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America 3000 : Low-budget Amazon women ride the post-nuclear range for Cannon Films, on location in Israel

in Cinefantastique (March 1986) vol.16 iss.1 p.7, 52

book

Icons in the fire : The decline and fall of almost everybody in the British Film Industry 1984-2000 / Alexander Walker

London: Orion, 2004.

Call No: 71(41) WAL
Author: Walker, Alexander
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Orion
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: xxiv, 328 p. ; colour illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject: ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS (UK, Julien Temple, 1986); GOVERNMENT AID. UK; ATTENBOROUGH, RICHARD; BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE; CANNES FILM FESTIVAL; CHANNEL FOUR; [FOUR] 4 WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (UK, Mike Newell, 1994); FULL MONTY, THE (UK/US, Robert Cattaneo, 1997); GOLAN, MENAHEM; GOLAN-GLOBUS PRODUCTIONS; GLOBUS, YORAM; GOLDCREST FILMS; GREENAWAY, PETER; JORDAN, NEIL; KILLING FIELDS, THE (UK, Roland Joffe, 1984); LOACH, KENNETH; MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTIONS; MIRAMAX FILMS; PUTTNAM, DAVID; SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; WISH YOU WERE HERE (UK, David Leland, 1987); WOOLLEY, STEPHEN; WORKING TITLE
Summary: "FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, NOTTING HILL, THE FULL MONTY, BRIDGET JONES' DIARY - all made in Britain, all huge successes, but none financed by British money... Walker's previous volumes, HOLLYWOOD ENGLAND and NATIONAL HEROES, covered the period until 1984. This final volume tells the inside story right up to date of why a nation that produces actors of the calibre of Kenneth Branagh, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Kate Winslet and directors such as Anthony Minghella, Sam Mendes, Stephen Frears, Neil Jordan, Peter Greenaway, Ken Loach and Guy Ritchie cannot sustain a native film industry. Walker's revelations on the iniquities of National Lottery funding of movies - over £200m to date and hardly a profitable film among those so far produced - have been headline news. Walker relates the extraordinary events of the past two decades years through the individuals, the companies and the studios." -- from book jacket (abridged)
Notes: Includes introduction by Joseph Connelly, includes preface and index
ISBN: 0752856103
Donation: Bruce Hodsdon
Contents: Before the title: The Chinese butterfly -- 1. Alive and kicking -- 2. Self-congratulatory trumpet flourish -- 3. Cannon a go-go -- 4. The Coca-cola kid -- 5. Cannon self-destructs -- 6. Talents at work -- 7. From the depths -- 8. Contemporary and traditional -- 9. Independant struggles -- 10. Talking film finance -- 11. Just one film -- 12. Lottery promise -- 13. No rank revival -- 14. Hit the screen running -- 15. Fool's gold -- 16. Thrown away - 17. Ends and beginnings

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