Moralists make much of immorality in movies. They are disgusted by scenes of sex and the viewing of violence. The prude is horrified by all that is lewd and nude and crude and rude. In his horror at the horror what the moralist may miss is the deeper morality of most movies. In The Ethics of [...]
One of the most influential forces in American cinema of the second half of the twentieth century is a man who was not a film maker at all. The self styled ‘mythologist’ Joseph Campbell, became a mentor for the new breed of film makers of the 1970s. John Boorman and Francis Copolla have acknowledged their debt [...]
Once upon a time I was the vicar of a beautiful Anglican church in a charming village in the English countryside. Then I left to become a Catholic, and to earn a living I studied script writing and turned my hand to writing television scripts, business training videos, screenplays and stage plays. Having more enthusiasm than [...]