You Want Some? ; Director Nick Love Returns to the Testosterone-Fuelled World of Football Violence but Gives Himself Too Much to Live Up to by Remaking a Classic Film of the Week
Evening Standard - London › September 18, 2009
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The Firm Cert 18, 90 mins ***
No harm to Nick Love, but in what sense is this "a Nick Love Film"? Great directors, who often conceived, wrote, directed and birthed their own films -- I'm talking about the likes of Jean renoir and Billy Wilder -- never had what is called a possessory credit. They wouldn't have thanked you for one, either: if you stop and think about it, these camp little credits are an insult to the artistic means by which movies are actually made.See the full content of this document
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You Want Some? ; Director Nick Love Returns to the Testosterone-Fuelled World of Football Violence but Gives Himself Too Much to Live Up to by Remaking a Classic Film of the Week
It has now become standard practice in the cinema, where directors barely out of film school have their moniker etched above the title, as if their name alone represents some kind of brand excellence, the stamp of authorship.
I'm all for the art ...See the full content of this document
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