P. L. Travers and Walt Disney Farther to my recent thoughts on biopics, over Christmas we recorded Saving Mr Banks and watched it a few nights ago. As most of you probably know (spoiler alert!) this tells the story of Walt Disney’s attempts to get P.L.Travers’s agreement to let him film Mary Poppins despite her … Continue reading Believing Mr Banks: a lesson in how to link fiction and history
Previously published at justwritebristol.org.uk Let’s be clear, I’m a very intermittent cinema goer and I was never a big Elvis fan, but sometimes its good to get out and so I went last week to Baz Luhrmann’s biopic which I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed. It also made me think what a popular film … Continue reading Elvis rocks back to life: comparing a good film to a good read
I have to confess that Slumdog Millionaire is the only one of the Oscar nominees I have actually seen (and that’s only because Mr. B. happened to have heard the original book on radio and was eager to see the film version). Still I’m sure that this low budget and visually entrancing Brit offering was a worthy winner … Continue reading Making Millions
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