cerebral detachment, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a difficult film to fall in love with-but the performance by Streep is not. It marks the coming of age of a potentially great screen actress...