‘They wanted a bigger, more ambitious film’: Film Finances and the American ‘Runaways’ That Ran Away

From the early 1960s, the British film industry was increasingly reliant on American studio financed ‘runaway’ productions. Alexander Walker identifies United Artists and Universal Pictures as two of the major players in the trend he dubbed ‘Hollywood England’. This article offers a close examination of the role of two studios in the financing of British film production by making extensive use of the Film Finances Archive. It focuses on two case studies: Tom Jones (1963) and Isadora (1968), both of which had completion guarantees from Film Finances, and will argue that Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz, two of the key British New Wave directors, lost their previous ability to direct films to budget and within schedule when they had the financial resources of American studios behind them. It will analyse how, due to a combination of ‘artistic’ intent and Hollywood money, Richardson and Reisz separately created two of the most notorious ‘runaways’ that ran away during the 1960s.

It’s show time! All that Jazz y el coreógrafo como personaje cinematográfico

La danza ha sido desde los orígenes del cinematógrafo un atractivo ingrediente para el séptimo arte. No obstante, las películas que presentan a sus creadores resultan la excepción. De entre estas excepciones caben destacar películas como Isadora (Karel Reisz, 1968) o Nijinsky (Herbert Ross, 1980), donde se impone una representación idealizada del genio creador que se enfrenta a los convencionalismos que le rodean. Frente a esta imagen poetizada del coreógrafo, la película All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979), cercana temporalmente a las dos mencionadas, muestra un personaje absolutamente humano en sus imperfecciones. Por esta razón, la obra más personal de Fosse se convierte en un buen punto de origen para el estudio de la representación del coreógrafo en el cine y para entender la forma en la que la gran pantalla ha representado la danza y a sus creadores.

EDITING CROSS-CUTTING IN THE FILM HAJI BACKPACKER

The aim of this research is the revealing the use of editing cross-cutting formed in Haji Backpacker’s film. This research uses qualitative research method: interpretative analysis formalist aesthetics approach, editing cross-cutting of Karel Reisz through Sergei Eisenstein’s montage theory. This research focuses on studying the aesthetic and the application of editing cross-cutting in Haji Backpacker’s film. Editing cross-cutting observed from the forms, functions, relations of themes, and motivation of existence, until analysis of Sergei Eisenstein’s montage, those are metric, rhythmic, tonal, overtonal and intellectual. The results of this research reveals the artistic meanings of Haji Backpacker’s film as formalist aesthetics, and editing cross-cutting’s concepts that formed in Haji Backpacker’s film by Danial Rifki through montage analysis of Sergei Eisenstein.